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Grouchy Greg

Follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/grouchy.tv - I am Grouchy Greg. I founded AllHipHop in 1996. In addition to running the site, I enjoy breaking news stories. My stories have been cited in The LA Times, NY Times, NY Post, TMZ, Yahoo, Billboard, The Associated Press, CNN, and more.

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East Hampton Officials Deny Diddy’s Permit For $100k Fireworks Show

East Hampton town officials in East Hampton, New York have turned down a proposed $100,000 fireworks show planned by mogul/actor/rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.   According to the Associated Press, Combs was planning an extravagant display of all-white pyrotechnic fireworks over East Hampton’s Northwest Harbor on September 2, to compliment his annual “White Party.”   The […]

Galactic: From The Corner To The Block

What could go wrong when one of the country’s most experimental jazz groups collaborates with some of Hip-Hop’s most innovative emcees?  Galactic’s sixth studio album, From the Corner to the Block (ANTI-), answers emphatically: “not too much.” The self-proclaimed jazz-funk-rock group, spawned over a decade ago in New Orleans, provides the background while a slew […]

Talib Kweli: Say Something

    Growth and maturity go hand-in-hand. Although Talib Kweli has had plenty to say on records since his career began over a decade ago, he’s traditionally been tight-lipped in interview settings. Like other Hip-Hop greats such as Scarface and Dr. Dre, perhaps this only added to the Brooklyn MC’s mystique.        On a laid-back summer […]

Blu: A Kind of Blu

    Los Angeles has always boasted a different brand of Hip-Hop. The city most infamously provided the spark, through N.W.A. that put gangsta rap in the limelight of not only Hip-Hop culture but the entire music industry as well. Since then, against the grain artists above and below ground have chiseled Hip-Hop into a sculpture […]