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http://staging.allhiphop.comAtlanta went in hard this past weekend as Ludacris, Young Jeezy and T.I. took to the stage at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, N.Y. as part of HOT 97 and Big League Entertainment’s Holiday Bash ’08. Despite the inclement weather, thousands of Hip-Hop heads of all ages ranging from tiny tots in hoodies to […]
Even though real Hip-Hop can seem like it has gone to the pallbearers lately, its legacy is safe in the good quills of brilliant writers like Marcus Reeves. As a feature writer and editor, Reeves was an integral part of The Source Magazine’s Mind Squad during the magazine’s golden age. From there, he hit the […]
“Go Hard (Remix)”
“Microphone Murderer”
“Letter To B.I.G.”
“Bank Rollz”
“Bi**h Im Me (Remix)”
Every year there are a ton of tracks that you hear over and over again on the radio and blasting out of car windows. You may hate those songs with a white-hot passion (“I Kissed a Girl”), but you still know every word since they’re constantly being drilled into your head while you’re trying to […]
Detroit’s Trick Trick, the self-proclaimed “villain” of Hip-Hop, made himself one of the culture’s biggest talking points this year courtesy of one-sided feuds with Yung Berg and the gay community. Over the summer, talkative rapper Yung Berg was mercilessly beaten and relieved of his trademark Transformer chain mere moments after stepping into Trick’s Plan […]
There’s one life / One love / So there can only be one king Nas “The Message” For our purposes, Nas’ rule of one will be modified to a rule of four. Every year there are a handful of artists from each region that leave an indelible mark on Hip-Hop through their hard […]
“Stop What Ya Doin”
“I Feel Free”
DISCLAIMER: All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear. Read on. TODAY’S RUMORS!RANSOM SLAPS JOE BUDDEN’S “BEST FRIEND”????? There is a video on the internet the supposedly shows Ransom talking about Joe Budden. I will say it once and […]
When you look at all the events that occurred throughout the entire calendar of 2008, it is clear this year will go down in the books. From a social and political vantage point, we have the biggest presidential election in history with a man of color winning. On a music note, we had Lil […]
The Dancehall fraternity suffered a severe loss early Friday morning: Just hours after most celebrated life and love on Christmas day with family and friends, dancer, Ice, was murdered. “Ice,” real name David Alexander Smith, was best known for his internationally acclaimed “Gully Creeper.” The dance took the world by storm after Bad Boy’s […]
If you were to ask any fan of Rap music what the biggest album of the year was, Tha Carter 3 would most likely be the most common answer, and with great reason. In 2008, Lil Wayne would be an unavoidable force in music. With a flood of mixtape material and countless guest appearances, […]
Just about any artist who survives long enough to get a third or fourth album tries to promote it as some sort of departure—more mature, more casual, more soulful, more fun, more classic, more modern, more whatever. Most of them are lying and merely offer more of the same but, to her credit, Keyshia Cole […]
