A Happy Halloween from AllHipHop to you and your family(or just your candy-obsessed self). What do you get when you combine social media with Hip Hop and a day dedicated to assuming another identity? Public displays of people impersonating Hip Hop artists.
While there have been some distasteful costumes as of late (Blackface is NOT a costume), Halloween usually displays the ingenuity and craftsmanship of average people. Two traits that are integral to Hip Hop.
The meme gold that was Drake’s Nothing Was The Same cover unsurprisingly translated into equally as inventive pieces of comedy:
Let’s take a minute to appreciate Michael’s costume?? #drake pic.twitter.com/PwF8ZkcQT3
— Brooke Bellisle⚓ (@brookaah17) October 31, 2013
Drake album cover costume was a hit.. pic.twitter.com/NpGh1XvUvZ — Monix (@fuk_jared) October 28, 2013
??? best costume out there #Drake pic.twitter.com/I4QndmcMoT
— jill lydon (@Da_jILLEST) October 31, 2013
Some people found creative ways to enjoy Hip Hop and the candy of Halloween at the same damn time:
This is the best Halloween costume? #eminem pic.twitter.com/pdQhNH4HUG
— Tina Fortino (@Tina_Fortino) October 31, 2013
Others were simply different:
This weekend tho? I was 2 chainz for Halloween #2chainz #2ChainzButIGotMeAFewOn
#TrickOrTreat! Kimye in the house! Halloween costume contest at work Dressed as @KimKardashian and @kanyewest! pic.twitter.com/5rBkZXA2xh
— Maria G (@MGValdez) October 31, 2013
Hahaha my cousins were Little Man and Rick Ross for Halloween! ? pic.twitter.com/JDQG3Y4lvH
— Taylor. (@GawgeousSmayy) October 27, 2013
And as the advent of social media has taught us, celebrities are people too and like people, celebrities want to be rappers:
Happy Halloween @LilKim ??? pic.twitter.com/tJMMQgBu53
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 31, 2013
Check back later tonight as more costumes are revealed.
AllHipHop.com has partnered with NUHO Film Festival to allow you to watch an exclusive screening of Wu-Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard documentary screening of Dirty: Platinum Edition. The documentary was created by ODB’s cousin Stephon Turner (Raison Allah) and Zulu Films Inc. This documentary will be a biopic of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan member with exclusive footage and interviews from all the Wu-Tang Clan.
The screening will be held at Brooklyn Historic Academy of Music on November 15th. A post screening Q&A will be moderated by AllHipHop.com’s Chuck Creekmur and will be discussed by the director of the documentary Raison Allah, Popa Wu, Wu Tang Clan’s Masta Killah, Cappadonna and a Skype voice chat with RZA!
Take a look at the trailer of Dirty: Platinum Edition:
You can watch the live broadcast event via NUHO Film Festival and also join the film festival for exclusive content HERE. For more on Wu-Tang Clan please visit www.wutangclan.com
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ALSO: There will be an exclusive screening of AllHipHop.com Steve Raze with his short film Too Short: 30 Years Of A Bay Area Legend. Come out to Brooklyn Academy of Music on Nov. 15th and join in on this historic night while there is seating available.
(AllHipHop News) On October 29th Atlanta, Georgia served as one of the sites for ASCAP’S 5th Annual Women Behind The Music Series. The professional music organization’s event celebrates women in the music community including songwriters, artists, managers, label executives, attorneys, and music publishers.
The Atlanta installment of this year’s series recognized three influential and accomplished women in the music business. Singer/songwriter and television personality Kandi Burruss, COO/Director of Marketing of Disturbing Tha Peace Records Aiyisha Obafemi, and entertainment lawyer Denise Brown Henderson were presented with awards for their contributions to the industry.
The evening was hosted by V103 radio personality Egypt Sherrod and featured performances by Tasha Cobbs and Netta Brielle. Malibu Red, The New Nasty, Uber Cars, Sister 2 Sister Magazine, Miss Jessie’s, Colour U Cosmetics and Cake Cafe Atlanta sponsored the affair held at downtown Atlanta’s Halo nightclub.
Previously, Roc Nation artist Melanie Fiona, singer/actress LeToya Luckett, songwriter Andrea Martin, Title 9 Productions founder Carmen Murray, singer/songwriter Stacy Barthe, CEO of Phase Too Management Inc. Tina Davis, and VP/Managing Partner of MBK Management Jeanine McLean were honored at the New York and Los Angeles editions of ASCAP’S 5th Annual Women Behind The Music Series.
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Check out pics from the event in the gallery below (photo credit: Prince Williams)

Dame Dash is one of the most important people in Hip-Hop history. However, the last few years…have not been kind. The recent word on the street is that Dame is in more mess. Well, first of all, he has had to vacate an upstate mansion he was renting. The word on the street is that he left EVERYTHING in it. Now, that’s a sale I’d like to be at! I’ve seen the insides of the house and its PHAT! (That’s right, I said PHAT.” Hopefully, he was able to recover most of his personal items.
BUT…there’s always a but.
