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When visiting the Sway In the Morning crew, it’s customary for rappers to drop bars, but only a select few run through the gauntlet known as the “5 Fingers of Death.” Most would guess wrong if asked who was the the standard for said freestyle. Ironically it happens to be Wayne Brady, who recently appeared on the […]

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Grammy award winning MC Lecrae stopped through Sway in the Morning during a live show in Austin, Texas, and blessed the crew with a quality freestyle in the process. See what we did there?

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Kendrick Lamar‘s highly lauded “B-tch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” remix has become a benchmark in the young MC’s career, leaving many to see it as a changing of the guard between the heir apparent and the next to carry the torch. The TDE rapper has since revealed how the collaboration came to be in a […]

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Yesterday evening, Kanye West broke his no press policy when he spoke to DJ Enuff about the controversial MTV’s Hottest MC In The Game list. 

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Vanilla Ice put one of Hip-Hop’s biggest urban legends to rest on Shade 45’s Sway In The Morning radio show. 

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The death of Joey BadA$$’ Pro Era crew member Capital STEEZ rocked the underground Hip-Hop nation last month. Although he’s been largely mum regarding his partner, Joey B briefly touched on the loss on Sway In The Morning earlier today and confirmed that it was a suicide. 

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Pastor Mason Betha has been back on his upteenth comeback attempt and he took his talents to the Sway In The Morning radio show on Shade45. 

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Jim Jones hit up Shade 45’s  Sway in the Morning, alongside his lady love Chrissy Lampkin to talk about their relationship. Yet when talk turned to his beef with Max B, currently serving a 75-year sentence, Jimmy wasn’t interested in answering any questions on the subject.

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Dream Hampton’s recent allegations about Nas supposedly using Jay Electronica and dead prez as ghostwriters on his 2008 album Untitled caused pandemonium that went past the initial allegations throughout the internets for much of the latter half of August. Just as things began to simmer down, dead prez recently spoke their peace on the situation with the Sway In the […]

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Hit-Boy’s been on his press run promoting his new record, #HITStory, and this morning he visited Sway In The Morning and ran through the “Five Fingers Of Death.” DJ Wonder tossed out a few beats including “Oh I Think They Like Me,” “Through The Wire,” “Sock It To Me,” and more. After Hit-Boy comes off the top […]

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Common may have been spending a lot of time on his film career, but his lyrical flow is still up to par with his rap counterparts. The Chicago MC hit up Shade 45’s Sway in the Morning, and spit a freestyle— but it wasn’t your average flow. Rather than coming off the top on the […]

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Brooklyn’s Linden Boulevard Troy Ave becomes the most recent artist to appears on the Shade 45’s Sway In The Morning show. He tries his hand at the infamous “5 Fingers Of Death” challenge, created to separate the real lyricists from those lackluster artists.