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http://allhiphop.comRapper Skillz (formerly Mad Skillz) has launched chapter 2 of his odd rap battle with basketball star Shaquille O’Neal. Without warning, the pair’s musical clash began with a JiCE-produced Shaq freestyle that hit exclusively on a DJ Sickamore mixtape. Spreading rapidly, the track had Shaq spitting lines that appeared to be directed at Skillz.4 In […]
Columbus, Ohio’s RJD2 first earned a name for himself with 2002’s Dead Ringer, an engaging and creative instrumental hip-hop album that quickly garnered massive critical acclaim and put him in the upper echelon of the genre. After numerous side projects and remixes, he recently released Since We Last Spoke, a wildly eclectic album that focuses […]
"Like a Prayer," Roc-A-Fella CEO Dame Dash pleaded to MTV brass as if it were 1989 and his artist’s video was Madonna’s religiously loaded and intensely controversial clip. But Kanye West is no Madonna and, according to Dash, the network offered only limited airplay to the second version of the rapper’s video for "Jesus Walks," […]
Snoop Dogg has entered into a partnership with sneaker company Pony and will release his own footwear line, "The One and Only," described as a "a creative fusion of Snoop’s signature West coast flavor and style with classic Pony design." A nationwide marketing and advertising campaign featuring Snoop Dogg is currently being produced to support […]
Rap icon Ice-T and film maker Paul “Paulie Paul” Eliacin are collaborating on an independent film, “Up In Harlem,” and hope to spark a new era in independently funded films. The movie hits stores nationally today (June 22) on DVD. With $80,000 of his own money, Eliacin paid for the film after many African American […]
With six countries – Cuba, Venezuela, St. Thomas, Columbia, Brazil and the U.S. – represented in this 10-member collective, Yerba Buena, loosely translated into “good weed”, is the ultimate in cultural gumbo and musical fusion. Only one man could be the adhesive that pulls all of this together, Andres Levin, the bandleader of Yerba Buena. […]
The internet has been in a silent uproar over an alleged incident of Jay-Z striking a woman, but the speculation over a 3-second moving GIF image has been proven inaccurate. The image, which has been spread through the internet through websites, instant messenger transmissions and message boards, seems to show the image of Jay-Z assaulting […]
Houston rapper Lil Flip has issued a detailed statement to rebuke TI’s comments against him during a concert in Atlanta, Georgia.During his performance, TI dissed the Houston, Texas lyricist and showed pictures of him in a green leprechaun outfit, often seen on his first album. Flip, who was scheduled to go on as the headliner, […]
TI, who mere days ago, was at the center of a prison escapee mishap, raised more eyebrows this weekend, when he aggressively challenged Houston rapper Lil Flip and accused him of trying to take his self-proclaimed “King of the South” title. Just days after being accused of taping a video in jail without permission, the […]
Civil Rights spark Rosa Parks has finally gotten a date for her legal bout with rappers Andre 3000 and Big Boi of Outkast. The trial has been set for January 10, 2005, but the suit will take on an even more dramatic twist because of the civil rights leader’s ailing health. Lawyers for Outkast have […]
Rapper Hammer was hit with a lawsuit earlier this month due to allegations that he placed his residence in a trust fund to avoid collection of a debt. A lawsuit filed by Newstyle Media, based in Anaheim Hills, California, claims that hammer used his Stanley Burrell Irrevocable Children’s Trust fund to hide ownership of his […]
Yesterday, Lil Kim was denied permission to travel to perform in the Caribbean resort of St. Kitts by a federal judge. Judge Gerard E. Lynch, who ruled in favor of rapper Eminem in his copyright dispute against The Source, said in his decision that Lil Kim’s handlers were irresponsible for booking the St. Kitts appearance. […]
Rapper TI is in hot water, after an inmate escaped from the Fulton County Jail as he shot an unauthorized video.Yesterday, Cara Williams escaped through a door used by prison employees disguised in medical scrubs.Williams was apprehended six hours later and prison officials said her escape had nothing to do with the video shoot.Still, authorities […]
Community activists past and present, including Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Rev. Calvin Butts and M-1 of rap group dead prez, met in Newark, New Jersey yesterday (6/17) for a Town Hall Meeting sponsored by the National Hip-Hop Political Convention. The members of both the Hip-Hop Generation and the Civil Rights Generation gathered at Metropolitan Baptist […]
Artist: ConsequenceTitle: Take Em’ to the CleanersRating: 3 1/2 StarsReviewed by: 45th Street Black Throughout Kanye West’s recent ascent as a reputable rapper, Consequence has been part of his inner circle, dropping noticeable verses of his own (“Spaceship”). On Take Em’ To the Cleaners, Consequence proves his crisp rhymes bars seasoned with acerbic wit and […]
Paris Hilton, heiress to the billion dollar Hilton Hotel fortune and star of the hit television show “The Simple Life,” is working on an album with Lil Jon.”We met at the MTV Movie Awards where we were hosting pre-show,” Lil Jon told AllHipHop.com. “We talked about me doing some s*t on her album and so […]
“Don’t come here because you like hip-hip,” Deputy Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka told the crowd of teens gathered inside the gym at Essex County College. “Come here because there’s real things going on in the community.” Baraka, along with hip-hop legend Doug E. Fresh, rapper MC Lyte and others, including “America’s Next Top Model” […]
By now the Hip Hop nation has heard the stories and rumors surrounding the incident at the 2004 Hot 97 Summer Jam in New York involving 50 Cent’s group G-Unit and former members of the click, Bang ‘Em Smurf and Domination. While the debacle was not a full-on fight, there were bottles and chairs flying […]
Eminem’s ex-wife Kimberly Mathers was arrested in an Ann Arbor, Michigan hotel, two months after a felony warrant was issued when she failed to return to a drug treatment facilty.Mathers pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in January. She was sentenced to 30 days in a county jail and ordered to attend in-patient drug treatment for […]
Despite what was perceived as a bi-coastal rap war, the East Coast had love for Tupac and it continues today, as a star-studded group will celebrate the hip-hop martyr’s 33rd birthday. The party takes place at The Coral Room in New York on 512 West 29th Street. Appearances include Chuck D of Public Enemy, The […]
