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News Big Boi Postpones Tour Dates Because Of Knee Injury [Update: New Tour Dates Announced] Big Boi reschedules tour dates due to a recent knee injury. By Rose Lilah June 25, 2013
News $6M Lawsuit Over Distribution Rights Of DMX's "Undisputed" A legal battle is ensuing over the distribution rights of DMX's latest LP "Undisputed". By Rose Lilah September 24, 2012
News Photo by Frederick M. BrownGetty Images Fans will not have to wait long as T.I. has announced "Sorry" as one of the next singles he will release. By Rose Lilah November 18, 2012
News Pras Sues Director Over Withheld Footage Pras is suing the director of a documentary on Somali Pirates he invested because he won't hand over the footage. By Nairi December 02, 2012
News Earl Sweatshirt Tweets Exclusively About His Debut Album Saturday night, Earl's Twitter feed revealed that the OF recruit's debut will be nothing like his past work. By Rachaela VB August 13, 2012
News Drake Gives Details On Aaliyah's Album Drake releases some info about the Aaliyah project, and confirms that people "essential" to her career will be involved. By Rose Lilah August 08, 2012
News ScHoolboy Q Talks Possible Collab With A$AP Rocky, Parenthood <p> A few weeks ago, ScHoolboy Q hinted about the possibility of recording an entire project with Harlem upstart A$AP Rocky. Now, in a recent interview with Maurice Garland, the TDE rapper talked about the possibility of recording a long-form collaboration with the leader of the A$AP Mob.</p> By Rose Lilah February 22, 2012
News Drake Talks "Take Care", Girls, Sweaters & More <p>Drake recently had a very interesting Q&A with <em>GQ </em>on his upcoming album, "Take Care", girls & more. Here's some of what Drizzy had to say...</p> <p>On the album name "Take Care":</p> By Rose Lilah November 11, 2011
News Lil Wayne & Chris Brown Confirmed For Grammy Awards' Dance Segment <p>The Grammy Awards only added a best dance recording/dance field in 2003, now to go along with that at this year's Grammys there will be a dance segment, and Chris Brown and Lil Wayne have been confirmed to perform during it.</p> <p>Grammy show producer Ken Ehrlich says, "we decided to go all out this year. All we're going to try and do next week is to try and put the home audience in the middle of it. ... It is more than just sitting there and watching it."</p> By Rose Lilah February 07, 2012
News Nipsey Hussle Joins DJ Skee's "Skee Music" <p>So we can put the rumours of Nipsey joining the MMG camp to rest, as he has announced he is joining DJ Skee's <strong>Skee Music</strong> imprint. The two tweeted about it (check the tweets below), and in press release Nipsey says:</p> By Rose Lilah February 01, 2012
News Soulja Boy Officially Banned By Military <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="text"> <p>A couple days ago news hit the Web that real soldiers were angry with <b>Soulja Boy</b> over his “Let’s Be Real” track, which ended up on the Internet. The <i><a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2011/09/08/2011-09-08_us_military_announces_ban_on_soulja_boy_album_soulja_boy_promises_no_armybashing.html">New York Daily News</a></i> is now reporting the U.S. military has announced an official ban on the rapper.</p> By Rose Lilah September 09, 2011
News Drake Tweets About Lil Wayne's "Carter V" Drake tweets, the world reacts. By Rose Lilah February 10, 2014