PageSix wrote a not so flattering piece that said Dame trashed the mansion and there were even drugs left in it. (I’m sure it was just weed, but still…)
Roc-a-fella Records co-founder Damon Dash trashed and abandoned his upstate mansion, leaving behind bongs and dirty laundry — but also jewelry and artwork, new court documents claim.
The hip-hop mogul — who once said he was worth $50 million — owes $162,000 in back rent on the upstate Carmel pad, which boasts a music studio and pool.
The landlord’s lawyer, Thomas Mullaney, told The Post that Dash “held the house hostage” for a year in a half while he dodged rental payments of $15,000 a month before he left it all behind.
The carpets were ruined, and his “clothing strewn on the floor as if it were trash,” according to the landlord’s Putnam County lawsuit.“Mr. Dash simply abandoned the property,” owner Elad Yoran huffs in his lawsuit filed in Putnam County.
Dash claims that he’s fallen on hard times, but Yoran’s lawyer said, “When I look online, he’s rolling around in a chauffeured Roll Royce, and he’s riding in a private plane.
“He’s not living the life of someone who is trying to keep their expenses down so they can pay their obligations,” Mullaney said.
Now, Dame has a lot of new business ventures. Maybe he’s playing a game with his debtors and and stashing his money? I dunno.“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
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Happy Halloween!!! Although many of us are gearing up to celebrate Halloween tonight, some of our favorite celebrities got dressed up and celebrated over the weekend with their significant others.
While Halloween only comes once a year for most of us, when you’re in the entertainment business, Halloween might come everyday! Check out the Top 5 List of Rappers Who Dress Like It’s Halloween Everyday:
5) Lil’ B
From wearing long chandelier earrings, to big floppy church lady hats, to lipstick in some instances, Lil’ B’s fashion sense is very….uh, Halloween-ish! Check out some of his most outrageously Halloween-inspired looks below:
4) French Montana
Frenchie definitely isn’t always an over the top dresser, but he certainly has a costume like way of dressing that I can only see being exhibited more in the future. I am putting French Montana on this list because what he has shown us fashion-wise so far…anyone remember that GQ Magazine staff make-over……
….and how about his XXL Mag Freshman cover with the bear head……
French Montana has put Versace back on the map in a very big way. Check out Frenchie’s most Halloween-a-licious outfits below:
3) Andre 3000
Although Andre 3000 has been dressing a lot more dapper these days now that he’s focusing on his acting career…
…..Andre 3000 still makes our list due to the sheer number of years that he embraced what I’m now calling “Halloween Couture”. Check out a few of his wackiest style choices below:
2) Lil’ Wayne
Weezy F. Baby has an interesting sense of style to say the least. The latest celebrity fashion designer who has brought his unique style to the forefront with his Trukfit clothing line, has unfortunately been spotted rocking some questinable attire since his release from the pen. Check out some of Weezy’s most pause-worthy outfits below:
1) Nicki Minaj
From the moment she stepped onto the scene, Nicki has changed her wigs more than she changes her underwear (I can only imagine!). From dressing up in outfits ranging from an evil Lil’ Red Riding Hood who escaped from hell……..
…….to a sexy astronaut from an all female galaxy far far away.
– you never know what you will get when Nicki steps out for an event. Check out a few of her most Halloween-a-rific outfits below:
Kim Kardashian appeared on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno last night and said that the negative media coverage surrounding her pregnancy “hurt her soul.” As a result, she wants us to believe that she’s going to be more private because of it.
Yes, people were mean to her but I’m not convinced about the less attention w###### thing thanks to her most recent now infamous butt selfie and the fact that she Instagrammed her massive 15 carat engagement ring…I’m kinda not believing it. We shall see…
(AllHipHop News) Tashera Simmons was married with DMX for 14 years until their 2012 divorce and has seen her fair share of incredible DMX events. While talking with DTFRadio, the estranged ex-wife of Dark Man X vividly detailed an incident which involved an inebriated DMX firing a gun at his manager in a hotel.
According to Ms. Simmons, in 1999, while pregnant, her and DMX’s manager went searching for DMX at a New Jersey hotel after the MC had gone missing for three days. When the pair got to X’s room he greeted them with a gun and after some opposition, X finally agrees to pack up his belongings and leave the room. The paranoia returns when the three of them arrive downstairs and X sees a large gathering of people for a convention. Tashera attempted to calm him down, but before she knew it X let one off:
He was like ‘Yo Tashera, somebody’s following me. I’m telling you.’ The manager is about to lose it, like scared to death. Next thing you know we hear a pop and the manager fell to the floor. I’m like ‘what happened?’ and I see blood on the floor. Then X was like, ‘Somebody shot him. I told you somebody was following me’. Mind you, I go down to the floor to see where the manager was hit at which was the foot and you see the bottom of X’s bookbag with smoke and a hole at the bottom.
