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Big Steve Gee drops the next in his Big Boroughs mixtape series, featuring joints from a slew of New York hip hop artists, including Jadakiss, French Montana, Swizz Beatz, A$AP Rocky, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Raekwon, Nore, Red Cafe, Maino, Fabolous, Vado, Stack Bundles, Lloyd Banks, Styles P, Paris, Mysonne, Red Cafe and Cau2gs.

Main stage artists have been announced for the 2011 Hot 97 Summer Jam, going down on June 5, 2011 at the New Meadowlands Stadium, in NJ

Raekwon drops the partially animated counterpart to the sonically animated "Shaolin vs Wu-Tang," the title track from The Chef's upcoming project. The video, directed by Konee Rok, features a hybrid of cartoon martial artistry with live action of Raekwon laying down his vocals.

As an end of the year recap, we’d like to re-highlight a couple of the folks we’ve noted who we think exemplified the concept of the column, as well as spotlight a couple of different entities, to present to readers old and new, five reasons why New York Hip Hop didn’t suck in 2010.

Nicki Minaj brings out a gang of A-list artists to assist her NYC takeover at the Hammerstein Ballroom, including Kanye West, Drake, Busta Rhymes, Rihanna and Keyshia Cole