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Posted Jul 25th 2008 2:10PM by Najwa Moses Filed under: Lifestyle , Style Spotter Last weekend, I had the wonderful pleasure of getting down to the one of the hottest fashion and cultural destinations in ...

The Hip Hop community felt a break in its beat as the Confessions of a Video Vixen , a first major tell-all book from Karrine "Superhead" Steffans first released in 2005.

Often said to be the most socially significant and most musical of hip-hop outfits, The Roots seem to be distancing themselves even further from the pack.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - eight brothers and a drummer - are picking up Sun Ra's mission to save the planet, writes Pascal Wyse Friday July 18, 2008 The Guardian There's no beating about the bush with Hypnotic ...

Rapper Q-Tip will perform on Rock the Bells hip-hop music tour which stops in Miami on Aug.

Fool's Gold -- the hip-hop/dance boutique label owned and operated by DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs-- and Downtown Music -- home of Gnarls Barkley, Art Brut, Justice, Santogold, Mos Def, Spank Rock, and ...

While Peter Bjorn and John mull providing back beats to the rapper's Scandinavian show this fall, hot mouthed hip-hop savant Kanye West has announced the tracklisting to his forthcoming record Graduation , out ...

Wednesday, July 9 "Brown Sugar" 8:30 p.m. Oxygen -- This light romantic comedy has no surprise endings, but it's worth watching because of Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan.

Tip, hip-hop's former golden boy , has long been the abstract poet. His Amplified disc hit, then faded away at the turn of the century, and few fans know about his solid shelved albums .

Following in the footsteps of former video vixen Karrine "Superhead" Steffans and Nas ' ex-lover and mother of his child, Carmen Bryan , there's another Hip Hop tell-all book on the horizon--this time focused ...

The rootsy rapper, who seems to be an icon on the underground hip-hop circuit and a darling to Hollywood, oftentimes does not participate in media tours and junkets to promote his projects.

While kiss-and-tell books have been a staple of rock 'n'roll, it's early days for the genre in hip hop.

It's old school hip-hop and classic country this weekend in the city. Critically acclaimed MC Mos Def takes the stage Saturday night, while Lyle Lovett and crew get down at Beacon Theatre on Sunday.

I have one pair of tickets to the previously mentioned Flavorpill event at the Museum of Natural History .

"Be Kind Rewind" Jack Black and Mos Def star in this 2008 comedy about video store clerks who are forced to remake their library of film classics after a mechanical mishap.

Through The Science of Sleep , Be Kind Rewind and the forthcoming Master of Space and Time , filmmaker Michel Gondry is examining the process of being creative.

'Be Kind Rewind': Mos Def stars as Mike, a clerk at a failing video store in a rundown New Jersey neighborhood.

So the two decide to remake, with their own video camera and limited resources, all the movies they erased, like Ghostbusters and Driving Miss Daisy .

Source: Live at the Barbican - ' 4 Track EP 06 To Build A Home.mp3 Baba, Happy Father's Day to you.

The latest teaming of Stephen Sondheim and helmer John Doyle and a new play by John Guare that will star Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def are among the offerings of the 2008-09 season at Off Broadway's Public ...