Ever sit back and wonder why everything that has the name Martin Luther King, Jr tagged to it is usually a place where something goes wrong and crime seems to run rampant? Most people that live in cities that have a street named after Dr. King will probably make that the street is flooded with […]
After writing that heartbreaking story about 16-year-old Fred Couch losing his life in Chicago, the only question that kept racing through my mind was, Does it ever stop? By it, I mean violence. The society we live in today has become so violent that we have become desensitized to the magnitude of this tumultuous world […]
What has the world come to? With all of the problems that have already plagued 2009, it’s just sad that things are ceasing fire with the year almost done. It seems like someone might have taken Jay-Z’s “D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune)” a step further by going straight to the source, a.k.a. T-Pain. Without warning, the […]
In sad news out of New Jersey, a six-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his five-year-old relative. Little Daron Mayes was killed Sunday from a gun-shot wound to the back of the head when the two children were playing with a loaded hand gun in a bedroom. Police will not release the identity of the […]
It must be impossible to hold a group of people together and have the expectation that everyone will be on their best behavior. Monday saw yet another concert for the West Coast duo, the New Boyz, end in violence, but this time it took place in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. Reported earlier, the duo had to […]
On October 30, rapper and K.A.R. member Mike Beck was tragically shot and killed in Brooklyn during a robbery attempt As a Brooklyn native, Maino was heavily impacted by the alarming news and has decided, along with music executive Littles, to honor the fallen Beck with a unity concert titled “Self Destruction.” Taking place on […]
Black America is in a state of emergency and it has come to a point where violence has escalated to an alarming rate and the youth seem to have lost a sense of direction which has only resulted in casualties. A stand is being made by Rev. Al Sharpton as he will be pairing up […]
Man, people can’t even get along for something free? That seems to be the case as a fight broke out Sunday during a concert in Flint, Michigan from the West Coast duo, The New Boyz. A mall employee’s account of the casualties left one stabbed with a pen, another having a seizure and six other […]
“All these kids been getting killed, all this stuff going on, we have to make a change.” Ever since the tragedy of Derrion Albert in Chicago, Hip-Hop has risen as a community to raise more awareness of the troubles going on within the youth, but it has been hard to say if things have actually […]
“It took me almost two years for Australia to let me back in the country and I am not going to let them Fawk up our concert tonight.” Certain things have come to mash up and work together in life. With peanut butter, there comes jelly. Milk has cookies and Akon concerts have brawls. The […]
People were stunned and saddened after seeing the chilling video of the fatal beating of 16-year old Chicago student, Derrion Albert. A cellphone camera caught footage of the honor student being hit over the head with a 2×4 and then being punched, kicked and stomped to death. The boy’s tragic story touched the hearts and […]
Hip-Hop, way back when, was the poster child and would have the finger of blame pointed at it to give reasoning for the incline of violence within America and especially the urban community. Okay, let’s be frank, Hip-Hop music STILL has a bull’s eye painted on its back and is still the scapegoat for almost […]
