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News SZA Shares Tracklist For "Z" SZA has revealed the official tracklist and features for her debut album, "Z". By Trevor Smith April 03, 2014 12.5K Views
TV 50 Cent Speaks On His Upcoming Animated Series For Fox 50 Cent elaborates on the concept for his upcoming animated series for Fox, which is based on "Playground", his book about bullying. By Trevor Smith April 03, 2014 10.0K Views
Original Content 5 Hip-Hop Power Struggles HotNewHipHop takes a look at five different hip-hop power struggles, and who eventually came out on top. By Audrey N. April 03, 2014 14.9K Views
News Vybz Kartel Will Serve 35 Years In Prison Before Parole Vybz Kartel has been sentenced to life after being convicted of murder last month. By Trevor Smith April 03, 2014 18.6K Views
News Lil Durk Says He's On French Montana's Next Album Lil Durk calls Montana a "real nigga" and says that he'll be on his next album, as well as the next Coke Boys mixtape. By Patrick Lyons April 03, 2014 10.9K Views
News Random Ish: The Only Person Jay Z Follows On Twitter Is Joe Budden Not exactly news, but interesting nonetheless. Jay Z's not-often-used Twitter account follows only one person, and it's Joe Budden. By Rose Lilah April 03, 2014 26.5K Views
News A$AP Ferg and A$AP Nast Speak On "L.O.R.D." Album Delays Two members of A$AP Mob shed light on why "L.O.R.D." didn't drop on March 4th. By Patrick Lyons April 03, 2014 8.8K Views
News Notorious B.I.G.'s Estate Sued By R&B Singer For Sample Used In "The What" Lee Hutson alleges that 20 year-old song "The What" unlawfully sampled his 1973 song "Can't Say Enough About Mom" By Patrick Lyons April 03, 2014 7.3K Views
Original Content Samples Of The Week: April 3 A breakdown of the week's hottest tracks by their samples. By Patrick Lyons April 03, 2014 93 Views
News Snoop Dogg In The Studio With Pharrell & Stevie Wonder Snoop Dogg, Pharell, and Stevie Wonder are apparently working on Snoop's new album. By Trevor Smith April 02, 2014 6.3K Views
Interviews Kevin Gates Talks On Prison Life, Tattoos & The Time He Got A Brick With Elvis' Face On It Kevin Gates had an in-depth interview with Peter Rosenberg about his life, where he details his time spent in jail, all his tattoos, and how come he got Elvis' face inked on his body. By Rose Lilah April 02, 2014 312.1K Views
Original Content Blurred Lines: The Integration Of R&B In Hip-Hop As the evolution of Hip-Hop continues to ascend into higher heights in the music industry, it seems that R&B is slowly but surely losing its soulful edge and assimilating more into the Hip-Hop genre. These days the rappers are "singing", and the singers are trying to rap. The question is, what happened along the way? We do some digging to answer that question. By Audrey N. April 02, 2014 435 Views