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RAP GENIUS - The past seven days, now known as International Yeezy-On-Buildings Week (tm), brought us publicity stunts, seizure-inducing SNL…
theGRIO VIDEO - Even though rapper Eve hasn't dropped an album in over 10 years, her presence in the genre…
DUNWOODY, Georgia (AP) - Police in suburban Atlanta say rapper Chief Keef, whose name is Keith Cozart, has been arrested…
theGRIO REPORT - Shakur's surprise 'resurrection' launched a frenzy surrounding what many saw as the start of a new trend…
DETROIT (AP) — Eminem's song publisher is suing Facebook and an ad agency, saying they copied music from one of…
SLIDESHOW - On what would have been Biggie Smalls' 41st birthday, check out theGrio's 15 favorite Notorious B.I.G. songs...
theGRIO REPORT - The sixth coming of Kanye West appeared in flashing lights, glorious refrain, and one major, unforeseen tweet…
theGRIO REPORT - The promo run for Kanye West’s sixth album officially began this past weekend...
RAP GENIUS - This week, Common comes out to pla-ay, Kendrick watches classics in the back of the tour bus,…
theGRIO REPORT - Artists Kendrick Lamar and Tamar Braxton announced the nominees for this year’s annual BET Awards earlier today...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine have donated a combined $70 million to create a…
theGRIO REPORT - Director Baz Luhrmann took on the task of re-inventing F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby…
RAP GENIUS - We watched a small part of our childhood die this week, as Naughty By Nature finally (and…
theGRIO REPORT - Growing up, singer songwriter Lorenzo Asher knew music was his calling at a very young age. It’s…
LOS ANGELES -- U.S. rapper Ja Rule was released from prison on Tuesday after serving about two years on gun…
OPINION - In the past year, two public figures made international news by opening up about their sexuality: Jason Collins…
REVIEW - First and foremost, though,Talib Kweli is an artist. He’s a good rapper—great even. His latest effort, however, is…
theGRIO REPORT - Rapper Eve has been opening up about raising biracial children with her longtime Brit boyfriend Maximillion Cooper...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hip-hop may need a checkup. The culture that in the 1990s lost its brightest stars to…
theGRIO REPORT - Hip-hop lost a member of its family last week with the shocking death of Chis Kelly of…