Benzino Resigns From The Source
Ray Benzino, the Chief Brand Executive and Co-owner of The Source magazine, has resigned from his position at the company today (April 8). “If me leaving the source is gonna help the magazine then I’ll do it,” the rapper told AllHipHop.com.”The Source is an institution and is part of history; I want my kids and […]

Jay-Z To Be Named ‘Man of the Millennium’
New York radio station Power 105.1 will award Jay-Z with the “Man of the Millennium Award,” at the stations Power Music Summit, taking place next week. The station is honoring Jay-Z for his charitable work and community efforts. Jay-Z will make an appearance at the one day event, that gives business executives, aspiring label entrepreneurs, […]

Little Brother Planning ‘The Chittlin Circuit’
Little Brother has teamed up with Fastlife Music to announce the release of The Chittlin’ Circuit (Version 1.5) on June 7th. The Chittlin’ Circuit (Version 1.5) contains tracks featuring some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop including Kanye West, Big Daddy Kane, Young Guru and Consequence, as well as unreleased and hard-to-find tracks from The Justus League […]

Game and 50 Give $200K To Compton Schools
On April 7, the Game and 50 Cent presented a pair of checks totaling $200,000 to help the Compton Unified School District and its ailing arts and music program, which has been dormant for several years. The pair made the donations through their respective companies, The Black Wall Street and The G-Unity Foundation. Aftermath Entertainment […]
Canibus: The Invisible Man
Ever since the blistering verse on the introductory Lost Boyz posse cut “Beast From The East,” Canibus has always been praised for his lyrical ferocity. The combination of an extensive vocabulary and a near flawless delivery should have made his accent to Hip-Hop royalty that much easier, but all that glitters is not gold. Almost […]

DJ Z-Trip: Party Up
DJ Z-Trip may be today’s closest correlation Grandmaster Flash, because hardly anybody under 40 rocks a party bigger, better, and more original than Z-Trip. Still, many misconstrue the Los Angeles via Arizona DJ as a Mash-Up DJ. How many DJs play D-Nice, Dead Prez, and 3rd Bass alongside Depeche Mode, Traci Chapman, and Malcolm McLaren? […]

Trick Daddy Lands Radio Show On XM
Miami, Florida native Trick Daddy recently landed his own weekly radio show, “Dunk Rider Radio.” The show will be broadcast on XM Satellite Radio’s 66 Raw channel and will be recorded live from Trick’s Miami home. “I’m amped that Trick has joined the new hip hop radio revolution and is apart of the growing XM […]

Grand Master Flash Gets Sirius, Launches New Radio
Hip-Hop icon and pioneering turntabilist DJ Grandmaster Flash has signed with Sirius Satellite Radio for a new weekly mix show, the company announced today (April 7). The Bronx native, who was nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year along with the Furious Five, will spin a variety of musical genres each […]

The Ladies Clean Up At Spades Tourney
Radio/television celebrity Ms. Info and Kim Osorio, former Editor-In-Chief of The Source, managed to emerge victorious in the highly touted celebrity spades tournament that took place at club Strata yesterday in New York City. The ladies faced fierce competition in stars like Joe Budden, MTV’s Sway & partner Rich Nice, Bad Boy’s Babs Bunny, champion […]
Nelly’s Pimp Juice Announces Scholarship Winners
Nelly and Fillmore Street Brewery, the company that manufactures Pimp Juice, have announced the winners of the "Pimp Juice Scholars Program" contest, which rewarded two students with a $5000 scholarship. Bryan Hughes of Howard University and Joyce Jackson of St. Louis University were awarded the scholarships based on their academic and extracurricular work.The two winners will […]

Jermaine Dupri Producing Atlanta Concert
Atlanta’s Music Midtown festival has enlisted rapper/producer Jermaine Dupri to produce their summer concert and has announced the initial line-up for its 2005 Music Midtown Urban Music Stage. The festival takes place from June 10-12 near the Atlanta Civic Center and will feature more than 100 musical acts. Dupri, the newly appointed President of Virgin […]

Fat Joe And Roy Jones Settle Differences
Fat Joe and world class boxer Roy Jones, Jr. have reportedly settled their differences stemming from a lyric on Ja Rule’s#### record, “New York.” In a previous interview, Jones expressed his feelings about the rapper’s lyric that stated “even Roy Jones was forced to lean back.” “It’s just that me and Joe were cooler than […]

Rap & Violence: The Gangs Are Coming!
“Like the n***as who own the liquor stores/ crack, cocaine, pimps, ‘n w#####/ livin’ up on this earth before/ a n***a like Daddy was born/ but they be makin’ it seem/ that my music ‘n crime a team/ but I’m speakin’ the truth not dream/ so what in da f### they mean?/ my lyrics ain’t […]

Rap & Violence: White Gangs Are Coming!
“Like the n***as who own the liquor stores/ crack, cocaine, pimps, ‘n w#####/ livin’ up on this earth before/ a n***a like Daddy was born/ but they be makin’ it seem/ that my music ‘n crime a team/ but I’m speakin’ the truth not dream/ so what in da f### they mean?/ my lyrics ain’t […]

Run The Road
Artist: Various ArtistsTitle: Run The RoadRating: 4 StarsReviewed by: Tika Milan As Hip-hop continues on its conquest of the planet, there is a common denominator that unites Hip-hop heads the world over: the need for our art to illustrate the truth. Never mind the imagery of too polite British chaps, or ultra-cool London hipsters, the […]

Nottz Presents DMP: The Teamsta Mixtape
Artist: Nottz/DMPTitle: Nottz Presents DMP: The Teamsta MixtapeRating: 3 StarsReviewed by: Chris Yuscavage It must be the Virginia water. With producers like the Neptunes and Timbaland already having bolstered solid Hip-hop careers off the strength of their work with the likes of Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg, it would seem as though the Virginia quota for […]

Celebrities Play Spades For Charity
Power Moves Inc. has announced a star studded line up of guests for "Deal Me In: 1st Annual Celebrity Spades Tournament,” which takes place tonight (April 6) at Strata in New York City. The event will feature 32 celebrities participating in a charity spades tournament to raise money that will be donated to their favorite […]

C-Murder Changes Name, NAACP Files Lawsuit
Much has been made of C-Murder’s (Corey Miller) suggestive name, but the rapper has adjusted the moniker after being convicted in the shooting death of a 16 year old. He will now be called C. Miller, based on his real name. While he’s proclaimed his innocence, he said that the general public has never known […]

Jean Grae: Verbal Telepathy
Like an embryo in its final gestation period, Jean Grae is ready to force her way into the Rap world by any means necessary. In fact, she has been for awhile now. Many consider her one of the best lyricists in the game – forget the gender separations. She initially kept her exquisite rhymes to […]

Prince Paul Teaches The Art Of Picking Up Women
Prince Paul is known for going against Hip-Hop’s collective grain and a new CD/DVD highlights his nonconformist mind state. Paul and company have recently released “The Dix: The Art Of Picking Up Women.” The set is a fictional journey of a soul singing group that eventually destroys itself for a variety of reasons. Through a […]