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Corporations are no longer sleeping on how a Hip-Hop associated brand ambassador can catapult their product’s awareness. Take Pine Brothers Softish Throat Drops for example. Thanks to shrewd marketing strategies, they used Waka Flocka Flame’s comedic genius to score one of the few highlights during the last American Music Awards and in turn, earned the […]

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The cast of MTV2’s Guy Code came through the offices of Hip-Hop Wired, and our parent company Moguldom Media Group and the jokes were fast and furious. Just like the popular series, during our #PopUpCode the responses to questions were uncut and often NSFW, but delivered with a sincere desire to offer legitimately good advice.

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Big Sean kicked open the door; now it’s time for the other members of Finally Famous to show and prove. And that’s just what Earlly Mack does on “Do It Again.”

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It was almost odd to see the Internets thrash Kendrick Lamar, a favorite among rap stans, last week after he commented on Black people dying at the hands of police and even asked “when we don’t have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us?”

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Comedy Central’s online hashtag game, Midnight, likes to dabble into the realm of Hip-Hop on occasion. For last night’s Twitter takeover, they committed a Mortal Kombat babality on the game by getting all their fans to turn well-known rappers into infants with #BabyRappers memes.

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It’s pretty much guaranteed that Drake‘s new album, Views From The 6, is dropping in 2015. When is another question, and the Toronto rapper recently shooting a video in his hometown is fueling speculation that we’ll be getting a mixtape soon. 

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One of the year’s most anticipated movies in Da Sweet Blood of Jesus has arrived ahead of its scheduled release date.

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State Property members have been key in the public receiving updates on Beanie Sigel’s health status. After Neef Buck posted a photo of his partner in rhyme leaving a New Jersey hospital a month after a near scrape with death, Freeway gives more info during a sit down with Revolt TV.

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Rain doesn’t stop the show, nor does a little inner strife with Cash Money stop Young Money from making power moves. That said, allow us to introduce you to the house that Lil Wayne built’s latest signee, Stephanie Acevedo.

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Every time the environment seems a little too quiet for Chris Brown, he becomes embroiled in some sort of drama.

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adidas officially launched rising NBA star Damian Lillard’s D Lillard 1 signature sneaker yesterday (Jan. 13) in Portland. The Portland Trailblazer’s point guard was on hand at the adidas Village where hundreds of fans came through to get their hands on the new kicks and watch a performance from Future. 

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Aura Rosser, a Black Ann Arbor, Mich. woman who was shot and killed by police last November, has not received the same level of national outcry as other similar cases have. As details begin to resurface, the moments leading up to Rosser’s death are shrouded in mystery and highlights how Black women are often forgotten in […]