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News Sign This Petition To Rename A Park In Queens After Phife Dawg Push to have a permanent celebration of Phife Dawg's legacy. By hnhh March 28, 2016
News Chance The Rapper Gets Quizzed On Saran Wrap On NPR Listen to Chance the Rapper's entertaining appearance on popular NPR quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" By Danny Schwartz February 21, 2016
News Akon Issues Apology To Sri Lanka's Buddhist Community <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Akon has issued an apology in response to a series of protests in Sri Lanka inspired by one of his music videos. The Buddhist community in Sri Lanka protested his “Sexy Chick” video with pop singer David Guetta which depicts a pool party scene with girls dancing around a statue of Buddha.<br /> <br /> In His apology Akon said,<br /> <br /> By Rose Lilah March 25, 2010
Interviews Kanye West Talks About How Much He Loves Kim Kardashian Kanye West says that Kim Kardashian brings his joy into the world. By Rose Lilah August 22, 2013
News Lil Boosie's Prison Term Could End In A Few Months' Time [Update: Boosie To Be Released August 2014] According to his lawyers, Boosie may soon be a free man. By hnhh December 19, 2013
News Tentative Tracklist Revealed For Freddie Gibbs' "ESGN" Freddie Gibbs takes to Instagram to post a tracklist for "ESGN." By Rose Lilah May 28, 2013
News Ma$e Expresses Feelings About DJ Khaled's New Single "I Feel Like Pac / I Feel Like Biggie" Ma$e took to Instagram to express his feelings about DJ Khaled's new single "I Feel Like Pac / I Feel Like Biggie". By Kevin Goddard October 07, 2013
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: Bow Wow's Twitter Held Hostage Welcome to this weeks’Special edition of “140 Bars Or Less: Bow Wow’s Twitter Held Hostage”. The goal of this column is to bring you the most entertaining and outrageous tweets of the week from the world of hip hop, and this week nothing was more outrageous than when a 19 year old aspiring “rapper” hacked Bow Wow’s Twitter. By Rose Lilah August 23, 2012
News Lupe Fiasco Claims "97% Of Hip Hop Is Terrible" Lupe Fiasco says he is done with major labels, and wants to go "indie" and also claims "97% of hip hop is terrible". By Rose Lilah July 26, 2012
News Eve Talks About "Lip Lock" Album After a series of delays and label change, Eve is finally ready to release her fourth studio album By Jon Godfrey August 20, 2012
News J. Cole Recorded With Dr. Dre <p>Dr. Dre paid J. Cole the ultimate compliment when he said that he was a fan. But this isn’t exactly news to the Roc Nation rapper. Cole reveals to Rap-Up.com that he has met the hip-hop icon before and the two may even have a collaboration in the bag.<br /> <br /> Without disclosing too much, Cole acknowledges that he and Dre have something brewing. “I did some work with Dr. Dre, without going any further than that,” he says.<br /> <br /> By Rose Lilah November 17, 2010
News Lil Wayne Ordered to Take Paternity Test <blockquote> <p>Lil Wayne may have spent the past eight months doing a bid at Rikers Island, but his personal life chased him to the clink. While serving his bid, Weezy was slapped with paternity papers by a Missouri woman claiming that they conceived an illegitimate child back in 2002, and now, the 8-year-old child's grandmother has obtained a court order that forces the rapper to submit to a paternity test.<br /> <br /> By Rose Lilah November 10, 2010