Will.i.am is getting things started in here...er...rather, there. And, dum diddly, what do you know...'there' is actually China. And the boycott is not actually happening. So where is the love? Well, for...
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The Roots are veterans of the hip-hop game, having long been immersed in the struggle to achieve commercial success with music that defies tired rap clichés, sugary pop conventions, and lyrical...
According to MemphisRap.com, DeAndre Way aka Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, 17, is in the news because the rapper spoke with Branson Wright of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and told the reporter that he feels disrespected by...
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Since at least the 1940s, when Dr Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent argued that comic books were damaging our youth and causing juvenile delinquency, there has been an ongoing debate: does art create culture or merely reflect it?For years, the standard answer on...
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Publicly dismissing entire genres of music may well be the best way to lose friends, but Noel Gallagher has never been one to worry about appearances. He recently told the BBC that hip hop has no place at this...
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Who says there's no longer any money in the music biz?Jay-Z and Mary J are proving end-of-the-industry analysts to be wildly wrong, as they pad their already well-lined pockets with mo' dolla dolla bills,...
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NEW YORK -- A Manhattan jury has convicted Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma of assault.She faces up to 25 years in prison. The rapper was convicted Thursday in state Supreme Court.The defense had conceded that Remy...
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Lord Infamous born Ricky Dunigan brother of Three 6 Mafia's DJ Paul was arrested on Saturday and charged with domestic assault for being involved in a fight.
Element 9 Hip Hop" , caught Pauly Shore on tape dissing some of the top
urban comics in the business. Is Pauly a natural born comic or a
natural born hater?Source:
The lack of knowledge about the murders of martyred hip-hop icons Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. has plagued the hip-hop community for more than a decade, so salacious suggestions like the one made in the LA...
When in doubt, blame the music."According to a recent study, Hip-Hop music may be responsible for an increase in smoking amongst teens it was recently revealed.Over 75% of the most popular Hip-Hop songs of 2005...
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Life imitates art imitating life imitating art..." A Brooklyn-based rapper who was a drug dealer before he was a singer has been cast as Biggie Smalls, also known as Notorious B.I.G., in the upcoming film...
2008 Season of Voting Meltdowns BeginsAcross the country, problems with voter rolls, voting machines and partisan tactics point to trouble in November.http://www.alternet.org/democracy/98369/Computerized voting,...
Rapper The Game will serve a two month jail sentence, perform community service work, and serve three years probation, for pulling out a gun during a pickup basketball game at a Los Angeles high school.A pickup...
Missy Elliott 2.0 is all about user-generated content, crowdsourcing, and collaborative community building. No, she's not exactly developing a new mobile microblogging social networking web app, but she's still...