Ice Cube: From Tha Hood To Hollywood
Ice Cube has been a fixture on the hip-hop scene for almost 20 years now. Many watched in awe as a group of N##### With Attitudes burst on to the hip-hop scene and changed the landscape of the game’s terrain. After a split from NWA due to money, a consciouss awakening through religion and politics, […]
Jay-Z Sells Out Madison Square Garden
Jay-Z’s concert at Madison Square Garden sold out in a matter of hours on Saturday September 27th. Tickets for the November 25th show went on sale at 9am and were sold out by 5pm. The concert is the beginning of Jay-Z’s retirement and will help hype the release of his final solo album, The Black […]
Big Tigger Leaves NY’s Power 105
Big Tigger has left New York’s Power 105, after being ranked number 1 in the 18-34 last Arbitron ratings. Tigger was not available for comment, but sources said that the popular host left the station because of a contractual dispute. Tigger will continue on Detroit’s FM98 WJLB and Miami’s new 103.5 FM The Beat as […]
Hip Hop Ya Don’t Stop
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? This is the question faced by the current hip hop artist. As defined by Cheryl L. Keyes, the author of the book Rap Music and Street Consciousness, "Hip Hop is an urban youth arts movement comprised of graffiti, emceeing, disc […]
Dead Prez Members Arrested In Brooklyn
Dead Prez’ M-1 and Sticman were arrested yesterday as they conducted a photo shoot, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. The arrest follows their performance on the 26th, at the New School University, in Tischman Hall. Sources stated that a strong police presence turned out for the free concert the group gave, […]
50 Cent Snags 52 Room Mansion
Rapper 50 Cent recently purchased Mike Tyson’s 52-room house in Farmington, Connecticut. The house sold for $4.1 million dollars and in addition to the 52 rooms, includes 25 full baths and 14 half baths. The house has two three story spiral staircases, several kitchens, a sauna, a hot tub, four whirlpools and brass and marble […]
Trick Daddy Released, To Be Placed Under House Arrest
Trick Daddy was released from jail yesterday, after being arrested Wednesday on a charge of felony drug charges in Homestead, Florida. Trick Daddy and a friend were in the stands of a high school football game drinking liquor, prompting parents to complain to the police. The two were kicked out of the stadium. After a […]
George Clinton Alive And Well
The death of author George Plimpton set off rumors in the hip-hop community that funk legend George Clinton had passed, due to the similarities in their names. Various radio outlets reported at length that Clinton had passed due to an unknown illness, which is false. "George Clinton is very alive and well," his lawyer, Shoshana […]
Outkast Jumps Into Adult Toys
Hip-hop entrepreneurship might have just gotten too big for its britches, among other things. As their album, Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below, is expected to easily top the charts, Outkast plans to start a line of adult toys. Whether the duo of Andre and Big Boi are serious truly remains to be seen, but the pair […]
Trick Daddy Catches Drug Charge
Trick Daddy was arrested Wednesday (Sept. 24) and charged with felony possession of cocaine and a misdemeanor charge for marijuana, according to published reports. While he has had a host of criminal cases in the past, Trick Daddy (real name Maurice Young) maintained his innocence through his lawyer. “He’s very upset that he’s being accused […]
Ludacris Blasts Pepsi And OReilly
In the past, Def Jams Ludacris hasnt said much regarding Bill O’Reillys aggressive push to get the rapper removed from the from a Pepsi ad campaign last year. That silence has changed with his latest album, Chicken & Beer. O’Reilly’s rants prompted executives to dump Ludacris, but the rapper might have the last laugh. On […]
Chingy Plots Clothing Line
Disturbing Tha Peace neophyte Chingy is already getting it poppin in the music industry even though hes only one album in the game. He told AllHipHop.com that he and the rest of the crew have big plans in the upcoming months. Chingy said, [There] might be a Disturbing Tha Peace tour in progress, and I’m […]
Jay-Z Starts Retirement With Victory Lap
The time approaches, Jay-Z and his days as an artist slowly part ways. The already legendary emcee appeared at a press conference yesterday (Sept. 25) and revealed plans for his final album, which will be promoted with the release of a custom sneaker, a tour and the rapper’s memoirs. “The Black Book, The Black Sneaker […]
Freekey Zeekey: Destination Deferred Pt. 2
AllHipHop: What are your duties entail as the president of Diplomat Records? Freekey Zeekey: With Diplomat its no set duty. I can have the camera or the tape recorder. I answer phones. I write checks, to sweeping floors. That’s my duty, because this is my business and we still up and running fabulous. Thank Dame […]
Freekey Zeekey: Destination Deferred Pt. 1
April 25, 2003, about 3 a.m. Freekey Zeekey was dazed, bloody, but alive. He had just been shot in the chest and abdomen and run over by his assailants’ vehicle in the Chelsea area of Manhattan. He looked down and his friend Eric “E” Mangrum was lying on the ground with what appeared to be […]
Outkast’s Double LP On Pace To Sell 500k In First Week
In addition to being hailed as one of the best album’s of the year, Outkast’s sixth album and double CD Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is on pace to move over 500,000 copies in it’s first week in stores and is expected to debut at number 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart. "This album, it captures […]
DMX’s “The Grand Champ” Champ Of The Charts
DMX’s The Grand Champ moved over 300,000 copies the first week in stores, landing it on the top of Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart. The album is DMX’s fifth consecutive number one album. While the numbers are impressive amid a troubled time for CD sales. DMX’s And Then There Was X and Flesh of My […]
Jean Grae Preps “Bootleg” EP
Jean Grae is set to drop her debut album on Babygrande Records/Orchestral Entertainment. The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP is Grae’s second release, since her critically acclaimed debut LP Attack of the Attacking Things. Grae’s first single from the EP is "Hater’s Anthem," which features Cannibal Ox, whom Grae is touring with. Grae is recording […]
dead prez, Others, On ACLU’s College Freedom Tour
Dead prez, Welfare Poets, DJ Revolution, Art Start Project Immortal technique and Tahir are on the road with the no admission American Civil Liberties Union’s College Freedom tour. The tour is aimed at educating college students about the climate of the United States after the September 11 terror attacks on the United States. "While the […]
50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P.” Banned
50 Cent was forced to re-shoot an X-rated version of his video "P.I.M.P." in the United Kingdom, because several television stations, including MTV, deemed it too explicit. MTV, Top Of The Pops and CD:UK refused to air the video, which features topless women and features 50 provocatively grabbing a woman from behind. The video was […]