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Entertainment 5 years ago

Cardi B files for divorce from rapper Offset

After three tumultuous years of marriage, superstar rapper Cardi B filed for divorce Tuesday from her husband, rapper Offset.

Entertainment 5 years ago

'Home back home': Rapper Akon plans $6 billion city in Senegal homeland

Rapper Akon has set his sights on building a sprawling $6 billion city in his Senegal homeland to welcome Africans of the diaspora to their "home back home".

Art & Culture 5 years ago

Sotheby's changes beat with first hip-hop auction

It started out as just a plastic prop from a party shop but the gold colored crown that rapper Notorious B.I.G wore on the last photo shoot before his death could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at an auction dedicated to hip-hop culture.

Entertainment 5 years ago

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion conquer the charts with racy ‘WAP’

Boundary-pushing rappers Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have broken the record for the most streams by a song in its debut week with their raunchy collaboration “WAP”, which opened at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Entertainment 5 years ago

Gaza rapper, 11, strikes chord with rhymes about war and hardship

Gaza rapper Abdel-Rahman Al-Shantti may only be 11 years old but his rhymes on war and hardship in the Palestinian enclave have reached thousands of people, conveying in English what he calls "a message of peace and humanity".

People 5 years ago

Cardi B gets real with Joe Biden on police brutality, health care

In a wide-ranging interview published Monday, superstar rapper Cardi B candidly quizzed Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden on issues including police brutality, health care reform and higher education.

Entertainment 5 years ago

Suspects charged in the long-unsolved murder of rap star Jam Master Jay

Two people have been charged in connection with the murder of hip hop innovator Jam Master Jay of the seminal group Run-DMC, an infamous New York slaying that's gone unsolved for 18 years.

Entertainment 5 years ago

US rapper RZA freezes out racist ice cream truck jingle

American rapper RZA has taken on racism at street level - by creating a new jingle for ice cream trucks to replace the decades-old "Turkey in the Straw" tune.