Hip-Hop Rumors: Prodigy Going To Jail? Eminem’s Mom Pens Book! Pleasure P Bounces On Pretty Ricky!
PRODIGY GOES TO JAIL!? I hope Havoc is comfortable with being a solo act, because I heard that Prodigy is about to a multiyear bid in jail. Yeah, you know he had a case and a trial in New York City recently. I’m hearing P had to call it a day and plead guilty. Either […]
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Hit With New $5 Million Dollar Lawsuit
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with another lawsuit, this time from a man who claims the mogul’s bodyguards beat him senseless at a nightclub in Manhattan last June. According to the $5 million dollar lawsuit, which was filed in New York County Court this week, promoter James Waldon was at The Box on […]
Steroids: Is It Really That Serious?
I love wearing my throwback jerseys, especially those from the Negro baseball leagues. These jerseys symbolize so many things: pain, suffering, success, fun. But most importantly, they represent hard work that the individuals who wore them endured so that other African American players could achieve the American Dream: baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, […]
Wayne Wonder: Island Star
While hardcore dancehall was a mainstay of music in the early to mid 90s, its presence began to wean with the emergence of new artistic expressions of music, such as neo-soul and reggaeton. Yet, somewhere between the sheets, Jamaican born Wayne Wonder found a niche and introduced the world to reggae music with an R&B […]
Joe Budden Released By Def Jam
Rapper Joe Budden is no longer signed to Def Jam Records after being heralded as one of its most promising acts in the early 2000s.The rapper said he was pleased to be leaving the label and looked forward to the next steps in his career. “I’m just happy we were finally able to cut all […]
Koch Records in Bidding War for Death Row Records
The fate of Death Row Records continues to hang in the balance as independent record label Koch Records positions itself to buy the once influential West Coast rap label. The New York Post reports that Koch is one of two companies who stand the best chance of purchasing Death Row. The other company, […]
Rapper Common Launches The Common Ground Foundation
Chicago rapper Common has announced the launch of The Common Ground Foundation Inc., a San Francisco based global initiative to educate and empower urban and disadvantaged youth. The rapper’s foundation will also focus on HIV/AIDS prevention programs targeting youth in communities around the world, specifically Africa. “I always believed that if we started […]
NBA 2007/2008 PREVIEW: Toronto Raptors
We continue our 2007/2008 NBA Preview with a look at the Toronto Raptors. Toronto Raptors Projected Starting Lineup: C Andrea Bargnani PF Chris BoshSF Jason KaponoSG Anthony ParkerPG T.J. Ford Coach: Sam Mitchell The good news: Their international squad has balance. Call em the United Nations Raptors. The big surprise of […]
Mistah F.A.B.: Combat Debriefing
Freestyle battles are not all theyre hyped up to be. The music from the DJ is hard to hear. There is a lot of standing around and waiting. And lets remember, a true freestyle battle is just that, completely on the spot, nothing pre-written or memorized. As a result, lyrics arent always syncopated and sometimes […]
Screwed Up Click Member Big Moe Suffers Heart Attack; Texas Rappers React
Original Screwed Up Click member and Houston, Texas based rapper Big Moe has suffered a heart attack and is currently in a coma sources revealed to AllHipHop.com. Big Moe, born Kenneth Moore, suffered a massive heart attack on Sunday (October 7) and is currently hospitalized on life support, struggling to stay alive. Big […]
Jake One: Hitting Paydirt…with 50 Cent, Sha Money, and Young Buck
In the digital age we live in, when everybody and their friend is making beats, it can get difficult to distinguish the real from the fake, the fluke from the official. Its at the point where producers are almost forced to Just Blaze their beats to keep from getting lost in a sea of mediocrity, […]
National Runaway Switchboard Honors Ludacris
Rapper/actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and his Ludacris Foundation will be honored next month during the National Runaway Switchboard’s (NRS) annual Spirit of Youth benefit. Ludacris and the Foundation will receive the organizations 2007 “Spirit of Youth” award at the event, which will take place Nov. 1 in Chicago. The “Spirit of Youth” award […]
Gucci Mane: About That Time
After the success of his single “Icy,” featuring a yet to blow Young Jeezy, Gucci Mane was set to be the next big star out of Atlanta. But a murder charge and six months time served for assaulting a promoter seemed to stall out any hopes Gucci had for mainstream success. But you don’t sell […]
