His name says it all; standing at well over six feet tall and with the intimidating muscular build of a linebacker, Big Shug’s physical presence alone is enough to command attention. His voice, a hoarse rumble effective for delivering both fearsome threats or smooth crooning as his...

Talk about promoting the culture! Murs keeps it realer than most.

Seriously, Tyga in the classroom? Rack City? Not only is that song awful, it's really awful. This teacher obviously has no intention of advancing her career.

I get the sense that battling after already having been signed and dropping albums is a step backwards. Oh well, I guess you can't knock the hustle.

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It's over. There is no more competition. Once you get a shout out from the president, you are officially the biggest rapper in the game. Sorry everyone else. There's just nothing you can do to top that.

Ok 50 didn't say that per se but that's kind of the effect of this. Do heads even read contracts before signing??

All right, I can handle US politics or culture being critized but I draw the line at our strip clubs

  Is there any rapper more gully than Biz Markie? Collecting Barbies, now that’s gangsta! Biz Markie will forever be famous for his 1989 Top 10 hit “Just a Friend.” The song’s awkward — some would say horrible — singing on the chorus had fans imitating...

Dope new interview with the whole Boot Camp Clik. Salute the realness! ​Brooklyn’s Boot Camp Clik established its classic New York underground hip-hop credentials starting in 1992 with Black Moon’s “Who Got Da Props?” and went on to rule the ’90s underground...

Seriously, Fab lives that life and as an unabashed fan of strippers and strip clubs, I can only humbly beg to be included in his next outing. Click the link to see the insane pictures.

Thank our lucky stars! This could of turned into one of the nastiest beefs ever!

Shouts to Waka Flocka for this. Though I still have no desire to listen to his music, this is a good look and is so cognitively dissonant that it is amazing.

Tom, Tom, Tommy Boy. Unfortunately for this heinous and grievous crime of referring to 50 Cent as “Fiddy Cents,” your Hip Hop pass has been revoked. You reap what ye sow my friend. Mitt Romney‘s dual victories in the Arizona and Michigan primaries were the main topic of...

With his illustrious career spanning nearly two-decades now, it would be easy for Inspectah Deck to sit back and rest on his laurels; after all, he has helped create some of the best hip-hop music ever recorded. Despite his low-key persona, Deck carved out his own unique space in the Wu-Tang...

If you're like me, this beef  cry for publicity has had you up at night highly anxious with cold sweats. Thankfully we can all breath a collective sigh of relief as things seem to be copacetic now. Thank goodness! This one could really gotten crazy!!

This is just a terrible terrible idea. I don't' think Nicki has a future career as a political consultant lined up.

As 50 once so eloquently stated "If they hate let em hate but watch the money pile up." Actually, I have no idea if Opera actually generates any significant money but the sentiment stands.

Say what you will about Dame, but he’s always been hustling entrepreneur so in folloiwng the example of other sucessful businesses, he is outsourcing himself to China! Damon Dash was once a living, breathing vision of hip-hop extravagance. You may have seen him in rapper...

Yup, this is about as predictable as the sun rising. In what should come as zero surprise to anyone who watched Nicki Minaj attempt to reenact “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” during her performance at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, the Catholic League has issued a statement condemning the...

About damn time! RIP one of the greatest ever. Maureen Yancey has attended tributes to her son, the late hip-hop producer James “J Dilla” Yancey, around the globe. There have been celebrations in Australia, Germany, Brazil, Chile and Japan. Just this week, Yancey was in Russia,...

For a dude who makes mad paper off questionable music, he sure does seem like a shitty and cheap boss. Flo Rida is getting a bad rap from his ex-assistant. A woman who says she worked for the rapper is suing him for unspecified damages, claiming that he stiffed her out of a fair wage by...

Wow, just wow. You can’t make this shit up! Serving two years for gun possession, Ja Rule found a new posse behind bars — a couple of cons he calls “Hevey D” and “Koz.” The Queens-raised rap star says disgraced pol Alan Hevesi and corporate greed poster-boy Dennis Kozlowski...

Yo, the streets are going crazy over this one!! NEW YORK — Rapper K’Naan is upset that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used his song “Wavin’ Flag” during his Florida primary victory speech. In a statement Wednesday, K’naan says Romney’s...

Here is a really interesting article on two Senegalese rappers who are truly demonstrating the power of hip hop. DEF JAM will probably never sign them, but Cheikh Oumar Cyrille Touré, from a small town about 100 miles southeast of Dakar, Senegal, and Hamada Ben Amor, a 22-year-old man from a...

  Here is a really interesting interview with the directed and co-produced of a new documentary on financial disputes surrounding The Sugar Hill Gang’s classic “Rapper’s Delight”   “I said a hip-hop, hippie to the hippie” could quite possibly be one of...

Here is a seriously dope interview with Rap-A-Lot Records founder J-Prince in celebration of their 25th Anniversary. There might not be another strain of music more perpetually misunderstood than gangsta rap was in its golden age. Though most commonly associated with its superficial...

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com While discussing race and the New York Times with regular Bernard Goldberg, Goldberg showed a picture of himself with rapper Ice Cube, but called him Ice T to which O’Reilly replied. ““That is how white you are Bernie, you don’t know...

