NotoriousB.i.g.

Saigon recently revealed that Jay-Z took a bunch of the beats Just Blaze made for him, including the one that became "Kingdom Come." "Jay-Z was jacking for beats baby," Saigon explained. "We were working at Baseline and we're like a close family...

Notorious B.I.G. routinely made microphone magic happen early in his career. Who can forget the image of the 17-year old Biggie ripping competitors apart on the streets of Bed-Stuy? Well, one of Big's most quoted moments comes from a verse that's known as the 'Madison Square Garden freestyle' and it recently received an animated treatment...

Shyne and Mark Curry aren't the only ex-Bad Boy artists lashing out against their former boss Diddy. Black Rob, who's fired shots at Sean Combs over the past year, has reignited his beef with the rap mogul. In a new interview, Rob speaks out against the Bad Boy family saying Diddy was janky from the start...

Rick Ross Week is upon us. With the release of the rapper's new 'Teflon Don' slated for today (July 20), expect a gigantic promotional push with critics and pundits offering their opinions on Ross' career and newest effort. Yesterday, the Huffington Post published an editorial entitled 'Rick Ross: Living out Notorious B...

50 Cent has found his latest target in Diddy, following the mogul's decision to recruit Fif's nemesis Rick Ross for his new group, The Dream Team. The Queens rapper is pulling out all the stops on Diddy, first ridiculing his decision to work with the Teflon Don, and now zeroing in on his supposed exploitation of the late Notorious B...

A reflective Diddy was last night's guest at Peter Rosenberg's Noisemakers series, answering questions about his musical and business successes over the years. The entrepreneur seemed at ease on the stage at New York's 92YTribeca community center, as he joked around and provided particularly illuminating stories about his work with Notorious B...

Brooklyn rapper Lil' Cease recently opened up about a Junior M.A.F.I.A. reunion, saying it was something he "would definitely want to do." On May 21, what would have been the 38th birthday of the late Notorious B.I.G. and Junior M.A.F.I.A. lyrical genius, Cease said that he was working on reuniting the hip-hop group...

Former No Limit rapper Mystikal is out of jail and into the digital age. "A lot of things have changed with this technology," he said of this modern age. "When I came home, dudes were trying to get beats to me. I'm like, "Here's my address, Fed Ex it to me," and they like, 'I'm gonna email it to you...

Who's the best of the best? Over the past few months, Touré, host of Fuse's 'Hip-Hop Shop,' has given us his top five Southern MCs, West Coast MCs and female MCs. But this week he tosses aside gender, genre, region and everything else and simply asks, who are the five best MCs... eve...

After eight years, the lawsuit filed by Voletta Wallace, mother of legendary Brooklyn rapper Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G., against the city of Los Angeles and the LAPD has been dismissed. B.I.G. was murdered on March 9 1997, after the Soul Train Awards in Los Angeles...