Fans of soul icon James Brown are expected in droves Thursday (Dec. 28) as the late singer’s body is brought to Harlem’s Apollo Theater for a public viewing. Brown died early Christmas morning in Atlanta of congestive heart failure. The 73-year-old Godfather of Soul, who’s musical influence is felt in R&B, hip-hop, funk and disco, […]

Tuf America has filed a lawsuit against Roc-A-Fella Records, claiming the label illegally used a sample of Trouble Funk’s 1982 song "Let’s Get Small." The lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan Federal Court, claims the group incorporated a portion of the often sampled record "Let’s Get Small" on the song "Criminal Background," taken from State […]

A man believed to have committed murder after attending a concert by Boot Camp Click member Sean Price has surrendered to Canadian police.Reuters reports that authorities used the popular web site YouTube to help find George Gallow, a 24-year-old Hamilton resident who is seen in a video posted on the site arriving at a local […]

Sean "Diddy" Combs’ Sean John fashion line has come under fire, after The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) determined that a Sean John jacket that was advertised as using "faux fur" contained real fur from a canine species.Last week, The HSUS released the results of a mass spectometry test conducted on a Sean […]

Pioneering R&B legend James "The Godfather of Soul" Brown died early today (Dec. 25) from an unknown illness in Atlanta, GA. According to his representatives, Brown, 73, was admitted to Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday, suffering from pneumonia. He died around 1:45 a.m. with manager Charles Bobbitt by his side."We really don’t know at […]

DJ Carl Blaze, a popular New York DJ, has died from wounds sustained after being shot multiple times earlier this month. Blaze, who played nights on New York’s Power 105.1, was shot 13 times on December 7 and was expected to live if he could survive the initial days following the attack. Déjà Vu, an […]

Nas played to a pair of sold out crowds and treated fans to a holiday surprise to those in attendance at New York’s Nokia Theater last night (Dec. 23). In support of Nas’ Hip-Hop Is Dead, Foxy Brown and longtime friend Cormega joined the the rapper on stage for a spirited performance of “Affirmative Action,” […]

Five years after the release of their last album, Iron Flag, Wu-Tang Clan has reunited for their long awaited follow-up by signing a new record deal with the man credited for bringing them to the masses.Steve Rifkind, CEO of SRC Records, announced the acquisition of the Staten Island collective this week in a video on […]

While rapper Nas is riding a wave of success with his new album Hip-Hop Is Dead, the rapper’s former girlfriend Carmen Bryan has been hit with a lawsuit over her salacious, tell-all book It’s No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal–a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All.In a lawsuit filed in Columbus, […]

Although Nas is expected to land atop the charts next week, the rapper isn’t overly concerned with the sales of Hip-Hop Is Dead, his new album. “I just like to hear that people are liking it and I don’t [need] to know what [the sales numbers] are. I don’t care,” the rapper told AllHipHop.com after […]