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Rap Genius: Top 5 rap lyrics of the week — Frank Ocean makes a splash
This week saw the release of Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange, a record that caught the imagination of a controversy-primed world and has already drawn the 24-year-old singer comparisons to Prince and...
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Female rap pioneer Ms. Melodie dead at 43
Rap pioneer and Brooklyn native Ms. Melodie, member of Boogie Down Productions, has died at 43. Born Ramona Scott, she was once married to iconic hip-hop artist KRS-One. The cause of her death is...
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Rap Genius: The top 5 rap lyrics of the week — Nas lives up to expectations
This week saw the release of one of the most anticipated albums of the year, Nas’ Life Is Good. The melancholy, nostalgic look at the rapper’s childhood and his recent divorce — perhaps rap’s first...
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Rapper Killer Mike rates President Obama
One of hip-hop’s more outspoken emcees, Killer Mike is not one to bite his tongue. He’s been vocal when speaking about politics (Check his Pledge mixtape series), on the state of black America (check...
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Black rapper Gunplay defends swastika tattoo
Miami rapper Gunplay, who is best known for his collaborations with Rick Ross on such tracks as the recent “Rollin’”, has a controversial tattoo that has received criticism from both critics and fans...
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The Game’s wedding is back on
California rapper The Game was set to marry fiancee Tiffney Cambridge last week, when she suddenly called it off. However, new reports are saying the pair has settled differences and set a new date....
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IRS auctions off Young Buck’s personal items
The IRS auctioned off Young Buck’s personal items from his Tennessee home, while the rapper watched from prison. He is currently serving an 18-month sentence for gun possession. The auction brought...
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Rap Genius: Top 5 rap lyrics of the week — hip-hop is as strong as ever
In a week where things happened that we neither ever thought would or particularly wanted to — a new Aaliyah song without Timbaland, the rapper Rick Ross winning the rights to his name from the real...
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Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s will bars use of his music in commercials
NEW YORK (AP) — The Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch rapped that he wouldn’t “sell my songs for no TV ad.” His will shows he wanted to make sure that held true after his death, too. “In no event may my image...
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Common freestyles about new movie ‘Odd Life of Timothy Green’ (VIDEO)
The rapper/actor Common is back on the big screen in Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green, which hits theaters tomorrow. In the movie, the Grammy Award winning artist stars as Coach Cal, Timothy...
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Afrika Bambaataa named Cornell visiting scholar
ITHACA, New York (AP) — Hip hop pioneer DJ Afrika Bambaataa has been appointed to a three-year term as a visiting scholar at Cornell University. The appointment announced Tuesday was made by Cornell...
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Did Jay Electronica ghostwrite Nas’‘Untitled’ album?
Nas’ fans are reeling from reports that the Illmatic emcee’s 2008 album, Untitled, may have been ghostwritten by his fellow rapper Jay Electronica. Details are scarce, but the news broke after a post...
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Hip-hop shifts anti-gay tone as rights issues rise
NEW YORK (AP) — For years, anti-gay epithets and sentiments in rap have largely been accepted, along with its frequent misogyny and violence, as part of the hip-hop culture — a culture that has been...
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State senator slams Lil Wayne’s ‘I don’t like New York’ comment
New York State Senator Malcolm A. Smith held a press conference in the middle of Times Square Wednesday to express how “taken aback” and “shocked” he was that rapper Lil Wayne said, “I don’t like New...
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Nitty Scott, MC links up with Kendrick Lamar for new single ‘Flower Child’
Rapper and Grio’s 100 alumni Nitty Scott, MC has dropped a new single on her upcoming commercial debut, The BOOMBOX Diaries Vol.1 EP. Linking up with the new west coast king, Kendrick Lamar, Nitty...
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Rap Genius: Top 5 rap lyrics of the week — Shyne disses Diddy
This week in hip-hop saw the long-awaited return of a few major figures. Slaughterhouse, backed by their new patron Eminem, released a superb mixtape in advance of an album that hopefully their boss’...
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Timbaland confirms 2 new Missy Elliott tracks coming Labor Day weekend
Missy Elliott fans have been in serious withdrawal since she largely disappeared from the music scene after her 2005 release The Cookbook. We later learned a rare and potentially fatal disease had...
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Remembering ‘Baby’ Chris Lighty, a pioneering executive in hip-hop
From Ebony.com: [Yesterday] morning “Baby” Chris Lighty was found dead outside his Riverdale, Bronx apartment from an apparent self-inflicted gun wound. The news comes as a tremendous shock to those in...
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Forbes ranks Dr. Dre as the richest rapper: It’s the headphones, stupid
Dr. Dre hasn’t released an album of original hip-hop in more than a decade and yet he is the genre’s richest man — why? It’s the headphones, stupid. Forbes recently ranked the richest performers in rap...
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9-year-old Brooklyn rapper pens rap against pants sagging, ‘Pull Ya Pants Up’
Nine-year-old Amor “Lilman” Arteaga of Flatbush, Brooklyn is so irate over the continuing pants sagging trend that he wrote a rap about it — aptly titled “Pull Ya Pants Up.” The song sends a punch with...
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