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Music Quincy Jones Passes Away At 91 Rest In Peace to one of the most legendary musicians in modern times. By Gabriel Bras Nevares November 04, 2024
Music Ice Cube Concert Moves Forward As Scheduled After Messy Gunfight: Report An angry ticket holder pulls out a gun before a scheduled Ice Cube performance. By Devin Ch September 03, 2018
Music Woodstock 50th Anniversary Returning To Original Site Woodstock is headed back home. By Alex Zidel December 28, 2018
Music Blondy Of The Sequence Dead At 67 Cheryl "The Pearl" Cook recently confirmed the passing of her groupmate Blondy, revealing that she's "in shock." By Caroline Fisher April 08, 2026
Music Keefe D's Nephew Bragged About Murdering 2Pac, Retired Cop Alleges According to Robert Ladd, informants gave authorities Orlando Anderson's name within days of 2Pac's shooting. By Caroline Fisher February 04, 2024
Music Legendary Reggae Artist Toots Hibbert Passes Away At 77 Toots Hibbert was a legendary artist who was a pioneer of reggae music. By Alexander Cole September 12, 2020
Pop Culture Southside Disputes Jermaine Dupri's Claim About Inventing "Making It Rain" The producer thinks Dupri only took the club move mainstream. By Ben Mock September 24, 2023
Music Benzino Claims 50 Cent Wanted To Be Like Big Meech But Couldn’t During a recent interview, Benzino weighed in on 50 Cent's feud with Big Meech, suggesting that he once looked up to the former drug kingpin. By Caroline Fisher February 28, 2025
Music JID Fights For Survival In A Dystopiant Zone 6 In "WRK" Visual JID and Ari Lennox are among the latest artist to depart J. Cole's Dreamville imprint. He signed with record label in 2017. By Bryson "Boom" Paul May 15, 2025
Music Tyga Reflects On Early Days With Lil Wayne: "I Learned The Hustle" He inked a deal with Young Money over a decade ago, and now Tyga is sharing the lessons he learned from Weezy that new artists may need. By Erika Marie January 24, 2023
Music Pop Smoke Documentary In The Works Pop Smoke will be immortalized through a new posthumous album and documentary, released by his label head Steven Victor. By Alex Zidel April 15, 2020
Music Kanye West & 4batz Hit The Studio Despite Latter's Deal With Drake's OVO Sound Fans can't wait to hear what they're working on. By Caroline Fisher April 26, 2024