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On Tuesday what should have been a night of celebration for Pete Rock and Smif N Wessun took an ugly turn, when police allegedly attacked fans at the Tammany Hall in NYC’s Lower East Side. Pete Rock and Smif N Wesson issued the following statement regarding the incident. On Tuesday, June 28th, Pete Rock, Tek [...]

Common leaves UMG and heads over to Warner Rapper Common has ended his ten year relationship with Universal Music and is now signed to Warner Bros. Records Common says, “I’m very grateful to be a part of this family, to be a part of this team. We have very inspirational, exciting music to team up [...]

J. Cole Replacing Cee Lo On Rihanna’s LOUD Tour Roc Nation rapper  J.Cole is the official opener for Rihanna’s summer LOUD tour. Green dropped out of the tour due to his commitments with NBC’s The Voice, as well as working on a new album and writing a book. “He always puts 100 percent into his work and [...]

The Doggfather and Banner stand up for the young boy from the New West. A lot of love coming for the K Dot, who seems to be taking it in stride. #Section80 hits harddrives July 2. [...]

Amber Rose took to her Twitter account to address the pics that have the internet going nuts. No matter what I go thru or how embarrassed I am I have a man that Loves me & has my back thru everything. @RealWizKhalifa thank u. :- ) I was gonna wait until my radio show to [...]

The internets are looking forward to this one. Kendrick drops the project on July 2 for your listening pleasure. Courtesy of the 2Dope [...]

Bum dudes will ALWAYS mess up the game. Case in point, THIS! In what would be the biggest advertisement AGAINST sending nude pictures it seems that shots of Amber Rose have surfaced. Earlier today these appeared on MediaTakeout. (Below is the LEAST graphic of the bunch). This is the second batch of Amber nudes to [...]

It was announced earlier today by Kanye West, Barry Weiss (Chairman and CEO of Universal Motown Republic Group and Island Def Jam Music Group) and Steve Bartels (President and COO of Island Def Jam Music Group) that Mr. West’s independent label G.O.O.D. (Getting Out Our Dreams) Music has signed an exclusive long-term worldwide label agreement with [...]

Last night I attended an exclusive Vodka tasting event featuring Smirnoff’s Global Brand Ambassador, Kenji Abraham. The event was at a very intimate space in The Volstead on the Upper East Side. Three of his signature cocktails were offered at the event, which attendees had the chance to make. Before the vodka blind taste test [...]

Someone at Universal is definitely going for a drink after work this week. First the Hip Hop blogosphere finds out about the blogs they alledgedly viewed as “piracy sites”. Then Drake blasts them on Twitter for taking down the songs he released via his blog for fans. Drake had the Net’s ear when “Marvin’s Room” [...]