Hip-Hop Spot

Brooklyn’s own Fabolous will be headlining a music festival in Ghana featuring musicians from Ghana and Nigeria, at the Dome of the Accra International Conference Centre on April 7th.

To be quite honest, it wasn’t until Musiq Soulchild fell off the stage at Madison Square Garden awhile ago that we remembered that he was still around.  His last album or two slid past us without us knowing or even caring that they came out.

Charlemagne The God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy interviewed Lupe Fiasco, who has a new album Lasers is in stores now. The Chicago rapper talks label politics, not having commercial success, why he would never do a “No Hands” Remix and a lot more. “This is the fourth version of Lasers, between the second and […]

Nelly & Kelly Rowland’s video for “Gone” has finally debuted.  The song is said to be a sequel of sorts to their previous collaboration, 2002’s hit single “Dilemma.”

We all were happy when we heard Shyne got out of jail, but with every new song he releases, we’re wishing that he’d hang up the microphone and just devote all of his time to studying the Torah.

Mark Adams, bass player for 70s & 80s funk group Slave, died on March 5th.  Details surrounding the cause of death have not been made public.

Early this morning, Prodigy of Mobb Deep was released from Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate New York after serving 3 years for gun possession.

Willow Smith transforms a desolate desert into a massive metropolis in the music video for her latest single, “21st Century Girl.”

Diggy Simmons took the rap world by storm one summer and hasn’t stopped wowing us since. He stole the light from his older brother Jo Jo and burned every other rapper in the BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. Diggy currently graces the XXL Freshman Class Cover. XXL Freshman Class Cover Leaked! Diggy Simmons Escorts Reginae […]

After being deported back to his native country, Shyne’s music has yet to move audiences or reflect the Shyne we knew and loved before prison. He has a new single out with a new flow entitled “The Original.” Set in what appears to be Jerusalem, violent uproars take place around the Jewish rapper… Still waiting […]