Black Eyed Peas front man will.I.am, Akon and writer/singer Sean “The Pen” Garrett have all been enlisted to help produce the highly anticipated album from Whitney Houston.   According to BMG CEO Clive Davis, Houston has recorded four songs for the untitled project, Houston’s first since her 2002 album Just Whitney.   Davis was clear […]

Chicago Hip-Hop star Kanye West is among the headliners of 2008’s Essence Music Festival, organizers have announced. West will join an all-star lineup in New Orleans in July, that includes performances by Chris Rock, Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott, Chris Brown, Morris Day and The Time and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly. The festival, which takes […]

Papoose and Remy Ma will be man and wife this summer if all goes according to plan for the Hip-Hop couple, AllHipHop.com has learned.   The pair is now formally engaged to be married, according to recent reports. Egypt of BET’s The Black Carpet confirmed the news with AllHipHop.com, saying that Remy Ma shared the […]

Florida rappers Plies and Rick Ross have embarked on a new tour, as both artists’ prepare for their sophomore releases.   The Hypnotized Tour debuted in Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday (Mar 1), and will run through 18 more dates across the country before coming to a close in Los Angeles.   “I look forward […]

VH1 has greenlighted seven new productions including shows featuring Snoop Dogg, Luke Campbell, Tiffany “New York” Pollard and comedian Margaret Cho, the network announced today (March 6).The network announced four new “Celebreality” sitcoms, including eight episodes of Luke’s Parental Advisory and 10 episodes of New York’s new show “New York Goes to Hollywood.”Luke’s Parental Advisory […]

Actor and one-time aspiring rapper Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and may only have six months to live, according to reports.   Swayze has starred in a number of classics, including The Outsiders, Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse, Steel Dawn and others.   The 55-year-old actor admitted to experimenting with Hip-Hop as early […]

Brooklyn rapper Jamal “Gravy” Woolard has been chosen to play slain Hip-Hop superstar The Notorious B.I.G. in the upcoming movie, titled Notorious.   Representatives for the rapper confirmed with AllHipHop.com that Gravy landed the role over hundreds of hopefuls tried out for the part.     Notorious is set to start filming on March 24 in New […]

Tony Silver, the director behind the legendary Hip-Hop movie Style Wars died last month from cancer. Silver, who directed and co-produced Style Wars with Henry Chalfont, died of cancer at the age of 72 at his home in Los Angeles on February 1. Style Wars originally aired on PBS in 1983 and captured New York […]

Fans of Hip-Hop inspired fashions may get a glimpse at the Clipse’s new label Play Cloths as early as this summer, the rappers told AllHipHop.com.   The line, which was originally scheduled to preview at the February edition of the Magic Marketplace Fashion and Apparel Trade Show in Las Vegas, will now make it’s debut […]

Viper Records rapper Immortal Technique will launch a mini-tour the West Coast starting this weekend to preview material from his upcoming project with DJ Green Lantern titled The 3rd World. Rappers Poison Pen and DJ G.I. Joe will join Immortal Technique on the tour, which kicks off March 7th in California and ends on March […]

Hip-Hop star Fabolous and rock band OneRepublic have signed on to help promote the Crocs brand, an emerging designer and manufacturer of footwear for men, women and children.   As part of the deal, the two chart-topping acts will embark on the Croc’s Next Step Campus Tour, which kicks off April 10 at Florida International […]

Legendary Hip-Hop production unit The Bomb Squad has announced the release of their untitled debut album and world tour, AllHipHop.com has learned. The album and tour are firsts for the production duo, which currently consists of brothers Hank and Keith Shocklee The new project from the legendary production team will offer a mixture of live […]

South Bronx rapper Fat Joe has lashed out at rapper Papoose as the feud between the two rappers continues to grow over public airwaves.   The two rappers, who were reportedly involved in a minor scuffle in a North Carolina hotel room last week, have been at odds, since the altercation.   Reports suggested that […]

Warner Music executive Kevin Liles was honored on Sunday March 2 in front of several hundred industry insiders and their families at the annual TJ Martell Foundation’s 9th Annual Family Day in New York’s Roseland Ballroom. The foundation has helped to bring awareness and raise funds for research and treatment for cancer, leukemia, and AIDS. […]

Take Down Records’ CEO Alton “Ace Capone” Coles faces life in prison, after a jury found him guilty of using his label as a front to distribute millions of dollars worth of cocaine throughout Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey and Delaware.   A jury found Coles, 34 and co-defendant Timothy “Tim Gotti Baukman, 32, guilty of […]

Hip-Hop mogul Russell Simmons has officially come out to endorse Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.   Despite a longstanding relationship with Obama’s rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Simmons cited public reaction and support for Obama’s message of change as one of the reasons behind being “compelled by my own personal conscience” to support the Chicago senator. […]

Members of the Southern Hip-Hop community are showing their support for Juvenile this week, as news of the rapper’s tragic personal loss continues to spread.   As investigators continue to search for a motive in the murders of Juvenile’s four-year-old daughter Jelani, her 11-year-old sister Micaiah and their mother Joy Deleston, many have come forward […]

Efforts to save the birthplace of Hip-Hop culture proved successful as the New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) rejected a proposed sale of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue to a developer Mark Karasick.   According to Sen. Charles Schumer, the HPD cited the fact that current rents could not be sustained if the sale […]

Ludacris’ Disturbing Tha Peace imprint (DTP) has re-signed a long term distribution deal with Island Def Jam Music Group, effectively debunking rumors that Island Def Jam had dropped the Atlanta-based label.   Rumors began to circulate last week that DTP had been dropped by IDJ’s Chairman, Antonio “L.A.” Reid, after a showcase the label sponsored […]

Swizz Beatz, Busta Rhymes, Wyclef and Yung Joc are among the rappers featured on Elephant Man’s new CD Let’s Get Physical. The album is the first project from a new joint venture between Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment and VP Records, the largest independent Jamaican record label. “I’ve been a fan of Bad Boy […]