Comedian Paul Mooney and Ed Lover will host this year’s Hip Hop Odyssey Awards tonight (June 16) at BB Kings in New York.   The evening is dedicated to celebrating the winning filmmakers of the Hip Hop Odyssey International Film Festival, Hip-Hop Legends, and media trailblazers.   The award show is the finale event of […]

Music may be Don Pooh’s main bread and butter, but the Brooklyn, New York native has his eye on a tastier source of income with his new restaurant chain, Famous Seafood.   The franchise, which currently has three locations in New Jersey, Manhattan and Brooklyn, is the latest culinary venture for Pooh, who invested in […]

Hip-Hop legends Doug E. Fresh and Queen Latifah have partnered with the NBA, HBO, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Global Business Coalition of HIV/AIDS (GBC) to create new HIV/AIDS public service announcements (PSAs) that will premiere this month on major networks.   Doug E. Fresh created the music for the PSAs, which discuss the […]

A June 22 concert in Rockford, Illinois featuring rapper DMX has been canceled, due to security concerns raised by local police.   DMX kicked off a 17-city-tour across the eastern portion of the United States on June 15 to promote his latest release The Definition of X: The Pick of the Litter, a compilation of […]

Philadelphia rapper Eve will host a week of BET’s long running Hip-Hop video show Rap City, from June 18-22.   Five respected females in the Hip-Hop industry will appear on the show as part of Black Music Month, to discuss issues facing women in the music business.   Dr. Roxanne Shante, DJ Jazzy Joyce, Monie […]

Less than six months after being at the center of the scrutiny surrounding the mixtape industry, DJ Drama has reemerged with the release of his latest mixtape, Gangsta Grillz 16.   The new project, titled The Streets Been Waitin,’ features exclusive new releases and unreleased tracks from a variety of artists, including Young Jeezy, Lil’ […]

Rapper Paperboy, best known for his platinum 1993 single “Ditty” was arrested on Wednesday evening, after police stopped his car and found $1,200 worth of marijuana.   Paperboy, born Mitchell Johnson, had been under investigation for several weeks according to the Merced Sun-Star.   Merced, California police stopped the rapper around 6:30 pm on Wednesday […]

Activist Kevin Powell, actor Hill Harper and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will headline the Black Male Conference Male in America Conference, which takes place this weekend, from June 15-17 in New York.   Hip-Hop pioneer and Power 105.1 radio personalities Ed Lover and DJ Kut will host a townhall meeting, which takes place on Friday […]

Forbes magazine recently released The Celebrity 100 list and for the first time in the magazine’s history, the list contains a new category titled Hip-Hop Impresarios.   The magazine analyzed celebrity earnings, press mentions, TV and radio mentions, how many times the celebrity appears on the cover of major consumer magazines and Google search results. […]

Foxy Brown’s probation was restored to good standing today (June 14) by a Manhattan judge, despite objections from a Probation Department lawyer, the Associated Press reports.   According to Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson, Foxy Brown, born Inga Marchand, has remained in good standing with her probation officer, has attended her required anger management classes […]

Rap pioneer and former Run-DMC member Joseph “Reverend Run” Simmons has inked a deal with Gotham Books worth more than $1 million and will write a new, untitled book addressing the issues of a family.   To promote the book, Rev. Run and his wife Justine will embark on a bus tour described as a […]

Rapper Common has teamed with Converse to be the face of Converse (PRODUCT) RED Weapon sneaker, which will be available exclusively through Foot Locker and Converse’s website.   Common will appear in the “Weapon of Change” advertising campaign, which was shot in location in Los Angeles by photographer Bryan Adams.   The “Weapon of Change” […]

Interscope Records rapper Rich Boy will give mixed martial arts fans a soundtrack to enjoy when he takes the stage during the much anticipated bout between former UFC middleweight champion Frank Shamrock and UFC and Pride veteran Phil Baroni.   The vacant Strikeforce world middleweight championship will be at stake as the men square off […]

Hip-Hop group Lords of the Underground are preparing to release their long awaited album titled House of Lords.   The group, which released hits like “Chief Rocka” “Here Comes the Lords” and “Return of the Funky Child,” will drop the new album on Affluent Records/Redeye Distribution.   “In today’s market, there are great opportunities for […]

Carl Pohlad, the owner of the Minneapolis Twins, is entering the Hip-Hop market, with the purchase of Hip-Hop radio station KTTB-FM B-96 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pohlad’s recently formed Northern Lights Broadcasting LLC and will pay $28 million for B-96, “just to get into the industry,” said Northern Lights’ CEO Steve Woodbury. Pohlad bought the station […]

Lil Mo’s new project Pain and Paper will be released under her new independent label HoneyChild Entertainment in late August.   Pain and Paper is the first album in four years for Lil Mo, who is known for singing on hit records like Ja Rule’s “Put It On Me” Missy Elliott’s “Hot Boys” and her […]

Violator Management founder and CEO Chris Lighty has teamed up with Warner Music Group (WMG) Corp. to form Brand Asset Group, a new company designed to generate revenue through aggressively managing artist brands from all genres it was announced today (June 13).   Lighty will serve as CEO of Brand Asset Group, while taking an […]

Daryl Hall and John Oates have launched the “I Can Go For That” contest, a play off of their 1982 hit “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do),” which was resampled and turned into “Say No Go,” an anti-drug hit for rap group De La Soul in 1989.   Fans of the group must […]

Rapper Gucci Mane has formed So Icey, a new record label with Czar Entertainment that will release his third album, which will be distributed by Asylum/Atlantic Records.   Gucci Mane, born Radric Davis, has sold over a half million albums independently, mostly fueled by his hit 2005 hit “Icey,” which featured Young Jeezy.   The […]

New Orleans rapper Chopper has inked a deal with Cash Money/Universal Records, as a result of his discontent at Bad Boy Records.   After a conversation with Cash Money’s Bryan “Baby” Williams, Chopper, who also goes by the name of Young City, decided to make the career-altering switch.   “It’s just one of those situations […]