Hip-Hop: Don’t Kill Charles Hamilton
A couple weeks ago, we all bore witness to something that the Hip-Hop audience collectively got a big kick out of. The Charles Hamilton and Serius Jones Battle Part II – if you want to call it that. The first encounter with these two was a spirited battle with a pair of mid-level rappers on […]
T.I.: Letter From Jail #3
This experience is truly a pain I have never felt before and that’s saying a lot for a n#### who’s been down locked up as many times as I have. I see this as a real ass whoopin’. The kind you don’t just go back outside to play afterwards. You take ya ass to bed […]
The Outcry of an Outlier
The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees. While I take pride in my heritage as an African-American, I have to proclaim that my precedents not Black. Yes my President is Black. No Im not disowning my culture in favor of giving precedence to another one. […]
Manny Pacquiao the Peoples Champ: Is that too Much for Floyd to Handle?
The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees. The other night many got a chance to witness history in the making as the greatest fighter of all-time next to Muhammad Ali show and proved that hes no joke. Manny Pacquiao let all doubters including his opponent Antonio Margarito know […]
Gasp! You Mean There Is Still Racism?
When did people begin acting as if racism died? Why is it that when you read the newspaper and/or watch television, people act as if Blacks and other minorities are just plain lying when it comes to speaking on being treated differently because of their background? People continue to deny our claims, until they see […]
Mike Bigga’s Open Letter Denying Involvement In Assault
According to recent news reports, Grammy Award-winning artist and youth/community activist Michael Render, who performs as Mike Bigga (formerly Killer Mike), has been named in a lawsuit regarding an alleged dispute. Render has not seen the reported lawsuit, but he has responded with the following statement: As a community activist and youth advocate, I am extremely […]
Chrisette Michele Denounces Hip-Hop, Rick Ross’ Actions
After the “Soul Train Awards,” Rick Ross didn’t win and apparently caused enough ruckus. Such a ruckus it was, Chrisette Michele wrote a blog devoted to Hip-Hop and her collaborator Ross. The blog entry is below. Award Show : If this is the way hip hop is then I denounce it. This is not about ego. […]
Soulja Boy As The Saviour: Ending Raps Demographic Death
In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat. The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all. –Isaiah 11:6 (New Living Translation) Earlier this year I coined the phrase, demographic death, in relation […]
Oscar Grant & Mumia: What is Black life worth in America?
Oscar Grant & Mumia: What is Black life worth in America? Let me be very candid and straight to the point. This is not a post-racial America. This broken system of America is a joke to the fullest and could care less about giving justice to the Black people within its borders. We were brought […]
Lil Wayne, Oscar Grant and Hip-Hop
Lil Wayne just finished a bid of 9 months in jail.T.I. just started a new bid of 11 months after serving. Mike Vick served 23 months in jail. The police officer that murdered Oscar Grant in cold blood was sentenced to 2 years in jail. I’m back, b***hes. That’s right, I said B***HES. Want to […]
Tyler Perrys For Colored Girls
Push pause before watching for colored girls . People either love or hate filmmaker Tyler Perrythat much is clear to me. Weeks before I decided to see Perrys For Colored Girls on opening night I could hear the extreme reactions to the fact he was adapting, producing, and directing a film version of Ntozake Shanges classic 1970s […]
Oscar Grant, Oakland & Hip-Hop: Connect the Dots
The sentencing of Johannes Mehserle sent shock waves through the Bay Area Friday. There was hurt and anger throughout the region. I was in downtown Oakland when the sentencing came down. Two years with credit for time served felt as bad as if he was acquitted. At that very moment, the hopelessness rushed in as […]
What We Need Now Is Not Another Blues Poem (In Memory of Oscar Grant)
In the words of hip hop theologians Goodie Mob, black folks are often “fighting for our spirits and mind.” I too know the paralyzing fear and total horror of being targeted by the police solely for living while black. Grant’s tragedy struck a chord in me cause because we can longer stand on the side […]
T.I. Writes Letter To His Fans (and Enemies)
“Thank you to all that took the time to check out my new video GET BACK UP with my homie Chris Brown. And a bigger thanks to those of you who decided to comment (good & bad). To all of you who say He should practice what he preaches and How could he do something […]
T-Pain Comments On “Haters” Of His Michael Jackson Remake
On the internet, an unreleased song was leaked and the internet went nuts on T-Pain. The song was “PTY,” originally recorded by the late Michael Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones. Well, what those detractors didn’t know is that Michael personally requested T-Pain and also Robin Thicke to remake the classic song. T-Pain asks, “Why […]
The Journalist MC, The Novelist MC, And The Artist-Leader
And no I aint get shot up a whole bunch of times Or make up s*** in a whole bunch of lines And I aint animated like say a Busta Rhymes But the real s*** you get when you bust down my lines – Jay-Z on What More Can I Say? If you ever wanted […]
Jasmine Mans Explains “The Mis-Education of a Barbie Doll”
Last week, spoken word poem Jasmine Mans released a poet that garnered her the adoration (and scorn) of the internet when the video virally spread across social networks and websites alike. In this exclusive editorial to AllHipHop.com, Mans explains, her poem “Nicki Minaj” (often called “The Mis-Education of a Barbie Doll”) was not a diss. […]
Rhymefest: Why Im Running For City Council
When Hip Hop first started, it was a local movement of artistic expression and social commentary. Hip Hop artists and lovers challenged the status quo by scratching records, tagging buildings and defying gravity.Those who had been ignored and forgotten grabbed the microphone, hopped on (and sometimes off) stage and ushered in what would become a […]
Shyne Apologizes To L.A. Reid
A great leader has the unique ability to admit when hes wrong. Without this ability you suffer the fate of Napoleon and end up dead on your way to Russia. I was wrong about my assessment of Chairman Reid. After I stopped being all Carl Thomas emotional and things like that, I thought about the […]
Inner City Violence: “The Mothers Cry”
The following editorial was written by Silky Slim, a former gang banger than had seen the way violence has ravaged his hometown of Baton Rouge. Silky again speaks on the violence ravaging the inner cities and African Americans across the nation. Click here to read his previous work, “Lil Boosie and the New KKK.” […]
