Paul Cantor

Talib Kweli joined us here for a live chat yesterday and was extremely candid and forthcoming about a variety of topics -- particularly his new record Prisoner Of Conscious -- which is due in stores May 9 -- but also his friend Kanye West. According Kweli, Taylor Swift wasn't the first person to get interrupted by Kanye...

Talib Kweli joins us here at AOL for an EXCLUSIVE Google Hangout. Topics covered include his new album Prisoner Of Conscious -- due out May 7 -- what Kanye West was like on tour, how he deals with Facebook commenters, the closing of his book store in Brooklyn and why it's okay to not take Waka Flocka's comments about white women that seriously...

While this is an outline of how 2 Chainz, the artist formerly known as Tity Boy, has essentially sold out it is important to provide some context on the guy. This isn't 2 Chainz's first rodeo. He was previously in Playaz Circle, a group on Ludacris's DTP imprint, and managed to surf the Lil Wayne hook wave at the precise moment with "Duffle Bag Boys"...

Snoop Lion's much-publicized reggae LP, Reincarnated, is finally in stores today.

Snoop Lion's new LP Reincarnated is in stores today.

Music fans are anxious to get a listen to the full version of Beyonce's cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black," off The Great Gatsby soundtrack. But the anticipation is much ado about nothing, according to Winehouse's dad Mitch. "I don't think she brings anything to it,' he tells the Daily Mail...

DMX wants to sue Oprah Winfrey's OWN network over his episode of Iyanla: Fix My Life. "Iyanla set the whole thing up to make me look bad for ratings," he tells TMZ. "That lady is toxic ... My last words to her were that she can suck my d**k and she still can...

People in love sometimes get their significant other's name tattooed somewhere on their body. Amber Rose went one step further, however, getting Wiz Khalifa's entire face inked right onto the inside of her forearm. "True Love Cam & Amb," she wrote along with a photo of the tattoo, which she shared on Instagram on Wednesday (April 17). ...

Leave it up to a 90s hip-hop revivalist to come up with a conspiracy theory to explain the manhunt going on in Boston right now. Joey Bada$$ thinks this is all an elaborate set-up. "They just gotta make it look like they catching the bad guys," he wrote on his Twitter account earlier this morning (April 19)...

Today (April 19), marks three years since the passing of Keith Elam, better known to the world as Guru from Gangstarr. To honor the fallen rapper's legacy, producer Marco Polo recruited Talib Kweli and DJ Premier for a song named after him-- "G...