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(Photo by Katie Flores/Billboard via Getty Images) Donald Glover Is Maybe Not Retiring Childish Gambino After All: ‘I Still Really Love Making Music’
Glover promises that he is not “hoarding” any secret music.
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(Photo by Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty Images) T-Pain Explains the Big Misunderstanding That Made Future ‘Lost All Respect’ for Him
T-Pain shares why his ‘beef’ with Future was all a big misunderstanding and why Future has been icy towards him since then.
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(Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) LL Cool J Once Explained Why He Still Makes Music Decades Into His Career: ‘I Didn’t Get Into Hip-Hop for Money’
“I think that as time went along, we became a very elitist culture, [that was] all about money, money, money, money, money,” LL Cool J said.
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(Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images) OJ Da Juiceman Rushed to the Hospital for Medical Emergency While in Police Custody
OJ Da Juiceman’s team alleges that the police wrongfully arrested him and caused the medical emergency.
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(Photo By Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile for Web Summit Qatar via Getty Images) Questlove Recalls Having To Hide The Roots and His Love for Hip-Hop From His Parents
“And even deep into our second album, it was still, ‘You gotta get a real job one day. You gotta get a real job one day,’” Questlove recalled.
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(Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage) Mos Def Explains How He Met Talib Kweli for the First Time and Formed Black Star
“The goal wasn’t about trying to become a star, it was to become a real, working artist,” Mos Def shared.
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(Photo by Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images) The Reason Why J Dilla Actually Hated That Q-Tip Gave Him and Slum Village His ‘Stamp of Approval’
“People automatically put us in that [Tribe] category. That was actually a category that we didn’t actually wanna be in,” Dilla told XXL in 2004.
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(Photo by Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images) Kanye West Features Fake Michael Jackson in New ‘Father’ Music Video With Travis Scott
Ye hired fake Michael Jackson (Fabio Jackson) for latest music video ‘Father.’
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Photo by Saverio Truglia/WireImage 4 Songs That Made Almost Every Single Mix CD I Burned in 2005
Don’t even pretend like “Gold Digger” wasn’t the biggest song of 2005.
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(Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images) J. Cole Explains Why He’s Actually Not The Best Rapper Alive
“In reality, do I walk around this earth like there’s no n***a better than me in real life? No, n***a,” J. Cole says.
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(Photo by Joseph Okpako/Getty Images for MOBO) 3 New Hip-Hop and R&B Songs You Must Hear This Week (3/27/26)
Three of the best new hip-hop and R&B songs to come out this week.
