Hip Hop

As promised, Lupe Fiasco fans are coming together today to celebrate the March 8, 2011 release date of Lasers. Initially the gathering was to protest against the delay of the project. The photos were taken...

 Check out the artwork for Nicki's upcoming album "Pink Friday" which now drops on November 22nd....

Big Boi let the world know last week that the remix is coming. And now here it is featuring Rick Ross, T.I, Bun B and Khujo Goodie. Download and let us know what you thinkLISTEN & DOWNLOAD: Big Boi - Tang...

Everything is not what it seems as Game has taken his fans behind the music and revealed his struggle dealing with fame as a rap star.Via his Twitter page @TheGame, the platinum selling rapper explained t...

Shyne has penned an open letter discussing his frustrations with Def Jam Records and displeasure in the company's treatment of artists. In his letter, Shyne also calls out Island Def Jam CEO L.A. Reid. Def Ja...

Erykah Badu vented via her Twitter account about hip-hop sounding like techno music lately. UGC complied her tweets into the two paragraphs below. How y’all gone stand by and let our music turn into pop techno cornball ass music. We don’t own our music no more. Come to think of it, did we EVER own it? when I say own our music , I’m not talkin bout the artist I’m talkin bout the people … let me be quiet. I wanna hear from the young people? easy for me to complain about this techno-pop cause i have a taste for something else. but how do u feel? These rappers ought to be shame of they damn selves, I’m talkin bout the mc’ s rappin over this pop techno music. I believe in pimpin the system but got DAMN! not like this.

David Banner & 9th Wonder - What Did I Do...

 Who is Shawty Mane? Why, it's Justin Bieber, who says in his Shawty video, "You guys might know me as the guy, y'know, who sings 'Baby,' y'know ... I'm a singer ... I'm white. But y'know, I just wanted to do ...

Young Money star Drake has confirmed recent speculation that he wrote his Alicia Keys record, "Un-Thinkable," about labelmate Nicki Minaj. According to Drake, he based his lyrics around his emotions toward Minaj. "It is [about Minaj], I'm not gonna lie," Drake told BET.com. "The concept came from a conversation that we had, or conversations we have. I wrote it based off two things: number one, based off that, and then two, based off Alicia [Keys] and Swizz and their situation and it just seemed fitting. It was like the perfect concept."

Weezy is back with a new letter from Rikers. He lets his fans know about his recent relocation. If you did not know Lil Wayne has been sent to solitary confinement for the remainder of his sentence because of the MP3 incident he had awhile back. Weezy talks about what he has to go through on a day to day basis in his new spot. 25 more days till he touches the town. Check out the letter after the jump.