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 […]
STRONGSVILLE, OH (WOIO) – Strongsville Police made several arrests Saturday evening after Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly, a.k.a “MGK”, went flash mobbing through Southpark Mall. The scene quickly turned into a frenzy on the second level of the mall in the food court. Rapper MGK, whose real name is Colson Baker, refused to get down from […]
Anne Hathaway Raps: Does Lil Wayne Style Paparazzi Rap On Conan!
In what Roc 4 Life reports as a never-before-seen clip, Jay-Z shares the reasoning behind wanting to write the book Decoded. He explains that he wanted to expand the minds of people who may have put rap, and rappers, into a negative category that may come from unwarranted bias. While calling rap poetry and speaking […]
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 […]
Rapper Freeway has been a Muslim since he was a teenager but recently he sat down with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien to express how much it has shaped his life. CNN will air a special entitled “Unwelcome: The Muslim’s Next Door” which will air Sunday March 27 at 8pm and in it Freeway tells how much […]
Hilarious video: Elderly Church Chior goes ghetto when singing Mystical songs, Ludacris, Outcast and Eminem songs to the church… preaching to the chior they say!!!
Kyra Phillips, an anchor for CNN apologized for playing a Coolio song with the N-Word in a feature on 103-year-old grandmother who still drives. The song “Fantasitc Voyage” contained the lyrics. Ain’t no bloodin’, Ain’t no crippin’ / Ain’t no punk-a** n***a’s set trippin’ / everybody’s got a stack and it ain’t no crack / […]