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In a culture that’s continually berated by bad news, it’s often difficult to find the silver lining. Mass shootings, religious wars, murders, and the vacuous bubble of celebrities dominate headlines, when really people are in need of a little hope. 

Oakland-based emcee, award winning poet and educator Karega Bailey delivers that hope in the form of “Hope Dealer,” the latest video from the SOL Development collective. Filmed at Roses in Concrete school in East Oakland, the video takes the viewer through a day in Bailey’s life, where educating the next generation through arts an

In honor of 2Pac's birthday yesterday, Open Road Films has released the first trailer for their upcoming 2Pac biopic, which will portray the legendary rapper's life all the way from his early childhood in Harlem to his murder in Las Vegas.

Watch the trailer here.

Named after Tupac's most famous album, All Eyez on Me is directed by Benny Boom, who previously directed music videos for hip hop artists like 50 Cent and Nicki Minaj, as well as the 2009 comedy Next Day Air. The movie will star Demetrius Shipp Jr., a relatively unknown actor who nonetheless manages to capture Pac's attitude and look, at least in the trailer. The

Get a taste of hip hop flavor from across the pond with Critical Beatdown Radio, one of the UK's longest running hip hop shows, hosted by Manchester's finest, Mr CRF.

Drawn into hip hop by acts like The Ultramagnetic MCs, Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Caveman, and more, Mr CRF started Critical Beatdown Radio in 1996, when it first aired on a pirated radio broadcast in CRF's home town of  Manchester. Critical Beatdown Radio has been broadcasting some of the best music to British listeners for two decades, but now that CBR is on RAPstation, the entire world can listen in for two hours of the freshest true skool hip hop.

Mr CRF is an accomplished artist in his own right, with multiple EPs under his belt, including 2014's "H

Today, June 16th, is the birthday of one of hip hop's most influential and talented rappers: 2Pac. Had Pac not been cut down in his prime, he would've turned 45 today.

Tupac Shakur was born on June 16th in East Harlem, New York. The son of two Black Panther members and named after a Peruvian revolutionary, Shakur took to the arts at an early age, expressing himself - and the ideals of black empowerment he had inherited from his parents - through song, poetry and dance. He studied Shakespeare while he learned how to rap. He fought for his ideals and his community by joining the Young Communist League. Shakur and his family would eventually relocate to the West Coast when Tupac was 17. There, Shakur was taken under the wing of poetry teacher and author Leila Steinberg, w

YG's sophmore album, "Still Brazy," wasn't scheduled to premiere until this Friday, but YG has surprised fans by debuting the album a few days early on Apple Music.

The Compton rapper's second album also features guest appearances from Drake, Lil Wayne, AD, and Nipsey Hussle, who joins YG for "Fdt," a diss track targeted at presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. "Still Brazy" is the first studio album from YG after his RIAA gold certified selling debut, "My Krazy Life."

The album is streaming on Apple Music now, and will be available for purchase and download on other services on

Torii Wolf, a new singer/songwriter backed by producer DJ Premier, is making waves with her debut single, appropriately titled "1st," which has just received an official remix featuring Dilated Peoples.

“I thought it was dope right off the bat,” Dilated Peoples' Evidence said of his collaboration with Premier and Wolf.  “I kept playing it and really peeped what she was talking about; and felt it even more. Of course I was excited that Preem was cutting our voices up.  I think every rapper secretly wishes that will happen to them.”

"Ev and Rakaa sent me 24 bars in total and I split them up into a sixteen and an eight bar set up. They sounded so good from the original it was a no brainer to get them on the Remix,&rdq