T.I. gets at all his haters included Atlanta upstart Shawty Lo on his new banger “What Up”! Listen to T.I.’s “What Up” right here in high quality.

Nas always release some thought provoking joints. From his heavily talked about album now called “Untitled” Nas drops “N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave and The Master)”. On this new single Nas discusses the rich history of black people. From the life of kings to the emence struggles black people endure in the ghetto. “In the land of […]

The Cannes Festival, a star studded film festival which is held every year in the South of France, will go Hip Hop this year with Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Diddy and Kelly Rowland supporting various concerts and parties during the May 14 to 25 event.
Cannes is known for breaking some of the years biggest block buster […]

In an interview with Atlanta’s 92Q T.I. addressed an apparent diss by another ATL rapper Shawty Lo on his song “Dunn, Dunn”. Shawty Lo said “Bankhead needs to acknowledge me” apparently speaking to T.I. In a previous interview regarding his home Bankhead, Shawty Lo had this to say “The real Bankhead story is fittin’ to […]

This is a great interview with Lil Wayne where is speaks on a number of topics and it includes portions of him performing live!

Check out this new TI interview. TI speaks on his recent arrest and conviction.

Memphis, TN rapper “Kinfolk” Kia Shine has a new mixtape and DVD “The Kush” coming soon and one of the lead off tracks is “Co-Pilot”. Shine has been doing his thing on the southern underground for a minute and first broke nationally last year when the addictive pop hop recording “So Krispy” gained significant rotation […]

After 2007’s critically acclaimed “Hip Hop Lives” album produced by Legendary Rap producer Marley Marl, KRS-ONE comes back hard with “Criminal Minded 08″ produced by DJ Premier from the Smirnoff Signature Mix series. There is nothing much that needs to be said about this track other than it is a banger! Check out the official […]

Joe Budden talks candidly with Smacktube on various issues including a number of rappers that have taken shots at him such as Saigon, Prodigy and Fabolous.
Budden calls Prodigy of Mobb Deep “the Hip Hop version of Bobby Brown”, says “Fabolous is wack” and doesn’t care about any issues Saigon may have with him. Watch it […]

Rapper 50 Cent apparently had his chain snatch at one of his shows in Africa. The video below shows a man on stage snatching 50 Cent’s chain jumping off stage and running off into the crowd. Being the gangster rapper he is 50 Cent jumps off stage to chase the man. 50 Cent did not […]