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On this day in 1997 Puff Daddy, Faith Evans and 112 began an 11-week streak at the top of the charts with their Grammy-winning dedication track to the Notorious B.I.G. [...]

Today’s daily jam takes us back to 1997 Atmosphere- when it was still a group of Minneapolis MCs Slug and Spawn, three years prior to Spawn’s departure from the acclaimed [...]

Fans in the hip hop community often talk about the tragic loses of Tupac and Biggie during the 90′s. The pair are often refered to as “the greatest rappers of [...]

Lucky enough to cop tickets before they sold out? Some of our readers out there were and if you’ll be attending the 6th annual Roots Picnic this weekend in Philadelphia, [...]

Former Black Panther and mother of Tupac, Afeni Shakur, will not go without recognition on this Mother’s Day- her being enough reason to have multiple Mother’s Day jams. In March [...]

Speaking about it for the first time in December 2008, Kanye West described the death of his mother, Donda,  in 2007 to reporters: “It was like losing an arm and [...]

Yesterday in New Jersey, Grammy award winning Fugee and solo hip-hop musician Lauryn Hill, according to reports by Associated Press, was sentenced to three months in jail followed by three [...]

“Now playas if you choose it you better make sure you don’t abuse it, we’re gonna getcha highhhh-” The origins of Outkast are rooted in the confines of a high [...]