According to a statement made by DJ Premier on his Sirius XM satellite radio show, 'Live From HeadQCourterz,' hip-hop legend DJ Kool Herc has been hospitalized and is in need of financial support. While there's no specific details on Herc's illness, Premier claims that the hip-hop veteran's cond... Read more...
I dont know why and probably wont ever figure out what the allure is about this guy but he is everywhere... and I do mean everywhere right now. His latest pop up was at a UC Berkely lecture where the professor not only shows the music video for Lil B's "The Age of Information" (below) but he als... Read more...
Props: CartoonsByJ Lil' Kim - Ladies Night Feat Missy Elliot, Angie Martinez & Left Eye Nicki Minaj - Warning Foxy Brown's - Foxy's Bells Jean Grae - Uh-Oh (1st Verse) I know the Lil’ Kim-Foxy Brown-Nicki Minaj “beef” (yes, I use that word very loosely) ... Read more...
January 25 witnessed widespread street protests in Egypt. 90,000 Egyptians came out in seven main squares in Cairo while tens of thousands more came out in Alexandria, Mahalla, Suez, and several other Egyptian cities. The protests continue today in downtown Cairo as I write. The popular uprising ... Read more...
Via: Vulture Last night, at the opening for George Condo's exhibit "Mental States" at the New Museum, we'd just asked the artist — who recently painted the covers for Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy — if there were another musician he'd consider designing album artwork for ... Read more...
Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith and their partners at Overbrook Entertainment have formed a joint-venture with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to develop and produce major motion pictures. First up? A remake of the Broadway musical "Annie," in which Will and Jada's daughter, Willow -- who recently signed to... Read more...
On a chilly afternoon, along a worn shopping strip, the music legend is being greeted like the pope in Rome. As he strolls by the discount stores, the beauty-supply shops, and the vacancies pulling down Point Breeze Avenue, people drown Kenny Gamble in smiles, shouts, and handshakes. "Hey, brot... Read more...
Christopher Roney (born December 15, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), known by the stage name Cool C, is an American rapper whose musical career peaked in the late 1980s. He is perhaps best known today for the notoriety surrounding his involvement in the murder of a Philadelphia Police office... Read more...