Let me be very clear, I love Belly. I love love it. When Mary J. Blige sang about “Real Love” in 1992, a whole ass six…

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Sometime in the ungodly hours after midnight—the hours when men get drunk and send “Hey Bighead, you up?” texts—one of…

My first job, about a decade ago in Harlem, was interning at a shelter for domestic violence survivors. Most were…

When I woke up this morning, I planned on writing about (actually, I did write about) what was probably going through…

Rashaun Williams is a recovering investment banker and current venture capitalist. He worked at Goldman Sachs and other…

I forgot who it was who first told me that Ice Cube never smiles in movies. I think it was a Delta because that’s a…

Last week, Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, frontman for the Roots, tried to break the rapper-nets with a 10-minute…

Perhaps there are bigger fish to fry. Racism is still alive; they just be concealing it, after all. Or more likely, I’m…

Nas wants to be able to spend more time with his son, and now he’s taking ex-wife Kelis to court for an official…

I didn’t have $100 for this so-called fight, and I kinda forbade asked my husband not to order it. Therefore, I got my…

Just days after performing on tour in Las Vegas, Prodigy from the rap group Mobb Deep has died at the age of 42.

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Nicki Minaj made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday and has seemingly confirmed that she is, in fact,…

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Fresh off the success of The New Edition Story, BET has announced yet another miniseries based on the life of one of…

Rapper Nas, fresh off the pipin’-hot sales of his black Santa holiday gear, says he will debut a hip (hop) HSTRY…

It’s interesting—and somewhat sad—that this decade’s only two meaningful rap beefs have involved attempts to sink the sa…