Kendrick Lamar headlines hip hop heavy Coachella music festival

Kendrick Lamar is the latest hip hop artist to get top billing at the world renowned Coachella Music Festival. The Grammy Award winning rapper will take over Coachella's main stage on the third and sixth days of the annual music festival, January 16th and the 23rd. Radiohead and Bey...Read more

Future and Rick Ross drop visuals for "That's A Check"

Future recently declared that 2017 was going to be this year, and he's making good on those promises -- yesterday the Atlanta rapper released a brand new song, "Buy Love," and today he's teamed up with Rick Ross to deliver a video for their latest collaboration, "That's A...Read more

Jidenna's “Long Live The Chief” Dons New Rhythm Scholar Remix

Ain't a better way to kick off new year jams than with a brand new remix says Rhythm Scholar who just dropped his take on Jidenna's hit single “Long Live The Chief”. While his debut album of the same name is scheduled for its much-awaited release on January 17, the suit a...Read more

Birthday Greetings to Grandmaster Flash

This day in hip-hop celebrates the birth of phenomenal recording artist, legendary DJ, and overall regarded among hip-hop's earliest icons, none other than Grandmaster Flash. Born Joseph Saddler, the younger Flash grew up in The Bronx, developing a certain fascination towards music from his f...Read more

Spotlight Artist: Jermaine Dupri

There are legends and then there is Jermaine Dupri, the multi-talented entrepreneur, rapper, producer, and songwriter whose epic career spans all the way from the golden age of hip hop to modern day.   Dupri was introduced to the keyboard and drums as a child, and before he was eighteen,...Read more

Happy birthday to Mr Lif

Today is the thirty-ninth birthday of one of hip hop's premiere socially conscious rappers, Jeffrey Haynes, better known as Mr. Lif. Lif got his start in the late 90's, when his socially conscious, politically active lyrics helped him stand out against the vapid and shallow music that com...Read more