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Music CeeLo Green "Failed" At Wearing A Dress Because People Thought Young Thug Was The First Over a decade ago, CeeLo posed in a wedding dress for a Gnarls Barkley shoot & he recently discussed not receiving enough backlash or attention for it. By Erika Marie February 16, 2021
Music Ashanti Says Ja Rule's "Always On Time" Was Meant For Brandy Ashanti's big break may have never happened if Brandy jumped on Ja Rule's "Always On Time." By Aron A. April 07, 2022
Music Freddie Gibbs's Does Hilarious Michael Jackson Impression During "SSS" Sessions Freddie Gibbs is gunning for the King of R&B title. By Aron A. February 24, 2022
Pop Culture GloRilla Reponds To Internet Haters, "Life's Great, P*ssy Still Good" GloRilla says she's never been bullied a day in her life. By Lawrencia Grose September 04, 2022
Music Erykah Badu Responds To Fan Who Says She'd Win Battle Against Lauryn Hill Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill were pitted against each other in a hypothetical Instagram Live Battle, and Ms. Badu let it be known who would take the crown. By Erika Marie April 24, 2020
Original Content What Happened To Rakim's Aftermath Album With Dr. Dre? In one of hip-hop's greatest cases of "what could've been," we revisit Rakim's brief spell on Dr. Dre's Aftermath label and why the "Oh My God" album never surfaced. By Robert Blair March 24, 2020
Music "Rolling Stone" Names Biggie's "Ready To Die" The #1 Greatest Hip Hop Album Of All Time They dropped off their Top 200 list and "Ready to Die" takes the lead with Outkast and Jay-Z rounding out the Top 3. By Erika Marie June 07, 2022
Music Young Thug & Lil Durk Troubleshooting A Computer Becomes Viral Meme Twitter is in love with Young Thug & Lil Durk's computational skills. By Devin Ch June 20, 2018
Music Matt Ox Explains How His Collaboration With XXXTentacion Materialized Matt Ox was a featured guest on "?" By Alex Zidel November 02, 2018
Original Content Eminem's Favorite Diss Tracks, Explained A brief history for each of Eminem's 12 disses from his "12 Days of Diss-Mas" Shade 45 episode. By Jibril Yassin December 27, 2018
Original Content What Does Hip-Hop Have To Do To Win An "Album Of The Year" Grammy? GRAMMYS! Or (A Strangely Hypocritical And Downright Frustrating Adherence To A Misguided Moral Code) By Mitch Findlay February 11, 2019
Original Content Why Redman Is One Of The Greatest Of All Time Where does Redman rank in the greatest-of-all-time conversation? And why does he continue to fly under the radar? By Luke Hinz April 07, 2019