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Rosario: Where is the Authenticity in Rap?
At the turn of the 21st century, a new wave of more underground rappers emerged, spitting substance and returning rap to its ...
Colorado rapper using music to break mental health stigma
Mathias Da Great is known for provocative lyrics about drugs, money and cars, but he's focusing on something else now: mental ...
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Diddy’s Attorneys Want Prostitution Charge Dismissed, Insist Racial Bias at Play
What Happened: After initially facing a murder rap in the 2005 killing of one man and the attempted murders of two others, ...
50 Cent Exposes Lil Meech’s Drug Use Drama With Explosive Rehab Revelation
The Hip-Hop mogul revealed he sent Demetrius “Lil Meech” Flenory Jr. to rehab after noticing signs of substance use, a ...
The terrible fates of the A$AP Mob: How the New York hip-hop collective is marred by 'drug overdose deaths' and bust ups - as A$AP Rocky is found not guilty in assau…
A$AP Rocky first rose to fame as a part of the New York group A$AP Mob whose tumultuous history culminated in the rapper ...
Irv Gotti’s Death Highlights Another Glaring Problem In Music Business
Just 54, the longtime music executive was robbed of the chance to truly grow old, a theme far too common these days, especially in Hip-Hop.
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Dead Prez Say 'Hip Hop" Was Meant to Mock New York Rap
When Dead Prez 's former record label wanted a hit single, the rap duo decided to imitate mainstream acts on their biggest ...
50 Cent, Wendy Williams and the other Hollywood stars who tried to warn us about P Diddy
As Kanye West defends Sean Combs, we take a look at the stars who warned us about his behaviour long before the shocking allegations came to light ...
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Shadrack Kuteesa speaks out on drugs, parties and mocking death in Uganda's music industry
There is a saying that when you take a walk on the wild side, you find redemption. Shadrack Kuteesa embarked on such a ...
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Irv Gotti, Famed Hip-Hop Music Executive, Dies At Age 54
Irv Gotti battled legal challenges that rocked the hip-hop industry in the early 2000s. In 2005, he was found not guilty of federal charges of laundering money for a convicted drug gang leader ...
Music executive Irv Gotti, who helped launch the careers of rap stars, dies at 54
Irv Gotti rose to prominence working with rap artists who went on to become major stars in the late 1990s and early 2000s ...
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Irv Gotti, Def Jam hip-hop exec and Murder Inc. co-founder, dies at 54
The FBI was investigating alleged ties to drug kingpin Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff. Gotti was acquitted, and he ultimately moved into TV production with “Tales,” a BET hip-hop anthology ...