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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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NAACP Honors Diddy For Raising Voter Awareness

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will honor Sean "Diddy" Combs for his efforts in raising voter awareness in the last presidential election. The annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD) is an awards dinner that celebrates the courage and achievements of equal justice champions. The honorees are luminaries in politics, communications […]

Static

Artist: MaspykeTitle: StaticRating: 2 1/2 StarsReviewed by: Dubstin G Maspyke is the name of the Springfield, MA trio of beat-maker Roddy Rod and MCs Hanif Jamiyl and Tableek. Seemingly named after a highway, the group received some acclaim from its first album, The Blackout, and is back this year with its new release, Static (Bukarance/ABB). […]

Berklee College of Music Announces New Hip-Hop Class

Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of the renowned Berklee College of Music, has teamed up with accredited music producer and writer Mike Hamilton to add a Hip-Hop Writing and Production to it’s curriculum of composition and production courses. The online course is devoted to helping students learn how to analyze and recreate different styles of […]

Feds Re-Open 1994 Tupac Shakur Shooting Seeking Clues In Rapper’s Murder

The unsolved shooting at Quad Studios in New York in 1994 involving Tupac Shakur has been reopened, anonymous law enforcement officials revealed to AllHipHop.com. Sources stated the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has reopened the case to see if the shooting was somehow connected to Shakur’s death in 1996 in Las […]

Cassidy Re-Charged With First Degree Murder, Defense Says Rapper Is Innocent

A first degree murder charge has been reinstated against Philadelphia, Pennsylvania rapper Cassidy. A judge overturned an earlier, lower court’s decision that Cassidy could only be tried for no more than third-degree murder. Prosecutors accuse the rapper of masterminding a shooting behind his row home in the Cedarbrook section of Philadelphia. Cassidy and Desmond Hawkins, […]

Outkast’s Big Boi Honored For Cultural Impact

The King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation (KTCF) established in 1981 to research, collect, and present the African-American historical and cultural experience to the public, recently announced that Antwan (Big Boi) Patton will receive the Foundation’s 2005 Fine Arts Award. The KTCF Awards is an annual banquet that recognizes people through out the community who have been consistent and stellar in […]

The Edge: 1966-1970

Artist: David AxelrodTitle: The Edge: 1966-1970Rating: 4 StarsReviewed by: Paine When Hip-Hop was still a block party, David Axelrod’s records were probably much too slow for any cue-burn under Flash’s needles. But as Rap production grew exponentially in the 1990’s, Dr. Dre, Diamond, and Madlib all brought Axelrod riffs to life in hit-making form. While […]

A.W.O.L.

Artist: AZTitle: A.W.O.L.Rating: 4 StarsReviewed by: Bill “Low-Key” Heinzelman Eleven years after his legendary debut on Nas’ “Life’s A B####,” AZ has finally delivered the album we have waited for.  Even though he has shown glimpses of greatness on Doe Or Die and Aziatic, his fifth solo album A.W.O.L. (Quiet Money/Fast Life) is the most […]