It’s always amazing to take a step back and see how global hip hop has become. In that regard, it’s great to see someone of stature of M.O.P.’s Billy Danze reach out to international artists and help them be heard by the masses world wide. “RUN” (Raps United...

So you may have heard that rappers like to make references to suicide doors. Apparently why is question this writer felt like raising. Can’t knock the hustle. Gotta keep those articles to your boss coming! Fourth on Slate pop critic Jonah Weiner’s list of 2011’s best songs was Chris...

Here is a dope piece on parenting in this day and age of hip hop as popular culture. It is sad commercially successful rap is very rarely of positive social value because as all of us lover of the culture know, that side of it is as potent and powerful as ever.

Word, so thespian Lin-Manuel Miranda is debuting excerpts from his “The Hamilton Mixtape” which is his series of songs based upon the life our most Tupacesque founding father Alexander Hamilton. Another example of how much hip hop has permeated our culture and think this is a positive example.

If this album is half as decent as the violent track titles and stellar line-up, it’s gonna be sick!   1. JFK Skit 2. Can’t See Me (Prod. by BlaqThoven) 3. 21 Gun Salute Ft. Prodigy of Mobb Deeb ( Prod. by Kia Miller) 4. The One Ft. Rhona Bennett (Prod. by Big Bad 40) 5. Truth...

And the award to most obsessive Tupac fan ever goes too… A sex tape featuring the late rapper Tupac Shakur has been sold to a private collector. The owner of the video, which was filmed in 1991, made a point of keeping the tape out of the hands of porn companies. The private collector...

5 questions with Russell Simmons By On Faith Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons has been one of the most prominent voices protesting Lowe’s decision to withdraw ads from the All American Muslim reality TV show. Sally Quinn interviewed him Thursday. Sally Quinn: Why did you get involved in this...

Hot damn, Shyne gets mad real with his conversion to Judaism… Doing his time for firing that pistol in the nightclub with Puff Daddy and J. Lo a dozen years ago, the rapper known as Shyne experienced a jailhouse religious awakening. The faith he says changed his life involved embracing...

Word to Drake inspiring a stutterer. Wheel Chair Jimmy is for the kids. Like a lot of 12 year-olds, Jake Zeldin is a fan of Canadian rapper Drake. But unlike other 12-year-olds, Jake has actually had the chance to rap with him. Impressive enough; but what’s more impressive is what...

Get More: Music News Goodness gracious this album is going to be awful. That said, 50 really is a true hustler and if he sees an opportunity to make paper he damn sure will take...

Can’t knock Weezy’s hustle in trying to pass this off as a good deal despite evidence to the contrary. Money is a significant part of rapper Lil Wayne’s life. Not only does he talk about it incessantly in songs like “Got Money,” “I Got Some Money on Me,” “Money on My...

I mean who doesn’t love Canada? Such a nice place and lovely people to boot! Wu-Tang’s in the house. Literally. Raekwon, a member of hugely influential rappers Wu-Tang Clan, just opened the Toronto office of his new Canadian label, Ice H20, and is hoping to find the next big...

Here’s another excerpt from Root for the Villain: Rap, Bullsh*t, and a Celebration of Failure. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing after the high school basketball game I had been covering was over. “Yo man, you J-Zone?” the point guard asked me before I could ask him about his...

I don’t actually know if Jay-Z is a billionaire but you get the point. Did Warren Buffett and Jay-Z cook this up on our dime? We want a finder’s fee. Forbes got Warren and Hova together last year in an Omaha diner for the cover of the 2010 Forbes 400 issue. Now the two are in an...

Kanye West, the rapper who has embraced wealth and luxury to often absurd extremes on his recent records, showed up at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan yesterday to show his support for the fight against corporate greed. West visited the rally alongside music mogul Russell Simmons,...

NPR interviews the Gods of Def Jam Russell and Rick. Respect the architects! Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons: Def Jam’s First 25...

Word to the God J-Zone! “Yawn. Another book from another musician. Let’s guess: He rose from the depths of hell with his talent and went big time. He changed the face of music and made millions. Yeah, a few drug addiction, arrest, and STD stories are sporadically sprinkled...

Tragic Allies, the emcee/producer trifecta comprised of members Purpose, Code Nine and Estee Nack are pleased to present their debut album The Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil. Peep the the tracklist below which boasts features from Planet Asia, 60 Second Assassin, Killa Priest, Bronze...

Common made headlines in May when conservatives criticized first Lady Michelle Obama for inviting him to the White House, but the Chicago rapper/actor — known for being a positive and politically conscious rapper, not the controversial thug some made him out to be — didn’t mind the...

Former 1990s rapper Tim Dog, whose real name is Timothy Blair, has entered a guilty plea to grand larceny in northern Mississippi for defrauding a woman out of thousands of dollars. The 46-year-old Blair pleaded guilty last month in the financial scheme that Southaven resident Esther Pilgrim...

Here’s the tracklist for Statik’s upcoming new album dropping 10/25: 1. Population Control (feat. Sean Price & Termanology) 2. Play the Game (feat. Big K.R.I.T. & Freddie Gibbs) 3. Groupie Love (feat. Mac Miller & Josh Xantus) 4. New York, New York (feat. Styles P,...

Here’s a dope article from the Atlanta Post on 10 beefs that helped to actually sell records rather than just make the participants look silly. The Lucrative Side of Hip-Hop Beef: 10 Rap Feuds That Fueled...