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On Fridays, a few things are guaranteed around these parts. One, of course, is The Wrap Up: Hip-Hop Wired’s Top 10 Songs Of The Week.
There are a lot of rappers who do big things for charity, but rapper Game is definitely special. There’s really not a day that we don’t see him doing his part to give back in some way or another.
While Hip-Hop started out as a reflection of what African-Americans and Latinos were experiencing in the inner city, the culture is now a global phenomenon. So it is no surprise we often find rappers flicking it up with random White people.
Big Sean recently served as “Celebrity Principal for Day” in his native Detroit, much to the delight of students at Bates Academy. The hometown favorite was the K-12 school’s award for winning the Get Schooled Viacom Detroit Attendance Challenge in partnership with Detroit Public Schools for having the highest attendance in the area.
A high school senior from Jack Britt High School in Fayetteville, N.C. thought it would be cute to pull one last stunt as he walked across the stage during graduation.
They don’t make Black sitcoms like A Different World anymore. Hell, they don’t really make sitcoms period. Much of television today has been eclipsed by some sort of reality television but leave it to Oprah Winfrey to restore that old feeling if only for fleeting moment.
A 53-year-old New Orleans woman known as party animal amongst her friends and family, was thrown a funeral party that resembled the way she said lived her life.
We all knew Blue Ivy Carter was destined for celebrity the moment she was conceived. But no one predicted the amount of chatter the child’s hair causes whenever a new photo of the tyke hits the Internets.
Kidd Cole, the D.C. rapper who was shamelessly exposed as con artist on a recent episode of MTV’s Catfish, may not totally be embellishing his ties to the music industry. Kind of, sort of.
If you haven’t heard by now, Floyd Mayweather is the World’s Highest Paid Athlete. Pretty Boy Floyd racked up $105 million in the last year alone, to top the Forbes’ 2014 list of 100 athletes making lots of bread.
If a Star Wars Storm Trooper was a gamer, this would be the console of his choice. Sony is dropping a Glacier White Playstation 4 this fall that will come bundled with the highly anticipated Destiny title.