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A Tribute to Legendary Singer Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire After a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Maurice White who was the lead member of six-time Grammy winning 70’s group Earth Wind, and Fire has died. Mr. White died at his Los Angeles home and immediately after his passing was revealed to the […]

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Lil’ Fizz has been making a huge come back as we see him getting back into his music swing on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood. The former B2K ladies man sat down with Hip Hop Enquirer to discuss his upcoming solo project How To Be A Player as well as a few product endorsements like […]

The buzz worthy new group, XSO, has made quite an industry impression with recent performances at the Source Magazine 360 weekend, Streets 94.5 BET Hip Hop Awards Celebration, and hot off the heels of their video premiere for their infectious new single “Why Not?” on Fuse TV. XSO, comprising of Paije, Jaz and Mia will […]

Rising Hip Hop star Joyner Lucas continues to make headlines as one of the industry’s hottest newcomers. The East Coast artist was  crowned Outstanding Artist of the Year and also won Best Video of the Year for his breakout video “Ross Capicchioni,” at this year’s Underground Music Awards (UMAs) in New York City. “It felt […]

Hip Hop Enquirer recently caught up with the legendary Compton OG DJ Quik where we talked in detail about his 25 years in the music industry and his latest project The Midnight Life. One of the most revered engineers and producers in the game as well, Quik  talked about working with greats like Jay Z […]

Big Sant is one of Mississippi’s untapped jewels ready to be mined and checked in with Inspire Magazine to give the skinny on the state of Mississippi’s hip hop scene and how the industry needs to take a look at the promising talent led off by hit makers like David Banner and his homeboy Big […]

Bobby Shmurda’s been locked up for almost a year now as he and other GS9 gang affiliates were arrested on December 17 in Time Square’s Quad Studios on  various accounts of conspiracy, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of weapons.  With a hefty bail of $2 million dollars slung at the “Shmoney Dance” creator, he checked in with […]

Haitian MC Won-G has returned with a vengeance and a new heater with Rick Ross called “Rich Together.”  The music rebel who has caked up over the years with his independent grind chopped it up with Hip Hop Enquirer and talked about being the first independent artist sold in Virgin Megastores, Sam Goody, and Warehouse Music chains […]

The BET Hip Hop Awards were under some scrutiny for originally going to tape their programming the same day as the Million Man March. Hip Hop Enquirer were first to report this conflict of interest, which prompted Russell Simmons to make the phone called that pushed the award show back by a day. While it […]

Every year the BET Hip Hop Awards roll around people ask who is going to be in the cyphers? The cyphers very well may be the biggest draw of the award show. In past years this list usually gets “leaked” or released well ahead of time but this year was an exception. 2 Dope Boyz […]

Nicki Minaj has remained as quiet as possible while her boyfriend Meek Mill and her friend and label mate Drake were going at each other. While the situation is clearly not ideal, she has to feel some way about it. In her cover story with New York Times she addresses the situation and how she […]

The biggest boss Rick Ross stopped by The Breakfast Club this morning and chopped it up about his next project, several lawsuits hurled against him and copped a few pleas for his homey Meek Mill in his humiliating loss to Drake in their beef. Rozay’s fiance Lira Mercer also came through as Ross got candid […]

Bad Boy Entertainment has inked an exclusive partnership with Epic Records, that includes distribution of two highly-anticipated upcoming albums from Grammy award-winning artist, producer, entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs aka Puff Daddy. The deal was announced today by LA Reid, Chairman and CEO, Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. In celebration of the signing, Puff […]

Just recently the Hip Hop Enquirer had the opportunity to chop things up with Focus…; a two time Grammy award winning producer who worked diligently with Dr. Dre to deliver the Compton soundtrack. Bernard Edwards Jr, better known as Focus…, has been in the music business for 25 years and says that he was really […]