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Newsman and loyal Gawker customer Brian Williams recently appeared on The Tonight Show to thank Jimmy Fallon for upping his credibility in the rap game with a series of remixes of Williams performing hip-hop classics like "Gin and Juice" and "Rapper's Delight." But Williams lamented that he doesn't get to pick his own…

After a young girl from an Army family broke her foot, she went to see the base's resident Staff Sergeant/Orthopedic Specialist/M.C., who outfitted her with a cast and dropped some rhyming instructions about how to maintain it.

Like all the most basic human interactions, rap beefs have moved online, where rappers can insult each other (or journalists) to their hearts' content on Twitter and Instagram. That is exactly where the year's most intense rap beef is happening, with two L.A. rappers threatening to kill each other in 140 characters.

A guy has taken the time to painstakingly analyze and rank all of the cuss words in popular rap albums from 1985-2013. The least we can do is to find out what he discovered.

Federal investigators are keenly interested to find out if Sean "P. Diddy" Combs ever had sexual relationships with underaged boys, according to a convicted drug dealer who says he was questioned about Diddy and other celebrities during a series of proffer sessions intended to determine if he should be offered a plea…

This year, at the request of students, Florida Gulf Coast University booked Kendrick Lamar and Ludacris as the headliners at its annual "Eaglepalooza" concert. Well— the local sheriff is outraged that FGCU's president— a black man!— would stand for this filth.

Where to begin? This training video for cooks-in-training at Wendy's in the '80s features not only a hard-rockin' theme song, but an actual scene where a burger cook-in-training gets sucked into a television and rapped to about how to best cook a burger.

Police in Virginia believe they've solved a double-homicide case that went cold a few years back after a local rapper was found to have recorded a song in which he allegedly brags about committing the crime.

Yeezus, the sixth album from rapper/producer/maniac Kanye West, leaked to your favorite Torrent site or scene blog this afternoon—just a few days before its official release on Tuesday. And already, Twitter has a favorite lyric:

The Dutch people are finally throwing off the shackles of their oppressive monarchy after the soon-to-be-king Willem-Alexander revealed his "King's Song" ( a signature of his royal lineage), "Het Koningslied." The song, composed by the British-Dutch producer John Ewbank, and performed by over 50 Dutch artists, is a…

Fans of Biggie will remember that the late but relentlessly beloved rap icon often remarked on his hardscrabble younger years in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where he grew up in an apartment with a single mother. Now, 41 years after Christopher Wallace was born, and 16 years after he was murdered, the…

If we've said it once, we've said it, oh, at least a handful of times by now: don't make that rap video.

Scientology damages people. For proof, look no further than this bizarre anti-Scientology rap produced by a who's who of prominent apostate members of the cult—from its former top spokesman to Tom Cruise's former confessor to Cruise's Xenu-approved ex-girlfriend. It's like the We Are the World of the…

In 2012, it's very possible for a rapper to get signed to a major label after the success of just one viral hit song — for evidence of that, one needs only to look at artists like Azealia Banks or Kreayshawn. But a new rapper, Trinidad James, has burst on to the scene in the last few weeks armed with a single that has…

Is Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator, a scientist? No, he tells GQ, twice, when asked how old the earth is: