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Faith Evans Announces Biggie's “Return” for Upcoming Video

For a good while now, Faith Evans has been hinting her latest project taking the form of a duet album with East Coast legend, The Notorious B.I.G. Titled, The King and I, the record contains remixes as well as unreleased content from Biggie, and is scheduled for release March 2017.

In the midst of this, the R&B star has announced the Biggie's “return” in an upcoming music video, aspiring to promote the much-awaited album—all thanks to Hollywood-based company, the Augmented Reality Holographic Technology (ARHT), who have already secured rights to the rapper's “Humagram” image.

“The creation of a digital human, being it living, deceased in this case or even fictional,” stated AHRT CEO Paul Du

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Bad & Good News for French Montana Fans

French Montana's much-awaited sophomore album MC4, has been officially canceled, as the New York artist revealed via Complexinterview.

Montana reported that he'd made his decision due to delayed sample-clearances that “disrupted” his work flow: “Songs like 'I'm Heated' and 'Two Times' couldn't be cleared,” Montana explained, “By the time I got the mix how I recorded, it wasn't the same. I just ain't have the same feeling for it.”

However, the rapper assured fans that although he is shelving the album, Montana aims to release a new mixtape this month of October. Montana added that his latest project is “70 percent” finished, and although the rapper proves ve

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Birthday Greetings to Flying Lotus & DJ Qbert

Rap Station acknowledges the birthdays of two West Coast figures in Hip-hop today, Flying Lotus and DJ Qbert!

Steven Ellison, known as Flying Lotus, is a Los Angeles-based producer known for his multi-dimensional, quality production, ranging from Hip-hop to experimental jazz. Since his 2006 debut with 1983, FlyLo has accumulated much notoriety for critically-acclaimed albums and singles.

Interestingly, Ellison's musical career also catalogues his contributions for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim segment, most specifically rapping under Captain Murphy, based off the Sealab 2021character.

Meanwhile, a Filipino American artist by the name of DJ Qbert began his career into Hip-hop as a member of the grou

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A3C Hip Hop Festival Releases First Single from A3C Volume 6

With the 2016 A3C Hip Hop Festival now officially underway in Atlanta (October 5-9), iHipHop Distribution and the A3C have announced their renewed partnership for A3C Volume 6.  The first single comes from the young Los Angeles lyricist, A-F-R-O, short for "All Flows Reach Out."

The 18-year old prodigious MC first gained notoriety in 2014 with an audio submission to R.A The Rugged Man’s ‘Definition of a Rap Flow’ contest, which quickly went viral. A-F-R-O then captured the attention of heavy hitters in the music industry, including Questlove, who said,  “A-F-R-O is the future of Hip-Hop.” A-F-R-O released his debut EP with producer Marco Polo, appropriately

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Cudi's “Suicidal” Post Sparks Ongoing Media Movement

The self-professed “Lonely Stoner”, Kid Cudi, broadcasted an alerting reveal last Tuesday. Confessing to feeling constantly haunted by depressing and suicidal thoughts, Cudi announced both a regress from music and a recent rehab check-in.

“I am not at peace. I haven't been since you've known me. If I didn't come here, I would've done something else,” Cudi admitted via Facebook post, “I simply am a damaged human swinging in a pool of emotions everyday of my life. There's a raging violent storm inside of my heart at all times. [I don't know] what peace feels like. [I don't know] how to relax. My anxiety and depression have ruled my life for as long as I can remember and I never leave the house because of it.”

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sOuL from the O Drops "Contraband Mixtape"

We're well into the first week of October, and Halloween can already be felt along city streets and social media. I myself, consider to be one among many, enamored by this season of mystery and unpredictability—but this year, I encountered a specific mysterious case, and it came in the form of sOuL from the O's Contraband Mixtape.

Beginning in 2000, sOuL from the O's built up a reputation for his erratic musical styles, “sometimes eclectic, sometimes fierce,” but nevertheless powerful in the sense of its immensely-imaginative ambience. Simply put, I was thinking along the lines of “His stuff is really unheard of, but should be heard of”.

Contraband Mixtape&

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