(AllHipHop News) Atlanta producer Jazze Pha has launched a national  campaign against obesity and is challenging fans of hip-hop music to  lose weight for a cash prize.Jazze has linked with Entertaincorp and Kenya Crooks aka “The  World’s Greatest Weight Loss Expert” to create the First Annual  Jazze Pha Take It Off $1000 Weight Loss Challenge.As […]

(AllHipHop News) Surviving UGK member Bun B has signed on to participate in this year’s intercontinental Gumball 3000 car rally. Now entering its 12th year, the Gumball rally is a 3000-mile drive featuring 120 cars over 8 days filled with events and parties along the route. Although anyone is allowed to enter, the hefty entry […]

(AllHipHop News) Female rapper Persia was recently sentenced to five years in probation, after police stopped her and found a loaded handgun in her car.  Persia is best known for her appearance on VH1’s reality series The White Rapper Show.   Shortly after she was eliminated, she ran afoul of the law during a routine traffic […]

(AllHipHop News) A healthy lifestyle and a desire to learn were the key points emphasized by rap mogul P. Miller, who kicked off the It’s Time to Fatten Our Brain’s Not Our Bodies tour Friday (April 23) at 61st Street Elementary School in Los Angeles.   The No Limit Records founder, along with his son […]

(AllHipHop News) With controversy still surrounding the death and post-mortem wishes of the recently deceased Guru (Keith Elam), DJ Premier had revealed details on his final hospital meeting with his estranged Gang Starr collaborator. In a discussion on his Sirius Hip-Hop Nation radio show, Premier stated that he visited a comatose Guru in the hospital, […]

(AllHipHop News) The Hip-Hop community lost another member to cancer on Saturday (April 24th), with the death of Los Angeles’ DJ Hideo.  Hideo, 42, succumbed to colon and liver cancer while surrounded by family members and his children.  Last week, Hideo had to check into Mission Hospital because of weakness and pain.  “Because of the […]

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop moguls Damon Dash and Marc Ecko have announced they will support Kevin Powell’s bid for Congress. Powell, a noted journalist and Hip-Hop historian, is running for the 10th Congressional District, Brooklyn, New York, in hopes of defeating Rep. Ed Towns. Dash and Ecko will host a fundraiser for Powell tomorrow (April 26th) […]

(AllHipHop News) Over 100 teenagers were forced to flee through city streets yesterday evening (April 24th), after a fight broke out during a showcase/car show featuring Atlanta rap group Travis Porter. According to reports, over 200 teenagers attended a community day/block party event sponsored by Albany, Georgia-based tax service SOWEGA Tax Services. The otherwise peaceful […]

(AllHipHop News) Remy Ma shooting victim Makeda Barnes-Joseph has renewed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the jailed rapper’s label Universal Music Group. In 2007, Barnes-Joseph was shot twice in the abdomen by her former friend Remy Ma (real name Reminisce Smith) over a financial dispute.  The crime resulted in Remy being sentenced to 8 years […]

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop group The St. Lunatics recently shot a video in their hometown of St. Louis, as they prepare to release their first batch of material in over 10 years. The group features Nelly, Murphy Lee, Kyjuan, Ali and Nelly’s brother City Spud, who spent 10 years incarcerated for assault, before being released in […]

(AllHipHop News) Cypress Hill group member B-Real has weighed in growing division between older West coast rappers and a crop of new emcees from various parts of California. Cypress Hill and Ice Cube were engaged in a feud on wax between 1995 and 1997. While he didn’t call out names, Ice Cube took to his […]

(AllHipHop News) Over 50 police officers are in West Palm Beach are expected to picket a festival featuring a variety of top Rock and Hip-Hop acts, including ZZ Top, Weezer, Sean Kingston and Nas and Damian Marley. Fortunately, it is not the music the officers are targeting this time, but the actual city of West […]

(AllHipHop News) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member Krayzie Bone is preparing to release a new solo album, titled The Fixtape Vol. 3: Lyrical Paraphernalia. The album, which features guest appearances by all five Bone members, is the third solo release for Krayzie, who released his platinum-selling debut, Thug Mentality in 1999. He followed that release with 2001’s […]

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Wyclef Jean will return from his native home of Haiti within the next few hours on a mission dear to his heart. Sources told AllHipHop.com that Wyclef Jean will arrive at JFK Airport in Queens, New York around 6:00 PM tonight (April 22nd) with three very special guests. Through his Yele Haiti […]

(AllHipHop News) Rapper B.o.B.’s single “Nothing On You” has knocked Rihanna out of the  #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. “Nothing on You,” which features singer Bruno Mars, hit #1 after 12 weeks on the charts, knocking Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” from the top slot. B.o.B.‘s newest single “The Kids” recently hit the internet and features […]

(AllHipHop News) Harlem, New York rapper Jim Jones will begin teaching a 6-week high school course to educate students on the inner-working of the music business. Jones was cleared by the Board of Education in New York to teach the class, and he will begin teaching Music Business 101 on Tuesday (April 27th) in New […]

(AllHipHop News) The principal of Woodland Middle School in Henry County, New Jersey, has come under fire over rapper T.I.‘s recent appearance. T.I., born Clifford Harris Jr., appeared at the school on March 5th and spoke to students. Parents of some students took issue with the fact that they were not notified of who would […]

(AllHipHop News) Sean “Diddy” Combs has issued an apology for making disparaging  statements about rival vodka’s that set off the “vodka wars” earlier this month between Combs’ Ciroc brand and a number of other spirit makers. Combs released the statement via YouTube, which features the entertainment mogul soaking in a bubble bath surrounded by Ciroc […]

(AllHipHop News) Dr. Dre’s biological son Curtis Young hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father, with the launch of his new record label, Young Entertainment Inc. Like his famous father, Curtis Young, formerly known as Hood Surgeon, also hails from Compton, California. His debut solo album, titled Product of My DNA, will be […]

(AllHipHop News) Producer Solar has addressed the intense criticism directed at him shortly after the passing of revered Gang Starr Rapper Guru, who died on Monday (April 19th) from cancer. Solar, who was Guru’s partner in his recording venture 7 Grand Records, has come under scrutiny over a series of press releases allegedly penned by […]