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Back on the scene with a new recording home at Warner Brothers, a new album produced by No I.D. and an entire conservative party outraged at his poetry, Common has returned spitting some of his hardest rhymes in over a decade with his new single 'Ghetto Dreams...

Celebrated Chicago hip-hop producer No I.D. dropped a collaboration with rapper Common out of nowhere. The song is called 'Summer Madness,' and is from an EP project called 'Cocaine 80s – The Pursuit' that includes No I.D. and a collective of artists including guitarist Steve Wyreman, engineer Rob Kinelski, keyboardist Kevin Randolph and others. The...

Some of Chicago's biggest names in hip-hop and R&B are coming together to support a good cause. Common, Lupe Fiasco, Jennifer Hudson and producer No I.D. have united for the new soulful track 'We Can Do It Now,' to support Season 3 of 'Gatorade Replay.' ...

This week J. Cole dropped news that his still-untitled Roc Nation debut is now set for an October release, two months later than his original August prediction. The North Carolina native revealed that he's made final cuts for the album, and needs only to add the finishing touches to his song selections...

Memphis Bleek is taking the independent route for his fifth album, 'The Process,' ending a decade-long relationship with Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records. Bleek will release the follow-up to 2005's '534' on his own imprint, Get Low Records, with distribution through Boston-based Mass Appeal Entertainment...