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Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj are joining the star-studded lineup of performers at this weekend's Billboard Music Awards.

'The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.' Daisy Buchanan from 'The Great Gatsby' gets to be reincarnated on the film's soundtrack under the guise of artists such as Beyonce, Lana Del Ray, Sia and Florence Welch.

Icelene Jones, Ol' Dirty Bastard's widow, says she is "disappointed" by Rock the Bells organizers and adds that she was not contacted directly about ODB's likeness being used in a digital performance.

The Sugarhill Gang's disputes with Sugar Hill Records over identity theft and unpaid royalties are the subject of a new documentary.

Krayzie Bone and Bizzy Bone point out that Eazy-E wrongfully does not get the gangsta glory witnessed in the legacies of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. In preparations for their Rock The Bells tour reunion , Cleveland, Ohio multi-platinum group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is speaking a lot about their mentor.

Singer Beyonce Knowles is pregnant again, multiple sources confirmed to E! May 17.

Incident cleared on The Northern St Pkwy WB between Willis Ave/X28 and Shelter Rock Rd/X27. Stop and go traffic from I.U. Willets Rd/X30 In Wading River closed due to accident on NY Rt-25a/Suffolk Cnty/Eastern Section WB at Wading River Manor Rd and before Wading River Rd/Randall Rd.

Snoop Dogg's latest album, the reggae-heavy Reincarnated , was recently slapped with a Worst New Music label from SPIN.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 15, 2013 MAY 15, 2013 - S & D Entertainment Group, LLC is proud to announce the signing one of the industry's hottest hip hop producers, JELLY ROLL The Game Xzibit, Busta Rhymes and Method Man among numerous others.

Ja Rule is sporting some big guns, reported TMZ on May 16. The rapper was just released from federal prison and it looks like he did a lot of weight lifting while he was in there.

For Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, it has never been just about hip-hop. It has never been about preaching rhetoric over a beat.

Get ringtones from your favorite artists sent directly to your cell phone. Choose from 1000's of the best names in Hip Hop! Crooked I helps Sway and King Tech get back into the swing of things by stopping by their show's new home at Shade 45 for a freestyle.

Local punk blowout Riot Fest has steadily grown since it began as a two-day affair at the Congress Theater back in 2005, but it kicked things up a notch last year when it moved into Humboldt Park and transformed into a multistage outdoor carnival, Ferris wheel included .

"I married a thug," said the street lit author Wahida Clark, addressing the issue as if she were listing the bullet points of accomplishments in her life.

As Ol' Dirty Bastard rhymes in "Brooklyn Zoo II," "When you take north, east, west, south/and put it all together and it spell newwwwws!" Know what else spell news? A star-powered hip-hop festival announcing that two rap legends - not figurative legends, mind you; one's been dead eight years, the other 18 - will perform this fall.

Future gave his opinion about the Lil Wayne lyric which appears on his song "Karate Chop " on Big Boy In The Neighborhood radio show.

Eminem supposedly has an album coming out in the Summer , though there's been no actual confirmation from anyone.

The North Carolina rapper whets appetites for his second album with this breezy summer single, where he talks up his vulnerability and paints himself as anything but immortal.

With pen-maker Uni-ball's release of an ad featuring what amounts to a racist white fantasy on Black manhood in America, they have displayed the level of cultural insensitivity, sheer ignorance and blatant bigotry typically reserved for Ku Klux Klan meetings and Tea Party rallies.

"Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody.