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MEADOWGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL When: Friday through Sunday Where: La Foret Conference and Retreat Center, 6145 Shoup Road Tickets: $40 single day, $75 full festival pass; 495-2743, meadowgrass.org Camping: All passes are sold out.

French Montana, feat. Ne-Yo & Raekwon "We Go Where We Want" This is the second time Ne-Yo has crooned on a pop-savvy Only Built 4 Cuban Linx homage from a New York rapper trying real hard to maintain their cred and still get on the radio.

Wu-Tang Clan will perform at Rock the Bells 2013, which comes to San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore Sept.

Bruce approved . Speaking of approved, the mighty Wua -a Tang Clan has released a previously... unreleased track "from the personal vaults of the RZA" called " Execution in Autumn ," and it gets approval.

Wu-Tang Clan , Tyler the Creator and Big Krit will take the stage at this year's Rock the Bells Festival, along with the holographic images of fallen hip-hop icons Ol' Dirty Bastard and Easy-E. The traveling hip-hop festival begins Sept.

Exclusive: Icelene Jones says she wants to work out her differences with Rock The Bells, but is willing to proceed with additional legal action, if needed.

Wu-Tang Clan has just released a new track today titled, "Execution in Autumn." Produced by Frank Dukes, the cut sees Inspectah Deck, Rae, RZA and U-God flowing into the bars in a typical Wu way.

The Wu-Tang Clan artist has a comic book companion to his new "Twelve Reasons To Die" album with Adrian Younge.

The Purple Tape meets "The Blueprint" as two titans of 1990s New York Hip Hop apparently come together after 20 years of running in similar circles.

Last night, this year's lineup for the 10th annual Rock The Bells show in San Bernardino was announced and there seems to be a little bit for every type of hip-hop fan out there.

Asheville native Elliot Heller is based in New York City but returns to WNC on Friday, May 24 for a show at Club Tetrus.

RZA , the Wu-Tang Clan front man-turned-actor/director, has come aboard to play the villain opposite Paul Walker in Brick Mansions , EuropaCorp and Relativity Media's English-language remake of French action movie District B13 .

The Wu-Tang Clan have always been different. In 1993, the nine-man rap collective dropped their groundbreaking debut, Enter the Wu-Tang , and flooded hip-hop's airwaves with dusty soul loops and crashing kung-fu sound bites.

"Gang Related" doesn't yet have a timeslot on either FOX's fall or midseason schedule, but the network has still released their upfront trailer for the ambitious crime saga.

This month a couple Wu-Tang rappers, Ghostface and RZA , help release an item that will certainly attract attention: a comic book.

The boys are crashing Fox's Tuesday night comedy block, as Seth MacFarlane's first live-action comedy, Dads, and the Andy Samberg cop caper Brooklyn Nine-Nine will set the table for the female-friendly franchise New Girl and sophomore series The Mindy Project.

It was 1997, and Younge, who will perform at the Blockley in West Philadelphia Sunday night with his band Venice Dawn backing Wu Tang Clan rapper Ghostface Killah, was already growing weary of modern music.

When lunchtime comes around, Laurie Batista often grabs a salad near the Flatiron ad agency where she works as an executive assistant and eats it at her desk.

The 24-year-old Londoner is currently on tour, promoting his latest album “Overgrown.” The follow-up to his acclaimed, self-titled 2011 debut, “Overgrown” has Blake continuing to meld live, analog instrumentation with digital loops and beats, often highlighted by Blake’s woeful-yet-ethereal vocals and moody lyricism.

There's no way you could've missed the memo: 2013 is the new 1993. Bucket hats and rap "crews" are popping up again.