Kemba drops "Already," another notable video from his also-notable 2016 album, Negus, as the Bronx MC, after a co-sign from Kendrick Lamar, continues to expand his reach.

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Hot 97's Summer Jam announces initial lineup includes Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown, Fabolous, Joey Badass and more. Tickets are on sale.

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We don’t need ALL of the "writers" waxing analytically about its complexity and/or depth and/or greatness and/or jazzness and/or hiphopness and/or blackness

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Great assortment of smooth joints, gritty NY rap, and a rare, out-of-state tip of the fitted to the homie from the Left Coast, on today's NY Rap roundup

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As part of the ongoing 20th anniversary celebration of Nas' Illmatic, arguably rap's best debut album ever, Google Play put together a mini-doc featuring commentary from Nas and folks like Kendrick Lamar and Peter Rosenberg.

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Never anything wrong with some gritty, New York rap shit-talking. Especially when it's not overdone. This is cooked just right.

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Well, it's been the 24 hours of Kendrick Lamar, and even though in some folks opinion, his assault on his peers and title-claiming was more metaphorical and symbolic, Joell Ortiz took the bait and responded in his typically rambunctious manner.

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Well, no, but damn, he sure got the East Coast taking notice (along with everywhere else)

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Nitty Scott, MC delivers the video for her Kendrick Lamar-assisted "Flower Child," which finds the bubbling spittress flaunting both her lines and looks. It's sonically-cool and visually-hot.

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