Drake, OVO Fest: MC Outshines Special Guests Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross
Sarjoun Faour Photography/WireImage For three years running, Drake has hosted the biggest hip-hop event in Toronto (and almost anywhere else, too). His OVO Fest, named after his hometown ...
Juno Awards 2012: Drake Loses Best Album to Michael Buble 'Christmas'
GF/ bauergriffinonline.com | FilmMagic The Juno Awards have made great strides in credibility in recent years, but that may have culminated in last year's Drake-hosted crowning of Arcade Fire. ...
A$AP Rocky SXSW Fight: Rapper and Crew Brawl With Crowd at Vice Party
Roger Kisby, Getty Images As was first reported on our sister site Spinner, a brawl broke out between Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky and his crew against a drunken crowd at a Vice party around 3:30AM ...
Whitney Houston, 'Jesus Loves Me': Singer Performs Last Song -- Video
Larry Busacca, Getty Images The shock surrounding Whitney Houston's sudden death at age 48 continues to reverberate, especially since the struggling singer was performing as recently as Friday, ...
Rob Base, 'It Takes Two': Icon Says Classic Song Reshaped Hip-Hop
Joshua Ostroff, AOL When Rob Base bounded onto the stage of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum for TOGETHER 2012, the United Jewish Appeal fundraiser may have been an unlikely event but the venue ...
K'naan, Wavin' Flag: Mitt Romney's Offensive Use of Rap Song
Getty Images (2) Mitt Romney, the current frontrunner in the Republican's endless -- and endlessly nasty -- presidential primary, has spent the past few months throwing red meat at the party ...
Nas Unloads on Great Recession Hip-Hop
C Flanigan, Getty Images Nas has been one of hip-hop's great figures since he first hustled onto the scene with the 1994 classic 'Illmatic,' an album of gritty street stories about his teen ...

