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If you’re riding around this Saturday and you happen to see a bunch of people standing in line outside of that record store that you rarely go in, do not be alarmed, it’s not a “Going Out Of Business” sale, it is the eighth annual celebration of Record Store Day.
If you are age 25 or younger, you probably don’t realize that at one time CeeLo Green was one of best MC’s in the world. Yes, the guy who once wore a suit made out of flowers and sang in it on national television could go bar-for-bar with any rapper out there.
Why is Black Thought considered an “underrated” MC? As co-founder of The Roots, he is a Grammy-award winning rapper with 11 albums under his belt and a career that spans 20-plus years. He’s toured the world 10 times over and he’s broadcast into millions of homes every weeknight thanks to his Master of Ceremonies gig […]
Before the currently M.I.A. Frank Ocean, Maxwell was the original R&B artist at large. The Brooklyn native who is masterful at releasing a critically acclaimed project about once every few Presidential terms explained himself on The Breakfast Club.
This is a tough pill to swallow, but it might be over for Kanye West. Wait, hold on, allow me to rephrase that.
When you have been rapping for as long as Consequence, you are bound to identified differently amongst different audiences. There is still is a population within the Hip-Hop community that ignore the digital media buzz and respect the Queens MC for his bar-laden deliveries, which all was catapulted from his formidable entry into the game […]
Social media invites fans into the details of the lives of their favorite artists once known to only their closest confidantes or the occasional embedded journalist. However, that “access” has led many to realize that their favorite rapper or R&B crooner can be a top tier douchebag.
Part two of Footaction’s bicoastal epic holiday concert series commenced yesterday in Newark, New Jersey as the honorable Busta Rhymes celebrated an unprecedented 25 years of Hip-Hop infamy at The Prudential Center.
The most wonderful time of the year for Hip-Hop & R&B always happens in Los Angeles when Cali Christmas is on the calendar. Despite the task at hand to build on the growing insurmountable legacy the annual mega concert has brought to the table, Footaction and Power 106 managed to give the fans the biggest […]
Eight years to this very day, Pimp C would go to become a Hip-Hop martyr due to his untimely death at the age of 33. As one of the most trill, outspoken and talented individuals to ever grace the music scene, it truly is no surprise that his legacy his strong as ever even going […]