An upcoming performance at North Carolina A&T featuring Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane is drawing criticism from students and faculty members.   Gucci will be performing with artists Fabolous, Trey Songz, Keri Hilson and OJ Da Juiceman.   According to the News & Record, students have been complaining to officials about Gucci’s alleged gang ties and […]

Rapper 50 Cent addressed recent comments made by rapper Jay-Z during a radio interview on the BBC last week.   Jay-Z defended rapper Kanye West in an interview conducted by DJ Trevor Nelson’s BBC radio show last week.   Jay-Z became irritated when Nelson suggested that West would not have stormed the stage at the […]

MTV personality and executive producer Sway Calloway will be reaching out to aspiring entertainers courtesy of the symposium “All the Right Elements.”   Sway’s seminar will take place in Little Rock, Arkansas, and focus on supplying essential information on the radio, television, entertainment, and multi-media industries.   As an industry veteran who’s found success in […]

Rapper Jay-Z recently appeared on Angie Martinez’ Hot 97 show, where he revealed the Armand de Brignac (Ace of Spades) champagne he endorses was ranked #1 in the world after taste tests.   The results were published on September 24 in Fine Champagne magazine, the only international publication devoted to champagne.   Each Champagne was […]

Hip-Hop will be represented during the Nobel Peace Prize Concert this year in Oslo, Norway.   Rapper/actor Will Smith will host The Nobel Peace Prize Concert this year with his wife and actress, Jada Pinkett Smith, while Wyclef Jean will be one of the feature performers.   “The opportunity to recognise the laureate’s contributions to […]

A number of rappers, R&B singers and celebrities will gather in Atlanta tomorrow (October 1) for a special charity project to raise money for recent flood victims in the city.   Jermaine Dupri, Nelly and V-103 will present Atlanta Stand Up: Jermaine Dupri & Nelly Charity Celebrity Bowling Tournament.   The goal of the tournament […]

Yonkers, New York-bred rapper DMX has had a run of bad luck over the past year or so, but he’s back in the lab preparing to release new music for his fans by any means necessary.   “I’m putting out a Gospel album and a Hip-Hop album.”I’m trying to put it out this year, if […]

Rapper Bump J was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday (Sept. 29) after admitting to guilt in a 2007 local bank robbery in August. The artist, real name Terrence Boykin, received the minimum sentence for both charges, according to Chicago Hip-Hop blog Fake Shore Drive. The Chicago native will serve seven years for an […]

After almost five years as part of the Warner Music Group, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has relocated his Bad Boy Records imprint to Interscope Geffen A&M, Combs told AllHipHop.com Tuesday afternoon (September 29).   The first release to come from the joint venture will be Diddy’s experimental forthcoming album, Last Train to Paris.   Under the […]

AllHipHop.com and digital music leader uPlaya have announced a deal designed to bring new artists into the limelight.   The two companies have created the Music Universe Contest, which will use uPlaya’s patented Hit Song Science technology to determine a winner and three finalists.   The unique software rates songs based on “hit potential” regardless […]

Hip-Hop veteran Flavor Flav is planning on jumping back into the spotlight very soon. In a recent interview Flavor Flav told AllHipHop.com, “I’m working on a reality show and a talk show, going back to high school. I got a talk show coming, yall ain’t going to be mad at ya boy.” Flav caught the […]

Independent Hip-Hop crew Souls of Mischief will commemorate their upcoming Prince Paul-produced album Montezuma’s Revenge, with the Montezuma’s Revenge World Tour ‘09 featuring Prince Paul on select dates.   Group members A-Plus, Opio, Phesto and Tajai will play 19 dates in the United States and another 16 in Europe and Asia to support Montezuma’s Revenge, […]

Rap star DMX will step into the ring against musician Eric Martinez this December, on the under card of the Tank Abbott/ Butterbean fight.   Thunder Promotions has announced that DMX will square off against Martinez during a boxing match on December 12 at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama.   Martinez is […]

Chicago rapper Yung Berg has responded to a shocking new video that hit the internet featuring the rapper engaged in a fight, where he was apparently assaulted.   Yesterday (September 28), a grainy video was released show showing the rapper and a dozen men engaged in a brawl on the street.   According to Yung […]

Over the last two days the nation has been aghast at footage showing a 16 year old Chicago student being beaten to death in a gang-related mass brawl.   The student, Derrion Albert, was viciously attacked with board planks outside his school. While others fought around him, Albert went down and was repeatedly stomped in […]

Two years after the case was thrown out, Michigan appeals judges Elizabeth Gleicher and Michael Kelly have ruled that Dr. Dre must answer charges that he infringed on the privacy rights of three Detroit employees by taping their conversations.   The suit stems from a July 2000 concert stop of Dre’s memorable Up In Smoke […]

The Black-Eyed Pea’s Apl.de.Ap is reaching out to fans in hopes that they will support his efforts to raise relief funds for flood victims in his native Philippines.   In a statement released today (September 28), Apl announced that his imprint, Jeepney Music will be accepting donations on behalf of the Apl Foundation online at […]

Rappers Keith Murray and Canibus have announced their debut EP The Undergods will hit stores digitally tomorrow.   The pair’s self-titled debut collaborative album is slated to land in the iTunes music store via the Seattle-based record label, Sound Records.   “Essentially the name symbolizes underground and then you know gods with it. The aspect […]

50 Cent’s latest project The 50th Law has risen to the top of the book charts, according to a list yesterday (September 27) released by The New York Times.   The 50th Law, which is the rapper’s strategic advice book on life and how to become successful, was written with 48 Laws of Power author […]

Cash Money CEO Bryan “Baby” Williams recently showed off a new tattoo he received in honor of superstar artist Lil Wayne’s birthday, which was yesterday (September 27).   In a video hitting the net, Baby, Mack Maine, Wayne and other members of the Cash Money crew are seen celebrating Lil Wayne’s 27th birthday in a […]