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”This is hard because music attracts me first before the rhyme,” Questlove wrote in response to author/jouranlist Shea Serrano posing the question on Twitter. ”But some rappers caught me first...”

The collaboration between hip-hop duo 7L & Esoteric and Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck has a new action figure from Super7.

Super7 are calling the 3.75” ODB ReAction Figure their first foray into hip-hop.

There's also a Czarface ReAction figure on the way from Super7.

Rakim at Rock the Bells 2010 (more by Brook Bobbins)

The "invincible microphone fiend" Rakim will team with Wu-Tang staple Raekwon just in time for the holidays, blessing Studio 48 on December 20th...

The Guardian reports:"The actor who played drug vigilante Omar Little in TV series The Wire is to take on the role of Ol' Dirty Bastard in a film...

Dan Auerbach, Jim Jones, Mos Def, Patrick Carney, and Damon Dash

Just in time for the holidays and to remind the hip hop listmakers that The Ecstatic was/is the truth, the two-time Grammy nominated Mos Def has scheduled a show on 12/20 at Highline Ballroom...

"The Killers will be performing a secret show at New York City's Webster Hall this Friday, September 22. Pre-Sale tickets will be available Tuesday, September 19th at 3PM EST and available to the public on September 20th at 12pm" (thx Sara)