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Whether it's necessary or not, white rappers will forever be compared to each other in this game we call hip-hop. At least Macklemore let his competition know how he feels about them.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have released the epic video for "Can't Hold Us" featuring Ray Dalton. We'd be lying if we said we can make sense of what's going on here-- the days of music videos making sense are long gone; now it's just about doing stuff that looks cool-- but the video finds the pair making their way through the snowy terrain of the arctic to the oceans of somewhere tropic

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NEW YORK (AP) - Jay-Z's right-hand woman will perform at the festival the rapper has curated in Philadelphia. The festival announced Wednesday on Spotify that Beyonce will perform at the "Budweiser Made in America" music festival on Labor Day weekend...

Though some (us) were initially skeptical, Dr. Dre has apparently secured $60 million in funding for his Daisy music streaming service, in partnership with Jimmy Iovine. Must be Dre Day. Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" has officially gone 4X Platinum...

J. Cole on Jay-Z's membership in the Illuminati: "I'm a conspiracy theorist. I believed those videos," Cole explains in a recent interview. "Then you meet and you see how things were and you like, 'Nah, man. That's bogus.' That's somebody who's so far away from the truth and what's actually happening, just creating something...

The organizers of Paid Dues Independent Hip Hop Festival have announced the first performers for 2013. Rapper Murs and fellow promoters Guerilla Union have revealed that the partial lineup will include Kendrick Lamar's crew Black Hippy, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dom Kennedy, Tech N9ne, Immortal Technique, De La Soul, Hopsin, Joey Bada$$ and Grouch & Eligh. "Pai...

Seattle-based rapper Ben Haggerty, known by his stage name Macklemore, has released an emotional music video today for the track "Same Love." The seven minute-long visual follows the life of a gay boy and details his struggle growing up in a world where he seemingly can't be himself...

If there's one thing lists are good for, it's starting arguments. This is true for just about any style of music, but it goes double for hip-hop, a genre whose diehards don't mince words. No wonder XXL's just-announced Freshman Class of 2012 -- as well as the accompanying magazine cover, seen below -- is already causing such a stink online...