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French hip-hop musician Doc Gynéco was arrested by police this week after allegations that the 47-year-old sexually abused a girl as young as twelve.

China’s Global Times celebrated the debut of a music video by communist rap group “CD Rev” on Monday demanding the United States allow investigators into a U.S. Army facility the Communist Party has claimed for months, without evidence, may be the true origin of the Chinese coronavirus.

PHOENIX — An Arizona resident has asked a judge to bar Kanye West from appearing on the state’s Nov. 3 ballot, accusing the hip hop artist of serving as an election spoiler and arguing that a law prohibits him from running in the state as an independent presidential candidate.

LOS ANGELES — Rapper Megan Thee Stallion said Monday that she had gunshot wounds in both feet and gave new details about the shooting earlier this month that she called “the worst experience of my life” in an emotional online video.

Hip-hop star Juice WRLD has died at the age of 21-years-old after suffering a seizure at Midway airport in Chicago, TMZ reports. 

The ceiling of the grand foyer of the Théâtre du Châtelet in central Paris was damaged by a hip-hop party only months after a costly two-year renovation.

Left-wing rap superstar Eminem was interviewed by the Secret Service last year over “threatening” lyrics against President Donald Trump, according to a report from BuzzFeed published Thursday.

Pop star Iggy Azalea begged her fans to have sympathy on her after she received criticism this week for continuing to perform after one of her backup dancers collapsed and seized during a performance. In the middle of a concert

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during a government meeting this weekend that he would seek to “take charge and guide” the content of rap and hip-hop music, lamenting that banning the genre complete was “impossible.”

Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z filed a lawsuit against the American Arbitration Association in a bid to prevent the organization from judging a trademark case, claiming the committee isn’t comprised of enough African-Americans.

Rapper Cardi B said in a new interview that while she is interested in politics, she doesn’t talk about her views much publicly because she’s scared that the government might try to “get rid” of her.

President Donald Trump plans to meet with hip-hop superstar and fashion mogul Kanye West on Thursday at the White House.

Under the progressives everything is criminalized. That’s how they maintain control and manipulate power. Progressive drug and gun control laws have criminalized an entire group of Americans into the “slavery and involuntary servitude” Kanye West wishes to abolish.

“Thank you to Kanye West and the fact that he is willing to tell the TRUTH,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

“It’s not a utopian fantasy that you get to do whatever you want and we give you credit for everything,” he said. “Instead, we find the things that relate to a student’s passions and provide that value to the students.”

In her Mother’s Day edition of Sonnie’s Corner on SiriusXM Patriot, Sonnie Johnson explains the difference between revolution and renaissance.

Sonnie Johnson has some advice for Donald Trump on how to reach the black community. On her weekly show Sonnie’s Corner on SiriusXM Patriot, Sonnie says it all comes down to focusing on capitalism, which is the main message of hip hop.

The Chinese government-run newspaper Global Times published a feature yesterday on rapper Wang Yifan, a “patriotic” hip-hop artist recently embroiled in controversy after performing a freestyle at Pennsylvania State University warning students that China “will make Americans call us ‘daddy.'”

The Chinese Communist Party publication People’s Daily debuted an animated rap music video on Thursday celebrating the reforms of the National People’s Congress, warning viewers in cartoon form that “we must fully and strictly implement the party discipline.”

For the past three years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has made overt efforts to popularize hip-hop music with communist messaging in the country. It only half-succeed – non-political rappers have made it big – triggering a major crackdown on the “low-taste” genre this week.

China’s state media outlets have launched a new initiative to promote “rap with Chinese characteristics” after popular Chinese rapper PG One was forced to apologize this week for releasing songs that did not promote “core values” in the communist dictatorship.

Georgia State University hosted a conference this week on the intersection of “hip hop and social justice,” according to the University’s website.

Conservative commentator, podcaster and writer Sonnie Johnson will be doing Sonnie’s Corner as a weekly feature for Breitbart News Daily. Today she was joined by Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow for a wide-ranging conversation on politics and culture.

Over the weekend, the Chinese Education Minister announced an initiative to attract colleges to “political theory” indoctrination at Communist Party-run universities, a study that has plummeted in popularity due to China’s exposure to the outside world.

Chinese state media is promoting a live performance of a rap song called “Marx Is a Post-90s,” the Chinese term for a Millennial, which encourages Chinese youth to read Marx’s writings and embrace communism.

In a video posted by PJ Media, Marco Rubio answers 46 rapid fire questions on multiple topics, including pop culture, cars, yoga, music, and the zombie apocalypse.

A female gymnast at UCLA has set the Internet ablaze with a floor routine that incorporates popular hip-hop moves.

The makers of the world’s most embarrassing ever pop albums now have some serious competition. A Canadian rapper called Baba Brinkman is crowdfunding a “scientifically peer-reviewed” record on climate change with which he hopes to defeat sceptics through the medium

Hillary Clinton is looking to black voters in South Carolina in a desperate attempt to avoid three early primary season losses against rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Sen. Bernie Sanders sat down for a late lunch with rapper Killer Mike on Monday, just hours before the rapper introduced the Democratic presidential candidate at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tremaine Aldon Neverson, better known by his stage name as Trey “Trigga” Songz, is the latest Obama-supporting hip-hop artist to be targeted by the IRS for neglecting to pay his federal tax bill.

A pee-wee football scrimmage broke into a dance-off in Massachusetts this past weekend. A group of seven-year olds were in the middle of scrimmaging during the halftime of a varsity game when the hit song by Silentó’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” started

A short video posted to social media this week of what appeared to be a gunman stalking an LAPD patrol car has frightened the department and led to at least one arrest.

Rev. Jesse Jackson’s daughter might only be 16, but her hair, makeup and accessories are on point, according to her newly recorded rap single, which has been obtained by TMZ.

A lot has changed for rapper, producer, and music mogul Andre Young, better known as Dr. Dre, who said in the 2001 track “Forgot About Dre” alongside Eminem, “you won’t get a crumb from me, ‘cause I’m from the streets of Compton.”

They are not looking at Donald Trump’s political platform; they are looking at what life could be when we all live like Donald Trump. He has already sold hip hop access to the Dream.