Check out the full interview below as Tashera explains how the pair fled the hotel, got caught by police and more:
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the dopest female MC of them all? Had the Wicked Queen asked that question, there’s a good chance the answer would have been Snow tha Product (formerly known as Snow White by the way), out of today’s current roster of female rappers. The Atlantic Records artist has been busy as of late performing at venues like Rock the Bells and just recently released her latest mixtape, “Good Nights and Bad Mornings 2: The Hangover,” which saw her pair up with Tech N9ne for a vicious rhyme spree called “You’re Welcome.” Obviously one that could take advantage of her good looks, Snow tha Product refuses to branded as just another pretty female rapper and has chosen to let her furious flow be at the forefront. AllHipHop.com sat down with Snow before she embarked on her next tour to talk about her career, “Cookie Cutter B*tches” and more. No poisoned apples here.
AllHipHop.com: Your timing and rhyme flow is precise. How did you develop it?
Snow tha Product: I’m a real competitive person and when I started rapping, I really wanted to make sure that I was going to be the best at what I do. I set out to do that now I try to out-do myself. As you gain fans, you obviously want to try to keep impressing them. When fans tell you something is dope, you are never satisfied with hearing that something is only good.
AllHipHop.com: Whenever I talk to young artists, I always try to encourage them to be as energetic in the recording booth as possible.
Snow tha Product: Biggie had a more laid back swaggy flow but Pac was more aggressive and to the point – I get that from being from the West Coast. I started with that up-tempo and aggressive flow. Slowing down is a little more difficult for me. I can rap slower but it’s not fun for me.
AllHipHop.com: You held your own with Tech N9ne on the “You’re Welcome” track off of your latest Mixtape. Not too many can do that.
Snow tha Product: Working with him again was definitely cool. I played the part at the end for him where I was talking all that stuff and he was cracking up. It’s a funny song but at the same time we both showed out on it.
AllHipHop.com: At Rock the Bells 2013 in San Bernardino, CA you stated on stage that if you wanted to sell sex, then you would be a prostitute.
Snow tha Product: When I started rapping, I didn’t have anybody co-signing me. It was just me by myself. When I would go in to the studio, people were always trying to tell me that my style wasn’t going to work if I didn’t sexy it up. I heard that so much. People ask me now if my management or label is pressuring me to do that and I let them know that all of the pressure came before them when I first started. Now, there are people that are professionals and respect what I do. It’s an asset to be able to be different. Back then, there were so many small-minded people telling me to get naked to sell records. There are pimps out here in California. If that’s what I wanted to do, I would be doing that making more money than by rapping (laughs). That’s not my thing though. To each their own but I want to be known for my rap skills. I’m about integrity and I was raised by a traditional Mexican father – so that’s out of the question.
AllHipHop.com: Pops isn’t having any of that (laughs).
Snow tha Product: That’s not even an option. Plus all of my Uncles would trip too.
AllHipHop.com: Going the sexy route would be much easier though.
Snow tha Product: It would be and I’m not trying to be so against sexiness or crucify anybody who does that. I just don’t want to come in to the game as that and I don’t ever see myself doing something super sexualized. At the same time I am a grown woman and if I eventually want to grow up and wear heels and dresses, that’ll be cool but I don’t want that to be the main thing. Listen to what I have to say and then we can get in to everything else.
AllHipHop.com: You’re taking some heads off on your “Cookie Cutter B*tches” song.
Snow tha Product: I am. I feel like a lot of people think there is this mold that female rappers need to follow – how they look and dress. Here I am and it’s like, “How naked do I have to be before people pay attention?” Also, if one label does something with a female, then all of them have to follow that example. Be yourself! Like I said on “You’re Welcome,” I was so busy talking about “Cookie Cutter B*tches” that I didn’t realize that labels made me a mold and started cookie cutting b*tches. Now I see some of me out there in other girls and I’m like, “just do you and don’t let people tell you how to be.” People tried to slow me down with all of their thoughts and ideas and I decided that I was just going to do what I wanted to do.
AllHipHop.com: Did you get any reactions from other female rappers about “Cookie Cutter B*tches?”
Snow tha Product: I didn’t bother to check. I’m sure some girls said some sh*t. They might know it’s for them and they might now. I’m not in to that back and forth beef sh*t.
AllHipHop.com: So you’re never going to make any diss songs to anybody?
Snow tha Product: I don’t think so because I want the results. I want the fans and the ticket sales. I’m not going to be out there beefing with someone, plus they don’t want it (laughs).
“1,000 Pounds” is the second single from Jet Life co-founder, Trademark Da Skydiver’s forthcoming album Flamingo Barnes 2: Mingo Royale. The track features buzzing New York artist, Bodega Bamz, who is currently on tour with Flatbush Zombies and among the numerous guest artists on Trademark’s highly-anticipated commercial follow-up to Flamingo Barnes. The album features Dizzy Wright, Domo Genesis of Odd Future, Smoke DZA, Young Roddy, Hardo, and Blizz. Trademark Da Skydiver was recently selected by iTunes as an “Artist to Watch” on the Hip-Hop homepage based on his work with Jet Life and his highly regarded Super Villain series.
Flamingo Barnes 2: Mingo Royale hits stores worldwide on November 19th via The Barnes Corp / iHipHop Distribution.