DJ Frank Ski: Welcome to Atlanta
If you’ve tuned into the radio in the ATL recently, there’s a 99.99 percent chance you’ve heard the voice of Frank Ski, the host of Hotlanta’s # 1 morning show (Frank and Wanda in the morning / V-103). Ski, with over 20 years of deejaying and radio experience under his belt, has withstood the test […]
Hip-Hop Rumors: LL, 50 Cent and Amy Give Back! Jay-Z Not Finished? T.I. Report!
JAY-Z NOT FINISHED?Weve already heard this before, but rumor has it, Jay-Z is stil working on tracks for American Gangster. Now, I dont know when the cut off is, but I was told that the whole thing had to be finished by last Friday to make the Nov. 6 deadline. While our journalist friends […]
DJ Envy & Red Cafe: Hip-Hop Deeds
Odds are you probably know some of Queens rapper Red Cafes#### songs already because of the lengthy amount of ghostwriting he has put in the last few years. You may have even seen the video, May I, with the Snoop Dogg inspired hook, which was in rotation a few years ago, too. If youre up […]
Details Emerge In T.I. Case; Girlfriend Arrested On Drug Charges
Rapper T.I. will face a federal judge this afternoon (October 15) after being arrested over the weekend on felony weapons charges. T.I., born Clifford Harris Jr., will appear before US Magistrate Judge Alan J. Baverman at the United States Courthouse in Atlanta later today. Prosecutors will charge the rapper with possession of unregistered […]
Little Brother: Getback
As southern-born practitioners of traditional, sample-based NY hip-hop, Little Brother has always been a square peg in an industry full of holes. In 2003 MCs Phonte and Big Pooh, along with Producer 9th Wonder, established North Carolina as the next surrogate home to the boom-bap with their debut, The Listening. Proudly claiming they were the […]
Hip-Hop Rumors: BET Awards Rumors, ATL Is Hot, Diddy Slapping Fire?
THE BET HIP-HOP AWARDS Well, I heard a lot of stuff went on over the BET weekend. Its so much, I cant even really relay all that I heard. I will try. I heard Katt Williams was very good. I got a quote where he said of Michael Vick, Im not saying what […]
Houston Rapper Big Moe Dies After Heart Attack
Houston rapper Big Moe passed away early yesterday morning (October 14) due to complications from a heart attack, sources revealed to AllHipHop.com. As previously reported, Big Moe, born Kenneth Moore, suffered a massive heart attack on Sunday (October 7) and had been a coma since he was hospitalized. He never came out of […]
Herbie Hancock: Future Shock
Herbie Hancock is from the land of the Go. Thats Chicago, and its a longshot, but maybe part of the Windy Citys proficiency in Hip-Hop music can be traced back to Hancocks use of scratching in Rockit [Note: Peace to Grandmixter DXT]. After all, though Hancock had long been considered a giant in jazz circles, […]
Will Smith, Big Boi Team For New TV Show “Uncle Rudy”
Outkast group member Big Boi has teamed with Hollywood superstar actor/rapper Will Smith to develop a new television comedy series. The television show, titled “Uncle Rudy,” is a half-hour comedy series that is one of a slew of projects Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment is developing to be pitched to a number of networks. According […]
AllHipHop Staff Picks10.14.07
Now were not saying these joints are the end all be all to what should be on your Hip-Hop musical palette. But, we wont deny that our tastes are highly refined. That said, we thought it would be nice to share what we’re bumping.Jigsaw (Saw IV)Kanye West I WonderThe song is representative of a lot […]
Police Investigating Sean “Diddy” Combs For Alleged Assault
Police are investigating an incident yesterday morning in which Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly assaulted an acquaintance at a SoHo nightclub during an argument, allegedly over a woman. According to The New York Post, Combs was at Kiosk around 3:30 am yesterday morning, when he started to argue with a man named Steven Acevedo. […]
T.I Faces ‘Long Prison Sentence” Over Machine Guns
Rapper T.I. was arrested in Atlanta yesterday [October 13] by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after he allegedly attempted to purchase three machine guns and two silencers from an undercover agent, acting as an arms dealer. In addition to the three machine guns found in his College Park […]
Fox Host Blames Hip-Hop For Success Tech Shootings
Shades of Don Imuss controversial radio scandal arose this week, as nationally syndicated Fox News host John Gibson placed the blame of a recent school shooting in Cleveland, Ohio on Hip-Hop culture. During a Wednesday (Oct. 10) broadcast of Gibson’s radio show the John Gibson Show, Gibson said he “knew” that the person at […]
BREAKING NEWS: Feds Raid T.I.’s ATL Home; Rapper Misses BET Awards
Sources have confirmed with AllHipHop.com that rapper T.I. was arrested today (October 13) in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, after police executed a warrant and searched his Atlanta home. T.I., born Clifford Harris Jr., was taken into custody earlier in the afternoon, causing him to miss being honored for Album of the Year for […]
Percee P: Breathe Easy
The story of Percee P is long and battle-laden enough to deserve its own feature length documentary. This is a man that started rhyming in kindergarten, put out his first record in 89, and has been on the grind like a skateboard ever since. Thanks to the recent surfacing of video footage capturing his legendary […]
