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Grouchy Greg

Follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/grouchy.tv - I am Grouchy Greg. I founded AllHipHop in 1996. In addition to running the site, I enjoy breaking news stories. My stories have been cited in The LA Times, NY Times, NY Post, TMZ, Yahoo, Billboard, The Associated Press, CNN, and more.

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The RZA: The King’s Gambino

Robert Diggs is a visionary. Ten years ago the MC/Producer and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan known as The RZA reinvented himself as a binary masked superhero called Bobby Digital. Almost a decade later the world couldn’t be more to Bobby’s style. Cars drive around with digital ports to plug in encoded music and […]

Brawl Erupts at Missy B-Day Party

Missy Elliott’s joyous 37th birthday party at the NYC Marquee nightclub was interrupted by a wild brawl involving former Making the Band choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson and makeup artist Deborah Padilla.   The problems began when a waitress, seeking to get close to MC Busta Rhymes, allegedly shoved Gibson   “The waitress got into it […]

Classified: For All Eyes And Ears

CANADA WEEK 2008 “Doing great” is a position STILL relatively unheard of in the Canadian Hip-Hop bizz.   Nova Scotia’s Classified however, a name steadily hot on everyone’s tongue throughout his almost 15 year career, can realistically boast the status.  Steady on the grind in mind and time, Class has spent more than the last decade […]

Movie Review: The Wackness

Studio: Sony Release date: July 3, 2008 Cast: Sir Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Method Man, Aaron Yoo   Remember the days of 60-minute cassette tapes, young summer love and radio DJs that actually spun records like Biz Markie’s infamous “Just a Friend” or Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Princes’ “Summertime?”   […]

NYOil: Slick Talker

ALLHIPHOP CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCEDelivering the truth in both context and lyrical poise is Staten Island wordsmith NYOIL. Not a mainstream rapper by any means, his truth to ear lyrical approach  spurns unworthy MCs that fluster the mainstream Hip-Hop scene. The rapper’s candor, and lyrical skills, has warranted him the label of a man not to be […]

Kardinal Offishall: Ambassador Imperial

CANADA WEEK 2008   Nobody is promised tomorrow, and if the upcoming album Not 4 Sale were to be Kardinal Offishall’s last living representation, he’d be content with what he’s delivering the Hip Hop nation. Under Akon’s now established Konvict Muzik and with the hit singer/songwriter executive producing the project, there’s no doubt Jason Harrow […]

The Last Word: Winehouse Gets Waxed, Usher Aims to Play Marvin Gaye and New Edition Reunites to Collab with New Kids on the Block!

How’s everything going, everybody? Happy 4th of July! It was a short week as former vice president Al Gore officially endorsed Barack Obama for President, while jazz singer Rene Marie caught a lot of attention for singing the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” when she was asked to perform the “Star Spangled […]