After Wale, Meek Mill and Pill joined the MMG roster, Rick Ross’ original dream team, Triple Cs, seemed to fade into the background. In a statement of unity, the whole crew, including recent signee Stalley but sans the ubiquitous Bawse, come together on Torch’s old-school free for all “Slow Down.” Read the rest of this entry »

With quotes from Bubba Chuck’s turbulent life and career – including the legendary “practice” speech – Don Trip describes life isn’t always greener when setting out to cash in on a God given talent. Read the rest of this entry »

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Call Your Bookies: Breaking Down Super Bowl XLVI’s Prop Bets [With Leather]

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7 Reasons Why Pinterest Isn’t Yet Ready for Tech Brands [TechCrunch]

Evangelical Churches Catch Suits From ‘Spirit’ Falls [ABC]

Indomina Buys Ice-T’s ‘The Art of Rap:’ Sundance [Deadline]

How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls [NYTimes]

Celebrity Pot Busts Put Tiny Texas County On Map [Yahoo]

Alley Boy Denies Beef with T.I. and Young Jeezy [AHH]

Dr. Martens First Love [Ronnie Fieg]

Wale Shouts Out Ryan Mallett, Wants Him on Redskins [LB Sports]

Snoop Dogg to Appear on Next Paris Hilton Album [The Boombox]

Six Things the 3DS Needs to Deliver to Become as Great as the Original DS [Gamma Squad]

The MMG album release list is far from short and next up appears to be the follow up to the label’s compilation project, Self Made Vol. 1. The second installment see its first preview liberated during Rozay’s birthday weekend with “Bag Of Money” also featuring Wale and Meek Mill. Read the rest of this entry »

What else can you really say here? Ever since Tyga decided to dumb it completely down, the whole country’s seemingly been stranded in “Rack City.” So, while his audience is zombified and their brains are picked apart by vultures disguised as strippers, the YMCMB’s youngest in charge drops this 2006-esque remix to keep the buzz on his upcoming debut, Careless World: The Last Prince. Read the rest of this entry »

Dubbed as “the album before the album,” Maino partners with DJ Green Lantern and DJ Infamous to release his I Am Who I Am mixtape. The Bed-Stuy guy gets help from the likes of PUSH! Montana, T.I., Meek Mill, Wale and more. Read the rest of this entry »

While most rappers these days are warming the bench for the one-and-done shot on the major playing field, Red Café is content with aiming to be the biggest independent power on the planet. Bad Boy is moving in slow motion so in the meantime, RC is paying homage to his own backyard with a mixtape in album format. Read the rest of this entry »

Almost half a year after the song’s release, Trae Tha Truth still managed to round up the crew for this official visual to the Street King single “I’m On.” And, even though it appears each MC was shot in a different location, director Philly Fly Boy ties everybody together Read the rest of this entry »

Only a few months ago, Rick Ross’ career momentum was momentarily crippled by a series of seizures. The unofficial official word connected his ailments to exhaustion due to working too hard. Fast forward to early ’12, Ross must be well rested and recuperated because he’s back with a new drop, the Rich Forever mixtape Read the rest of this entry »

There are bound to be plenty of females fanning their faces for this pantie-dropping remix of Bei Maejor’s breakout hit, “Trouble.” But, with quality sixteens from Ralph, Cole and even T-Peezy to compliment the Michigan man’s stalking, self-produced single, there’s a solid chance us fellas will be caught riding out to this 106 & Park killer, too. Read the rest of this entry »

“Chain Music” more or less represents everything that was positive about Ambition. Tone P’s beat is simple, yet infectious and after three listens I can still hear it in my head. It’s the perfect style that will take a background role to set up the stage for Wale to spit his Geechi raps and not be overshadowed by the production. Read the rest of this entry »

True, Ace Hood may fell short of the potential that awaited him this year but there were still a few wins and he still has something say to all receptive listeners. On his second Statement of the year, the usual suspects in Busta, Ross, 2 Chainz and DJ Khaled bin Abdul Khaled all salute the Young G to help him close out the year with a bang. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems like forever ago when “Hottest In The Hood” built a respectable buzz for Red Cafe. Taking the more subdued approach this time around, “Fly Together” has made moves for Cafe during these latter months of 2011. Obviously geared towards the female persuasion, Red snags three artists mighty popular with the ladies these days. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve all pretty much come to the consensus that Wale’s “Bait” definitely belonged on Ambition, and probably would have added a half cig or so to the rating. About a month after its release, the trio of 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, and Trey Songz add three more reasons to tack the record on the album. Read the rest of this entry »

After both DMX and Sheek Louch referenced infamous Hall of Fame wrestler Bob Backlund during Ruff Ryders’ “World’s Greatest” comeback track, we were reminded the WWF Superstar-turned-wannabe-politician had actually been referenced more than a few times in rhymes. So, as a treat for our scatterbrained audience, we’ve taken the liberty of compiling quotables from some of Hip-Hop’s elite, speaking on none other than the king of the Crossface Chickenwing himself. Read the rest of this entry »