billboard.com–
Nicki Minaj has a pair of leading men right by her side in her new video.
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Hip-hop
mtv.com–
Rap superstar Wiz Khalifa will perform his new single "Work Hard, Play Hard" for the first time on television at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards.
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Hip-hop
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Ghost
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pitchfork.com–
Azealia Banks has apparently got a ton of new music on the way: The 1991 EP (out May 29), a full-length album this fall, and a mixtape, titled Fantastic. That mixtape is out July 4, she announced today on Twitter …
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Hip-hop
theboombox.com–
YouTube.com
Iranian Rapper Shahin Najafi has been forced into hiding after Iranian clerics placed a $100,000 bounty on the performer's head.
According to The Independent, Najafi's latest single "Naqi" …
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Hip-hop, Industry
altpress.com–
Mod Sun has released a lyric video for "Happy As Fuck" featuring Pat Brown. It's the title track for his new EP dropping next month and it can also be downloaded here.
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Hip-hop
pitchfork.com–
"Be it RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to mourn the death of famed rapper and activist Adam 'MCA' Yauch"
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Hip-hop
pitchfork.com–
Who would have ever guessed that television audiences enjoy watching young men play pranks on people? So weird. Anyway, Adult Swim has announced that the Odd Future live-action prank/sketch show "Loiter Squad …
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Hip-hop
pitchfork.com–
J Dilla's DILLATROIT 12" EP will be released May 25 in the U.S. and June 12 internationally via Mahogani Music, as FACT reports. The British dance music webstore Juno has confirmed that it features 12 unreleased …
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Hip-hop
billboard.biz–
long-running dispute over whether Live Nation and former parent Clear Channel engaged in anticompetitive conduct in the promotion and pricing of live music concerts could be headed for some resolution. On Tuesday …
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Hip-hop
pitchfork.com–
Making good on January's epic Twitter rant, Kanye West has announced that his short art film Cruel Summer, "inspired by the G.O.O.D. Music album Cruel Summer" (so, apparently not inspired by the Bananarama …
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Hip-hop
rollingstone.com–
Bay Area rapper Kreayshawn pays her haters no mind. The 22-year-old rose to prominence last May when the video for her swagged-out ode to anti-materialism, "Gucci Gucci," went viral, logging almost 35 million …
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Hip-hop
rollingstone.com–
Constantly progressing and unapologetically ambitious, Brooklyn indie-rap icon El-P has returned with Cancer for Cure, his first solo hip-hop album in five years. Since then, the underground rap world that anointed …
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