It’s no doubt that this has been no one else other than Lil Wayne’s year. To cap things off the New Orleans native is capping off ’08 with the 24 city “I Am Music” tour. The tour is to start on December 14th and end on January 19th of ’09. T-Pain, Keisha Cole, and pop group Gym Class Heroes are...

4 all of those who don’t know, MC Breed died Saturday (11-22-2008.) I think everyone will agree that although he wasn’t the “biggest” rapper. He was a staple in hip hop. RIP -Tom Oliver  hip hop historian &...

Over the course of the past few months as most of you mayhave or may not have noticed the country is going through a recession. Yes areal recession just like the title of Young Jeezy’s latest album. What arecession means is that basically we’ve been in a money slump for more than afew months. I’ll...

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As we all have heard by now both Kanye West and Ludacris will bereleasing albums on the 24th of this month. I don’t know if anyoneelse thought of the irony that exists between a rapper from Atlanta who movedto Chicago versus a rapper from Chicago who moved to Atlanta for the 2008 hiphop superbowl bout. Kanye...

I’m rather saddened to inform you that Shakir Stewart committed suicide sometime yesterday afternoon. Sources close to the Def Jam Executive VP confirmed his death and as of press time have no further details or reason behind his death. Stewart earned major recognition as an A&R at Def Jam who was responsible for bringing ground breaking southern acts such...

Normally I would laugh along with this shit but hatin is gettin old for real. I hate envy and this camera dude is full of it. I don’t like Lil Wayne as a rapper that much but I have to say that he did his damn thing this year. Top selling album period. You can’t...

Please believe the Ville is about to go nation wide! Whats up streetcredit.tv and you know dope16.com is in this. rapaveli.com… need I say more. What ya’ll think about this...

Over the past year or so Young Buck has found himself casted as the blacksheep of the G-Unit family. After some tear jerking conversations and a few half ass dis-records Buck seems to be finally ready to put the past behind him and go for self with his own imprint, Cashville Records “The name of...

Stat Quo as you all may know or have absolutey no idea about has severed ties with the Aftermath / Interscope / Shady / G-Unit umbrella and from the looks of things he’s about to cause some trouble within the industry. In a recent interview he spoke about some of the things that got him...

50 Cent recently did an interview in which he had some pretty interesting things to say about the substance of his upcoming album Before I Self Destruct. Judging from some of the things my man said this one should be better than Get Rich Or Die Tryin… I’ll believe that when I hear it! “They’ll...

With just about a month left before the release of his fourth album 808s and Heartbreak Kanye West has decided to shed a little light on his recent public relations. I’m guessing that since he and his bodyguard decided to fuck up that poor guy’s camera equipment at LAX last month that Kanyeezy figures this is...