I’m glad to see that something good is actually coming out of the release of Notorious. While Lil Kim is beffin with Voletta Wallace and Faith Evans, Jadakiss is actually paying his dues to the late great. I must admit that through watching this video it definitely opened up some...

Last night in the midst of some great college basketball I actually had the chance to reduce myself to the norms of most other American television watching habits. Yes folks I actually did it! For about an hour and a half last night I actually had the chance to sit down and watch some of that retarded ass shit...

  Since this is the official kick off of Biggie Week here at rapaveli.com I thought that it would be fitting to offer a newer trailer for the movie which features Big rapping Juicy the whole time. The eerie part of this vid occurs at the very beginning when he states that he doesn’t expect to be around...

  You know, it seems like year after year people give less of a fuck about 50 Cent and year after year he, for some reason, seems to think that he just gets hotter. Don’t get me wrong, we all know the dude has mounds of cash, we just can’t help but to not care about the garbage...

Since its January aka the dead period in music I have nothing better to do than to turn into a hip hop gossip blogger. In breaking news today somebody caught Kanye West on video and he didn’t kick their ass and or break the camera equipment. A few weeks back Ye was talking about becoming an intern for Louis...

This is in no way a slight to Philant Johnson or his friends or family but the thing I’m having trouble understanding is how the laws can capture and sentence the killer of a rapper’s friend yet no one knows anything about who might have killed Pac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay.  Things like this make me wonder...

TI is well on his way to becoming the first down-south rapper turned music mogul with all of the new additions he’s enhancing his Grand Hustle roster with. Though BG has yet to release an album since signing to Atlantic in late 06 TI was still instrumental in bringing the Hot Boy to the current leading rap label. Over...

Jay Z – Brooklyn (Go Hard) Brooklyn yall gotta stand up on this one.  Just a day and some change after posting a light hearted article about OJ Simpson’s fate I finally get to put up something relevant to hip hop. From the early looks of things ’09 might be the shit as far as...

        “I didn’t know I was doing anything illegal.” This is one of those situations that has absolutely nothing to do with hip hop but its still funny as shit. Earlier today I was watching Sports Center show the same highlights over and over again when they interrupted my thirteenth time seeing the Chargers steam role...

I remember standing at the T-Mobile stand at Jefferson Mall looking at a Blackberry when my uncle text messaged me and let me know that Pimp C had died. It seems like it’s been only a few weeks since that day but in actuality its been a whole year. After a complete calendar it still seems like its not...

Just when I thought black America was on the way up this silly ass nigga Jim Jones just had to open his raggedy ass mouth and say some of the most ignorant shit I’ve ever heard earlier today. This mothafucka had the audacity to say that he thought that we as in black people should substitute the word “nigga”...

I thought I went out on a limb by actually giving Kanye’s latest album a chance even though I feel as though I’m the only person in America who truly hates that auto-tune shit. I’ll even admit that T-Pain’s latest album wasn’t as painful as I thought it was going to be to listen to. Earlier today I found...