Last Friday, at the height of the national anxiety to find and neutralize Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar, TMZ posted an article connecting the two brothers to hip-hop. While TMZ has never and will never be known for making flattering representations,...
Beef between rappers is nothing new in hip-hop. It's a widely-accepted part of the culture, and oftentimes it brings about some entertaining moments. Beef between female rappers, however, is so prevalent its become a joke. Azealia Banks got into another Twitter spat recently, although this...
Before and after it leaked, Kendrick Lamar's debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city drew the inevitable comparisons to Nas' debut album Illmatic. On one hand, these comparisons are just fun ways of saying, "Damn, this new album reminds me of my favorite old album!" On the other hand, these...
Roscoe Dash has a bone to pick Kanye West. And Wale. And the music industry as a whole. The Atlanta rapper is best known for his "All the Way Turnt Up" single, but he feels he should be known for a few other things he's penned. He took to Twitter to express his frustration about not being...
Will the real DOOM please stand up? This may become a recurring question if DOOM continues to pull stunts like the one at his August 25th concert in London. The masked rapper was scheduled to make an appearance at the "Livin' DOOM" event, but instead sent out a lip-syncing doppelganger....
Lil Wayne recently told MTV that he hated his verse on "Yuck!": I sound wack as hell on there. He did not tell me that was gonna be the first song on his album. We were just in the studio and, man, I just did that. I was in there just messing around. Please don’t judge me from that — my...
Since becoming an actress, model, grammy winner, and CoverGirl, many may have forgotten Queen Latifah's come-up as female rapper in the 1980s. Just as characters like MC Lyte, Antoinette, Salt-N-Peppa, Yo Yo, and Roxanne Shante began to introduce hip-hop to ill feminine flare, Queen Latifah stuck...
[caption id="attachment_42215" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Photo by Sagan Lockhart[/caption] When Earl Sweatshirt returned form Samoa, the hip-hop community accepted him with open arms. As the young emcee has gotten back into the swing of things by making and releasing new music, some of...
[ED. NOTE:] Rap Genius has since retitled this video "CHIEF KEEF rolls through RAP GENIUS." Which was the right thing to do. C-section trolls, remember, this issue ain't about Rap Genius's legitimacy so much as its foray into the world of PR, where buzz and hits are dollars and cents. Maybe...
If you happen to be a street artist tagging in the city of London, know that Big Brother is watching. As of July, the British Transit Police (BTP) have initiated a draconian attack on graffiti art of London in an attempt to “cleanup” the city for the Olympic games. Banksy, London's most...
