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Founded by New York producer Marley Marl and late radio personality DJ Mr. Magic in Queens, the Juice Crew featured some of the most influential MC’s of Hip-Hop’s “Golden Age” of the 1980s.

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Producer Marco Polo drops the follow up to Rakim’s “What’s Wrong” with a track by another one of the culture’s all time greats, Big Daddy Kane. Titled “Nite & Day,” the song is a Hip-Hop lover’s dream.

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Rakim gets plenty of well deserved credit as one of the Hip-Hop most influential MCs, but never sleep on the Big Daddy Kane. FUSE caught up with the legendary Brooklyn rapper who talked about the joy of seeing Jay-Z, who he helped put on by taking him on tour when he was unknown years ago, […]

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Jordan Brand announced last month the impending arrival of the legendary hall of famer Michael Jordan’s latest signature shoe, the Air Jordan XX8 (28). To help commemorate the release of the high-end sneaker, the Jumpman team gets Hip-Hop legends Big Daddy Kane and DJ Premier together for the track “28 Bars Of Kane.” 

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UPDATE: The livestream has started, watch below. For the past week, Jay-Z has been live streaming his opening concerts at the brand new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Today, courtesy of Life + Times and YouTube, Hova will be live streaming the final show on this Saturday night. 

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Jay-Z’s history making night in Brooklyn contained a slew of epic moments. The biggest highlight may have came from a performance from Jay-Z’s rap idol, Big Daddy Kane.

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Remember when he said there would be no guests at his Barclays Center concerts? Well Jay-Z lied. But we’ll get to that later. Brooklyn’s MC savant officially opened the doors to the new home of the Brooklyn Nets with the first of eight concerts tonight (September 28th), and he tore it down (figuratively, of course). […]

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Day two of Guerilla Union’s Rock The Bells saw the fabled concert series bring out a myriad of Hip-Hop legends and today’s biggest stars all in one place. Wiz Khalifa, Pusha T, Murs & Fashawn shared the stage with rappers like Nas, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Quik, Salt & Pepa and more. Day one’s performances included the […]

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The infamous Charli Baltimore recently stopped by the Hip-Hop Wired offices and talked about most of the reasons behind her hiatus in the past years. The former Murder Inc. artist spoke about getting the career of her model daughter off of the ground and the effort that was put into making her successful. She also […]

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Kenny Keil, and L.A.-based artist, flipped a bunch of classic albums with popular Marvel and DC superheros and other popular comic book characters. For example, N.W.A gets replaced by character from Thor in a reinterpretation of their Straight Outta Compton cover while the baby seen on the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die get replaced by […]

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“I Know Rap People” (feat. Maino & Red Cafe) XXL Magazine shot a Brooklyn edition of “I Know Rap People” featuring Red Cafe and Maino battling to show their knowledge of the borough that birthed Biggie and Jay-Z in relation to rap music. See who knew more songs with “Brooklyn” in the title, how many […]