Hip-Hop News Archives

Caption: 50 Cent and G Unit . performing live in concert at Sydney Entertainment Centre.

Ray Hanania, publisher of The National Arab American Times, interviews Suzanne Manneh about her article, "Palestinian Youth Express Themselves Through Hip-Hop." Manneh explains how hip-hop has become a creative ...

Busta Rhymes had a great reason for stopping in the middle of an interview last week.

One could describe Marc Bamuthi Joseph's "the break/s" as a mix tape for stage, the charted course of hip-hop over continents and generations.

Will Smith has insisted that he won't get divorced from wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

This Oct. 17, 2000 file photo shows country music artist Chris Cagle in Nashville, Tenn.

It wasn't an easy choice, but Saigon has finally disembarked from the sinking ship that is Atlantic Records' hip-hop division.

It's unlikely that Bill Monroe, the "father of bluegrass music," and Clive Campbell - aka D.J. Kool Herc - "the father of hip-hop," ever imagined a marriage of their musical offspring.

Will Smith has found the perfect way to keep a marriage on track - rule out divorce.

Pioneering rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters, who spent more than five years in prison on a 1991 attempted murder conviction and faced threats of deportation years after rehabilitating his life, was granted a ...

Positive messages and breakdancing are integral parts of hip-hop culture, but by 1990 those elements had been temporarily eclipsed by the tough gangsta image and bleak but compelling lyrics of West Coast groups ...

A TEAM from Taunton Vineyard Christian Fellowship is running a one-day course on money management.

The actual group, rappers Thill Van, Fast, Slow, and Rottweiler "Mike Mike," came together in Jacksonville, FL.

Jill Scott grew up in north Philadelphia and began her performing career reading her own poetry.

Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull comes out for Memorial Day weekend, as did the previous sequels to Raiders of the Lost Ark.

In this Nov. 4, 2004 file photo, Slick Rick arrives for Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' 35th birthday celebration in New York.

Rap superstars Kanye West , Method Man , Redman and Common have been accused of using late jazz legend Joe Farrell's music without permission.

Rapper 50 Cent has slammed a TV host for disliking his latest album, claiming she is bitter because he rejected her romantic advances.

Risk and pop music hardly ever go together. Why take a chance when there's money to be made? That's what makes Jesse McCartney's new album, "Departure" , so remarkable.

A TEAM of mountaineers are to trek the three highest peaks in the UK in less than 18 hours.

They're not exactly artists you'd expect to see on the same bill: Buck 65 and Tom Petty, Great Big Sea and Donna Summer, Jay-Z and Crowded House.

CLOSE CLOSE Charles Dickens began his classic novel, A Tale Two Cities , with the statement, "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." I think that is also an accurate assessment of American ...

FUELING rumors that her wedding to Jay-Z was a shotgun-style marriage, Beyonce has been steering clear of the sauce.

Erykah Badu and the Roots Mizner Park Amphitheater, Boca Raton Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Better than: Listening to Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" on the radio for the umpteenth time.

Band working on film with Hype Williams NERD are set to release a feature tracking their evolution from the recording studio to their live performances.

Caption: Kanye West arriving at GOA nightclub for his 'Glow In The Dark Tour' party.

Warner Bros. and Overbrook Entertainment have acquired the rights to remake "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis," the comedy that broke box office records in France earlier this year.

Haitan-born hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean is reaching a helping hand out to his homeland - and he hopes you will too.

Everclear, Soul Asylum also sign on for inaugural LA event Guns N Roses guitarist Slash , Everclear , Soul Asylum and Camper Van Beethoven are among the artists who have joined the lineup for the first-ever ...

Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean launched a new initiative to help his impoverished homeland on Tuesday following last month's deadly food riots.

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" Hip-hop trio N.E.R.D. are teaming up with director Hype Williams for their first feature film.

Caption: Fergie. Benefit for Ludacris Foundation at Ralph Lauren, Atlanta's Lenox Square Mall .

Will Smith has spent nearly $1 million on a private school that bases some of its education on Scientology.

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" Will Smith is investing more than $1 million in a new school near his California home.

One of the most moving and politically charged writers today, Spearhead and his band Spearhead return with their eagerly awaited new album, All Rebel Rockers , on September 9 via Anti-Records. Recorded in SF, ...

Home : Features : People : P. Diddy Thanks Kanye West on YouTube P. Diddy Thanks Kanye West on YouTube 18-May-2008 Written by: Hillary Frazier P. Diddy taped a video blog and posted it on YouTube, thanking ...

Caption: Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith. leaving The Cut restaurant in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel after enjoying dinner with friends Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Caption: Kanye West arriving at GOA nightclub for his 'Glow In The Dark Tour' party.

