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Last night at Chung King studios in New York City, Kendrick Lamar invited a select amount of media, celebrities, and tastemakers to get a first listen to his album, good kid, m.A.A.d. city. His major label debut on Interscope Records is one of the most highly anticipated albums in a long time. Kendrick prefaced the listening saying […]

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Yelawolf will be dropping the follow up to his Heart Of Dixie street album on November 13th with drummer Travis Barker called Psycho White. After Yela’s health scare early in 2012, he seems to be back on the comeback trail with his second project of the year. Barker and Yelawolf have plans to release “Push ‘Em” as their first single later today […]

EDITORIAL, News, Politics

Chicago, resplendent with its towering skyline, has always battled with its reputation as a city plagued by corruption and crime. Just a short distance from the sparking downtown “Loop” area, the South and West sides of the Windy City show evidence of neighborhoods hit hard with poverty and gang culture.  Atop the heap stands Chief […]

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Machine Gun Kelly will be dropping his first major label album under Bad Boy/Interscope Records titled, Lace Up. The tattooed “Invincible” singer just released the album cover for his debut album, and the cover is more than meets the eye. The album cover is a mosaic picture of all of the fans that sent in pictures of […]

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Slaughterhouse’s rallying cry was that their album was a step in the direction to save real Hip-Hop. For the most part, a lot of them did. Slaughterhouse, now backed by the Shady Records/Interscope machine, racked up nearly 52,000 copies of Welcome To: Our House. Not too shabby for Joe Budden, Royce Da 5’9″, Joell Ortiz and Crooked I., […]

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If you had to pick one word to describe Compton rapper Game, “unpredictable” is as good as any. Case in point, the MC born Jayceon Taylor has decided to change the title of his forthcoming album from F.I.V.E: Fear Is Victory’s Evolution  to Jesus Piece. The “Hate Or Love It” rapper explained his change of […]

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Machine Gun Kelly is more than just “Wild Boy” and adrenaline-fueled music. In “Her Song,” the Bad Boy/Interscope artist turns it down a little bit to talk about lost love in this video which is off his newest mixtape EST 4 Life. This video contains footage from MGK’s nonstop touring and road life, but you can tell […]

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DJ Whoo Kid hosts Machine Gun Kelly’s new mixtape EST 4 Life. This 18-track project doesn’t include all brand new stuff if you’ve been keeping up, but it has just enough new joints to get you by including records with Dub-0 and DJ Xplosive.  EST 4 Life also includes the Young Jeezy assisted record “Hold On (Shut Up),” […]

50 cent, Hip Hop Wired Exclusive, News, Video

It’s been three years since 50 Cent dropped his Before I Self Destruct album, but 2012 marks a new musical direction for the rapper. After teasing and then scrapping the release of Black Magic, and public discrepancies with his label, Interscope Records, fans will finally get a chance to hear his fifth project, Street King Immortal. […]

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Epic Records signee and Chi-town’s own King L, formerly King Louie, drops off the trailer for his new video “Val Venis,” exclusively to Hip-Hop Wired. In this video, King L returns to the Windy City to show that he’s “valn valn.” The low riding, dread locked rapper gained a big buzz with this recent single […]

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Machine Gun Kelly‘s debut album, Lace Up, is starting to shape up as he will be announcing his release date any moment now via UStream. For now, MGK is letting loose another adrenaline-filled record, this time he’s with the Jesse Jackson of the trap, Young Jeezy.  Confirmed guests for Machine Gun Kelly’s Lace Up already include DMX, Tech […]

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Machine Gun Kelly sure gets a bunch of huge looks for a relatively new artist. Last night, the Cleveland native took the stage with master songwriter and singer Ester Dean to perform “Invincible” on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.  His Bad Boy Records debut under Interscope, Lace Up, is still slated for a Fall release. This was his […]