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http://allhiphop.comArtist: XzibitTitle: Weapons of Mass DestructionRating: 3 1/2 StarsReviewed by: Bill Low-Key Heinzelman Xzibit sold out! That is what many fans have been saying since Mr. Pimp My Ride has blown up on a national level the past two years. Now back with his fifth album, Weapons Of Mass Destruction (Sony), Xzibit is out to […]
Billboard will honor the top ringtone of the year at their annual award show to be held next Wednesday (Dec. 8) in Las Vegas, according to the magazine. Rappers 50 Cent, Jay-Z, and Andre 3000 of Outkast will battle for the honor, which is based on sales tracked by the new Billboard Hot Ringtone Chart. […]
Artist: DJ SnickaTitle: Biggie Blendz (Mixtape)Rating: 4 StarsReviewed by: Robert DeGracia It took long enough for longtime New York City club DJ Snicka to compile a Notorious B.I.G. project. With 10 years of mixtape production under his belt, including mix-heavy tributes to Mary J. Blige, Kanye West and Jay Z., Biggie Blendz is a playlist […]
Eminem’s conflict with Ray Benzino and The Source magazine may finally come to rest, as both emcees have expressed their desire to make peace after intense feuds and lyrical assaults. Eminem contended that record labels profit when artists battle, as the disputes tend to generate more publicity. "A lot of times when rappers have beefs, […]
British rapper and songwriter Mike Skinner aka The Streets received accolades for his sophomore album A Grand Don’t Come for Free, dubbed the best album of 2004 in Q magazine’s list of the top 50 albums of the year. "A Grand Don’t Come for Free captured the country’s mood in a way no one could […]
Mixtape impresario/producer/ Clinton Sparks is gearing up to release his first full-length studio album. "Titled Get Familiar Vol. 1., the album will also serve as the flagship release from his marketing and distribution deal with KOCH records. "I’ve worked so hard for so many years to get the people familiar, and now with this album […]
For all his transgressions, Trick Daddy is surprisingly moral. The raunchy rapper—with a history of drug charges and jail time—holds strong opinions regarding education and police presence surrounding the hip-hop community. But much like his discography, the Miami native is often overlooked as a legitimate talking head. We all know Trick loves the kids, but […]
Family Room Entertainment Corporation recently completed principal photography on the motion picture, "The Tenants," starring Snoop Dogg. The movie is based on Bernard Malamud’s 1971 novel, which centers around a black radical recently released from prison. Snoop plays Willie Spearmint, a black writer who moves into the building and harbors animosity towards Jewish people. The […]
Photo courtesy of StacieJ.com Any faithful viewer of this season’s run of the NBC reality show The Apprentice already knows the drama that surrounded the dismissal of the Harlem business owner, introduced to us as “Stacie J”, in the third week of the series. It is easy to think that you know a reality television […]
AHHA: I heard everybody else use the word crazy towards you. Stacie: It was never him [saying it to me on the air]. To me, it was the only reason everyone [was] saying the word crazy is because he was consistently saying crazy. In my firing [they] obviously consulted their legal department, because the first […]
Hassan Johnson has developed a knack for being a bad guy. Not in real life, of course, however the popular HBO series The Wire, in which Hassan plays the incarcerated schemer Wee-Bey, is full of characters so richly well developed – it’s got to feel good being bad on such a hot show. While still […]
While many hearts hurt in the Hip-Hop community when John Kerry’s presidential results came in short. But as names like Kerry may fade, Edo G has been holding down Boston for fifteen years – with a top single, a debut album barking at Gold status, and a string of classics ever since. This year bodes […]
Ludacris has refuted published reports stating that he sold his record label Disturbing Tha Peace to Island Def Jam Music Group for $11 million. Ludacris said that the story, which first appeared in the Lowdown section of the New York Daily News, was bogus. “That’s not true at all, that’s funny,” the rapper told AllHipHop.com. […]
The Atlanta rap duo Outkast is nominated for several Billboard Awards, including Artist of the Year, for their hit record Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Outkast dominated the American Music Awards this year, taking home three, as well as the MTV Europe Awards, where the duo stacked three more trophies onto their catalog. Other hip-hop artists nominated […]
Artist: Bizzy BoneTitle: Alpha And OmegaRating: 3 StarsReviewed by: Bill Low-Key Heinzelman From the brutal murder of his brother and partner in rhyme, Adrian “Capo” Parlette, to Bone Thugs~N~Harmony kicking him out the group, Bizzy Bone has certainly dealt with his share of adversity the past two years. This pain, anguish and frustration is never […]
The Jurassic 5 will perform at a benefit concert tomorrow (December 3), to help raise money for a non-profit organization that helps over 4,000 homeless and abused women and children each month. The group is part of the musical line-up at the annual Sallie Mae benefit concert for Las Vegas’ Shade Tree Women’s Shelter. The […]
Snoop Dogg has signed with XM Satellite Radio to host his own series, to be broadcast from his Los Angeles, California home. Snoop’s show, “Welcome To Da Chuuch With Big Snoop Dogg,” will appear on XM’s classic Hip-Hop channel The Rhyme and will be 90 minutes long. A new show will be broadcast every four […]
They was like. “For real, we gonna wait and see what Death Row do, we gonna wait and see what Chronic 2001 does. So we went to Elektra and these other places who kept saying, ‘We love you. Your sh*t is hot.’ But they all wanted me to wait and wait, and don’t pay the […]
Some would argue that it’s actually easier to get a death-row pardon in Texas than to wriggle out of a recording contract with Death Row Records. Just ask Crooked I, the decisive lyricist that emerged as one of the West Coast’s finest. Last year, he announced that he had departed the influential label but the […]
Police are investigating Marion “Suge” Knight’s alleged involvement in an assault on Dr. Dre during the Vibe Awards last month in Santa Monica, California. Police are investigating Knight’s possible ties to the assailant, Jimmy “James” Johnson. Santa Monica police have been interviewing witnesses in an attempt to determine Knight’s actions before and after the event. […]
