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Schoolboy Q delivers his West Coast rhymes on a new mellow groove called "Collard Greens," which also features fellow Black Hippy crew member. "Smoke this, drink this, straight to my level/ Watch this, no tip, yeah I'm the n----/ Gang rap, Xmas," he raps on the THC-produced track...

Eminem's eighth studio album is on the way. In April, news spread that the project would arrive after Memorial Day. So while fans await eagerly for Slim Shady to bless them with some unforgettable rhymes, there are photos of his recent studio sessions to hold them over in the meantime...

Lauryn Hill has managed to avoid jail time by signing a last minute deal with Sony. In order to pay the $504,000 in back taxes which she owes, Sony will receive five songs from Hill, and will also provide recording funds for a new album, which the label will release...

NEW YORK (AP) - Chris Tucker will host this year's BET Awards. The network announced Tuesday that the comedian-actor will host the show June 30 from the Nokia Theater L.A. Live. Tucker is riding high off of his supporting role in the Oscar-nominated film "Silver Linings Playbook," which starred Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper...

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...

Jay-Z is reportedly planning to sell his share of the Brooklyn Nets. Jay, who currently owns 1/15 of 1% of the organization, apparently intends to launch a new venture as a sports agent, heading up Roc Nation Sports, which he cannot do as an owner of an NBA team...

Things have been moving fast for Emeli Sande. The English-bred singer has spent the past two years or so dominating in the European music scene -- she took home four Brit Awards this year, including best British Single of the Year ("Next To Me") and best British Album of the Year (Our Version of Events) -- and is slowly becoming familiar to American audiences...

Kendrick Lamar's highly-anticipated remix of "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe," featuring Jay-Z, has finally made its way out into the world. While we have to wait for the dirty version, for now we've got the clean, appropriately retitled "Trick Don't Kill My Vibe...

Kendrick Lamar has nabbed the number one spot on MTV's "Hottest MCs in the Game" list. "We was looking at the years of different MCs and we all felt like, 'man, we gotta get on there.' We got to at least get on the list,'" he explained to MTV VJ Sway Calloway after being told of the news...

Kendrick Lamar brought good kid, m.A.A.d. city to the national stage last night, performing the album's third official single, "Poetic Justice," on Late Show with David Letterman. Backed by a full band, the Compton-bred MC's subdued ghetto love tune was brought to life in a way that just isn't there on the LP version, despite how good it actually is...