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http://allhiphop.comR&B crooner/songwriter and musician John Legend and the talented soul singer Lauryn Hill have teamed for the remix of Legend’s song "So High". "So High" is the latest single off Legend’s debut album Get Lifted. Executive produced by Kayne West, Get Lifted has soared to upper echelon on Billboard’s charts and has already achieved RIAA […]
Artist: One Block RadiusTitle: Long Story ShortRating: 3 StarsReviewed by: Paine Handsome Boy Modeling School, The Gorillaz, and arguably the Black Eyed Peas 2.0 have revealed that there’s an audience and success in fusing Rap, Rock, and Electronica. This gestalt of hip can be risky though, as Common’s Electric Circus and Oddjobs’ Expose Negative proved. […]
Artist: Blood of AbrahamTitle: EyeDollarTreeRating: 3 1/2 StarsReviewed by: Dubstin G Fans of obscure mid-nineties Hip-Hop rejoice: Blood of Abraham is back with a new(ish) album. The duo of MCs Benyad and Mazik made a bit of a splash more than ten years ago when Eazy-E helped get them signed by Ruthless Records. This was […]
You don’t have to just grind – you can skate out of the hood too. North Philadelphia’s skateboard dynamo Stevie Williams has been doing just that since turning pro as an adolescent. Fine tuning his trade in Philly’s infamous Love Park [where skating is now banned], Williams quickly ascended to be one of street skating’s […]
AHHA: So how did you get back into the game? Stevie: I went back to Cali and filmed the best stuff I could possible think of, being as creative as I can. I apologized to a lot of people, started praying, started focusing and I took my tape down to LA. I went to the […]
The 50 Cent, Fat Joe beef came to a head Sunday night after words were exchanged between the two rappers during MTV’s Diddy-hosted Video Music Awards. While onstage announcing reggaeton artists Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Tego Calderon, Fat Joe took first aim at 50 Cent, stating, “I feel safe with all the police protection, […]
The last time AllHipHop.com featured Slim Thug, Already Platinum seemed like a political campaign from a president – questionable. Already, Slim Thug has affirmed what Mike Jones showed early, and what Paul Wall is likely to punctuate – that Houston is beastly in the ’05 Rap Game. It hasn’t been since Lil’ Flip’s commercial boom […]
Marion "Suge" Knight was shot inside of a Miami night Club during a Kanye West-sponsored party for MTV’s Video Music Awards, according to people in attendance. The Death Row founder was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg and was in good condition at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Knight will undergo […]
Lil’ Jon and R. Kelly took home top honors at the 2005 BMI Urban Awards, which took place last night (August 26) at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami, Florida. Lil’ Jon and R. Kelly were named Songwriters of the Year with four “most performed song” awards. The song “Yeah” featuring Usher was named Song of […]
Alfonzo Hunter is ready to give the masses another chance to head to the club, party and drink some Bacardi, but he is no new kid on the block when it comes to the music industry. Under the helm of Eric Sermon’s Def Squad Records, Hunter released his nearly gold 1996 debut Blacka Da Berry […]
A Michigan husband and wife have slapped Eminem with his second lawsuit in two weeks. On Thursday, Breck and Tina Wyngarden have filed suit against the rapper, a bus driver, and Entertainment Coaches of America over a collision that involved the rapper’s Anger Management tour bus. On July 13, Eminem’s Anger Management tour bus was […]
Lil’ Kim will host one last major party before entering prison on September 19. Kim, who was sentenced to 366 days in prison for lying about her knowledge of a 2001 broad daylight shootout in New York City, will host an official VMA after party on August 28 at Cro-Bar in Miami, Florida along with […]
Reverend Run needs no name on the program. The man who has long proclaimed anywhere to be his house, can certainly make a bid to say so about Hip-Hop. But any doubts gained from the Crown Royal project, are said to be made up for on the forthcoming, Distortion. Besides blessing fans with a new […]
Harlem rapper Cam’ron and his DipSet crew are shooting a massive shoot-out scene today in Brooklyn as part of his upcoming gangsta musical “Killa Season.” Cam, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Hell Rell and J.R. Writer will all be present for the six minute scene, which includes 2 gutted cars, dropped windows and of course, firearms. […]
Sean Combs AKA Diddy, CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment and 14-time Grammy winner Emilio Estefan will bridge the gap with Bad Boy Latino. Bad Boy Latino will be the two moguls new musical joint venture. “The Latino market in the US is such a beautiful, diverse, and powerful market,” Combs said. “I’m blessed to have […]
Damon Dash’s Mercedes-Benz was inadvertently involved in a serious car accident on Tuesday that injured six people in mid-town Manhattan. According to the New York Daily News, police officers approached a pair of men that were arguing on Broadway near West 40th Street in Manhattan. After requesting ID from one of the men, a powdery […]
Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus, superstar rapper, is now venturing into the world of skateboarding with the launch of the Snoop Dogg Board Company (SDBC). The company will launch with a complete line of long and short skateboards, accessories and backpacks. SDBC is being distributed by Pentagon Distribution, the distributor for Kampus Wakeskates and shoes, Academy […]
Rapper 50 Cent has announced several new concert dates abroad, a declaration which comes in the aftermath of Eminem’s cancellation of the Anger Management European tour. 50’s new dates start in the United Kingdom on Sept. 11 and wrap in Dublin, Ireland on Sept. 18. A representative for 50 Cent couldn’t immediately confirm if more […]
“Style Wars,” the legendary movie detailing New York’s graffiti culture and the birth of Hip-Hop, will be re-released on August 23rd as a DVD 2-disc set distributed through Music Video Distribution (MVD). The DVD includes over 3 hours of special features with artist galleries and interviews, outtake footage, a remastered soundtrack, commentary from director Tony […]
Houston rapper Slim Thug is featured on the soundtrack for the newly released 2006 version of EA Sports highly popular Madden NFL. Slim lent his previously unreleased joint "Get it Started" to the franchise, and hopes the exposure help further his already strong buzz. "This is a great way for me to get my music […]
