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Video is surfacing of a rap group called the “Monkey Gang” who critics are calling “The Most Ignorant Rap Ever.” Rumor is that it might be a parody, but the way rap is going, who knows. RELATED STORIES Mighty Casey “Crackhead Superheroes” [VIDEO] VIDEO: Mighty Casey “Black Rapping School”

Thirteen years after Tony Toni Toné broke up, the group’s front-man Raphael Saadiq is still going strong, with his fourth solo studio album, Stone Rollin’, due out in March.

The lineups have been released for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and headlining the event will be Kanye West and Kings Of Leon. Held April 15, 16, and 17 at The Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, and organized by Goldenvoice (a subsidiary of AEG Live), the fest features many genres of live music […]

Ok, so after Kanye ‘jumped out the window’ with his “G.O.O.D. Fridays” Artist-Approved-Weekly-Free-Download series, every other artist has to follow suit, right?….With Timbaland & Snoop Dogg having already begun releasing music under #TimbalandThursdays & #PuffPuffPassTuesdays,  it would seem so to us earthlings that this is the new hot marketing tool in music, but at closer […]

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With all due r-e-s-p-e-c-t to Aretha Franklin, we have to agree with Halle Berry that she probably isn’t the ideal person to play her in a movie on her life. Given her place in history as one of the greatest voices in music, you can’t have just anyone lip-sync their way through her biopic. At […]

The top 2 albums on the “Albums we never thought were coming out” list have finally been giving release dates. Last night, superproducer, Just Blaze stuck his face in the camera for 17 seconds via Twitvid stating, “You know what album’s coming out February 15.” That LP is his artist Saigon’s almost appropriately named, The […]

The soon-to-be wife of Floyd Mayweather Jr. is making headlines after posing for a new 2011 photo shoot. Model Shantel Jackson was first introduced as the boxer’s fiancé in September by 50 Cent who posted pictures of her on his Twitter account. Introducing her to the world 50 tweeted, “Wow just got off the phone […]

As a new group Cali Swag District has had an amazing year with their now platinum single “Teach Me How To Dougie.” The four-man group (C-Smoove, Yung, Jay Are and M-Bone) hail from Inglewood, California and were discovered by former Death Row artists Big Wy and Dairold Potts. The single “Teach Me How To Dougie” […]

Kanye West can breathe a sigh of relief now that his latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has officially been certified platinum by the RIAA, marking the shipment of one million copies of the album to stores.

Nearly twenty years have passed since Mint Condition debuted on the scene with their album Meant To Be Mint.  The album featured the hit slow jam “Breakin’ My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes).”

Last night I hit up Edwards to catch this highly acclaimed and much talked about new movie The Fighter. Starring Mark Wahlberg & Christian Bale (who won a golden globe on sunday for his performance) and based on a true story, The Fighter had a very slow start for me but i’m glad I stayed […]