Note: Most of this is from AllHipHop so be sure to use your bullsh*t comb when reading this one... Afrika Bambaataa, one of Hip-Hop's founding fathers, believes that the genre of Hip-Hop music has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy to poison the minds of its listeners. Afrika Bambaataa... Read more...
The word “pioneer” gets used a lot when it comes to hip-hop. But understand this, people: Bobby Robinson, who passed away last Friday, at age 93, defined the words “rap industry pioneer.” He opened up his own record shop in Harlem in 1946 (which is well beyond old school or even ancient s... Read more...
Jalal - I Cant Go To Sleep Exhibit Cleveladelphia serves as a brief introduction of what is to come from up and coming hip hop artist Jalal. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Jalal went through some life altering events in Philadelphia, PA that turned him into a man. He has only been doing ... Read more...
Hypemen Podcast Episode 22 w/Ben Baller & Scott Vener EPISODE 22: Industry OG Ben Baller and Entourage music supervisor Scott Vener join the Hype Men to discuss how Loon was the real Fresh Prince + David Faustino being more hip-hop than everyone else + rolling around with Eazy-E + what the mo... Read more...

While there was plenty of dispiriting news in Nielsen SoundScan's year-end numbers for 2010, there were a couple of bright spots: For one, rap music made a big comeback last year, driven by the top-selling album of the year, Eminem's "Recovery," and the non-traditional store sector became the No. ... Read more...

Not to be confused with this... Authorities say the nearly 14-year-old case of the murder of Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace in Los Angeles has been “reinvigorated” by new information and federal and local law enforcement are once again actively investigating the Brooklyn rapper's d... Read more...

At this point, Kanye West's “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is on the short list of 2010's most acclaimed albums. But seldom do we credit names other than those on the cover for getting it to the top. For every album created by a pop-music polymath, there are more than a few helpers... Read more...

By Ben Westhoff Eric and Jeff Rosenthal, the comedy-rap duo known as It’s the Real, are huddled near a Canon XL2 camera in rap label E1 Music’s offices in the East Village, working on their latest video. Eric is the older brother with curly locks spilling onto his forehead; Jeff is the tall... Read more...
QD3, Bishop Lamont, Devi Dev, Talib Kweli & Wiz Khalifa talk about the changes brought to the hip-hop music landscape by the Internet and how social media is the biggest gift in entertainment of the last thirty years. Produced & directed by Marguerite de Bourgoing For more info go to:... Read more...