Atlanta Denies Urban Hip-Hop Fest Permit
The city of Atlanta denied the Urban Hip-Hop Festival a permit to perform at Turner Field today (March 5.). "The Hip-Hop Action Network will continue to negotiate an alternative site in Atlanta for our Hip-Hop Peace Summit and Festival," Dr. Benjamin Muhammad, President of HSAN told AllHipHop.com. The festival was expected to draw over 100,000 […]
Big Tigger Readies ‘Tiggernometry’
Most people recognize Big Tigger as the freestyle heavy host of BET’s Rap City, who outshines most of his guests. Now the rapper will change hats from host to artist, as he readies his debut album, Tiggernometry. "I can’t really spill all of the beans about it ’cause it’s some things we want to do […]
Duck Down Records To Re-Release BDI Thug
Buckshot, the lead MC of Boot Camp Click and Black Moon, will re-release 1999’s BDI Thug album with three new songs. Buckshot uses the BDI Thug as the moniker for his solo career. The Thug element in the name pays homage to the time spent with the late Tupac Shakur. Duckdown will be re-releasing the […]
Atlanta Hip-Hop Fest Fate Decided Today
The city of Atlanta will decide today (March 6.) whether or not the Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival will be permitted to be held at Turner Field. The event, which is scheduled to begin April 11, is being promoted by Russell Simmons’ and Dr. Benjamin Muhammad’s Hip Hop Summit Action Network. The weekend would kick off […]
MTV’s ‘Rap Riot’: What Really Happened
What was labeled as a "rap riot" by mainstream press may have been the big machine, may have been MTV’s own doing. AllHipHop.com caught up with a talented aspiring rapper. Here he tells his story. My name is Frank Ruiz ("FR"). Let me tell you about this trip to New York that I just came […]
Nelly Backs NASCAR Truck
Nelly and his Vokal clothing label have purchased part of Billy Ballew Motorsports for the rest of the NASCAR truck season. Nelly’s new truck will feature the Vokal clothing label logo and will be introduced in time for the Darlington 200 truck event. "We’ve kind of been running on stealth mode for the last few […]
Rowdee Black Giant Usher Change
Hip-hop music wears many faces, but one Philadelphia-based act intends to offer the genre a facelift on the house. The Rowdee Black Giants rap collective has slowly begun to garner accolades through intensive grassroots performances in Philadelphia and surrounding areas. According to Jermaine The Mutation of Greatness Young, a lead rapper in the group, the […]
‘Doggy Fizzle Televizzle’ Gets Renewed By MTV
MTV has decided to add Snoop Doggs variety show, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, to both its spring and summer line-ups. Snoops show premiered on MTV in December of 2002. The show will continue to depict Snoop in various comedic roles. Two segments in the pilot episode featured Snoop Dogg working as a substitute teacher and a […]
X-ecutioners Ready ‘Scratchology’
Rob Swift, Roc Raida, and Total Eclipse, also known as The X-ecutioners, have mixed the latest Sequence Mixtape Session, Scratchology. The album features such DJ pioneers as DJ Jazzy Jay, DJ Cash Money, Pete Rock, DJ Premier and Grandmaster Flash. "The purpose of this mixtape is to educate people about the history of scratching and […]
Joe Budden: Straight To The League
Joe Budden proclaims his freshman album will drop once “Def Jam gets off its ass.” Mighty words from a relative neophyte to the overcrowd game of hip-hop. However, Budden isn’t your average rookie. Through mix tapes and high-powered, visible associations [DJ Clue, Envy], he’s managed to skip Junior varsity squad and jump straight to the […]
Steinski: Back To The Future
There was something captured in the early 1980’s New York Hip-Hop culture that we may never have back: A carefree attitude, and the music to match it. In a year that eulogizes Run-DMC as the pioneers of taking Hip-Hop to the suburbs, I recall another pioneer who helped bring hip-hop to the dance floor. Steve […]
Bo Diddley Says Rap Music Won’t Last
Pioneering bluesman Bo Diddley had some choice words to say about hip-hop music last Thursday. Speaking to high school students Dunnellon High School near Diddley’s home in Archer, Florida, the 74-year-old Diddley labeled rap "disgusting" and said that it would not last as long as his 50 year career has. "The lyrics are very disgusting […]
Lil Jon Directs Latest Video
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz recently lensed their video for "Play No Game," the second single from their fourth album, Kings Of Crunk. The video was shot on location in a residential community of Miami, in an eight-bedroom house that was converted into a rush party for the fictional "Omega East Side Fraternity." […]
DMX No. 1 In Film
When DMX proclaimed X Gonna Give It to Ya, hip-hops top dog proved his bite to be as fearsome as his bark as his film Cradle 2 the Grave tops the box office, while the accompanying soundtrack lands at number six on the Billboard charts. With a weekend draw of $17.1 million, the martial arts […]
Philadelphia Freeway
Artist: FreewayTitle: Philadelphia FreewayRating: 3 1/2 StarsReviewed by: aqua boogie On the opening track to his debut album, Philadelphia Freeway, Philadelphia bred mc Freeway kicks, I focus and aim, listen to bore, one verse can f### up the game Maybe too ambitious but he did grab listeners attentions on Jay Zs 1-900 Hustler when he […]
Officials Cancel Clipse Concert, Citing ‘Gang Symbol’
Officials in Plainfield, NJ canceled a sold out Clipse concert tonight (Feb. 28), citing security issues. City officials claimed that the Star Trek inspired "V" hand sign on fliers promoting the show was a actually a gang symbol. "The symbol is about always being on some next level sh*t," group member Malice told AllHipHop.com. "It […]
Angie Martinez Takes Maternity Leave; Celebrates
In an on-air baby shower, the staff, admirers and friends of Hot 97’s Angie Martinez wished the expectant mother well as she worked her last day at the station prior to her maternity leave. Martinez received gifts like a Burberry robe, a rosery from Jacob The Jeweler, a car seat from co-worker Funk Flex and […]
Nelly To Take Top Honors At Soul Train Music Awards
Nelly will be honored with Soul Train’s Sammy Davis Jr. Award for Entertainer Of The Year tonight in Pasadena, California. The rapper joins The Beatles and the Bee Gees by garnering two consecutive and simultaneous #1 singles with "Hot in Herre" and "Dilemma," an accomplishment that hadn’t been achieved since 1978. Nelly received two Grammy’s […]
A Psychologist’s View On Hip-Hop Lyrics:
Whether it be original "Trouble Man" Marvin Gaye or embattled crooner R.Kelly, R&B men who exhibit abnormal or illicit behavior are often viewed as victims of a painful childhood. However, when rappers cross the line of respectable behavior they are viewed as deviants and delinquents. Critics then denigrate select lyrics from said rapper’s catalogue as […]
50 Cent 94 Drug Arrest Detailed
Detailed documents have hit the internet detailing the 1994 drug arrest of 50 Cent and a 16-year-old female accomplice. The papers, revealed by thesmokinggun.com, chronicle the arrest and incarceration of the record-breaking rap artist. Arrested 1994, the rapper and the teen were and charged with felony drug charges. On June 29, 50 and the girl, […]
