MTV.com News — Eclectic artist is avoiding music that is 'trendy just for three months or the length of a DJ's attention span,' she tells NME. By James Montgomery M.I.A. Photo: MTV News M.I.A. has finished recording the follow-up to her breakout Kala alb... more info

Guardian Music — (Kilamanjaro)A new decade dawns, and UK hip-hop remains the Old Reliable of genres: commendably solid, bound by enough tradition and tendencies towards similarity that breakouts beyond its confines are rare. On the evidence of this mixtape, south Lon... more info

Starpulse — Rapper Alfamega is in shock after his children were involved in a violent altercation at T.I.'s Georgia nightclub - his daughter suffered multiple stab wounds and his son broke his jaw.[...] Read more! more info

AllHipHop — A representative for Atlanta rapper Alfamega has confirmed that his son and daughter were involved in a violent altercation inside of T.I.'s Club Crucial in Atlanta.   According to reports Alfamega daughter was involved in some sort of altercation ... more info

AllHipHop — (AllHipHop News) Atlanta rapper Alfamega has confirmed that his son and daughter were involved in a violent altercation inside of T.I.'s Club Crucial in Atlanta.   Alfamega told AllHipHop.com that his daughter was involved in some sort of altercati... more info

MTV.com News — 'I've been helping Eminem over the last 18 months and he's doing brilliantly,' singer says.By Eric Ditzian Elton John and Eminem at the 2001 Grammy Awards Photo: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images In the run-up to the spring release of Relapse, ... more info

Starpulse — Rapper T.I. is wasting no time following his release from prison last week - he headed straight into the recording studio to lay down some new songs.[...] Read more! more info

Pop Bytes — hey hey! once again the oh so talented DJ earworm took on a bunch of this past year's hits and has mashed them into one super delicious track and music video - it's united state of pop 2009: blame it on the pop (check out last year's mega mash!) ... more info

Rolling Stone — It was the year that gave us our Number One single of the entire decade: Gnarls Barkley’s 2006 hit “Crazy.” Bob Dylan got the friskiest he’d been since 1968’s John Wesley Harding on his stellar Modern Times, the Red Hot Chili Peppers churne... more info

Sheena Beaston — With 2009 coming to a close, we've dished out our BE[a]ST of the year lists, given you a number of holiday goodies from labels and artists, and prepped as best we can for 2010. But no musical chart-topping year is ever complete without the mighty han... more info