Footage Fa Dayz – Ice Cube – 1998
In this vintage clip, AllHipHop.com and Footage Fa Dayz brings you veteran rapper Ice Cube. This 5:11 clip was taken in 1998, as Ice Cube was touring the country as part of the Family Values tour. This was the first year for the Family Values Tour, which was created by members of the […]
VIDEO BATTLE: Soulja Boy vs Rick Ross vs Jadakiss
This week, we bring you the battle of street videos. If youre unfamiliar with the genre, its simply the natural progression from the mixtape game. Mixtapes gave fans music that wasnt necessarily being released by the labels. Mixtapes also gave rise to the urban DVD magazine genre. Bring the two together, and you get visuals […]
Hip-Hop Rumors: Did Jay Drop Drake? Tranny Trying To Destroy Ne-Yo?
DISCLAIMER: All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear. Read on.DRAKE DROPPED FROM JAY-Z SINGLE? Remember how they said that Drake was on Jay-Z’s first CD? Well, now I am hearing that Drake is no longer on the […]
50 Disses Game, Young Buck On BISD Snippet
Snippets from 50 Cents highly anticipated upcoming album Before I Self Destruct recently hit the Internet. At least four tracks reportedly taken from the G-Unit front mans release are circulating on a 4:43 second snippet online. On one of the unnamed tracks, 50 reignites his beef with former G-Unit cohorts Young Buck and […]
Busta Rhymes Goes Independent With Publishing Deal
Hip-Hop star Busta Rhymes has taken a step towards independence via a new worldwide deal with independent publisher Kobalt Music Group. According to the terms of the deal, Kobalt will administer 27 of Busta Rhymes tracks, including all songs on Back on My B.S., which contained the hit single Arab Money. In July […]
BREAKING NEWS: Beastie Boy Member MCA Has Cancer; Album, Tour Postponed
The Beastie Boys have announced that their upcoming tour and album Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 have been postponed indefinitely, after a cancerous tumor was found in group member Adam MCA Yauch. Representatives for the group told AllHipHop.com that a cancerous tumor was found in Yauchs left parotid (salivary) gland. Luckily, the tumor […]
Michael Vick Released from Federal Custody
Former NFL star Michael Vick was released today from federal custody, allowing the former standout quarterback the opportunity to return to football. Vick spent the last eight weeks of his 23 month sentence under home confinement, which required him to wear an electronic monitor. He plans to meet soon with commissioner Roger Goodell […]
Fashion: Pharrells Favorite Sports Jacket
Pharrell is clearly in love with this Lanvin Piped Blazer, because the rapper-slash-producer-slash-rocker has been seen rocking it quite frequently this year. Most recently, Pha-real, as Jay-Z once called him, was seen wearing it to the BAPE Flagstore opening in London. This time, The Neptunes front man wore it with a brown and beige […]
UK Police Investigate The Game, Entourage Over Assault
Police in the United Kingdom have launched an investigation into Compton, California native The Game, after a fan was assaulted by a member of his entourage during a concert. The incident, which occurred at Liverpools O2 Academy, occurred after a 21-year-old man jumped on the stage to take a picture with the rapper. […]
Ebonics 101: Big L & E. B. White Break Bread
Euphemisms are misunderstood as mistakes/ But its a by-product of the ghetto music we make/ Canibus, Poet Laureate II, Rip the Jacker, 2003. Of the many reasons Hip-Hop music dogged for, one of the most unremarkable is that it teaches bad Englishbroken EnglishEbonics. Critics argue that it celebrates anti-intellectualism, with an emphasis on rhyme rather […]
Twista: F5 (Review)
In the closing months of 2003 Kanye West, while introducing himself, reintroduced the hip-hop world to his fellow Chicagoan, a rapid-fire spitter known as Twista. Despite several break-out verses on projects from Do or Die, Puff Daddy and the Ruff Ryders, Twista had achieved limited mainstream success prior to the Kanye-featured-and-produced Slow Jams, and the […]
Gucci Mane Not Going To Jail Says Lawyer
A lawyer for Gucci Mane have shot down a rumor spreading that the Atlanta rapper was heading back to jail. “Gucci Mane is not incarcerated. His attorneys are addressing all pending issues through the courts,” his attorney Dwight Thomas said in a statement. Rumors circulated on the Internet over the weekend that Gucci Mane, […]
Lil Waynes Rebirth Pushed Back Again
Lil Waynes Rebirth album, a rock/rap hybrid, has been pushed back again says one member of Young Money. Shanell, a contributor, say the album will be ready when the creative vision is finished. Right now [the album is set for release in] September, but let me tell yall, great art takes time and […]
