Ice Cube To Produce & Star In “eye For An Eye” The Zaggin You Love To Hate is back at it again as he sets…
The Furious 5 & Grand Master Flash feat. Common, Lupe Fiasco and LL Cool J – The Message Jason Aldean feat. Ludacris – Dirt Road…
Legendary Run-DMC group member Darryl “DMC” McDaniels has announced he is dropping a brand-new album titled Rock Solid. The first single from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member’s new album is a double-sided release titled “Attention Please!” b/w a track titled “Rock Solid.” The A-side of the single, “Attention Please!” features popular actress […]
Erick Sermon of the legendary group EPMD has suffered a heart attack. DJ Scratch, the long time DJ for the group, confirmed the news. “Erick Sermon had a heart attack today. He’s ok, but still send your prayers. He is not on Twitter.” The rapper is in a Long Island hospital recuperating, sources told AllHipHop.com. […]
Remembering the Hip-hop Legend Heavy D through many of his videos. RIP Dwight Errington Meyers AKA Heavy D
LOS ANGELES — Rap legend Heavy D has died at a Los Angeles hospital. The 44-year old performer, whose real name is Dwight Arrington Myers, was rushed to the hospital around noon. He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1 PM. According to TMZ, a 911 call was placed from Heavy’s Beverly Hills home […]
Anne Hathaway Raps: Does Lil Wayne Style Paparazzi Rap On Conan!
While “Black Twitter” was buzzing on August 1st with birthday wishes to Public Enemy’s Chuck D, he was taking time out of his day to brighten a few others. Released on Public Enemy’s YouTube account, “Notice – Know This” is a song that was recorded as his personal rendition of what Jay-Z and Kanye West’s new popular […]
Dr. Boyce Watkins Slams Lil Wayne, BET, and the Hip-Hop Culture by Calling Them the New Ku Klux Klan
I just spent the week in New Orleans, the powerbase for one of the most talented, powerful and destructive forces in the history of music: Lil Wayne. I’ve admittedly bopped my head to the tunes of Lil Wayne in the past, feeling the same guilt that any man might feel if he were to enjoy […]
Details are surfacing in the death of legendary black activist Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, who died yesterday (June 2nd) in Africa. Pratt was pronounced dead of a heart attack in Tanzania, Africa, at the age of 63. Geronimo Pratt’s writings and philosophies influenced a number of artists, including his godson, legendary rapper Tupac Shakur. In a […]
Yup there’s yet another biopic in the works. This time Mary J Blige has confirmed she is still preparing to play Nina Simone in a biopic “Nina”. (It’s a working title.) The film will be based on Simone’s own book “I Put a Spell on You”. The book focuses on the relationship with her assistant […]
Even though it’s 2011, we’re still litigating whether rap music in and of itself is a societal corrosive or an artistic expression that channels raw experience and expurgates emotions in the form of a catharsis. It’s really the old Plato versus Aristotle rap battles over the artistic merits of tragedy — at least we can […]