Brooklyn Vegan — Juicy J at Irving Plaza in 2013 (more by Samantha Marble) Rick Ross is releasing a new album, Mastermind, this year, and he'll celebrate with an album release show in NYC on March 3 at Best Buy Theater. Tickets for... more info

411 Mania — In Central Park... more info

Impose Magazine — We love to note that YC The Cynic is raised in the Bronx, the birthplace of hip hop, as though it is a birthright to realness in a blood line deeper than Rakim's life source. I've never been to the Bronx, but I have a hard time believing it&#... more info

Metalsucks — Featuring everything from Celtic Frost to Aphex Twin to Eric B. & Rakim.The post This is Justin K. Broadrick’s Spotify Playlist appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

ContactMusic — Chris Rock filled in for rapper Rakim when the hip-hop star cancelled an appearance at a New York comedy show this weekend (19-20Jan13) due to... more info

Impose Magazine — A famous Rakim quote bathing in codiene kicks off SNS's The Hangover II, while a songstress croons along deep in the ether of the last night's lingering weed smoke and stale beer stench. This is the Hangover II on sizzrppp. SNS are from St. L... more info

ContactMusic — Rapper A$Ap Rocky is facing a lawsuit stemming from an alleged bust-up in New York earlier this year (12).The hip-hop star, real name Rakim Mayers,... more info

Time — Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five’s 1982 hit “The Message” is the number 1 song on Rolling Stone‘s first-ever list of “The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time.” (LIST: Listen to TIME’s Top 10 Songs of 2012 Playlist) The magazine ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Rakim at Rock the Bells 2010 (more by Brook Bobbins) The "invincible microphone fiend" Rakim will team with Wu-Tang staple Raekwon just in time for the holidays, blessing Studio 48 on December 20th. Tickets are on sale. Still no hard... more info

Prefix — Earlier this morning, producer extraordinaire Pharrell Williams somehow managed to defuse the beef between Miley Cyrus and Tyler, ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/is-pharrell-now-in-the-studio-with-rakim/71286/ more info