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Drake drops album and causes eager fans to shut down NYC!!! Pop the hood for more!! Continue »

So it’s official the rarely seen Yeti , Lauryn Hill has been confirmed to perform on the summer’s biggest hip-hop festival. Pop the hood for more! Continue »

Who knew hip-hop would be used to influence consumers to go out and spend money… outside the black community. Well, obviously times have changed and Toyota has taken it to another level with using the word “SWAGGER” and making a rap video in order to boost sales.

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Once known on the Bad Boy roster as Loon, Amir Junaid Muuhadith has returned a changed man since his conversion to Islam. Now casting the music business to the side in order to embrace his religion, the former rapper has diffused any speculation of him ever picking up a microphone to throw any type of lyrical bars.

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Kanye West during a recent interview with DJ Semtex:

“I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. I have to be in a way more grimey environment to turn any rap music on”

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One of our favorite MC’s, Noreaga, recently placed a bet with Busta Rhymes that he could lose the “sloppy” look he has taken on over the years. How did the old NORE go to looking like a mix of Buster Douglas and Gucci Mane? SMH.

The old NORE. Video of NORE talking about his fight with obesity under the hood Continue »

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Benzino recently went at his former Source editor, Kim Osorio, in a radio interview. Kim recently published a book which discussed her getting “chopped down” by rappers and journalistic ‘subjects’ like Nas and No Cents while acting Source Editor. Can you really be objective as an editor when you had your jaws worked last night by the interview subject?

Well, Zino still has something to say about how everything went down.

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MC Breed is currently on life support after collapsing during a basketball game in ATL:

Flint, Michigan rapper MC Breed is in critical condition at an undisclosed hospital in Atlanta, where he is on life support due to kidney failure, AllHipHop.com has confirmed. His manager, Darryl Morris, said the rapper, born Eric Breed, was playing a game of pickup basketball yesterday evening (September 5) in Atlanta, when he collapsed and fell unconscious. “He had to be revived three times,” Morris told AllHipHop.com. “He had to be rushed to the hospital where they diagnosed him and told him his kidney’s have failed.”

Now, MC Breed, 36, is in serious need of a kidney transplant and is seeking a donor to help save his life.

Breed is in our thoughts and prayers. We used to bump Breed’s stuff hard back in the day. For information or to contact MC Breed’s management, contact: Darryl Morris Vanglorious61@yahoo.com

If you don’t remember Breed or need to be put up on game, click here for his classic.

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Before Source Magazine fell off, one the most comedic hip-hop beefs took place between Benzino and Julia Beverly from Ozone magazine. A member of our staff thought that we should roll this back out for some Friday comedy .

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