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Mercury nominees 2014: Kate Tempest

22 Oct 2014: Tempest has awards for her poetry but with hip-hop album Everybody Down she has moved towards the mainstream – and the Mercury judges love a female MC …
The playlist: hip-hop – Drake, Freddie Gibbs, Lil Mouse and more

22 Oct 2014: Divisive track Tuesday gets an is-it-funny? video/remix and Lil Mouse has ‘more money than my Math teacher’
BBC3 rapped for airing Ludacris’ Move Bitch in Mr T show

20 Oct 2014: Media Monkey: Channel told off for airing hip-hop track, which contained 25 instances of swearing in two minutes, in teatime programme
Afroman's Because I Got High gets pro-marijuana remake

17 Oct 2014: Remix of the 2001 No 1 song promotes medical benefits and crime-reduction claims before drug-legalisation votes in several US states
El-P auditioning cats as Meow the Jewels reaches Kickstarter goal

16 Oct 2014: With over a week to go, the cat remix of El-P and Killer Mike’s Run the Jewels 2 is set to go, with Zola Jesus, Geoff Barrow, Baauer, Boots and Dan the Automator set to contribute
Snoop Dogg apologies to Iggy Azalea following threatening online comments

16 Oct 2014: After an ongoing altercation between the two rappers, Snoop posts a message stating ‘no more bad talk’
Hip-hop therapy is new route to mental wellbeing, say psychiatrists

11 Oct 2014: Pharrell Williams song Happy highlighted for possible use in helping patients to tackle their own problems
Ghetto fabulists: the worst in hip-hop art

11 Oct 2014: Mixtapes may be over as a physical object, but rappers are keen to give us cover art. More often than not, it’s bad
Raury review – a stage-diving fizzbomb of energy

9 Oct 2014: The genre-bending Atlanta musician commands the stage with charismatic presence – no wonder Kanye West is calling
New kids on the C-Block: meet the stars of Changsha’s local hip-hop scene

7 Oct 2014: In our second insight into China’s music scene, Tim Jonze immerses himself in the rap world, lead by Changsha’s hottest rap group C-Block
Sylvan Esso, Lethal Bizzle: This week's new live music

4 Oct 2014: Sylvan Esso | Lethal Bizzle | The Bill Laurance Project | London Sinfionetta | Tusk | Off!
The playlist: hip-hop – Your Old Droog, Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$ and more

1 Oct 2014: Joey Bada$$ and Your Old Droog bookend a 90s revival, while Kendrick Lamar tries a bizarre voice experiment, writes Lanre Bakare
Wu-Tang Clan to release new album on boombox speaker

1 Oct 2014: RZA says A Better Tomorrow will only be available on a special-edition speaker – and affirms that all existing ten members will appear on it
SBTRKT review – revelling in mystery

28 Sep 2014: The star remixer blends post-dubstep, house and techno in a flashily complex presentation, writes Malcolm Jack
Megachurch leader threatens to sue Kendrick Lamar and Young Jeezy

26 Sep 2014: TD Jakes said duo sampled his sermon Don’t Let the Chatter Stop You without authorization and is planning ‘necessary legal actions’