D4L Member Shawty Lo Prepares Solo Album
After the success of D4L’s debut album Down For Life, D4L member Shawty Lo is searching for similar success this fall with the release of his solo debut Units In The City.Atlanta based group D4L is best known for their massive radio friendly hits “Laffy Taffy” and “Betcha Cant Do It Like Me.” Shawty Lo […]
AHH Stray News: Method Man, Daz, Maino, Hip-Hop Harry
Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man has joined the cast of Hunting and Fishing, a spoof of the hit movie 300. The movie is being produced by writing duo Jason Friedberg and Alan Seltzer, who have penned such spoofs as Date Movie, Epic Movie and Remembering the Titans On Any Given Sunday Gives Me The Varsity […]
Gumsole Beatdowns #1: Premier
Despite what Common believes, AllHipHop.com has not found the new Premo. And we dont want to. Few producers have introduced (and reintroduced) as many artists as credibly or as eloquently as that signature dusty, chopped and scratch-based sound coming from The East. At 41 years old, the man born Christopher Martin has only […]
Unsigned Rapper Mookie Jones Wins Scion’s $75k Battle
Upcoming Houston rapper Mookie Jones recently took home the title of Scions The Prospect winner, standing out among the over 1500 submissions submitted online for the competition. As part of the competition, a group of 10 finalists were each given a track from producer and judge Hi-Tek and assigned the task of providing a […]
Boyz N Da Hood: Gangsta, Gangsta
Three years ago, Russell Block Spencer, the CEO of Block Entertainment, came up with the idea of creating a rap group to help fill a void he felt was missing in rap music. I felt like the music at the time was watered down. There wasnt any trace of that gangsta sound, says […]
Hip-Hop Rumors: Would 50 Cent Diss Eminem? Mims Call Kanye A CopyCAT!?
ALLHIPHOP WEEK 2007 THE REBIRTH – NYC!ALLHIPHOPS BBQ Sat. Sept. 15ALLHIPHOP ART SHOW The Rebirth of ILL – Sun. Sept. 16ALLHIPHOP FASHION SHOW The Rebirth of Fashion : Hear & Now Monday Sept. 17THE BREEDING GROUND / ALLHIPHOP CELEBRITY RAP BATTLE Tues. Sept. 18THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Wed. Sept. 19MySpace.com […]
Pregnant Foxy Brown ‘Suffering’ On Rikers Island
Brooklyn rapper Foxy Brown’s bid for freedom was denied by a Manhattan Supreme Court justice yesterday (August 27). Brown, born Inga Marchand, filed a lawsuit against the Correction Department, claiming that she is suffering on Rikers Island, since being incarcerated last Wednesday (August 21) for alleged parole violations. Brown, who recently revealed that […]
Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
Its been two years since Aesop Rocks last release, the excellent but brief Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives EP and four since his last full length LP, Bazooka Tooth; but the wait was definitely worth while. As experimentation has increased over the last few years in underground Hip-Hop (most noted within the Def Jux […]
Emily King: Around the Way Girl
21-year-old New York native Emily King is shaping up to be the next soul phenomenon. Prepping the upcoming release of her debut album East Side Story, King has been on a royal tour performing for Hip-Hop purists and R&B connoisseurs around the city and the world. Yet with the gigging exposure and heartfelt lyrics, little […]
Streets is Talking: N.O.R.E. Part Two
AllHipHop.com: So coming into the release of The Reunion, I hear Tom Silverman, the owner of Tommy Boy, mistreats you N.O.R.E.: It got beyond [mistreatment]. At the end of the day, when you a record label, you get funded by someone else. Very seldom people fund themselves. So Penalty Records was a label that was fully […]
Emily King: Walk In My Shoes
Walk In My Shoes – Webisode of new Soul artist Emily King
Jermaine Dupri Officially Launches Studio 72 Nightclub
Hip-Hop mogul Jermaine Dupri will officially open his latest venture, the new Studio 72 nightclub, this Wednesday in Tucker, Georgia. A number of Dupri’s celebrity friends will join Dupri this Wednesday (August 29), to celebrate the official grand opening opening of Studio 72, Dupri’s latest business venture. “This isn’t just a club, this […]
Atlanta Rapper Ludacris To ‘Stand In’ For College Professor
Rapper/actor Ludacris will serve as a guest professor at an unknown college during an episode on mtvU’s new upcoming season of Stand In. According to reps for the network, MtvU camera’s will follow the controversial rapper during the months ahead, as he surprises a college classroom, stands-in for a professor and “takes students “out […]
Afeni Shakur’s Life Story Comes To The Big Screen In ‘Dear Mama’
Young Noble of Tupac’s group The Outlawz and upcoming director Omar “Ice Man” Sharif (American Rap Stars) have announced that their production company, HollyHood Filmz, has acquired the motion picture rights to Dear Mama: The Life Story of Afeni Shakur. Dear Mama, which is being produced in conjunction with Afeni Shakur’s Amaru Entertainment, will […]