Whether from the pages of popular magazines or from the regular folks hanging on the street corner, Papoose received countless accolades before the release of an official album.

THE director and cast of China's lone competitor for Cannes' coveted Palme d'Or award observed a minute of silence on Saturday in memory of the victims of this week's devastating earthquake.

Fergie, the American Music Awards' "Favorite Female Artist," will fill the Illinois State Fair Grandstand's final open date, fair officials said today.

While his peers at the top of the hip-hop heap dedicate themselves to greater and greater heights of entrepreneurship, Kanye West has set his sights on scaling new artistic peaks.

A TEAM of budding entrepreneurs from Malvern won three top prizes at this year's county Young Enterprise final.

OutKast's blend of gritty Southern soul, fluid raps, and the rolling G-funk of their Organized Noize production crew epitomized the Atlanta wing of hip-hop's rising force, the Dirty South, during the late '90s. ... via 101.1 The Beat Jamz WUBT-FM

In summer 2007, the MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust sat down and had another controversial roundtable debate. via VH1 News

“I've been practising my double dutch”

Rex Features Tyrese Gibson will play Sgt. Bosco "BA" Baracus in the film adaptation of '80s TV show The A-Team , according to Chud . via Digital Spy

Frontrunner ... T-Pain / AP file T-PAIN led the nominees for the eighth annual BET Awards, an event celebrating the leading lights in African-American music, film and sport, organisers said today. via News.com.au

Caption: 50 Cent and G Unit . performing live in concert at Sydney Entertainment Centre. via ContactMusic.com

Estelle is committed to being your new hip-hop queen, assuming Lauryn Hill is out of your mind. via Herald-Bulletin

“We're pleased with his progress.”

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" The manager of hip-hop star Nate Dogg has blasted "vicious" rumors alleging the singer is dead, insisting he is alive ... via WVMX-FM Cincinnati

“This album is Big Boi to the extreme”

OutKast's Big Boi is putting the finishing touches on his first solo album, "Sir Luscious Left Foot ... Son of Chico Dusty," due later this year via Laface/Zomba. The first single is "Royal Flush" featuring ... via Billboard.com

“I love it when a cast comes together!”

The news that Bruce Willis has been approached to star as Hannibal Smith in the feature version of The A-Team isn't really a surprise. via Screen Rant

Caption: Busta Rhymes. Versace Men's Line Launch Party at Barney's New York. New York City, USA - 18.03.08 Rapper BUSTA RHYMES' associate SPLIFF STAR has been arrested on suspicion of drug possession in ... via ContactMusic.com

“And I'm praying that from this experience, I can be a contestant [on 'Dancing']. Because dancing is my first love...and I believe I am the first hip-hop female artist to be on that show.”

Look closely at the Michael Jackson tribute tonight on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars", and you'll see Atlanta's own Eshe of Grammy-winning rap group Arrested Development. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“In the U.S., one in four people who are positive don't know it. So, we thought, 'How do we continue to remind our audience that they should get tested?'”

NEW YORK College-targeted MTVU has teamed up with the Kaiser Family Foundation and Poz Magazine to create a viral, Web-based game designed to get people talking frankly about HIV and AIDS. via Adweek

“Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night, you go: ' KYLIE MINOGUE ?' I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong.”

Z has finally broken his silence over the controversy surrounding his Glastonbury Festival headline slot. via The Sun Online

In case you missed the news in the world of Myspace and blogs, Dead Prez is popping up kinda randomly for a show tonight -- a pretty good coup for a weekly party in Hollywood, known as Mellow Mondays . via Broward-Palm Beach - News

With their dark hip-hop-influenced alternative rock, Luscious Jackson re-creates the dense, multicultural bohemian world of New York in a collage of sound, where Spanish guitars, jazzy keyboards, funky beats, ... via MIX969.com

“The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design”

RIM today introduced the BlackBerry Bold, its highest-end smartphone ever and the first to support tri-band HSDPA 3G wireless data networking on GSM networks worldwide. via BlackBerryToday

“I try to keep my finger on the pulse of pop culture. I feel the vibe of what's going on in the community, what's happening in the hood, what's people's temperament toward me as a celebrity, as entertainment, as a rapper, as a musician.”

The ego has landed. Or rather, it will touch down this month in Canada when rap's biggest mouth and biggest talent Kanye West will give music fans a treat with his Glow in the Dark tour. via Canada.com

“You're writing a book about grammar? asked a friend. "Not just grammar.”

