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Could Jay-Z really be the most ruthless player in music? For nearly three decades, Sean “Jay-Z” Carter has built an empire that stretches from Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects to billion-dollar deals in ...

A brand new episode of the hit reality series Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta premieres on MTV Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 8/7c. During this week’s new episode, the group is still recovering from Momma Dee’s recent ...

Two of the best lyrical rappers in Hip-Hop, JID and Joey Bada$$ bless the 2025 XXL fall cover. Joey representing for New York and JID repping ATL. Although the MCs are from two different regions, they ...

Scrappy’s show becomes a royal afair when the palace makes a surprise appearance in a new episode of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” airing on Tuesday, September 30. “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” is the second ...

Assata Shakur’s death in Havana at 78 closes the book on a life that helped shape both Black revolutionary politics Hip-Hop. Assata Shakur died Thursday in Havana at age 78, closing the chapter on a ...

Joey Valence & Brae don’t care how old you are—they just want you to dance. “A lot of the songs on this new album are about Joey and me going out and being the only people dancing and having a good ...

It’s been over a year since the inception of the much-publicized back-and-forth between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. The hip-hop beef gave us Lamar’s Grammy-winning anthem, “Not Like Us,” and led to a ...

Going independent means more creative freedom, but it also means taking on the risks and rewards of running a small business. Many up-and-coming artists juggle multiple gigs, from performing at local ...

DJ Babu, a pioneering figure in the world of DJing and hip-hop culture, will join the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University with this fall's launch of the conservatory's ...

Portland may not be known as a hub of hip-hop on par with New York or Los Angeles, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a hotbed for sonic experimentation and incredible talent for decades. We had all ...

This is one of those experimental tracks I have a lot of fun making in my off-time, but I'm always unsure if it will land with the audience. But, I've decided to just share a lot more of what I do and ...