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This week, Russell Simmons, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) and Walmart will convene the national Hip-Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment entitled “Get Your Money Right” in Houston. The event will offer valuable and timely financial information from financial experts, celebrities and community leaders. Free to the public, the summit will take […]
Public Enemy is leading a new revolution in the music business as it announces a partnership with SellaBand.com to finance the recording of their next album through fan funding. The venture brings together two leading forces in independent music to take a powerful step into the future by offering artists control over their own music […]
Ladies and gentleman, if anyone was unaware or under a rock, it must be stated to the people of America that the country is in a recession. For those seniors turning their tassels and celebrating the fact that they have finally graduated college, it might have been the wrong time to enter the real world […]
The latest celebrity Twitter battle involves the young and the senseless. Rev. Run’s son, Jo Jo Simmons received a Twitter jab from Soulja Boy Tuesday after announcing to all 34,000 + of his followers that SB wasn’t “too dope” lyrically while posting a link to his song “Patriotic”. Jo Jo’s Tweet read: “Lyrically Soulja Boy […]
The legendary Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC was in Atlanta last week and had few interesting points to make about the current state of Hip-Hop and how rappers have to take responsibility for their actions. Not being preachy or coming off as an old head, DMC told Frank Ski and Wanda Smith from Atlanta’s V-103’s […]
The legendary Hip-Hop group The Beastie Boys is halting their tour. The plans to cancel the tour were revealed in a video posted on their website. The video shows MCA and Ad Rock sitting in a recording studio minus Mike as MCA wastes no time telling fans the reason why the concerts are cancelled. “I […]
N.O.R.E. is really putting it out there. In an interview he did, they asked him if he thinks there will ever be an openly gay successful rapper??? His response was, “There is, there is and you won’t get me to say the name but there is… Not openly. Once he is a success story and […]
Run-DMC, the Hip-Hop trio that shattered musical barriers and paved the way for the future of Hip-Hop, has left its mark in New York. Composed of Joseph Simmons as Run, Darryl McDaniels as DMC and Jason Mizel as Jam Master Jay, the trio is famed for crossing rock and rap in the music industry with […]