In our common culture, grammar has taken on at least three sets of meanings and associations. via Poynter

“The feedback has been phenomenal (and) hotels are full. In fact, LIAT is putting on additional flights intra-regionally to be able to meet the demand that we are seeing for the festival”

Castries, St. Lucia, May 9 The 17th Annual St. Lucia Jazz festival, one of the Caribbean's premier musical attractions, produced by BET Event Productions, has nostalgia day this Friday. via Prensa Latina

Conceived as the first "virtual hip-hop group," Gorillaz blended the musical talents of Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Blur's Damon Albarn, Cibo Matto's Miho Hatori, and Tom Tom Club's Tina Weymouth and Chris ... via 105.9 The X

You can hear the best new music on 106.5 KWOD weekdays at 1:05 p.m., 6:05 p.m. and 9:05 p.m. and weekends anytime. via KWOD-FM Sacramento

Estelle is the first artist to release an album under John Legend's Homeschool label, in partnership with Atlantic Records. via 103JAMZ.com

“We'll do your story, but we're doing it my way.”

A graphic from Paramount Vantage's Son of Rambow. Film review: Son of Rambow Ten minutes into Son of Rambow, I realized what had gone wrong with Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind. via National Post

May 7, 2008 By Marisa Trevi o of Latina Lista Today is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. via HispanicTrending

If that wasn't enough, try this bit on for size: They won't charge viewers extra for the privilege. via Switched.com

A TEAM of 28 cubs from West Monkton visited Taunton Police Station. They learned about neighbourhood policing, what happens to people who break the law and the equipment police use. via Somerset County Gazette

“I was the first one to use a virus to target cancer cells.”

Virologist and cancer biologist Patrick Lee was on his way to the American Association of Cancer Research in San Diego last week when he decided to check out the in-flight movie I Am Legend . via Newswise

“George is an incredibly talented designer, and I've never met anyone who knew more about sunglasses and other cool stuff.”

THE Australian fashion label Ksubi will collaborate on an eyewear range for Pastelle, the fashion label of the US hip-hop superstar Kanye West. via The Sydney Morning Herald

“Making it to the top five was already the icing on the cake! Actually winning - I am still at a lost for words. All I can say is 'overwhelming excitement!' ”

West Hollywood, California resident and aspiring lyricist Jael Gadsen has been chosen the grand champion of the Lincoln Spotlight online music competition by a panel that included Grammy Award-winning hip-hop ... via Automotive

“As a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new Nine Inch Nails album one hundred percent free.”

Posted by Mathew @ 12:47 pm on May 5 2008 Not long after Radiohead offered their new album In Rainbows through their website for whatever fans wanted to pay, Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor took a ... via Mathewingram.com

“We've all said we'll be together at the end. If Hillary doesn't win, Hillary, President Clinton, myself, we'll be over there helping Senator Obama.”

Democrat Hillary Clinton could drop her fading U.S. presidential bid if she still trails Barack Obama in the nominating contests in early June, her campaign chairman said on Thursday. via 95.7 The Beat

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am and American talk show host Stephen Colbert have emerged victorious in the annual ... via B95....Blazin' Today's Hottest Music!

The most idiosyncratic personality in rap and possessor of its most recognizable delivery, a halting, ragga-inspired style with incredible complexity, inventiveness, and humor, Busta Rhymes formed Leaders of ... via 103JAMZ.com

In a time when the world stands on a precarious precipice, surrounded by crisis and controversy, heated debate and multi-faceted friction, The Roots couldn't get any more aptly topical with their latest ... via JamBase

“Gravy, the guy playing B.I.G., it was just too eerie for me to be on that. Gravy's killing it. If I tell you he's killing it, then that's all we need to say, you know what I'm saying? I don't think anybody could have done a better job.”

Caption: Sean Combs aka P Diddy is honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. via ContactMusic.com

Rapper Foxy Brown pleaded guilty this afternoon to bashing a woman with her Blackberry in Brooklyn last year. via 7Online.com

“When we first approached Fergie, her music company said she's really, really busy and then she said very bargainy, 'Let me see the movie!' "So we had a private bootleg screening for Fergie... and then recorded it almost immediately.”

Caption: Fergie. Benefit for Ludacris Foundation at Ralph Lauren, Atlanta's Lenox Square Mall . via ContactMusic.com

“Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins". The movie is set to be released in 2009. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Rapper-turned-actor Common is joining the cast of "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins”

Hip-hop artist Common is joining the cast of "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins". The movie is set to be released in 2009. via CANOE

Just less than two weeks after being released from prison [ click to read ], a Brooklyn court judge issued a bench warrant for Foxy Brown 's arrest this morning. via HipHopDx