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Forbes has released their list of top earning hip hop stars this week and it’s little surprise that Jay-Z is wearing the crown of the kings listed.  According to Forbes, Hova will owe about $22M in taxes for 2010, which is a little more than pocket change for most. There are a few surprises in [...]

Jay-Z is going to be pretty busy during the dog days of summer. Kanye West announced yesterday that a remix of his latest track, Power will drop tomorrow, which features his non-blood big brother, Mister Carter himself. In addition, Hov plans to release a 336 page memoir called, Decoded on November 16th, which will chronicle [...]

Big ups to the folks at Guerilla Union for the throwback album performances (in their entirety). 36 Chambers? Paid in Full?! THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF?!?! TOM MORELLO?!?!?!!? Holy fucking shit. I hate the venue in San Bern, mostly because it’s a bitch to get out of and in an open area with nothing but dry [...]

The 2010 edition of VH1′s Hip Hop Honors will throw a few fingers in the air for southern rap’s most prominent artists:  Jermaine Dupri, Luke Campbell (of 2 Live Crew fame), J. Prince (who created Houston’s premier label,  Rap-A-Lot), Master P, and Organized Noise.  The party is scheduled for June 3 and will air on [...]

Last Friday, the Texas State Board of Education approved a measure which would leave hip hop culture out of social studies programs within their high schools – including their textbooks.  The reasoning behind this decision by the board was largely due to the “offensive” nature of rap lyrics. As a society, have we not moved [...]

There aren’t many folks who can maintain a career in music (especially hip hop) for over 20 years.  Guru has been at the forefront of modern music since the early 1990s and is best known as one -half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr with legendary wheels of steel master Dj Premier.  Everyone knows [...]

McNally Smith College of Music out of Minneapolis has a unique curriculum, including a hip hop diploma which emphasizes recording, mixing, technology, and hip hop history as well as many more traditional music degree programs that can be found at most major universities around the country.  From learning about hip hop’s roots to djing to [...]

Releasing his 11th solo  full-length album On September 8th, 2009, Jay-Z has surpassed Elvis Presley as the artist who has had the most number 1 album in history (Jay’s 2007′s American Gangster tied Elvis‘s record).  Along with that, The Blueprint 3, selling an estimated 476,000 copies in its first week, is also bringing a bit [...]

Bill O’Reilly loves hip hop.  Seriously – most of his material since the launch of The O’Reilly Factor in 1996 has aimed to revolutionize liberal thought, which has included attacks against hip hop artists such as Cam’Ron, Nas, Ludacris, Young Jeezy, and Jay-Z.  Bill’s most memorable attack has been on Luda as he called for [...]

I call bullshit. When one of your biggest commercial hits to date has a chorus of ‘I want to fuck every girl in the world,’ I have to call your bluff, Drake.  Drake plans to re-release his mixtape So Far Gone on September 15, 2009, which will include an additional promo bonus track for his [...]

When I first heard The Blueprint, I hated it.  I mean, I’ve been a Jay fan since Reasonable Doubt, but I really, really fucking hated The Blueprint – even more so, I boycotted a lot of his music until The Black Album dropped.  When The Blueprint 2 dropped, I still hadn’t rekindled my love for [...]

I loved ‘Hated on Mostly‘ from Crime Mob, which was released in 2004, and finally found a taste of commercial success when ‘Rock Yo Hips,’ featuring Little Scrappy hit mainstream radio airwaves in 2006.  One of the few crews that initially had multiple female counterparts, Crime Mob came correct… In later years, one-half of the [...]