Bling Meltdown: Recession-Ruined Rappers Resort to Rented Jewelry

When Jacob the Jeweler is getting calls from rappers requesting custom cubic zirconia crosses, you know the economy is tanking.Don't call it a comeback, call it a bling meltdown. " In an attempt to keep up...

How Do You Spell Punk, David Moses Jassy!

Editorial: Road-Rage-Rapper, David Moses Jassy kills pedestrian in horrendous Hollywood murder.  Swedish hip-hop artist / songwriter has been arrested for a violent road-rage confrontation on a Hollywood...

Yo! The Official Obama Mixtape is Out

Yo, Obama gots himself an official hip-hop mixtape that is co-presented by DJ Green Lantern and the one and only Russell Simmons. At this point, most of the hip-hop community is weighed in with unequivocal support...

Internet Rap Drama: Ice-T vs. Soulja Boy

As NowPublic reported on the weekend, we know this much is true: Ice-T has no love for Soulja Boy; and Soulja Boy has no love for Ice-T. Factor in the internet, and what do you have? A rap web meme made from the...

Rappers Love Radiohead: "This is the Remix!"

Like you and the rest of the musicnerd world, I love Radiohead too. I paid cold, hard, iTunes-rate, British pounds for 128 bits of In Rainbows. I eagerly anticipated its release. I laughed and cried and danced...

Iran cracks down on 'obscene' rap music

Does your nation have problems with vice, violence, sin, and decadence? Blame the rappers. That's what Iran is doing. Tearing a page (or 100) from the Tipper Gore Guide to Rap Censorship (aka the PMRC), Iran is...

"Shock Jock" Don Imus, Back on Air Tomorrow

The irony either wants to make you laugh or cry--on various film, t.v., radio, video, Internet, and other media outlets, the words like "bitch" and "ho," have been considered...

Rappers Seek to Consolidate National Cuban Hip-hop Movement

"Hip-hop artists in Cuba are using makeshift studios to record music that goes to the heart of the country's troubles, overcoming the indifference of record companies and the media toward their efforts. While the...

Anti-Gangster Rap Music Billboards

Had enough of the Negative Rap Music! The publisher of African American Opinion has decided to take a stand against demeaning and violent music. He says he is taking a stand against gangster and other forms of negative rap music. Inspired by a recent...

Rapspace in XXL

I'm sitting here with Mike Tippett and he is showing me Highlight..."With social networks like MySpace and Friendster running at full capacity, it's no surprise that Web sites have started turning separate forming separate cliques. Lately the Internet has seen the spin-off of...

Poverty Pimps Persistent Pop-Offs :: MAXINE

Don Imus/MSNBC - CBS UPDATE - 4-12-2007    "Where is the equity? Where is the context calculation? Where is their collective gun always aimed? This is NOT a defense of Don Imus and the general degradation of behavior found throughout our society. This posting is a calling...

List of Winners for the 4th Annual Southern Entertainment Awards

"The winners of the 4th Annual Southern Entertainment Awards has been announced. This year`s 65 winners, nominated by fans across the globe for the year ending 2006 were named in a ceremony that took place at the Grand Casino Resort Event Center in Tunica, MS on January 28,...

Study finds avian rappers

"A study of 10 European cities, including London and Paris, and forests found that birds in urban areas are more likely to use staccato notes at a higher pitch, and tweet in a brasher way, than their country cousins. In the world of bird harmonics, researchers say it is akin...

When I say "Chicken", y'all say "Chicken wing!" Chicken!

"Harlem's in the house. More specifically, 5-10 year old rappers from Harlem are in the house. Unbridled innocence, spacey '80s electro-scifi production and candy as a metaphor for candy. Brought to you by the fine folks at WFMU."

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