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Police in Montreal, Canada are searching for suspects in the brutal murders of two victims -- two men were reportedly doused with a flammable liquid and then lit on fire Friday night (Nov. 11) inside an apartment building in St. Henri -- one being a recognized concert promoter in the city's established hip-hop community...

VH1 will be exploring the interrelationship between rap music and crack cocaine in a new documentary, scheduled to air in September. 'Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation' is the latest installment of VH1's Emmy-winning Rock Doc series, and will feature interviews with notable weed enthusiasts Snoop Dogg and Cypress Hill, OG coke rapper Raekwon and The RZA, an admitted former

With his third album, 'Blood Sweat & Tears,' officially on shelves today (August 9), Ace Hood not only chose the title, he lived it. Spending up to 12 hours at a time in the studio making magic, the Florida native has put his all into the reflective work, which is an ode to his struggle, fallen homies and hustler mentality. O...

New Orleans based rapper Tim Smooth passed away Tuesday, July 26 after a long battle with throat cancer. He was 39 years old. Smooth, whose real name is Timothy Smoot, first established himself as a teen MC in Louisiana's burgeoning '90s hip-hop scene...

Following his controversial appearance on the 'Today' show, Friday (July 15), Chris Brown is back with a fourth installment of his 'Real Hip-Hop S---' series, showcasing his rhyming abilities over another 9th Wonder beat, with his homey Kevin McCall...

'Harry Potter's Tom Felton -- aka school bully-turned-full-fledged-villain Draco Malfoy -- is set to make a career change and try his hand at the hip-hop game now that the fantastical film franchise is finally a wrap. "I was thinking of doing some N-Dubz-style stuff," Felton told UK's the Sun...

A Danbury, Conn. hip-hop DJ and his half-brother were arrested for music piracy last Wednesday (June 8), following a two-year investigation pinpointing them for selling illegal music over the 'Net. Michael "DJ Big Mike" Wilcox, 33, and his half-brother Stephen Sabato, 21, were busted after hours of surveillance and various interviews with potential accomplices lead police to the duo... R

Rap music is becoming the soundtrack to the revolution in Libya. In the eastern coastal town of Benghazi, which hosted the February rebel uprising against the country's dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, an underground rap scene is fueling the opinions of the young Libyan rebel fighters...

Kobe Bryant -- the Los Angeles Lakers' star player and a one-time failed rapper -- has returned to hip-hop in a pretty odd way. Bryant has surfaced randomly as the hype man in a Chinese rap video. The clip, for a song by a Chinese MC and pop singer named Jay Chou, seems to be the equivalent of when American celebrities venture overseas to produce commercials that are never meant to surface in the

While Oprah Winfrey's longstanding feud with hip-hop is well-documented, in recent years the media mogul has made amends. Oprah has built a surprising friendship with Jay-Z, whom she featured on the debut episode of 'Master Class,' a series on her recently launched cable station OWN...