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Whodini becomes the first hip-hop act to chart in the Top 40, Deltron 3030 visits the dystopian future, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek team up, Ludacris drops his major label debut, and Eminem and Wyclef Jean are born.

In 1997, mainstream hip-hop may have been going shiny, but an underground compilation announced that a new wave was coming.

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...

Rappers like to boast about filling shoe boxes with cash while singers like Michelle Williams, one-third of the Destiny's Child outfit, doesn't hoard her riches, she bestows her wealth to worthy causes. She once gifted $100,000 to the Chicago church she grew up attending, proof enough that the 31-year-old is a philanthropist...

Ten years after their 2000 debut, 'Train of Thought,' solidified their place as two of independent hip-hop's brightest stars, Reflection Eternal have finally returned with a followup release, 'Revolutions Per Minute.' Released on May 18, the group's long-awaited sophomore album re-unites Brooklyn emcee Talib Kweli's thought-provoking rhymes with Cincinnati producer Hi-Tek's melodic, hard-hitting

Fans who were expecting to pick up an official copy of Reflection Eternal's latest album 'Revolutions Per Minute,' on April 20, should prepare themselves for another delay. Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek's sophomore LP has now been pushed back to a May 18 release date...

Reflection Eternal -- rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek -- have pushed back the release of their sophomore album, 'Revolutions Per Minute.' The long-awaited follow-up to their 2000 debut, Train of Thought,' will now hit stores on April 20, two weeks after the original street date of April 6...

Updated: See See Our Final List of the Top Songs of 2010 Despite the despairing reality that some of us may have just stopped writing "2009" on our checks, 2010 is here and some of our favorite artists have already delivered noteworthy tracks for our listening pleasure...

Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek recently reunited under their Reflection Eternal moniker for a new mixtape called 'The Re:Union.' "We got history," said Kweli told MTV's Mixtape Daily. "When I listen to the mixtape, sometimes I forget how dope we are...

A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg assembled some of the illest emcees -- old school and new -- last night (Jan. 20) for the Mind Body Soul: A Benefit for Diabetes concert at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory. While much of the world are turning their attention toward the crisis created by last week's massive earthquake in Haiti, Phife, whose struggled with diabetes since being diagnosed in 1990, has bee