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Melanie Fiona‘s music video for “Gone And Never Coming Back” premiered on BET this week. The song is featured on the Canadian songstress’ upcoming album, The MF Life.

It’s hard to believe that 14 years have passed since The Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in Los Angeles. A few months after Big’s death, his friend and label head, Puff Daddy, as he was then known, released a tribute called “I’ll Be Missing You.”

Pharoahe Monch has never skimped on his music videos and his latest clip, “Clap (One Day)” is another visually arresting (no pun intended) treatment filled with social commentary. The latest clip from his album W.A.R. (dropping March 22nd) is a mini-movie starring Gbenga Akinnagbe from The Wire as an overzealous cop who shoots first and […]

Chris Brown phoned the Durtty Boyz over at 107.9 where he talked about dying his hair blonde, preparing for a new album, sticking to the ladies, and looking for hoes. Chris Brown is very anxious to put out his new album F.A.M.E so his music can speak for itself.He also says his favorite track on […]

While all 100,000 of you are still waiting for your Black Friday mixtape to show up in the mail, another track that may or may not appear on the mixtape just hit the net. Lil Kim completely remakes Rihanna‘s “Man Down.”

Shyne may not be on our favorite rappers list at the moment, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to listen to his new album when it drops on May 17th.  Po’s new album, Gangland, will be be released Def Jam.

Michael Jackson is believed to have left a ton of unreleased material behind after he died in 2009.  Slowly but surely, some of that material is starting to leak out.

Snoop Dogg & T-Pain‘s single “Boom” premiered late last week and the video is already here for your viewing pleasure.  The song is featured on Snoop’s upcoming album Doggumentary, out on March 29th.

Yung LA has finally come to his senses and realized that a tattoo of a duck on his face wasn’t exactly a good idea and is having it covered up… Or was he pressured into getting it covered?

Lil’ Wayne‘s upcoming Tha Carter IV album is one of the most anticipated albums of the year.  But we don’t know if this new song that leaked, “We Back Soon,” will be on it.