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Well, that was fast. After another public spat on Twitter between Azealia Banks and Angel Haze, Haze clapped back in record time with a diss record called “On The Edge.” 

In today’s rap game there is one (undisputed?) Twitter beef champion, and her name is Azealia Banks. As we already know just about anyone can get it. Lil’ Kim got caught up in her Twitter fury, as did Jim Jones, Iggy Azealea, and other unsuspecting tweeters. Banks’ latest feud is with fellow female rapper, Angel […]

Kind of like Bow Wow for BET and 106 & Park, Ashanti’s new gig for FUSE has her hosting FUSE News. Yesterday she interviewed 2 Chainz for the television show. 

Can a MC jump between monikers? Such is the case with Snoop Dogg, who ditches Snoop Lion for a moment on a new track with Tha Dogg Pound, titled “That’s My Work.” Videographer Dah Dah directed the visuals for the gentleman’s club friendly jam. The shots are a compilation of slightly NSFW concert and behind the scenes […]

As the House and Senate convened earlier today to establish the incoming 113th Congress, Republican John Boehner remained speaker of the House in a vote that saw some of his own party members breaking away from the Ohio congressman. 

The U.S. Navy wants its members to fully understand the dangers of bath salts, and released a strange PSA, to bring their vision to life. Opening with the Internet search “Bath salts: it’s not a fad, it’s a NIGHTMARE,” the more than six-minute video oddly details the repercussions of the synthetic drug.

Chicago has been getting tons of press for its massive homicide rate, which climbed to 500 at the end of last week, but Detroit has honed in on a similarly dreadful landmark. Mayor Dave Bing released the city’s homicide stats for 2012 and out of 461 death investigations, 411 were homicides.

Any Michael Jordan fan worth his Js knows that the GOAT hooper may have been raised in Wilmington, NC, but he was born in Brooklyn. Now the Jordan Brand Classic, an annual all-star game for the best high-school basketball players in the nation, is coming to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY.

With 2012 tucked to bed, we at Hip-Hop Wired are already looking at who is poised to takeover in 2013. 

It’s clearly a Detroit thing on this new Slum Village track, featuring founding member T3 along side long time affiliate and new member, Young RJ, and Guilty Simpson. The track is eloquently titled “Decadence.“ Those who are privy to underground Hip-Hop know each MC’s lyrical prowess goes without saying.

A former Texas youth football coach was given 15 years in prison for purposely infecting the mother of one of his players with HIV. On Monday (Dec. 31) a judge handed down the sentence to Jimmy Bernard Billingsley who pleaded guilty to assault and causing serious bodily injury after admitting to being aware of his […]

The Air Jordan XI in the ‘Bred’ colorway is priced at $185 at retail. Apparently, that is the cost of a life as Houston man was gunned down for his shiny new pair. On Monday, Dec. 31, Anthony Quinn Wade, 19, was charged with capital murder in the death of Joshua Wood, who was shot […]