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Read Snoop Lion's 'No Guns Allowed' Essay (EXCLUSIVE)

Snoop Lion pens a personal essay about why he started the "No Guns Allowed" movement. ...Read More »

Snoop Lion 'Reincarnated' -- Full Album Stream (EXCLUSIVE)

Get an exclusive listen to Snoop Lion's reggae album "Reincarnated" here. ...Read More »

Snoop Lion Shares His Five Favorite Reggae Songs (EXCLUSIVE)

To celebrate the release of his reggae LP, Snoop Lion gives us his five favorite reggae songs. ...Read More »

Lauryn Hill Has 2 Months to Pay $500K, A$AP Rocky & Wiz Khalifa Co-Headline Tour & More

Though her sentencing was supposed to take place yesterday (April 22), Lauryn Hill owes the government $504,000 in back taxes, and has two weeks to pay up + more ...Read More »

5 African American Artists Not Named Jean-Michel Basquiat

William Tolliver William was born in Vicksburg, Missisippi in 1951, and although his mother worked in the cotton fields by day, she still managed to rear and educate her fourteen children. To stimulat ...Read More »

5 African American Artists Not Named Jean-Michel Basquiat

Welcome to the wild world of contemporary hip-hop and R&B music where only one African- American visual artist seems to exist -- Jean-Michel Basquiat. This singular and arbitrary focus is li ...Read More »

Amy Winehouse's Dad Slams Beyonce's 'Back To Black' Cover

Amy Winehouse's dad Mitch is not a fan of Beyonce's "Back to Black" cover. ...Read More »

DMX on 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' -- 'She Can Suck My D**k'

DMX is threatening to sue Oprah's OWN network over his episode of "Iyanla: Fix My Life." ...Read More »

Snoop Dogg, 4/20 Party: Cops Shut Down at Rapper's Marijuana Celebration

Snoop Lion's 4/20 Festival was put out before he even had the chance to light up. ...Read More »

Nate Dogg: Baby Mama Files Claim Against Late Rapper's Estate for Unpaid Child Support

Nate Dogg passed away in March 2011 from complications of multiple strokes, but that hasn't stopped his baby mama from saying that the rapper still owes him money. ...Read More »

T.I., Boston Marathon Tragedy: Rapper Says There's No Connection Between Him & Hip-Hop Site That Bombing Suspect Reportedly Visited

As more details emerge about the two suspects who reportedly bombed the Boston Marathon -- including that one of them, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was a hip-hop fan -- rapper T.I. has spoken out about the findings. ...Read More »