Get Busy Committee on Changing the Face of Hip Hop Forever
Lately, rap has been getting a bad rap because there's no true voice for the hip hop community. That changed last week when the Get Busy Committee dropped their new album Uzi Does It.
Lately, rap has been getting a bad rap because there's no true voice for the hip hop community. That changed last week when the Get Busy Committee dropped their new album Uzi Does It.
AP | LUCAS L. JOHNSON II | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Terverius Black believes in hip-hop gospel so much he sold his first home to get the money needed to start his Christian-themed e...
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books
We are living through an entrepreneurial revolution, on a global scale. The old power centers are breaking up. And to succeed, one must be completely self-reliant -- free of our culture's many crutches.
Nick Antosca | Posted 11.05.2009 | Entertainment
You can't go anywhere in New York these days without hearing Jay-Z & Alicia Keys's "Empire State of Mind" blaring from a window.
Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
**AP text, scroll down for video** SYDNEY - An Australian rapper who was a boyhood friend of Heath Ledger has released a music video the star directe...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy
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Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 11.05.2009 | Entertainment
Shawn Corey Carter, aka Jay-Z, is at a crossroads in the continuous ascent of his vertically integrated career. He's been both passenger and conductor on the Jigganational Express.
Cara Parks | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment
Discussing his new record, Man on the Moon: The End of the Day, released last week, Kid Cudi emphasizes that there's more to him than the malcontent he's dubbed "Mr. Solo Dolo."
Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Jason Richards | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment
In The 50th Law, the new book Robert Greene co-wrote with 50 Cent, Greene regards the rapper as the music world's modern-day Bonaparte.
eSarcasm | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy
Songs by John Mayer: You're either (a) an overgrown frat-boy douche or (b) a horny teenage girl. Songs by Miley Cyrus: You're either (a) a preteen girl or (b) a middle-aged male sex offender.
Zandile Blay | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style
What is that crazy 'Kid' from the 1990s rap group 'Kid-n-Play' doing? He's selling suits.
Christina Patterson | Posted 07.20.2009 | Entertainment
This "angry, illiterate, uneducated, ex-hustler, rebellious Rastafarian" (which is how Zephaniah describes himself in Too Black, Too Strong) is not like "most blokes who write poems."
Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.27.2009 | Style
In an attempt to keep up appearances, celebrity jewelers say rappers are asking them to make medallions with less-precious stones and metals. Some eve...
Mark Blankenship | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment
Have you seen this new Heineken commercial, "Let a Stranger Drive You Home?" Last week, it shot Biz Markie's 1990 hit "Just a Friend" onto the iTunes bestsellers list.
Vickie Karp | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment
Simmons: These days I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter. Federal gun laws is another one. There are a bunch of battles. It's all good.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.10.2009 | Entertainment
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: King-Anyi Howell It's no secret that ...
Daniel Werman | Posted 04.06.2009 | Entertainment
While sampling's presence may have made hip hop into the form that many of us miss dearly, its absence could actually start to foster a broad sound that we may soon grow to know and love.
Patrick Sauer | Posted 03.23.2009 | Comedy
It's a jungle out there and sometimes in the privacy of their own gated communities the Grand Old Party wonders how they're going to keep from going under.
Scott Mehno | Posted 02.15.2009 | Entertainment
Following the announcement of Run-DMC's induction into the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame, I submit Obama's election would have been unimaginable if it weren't for groundbreakers like Run-DMC.
Alex Remington | Posted 02.02.2009 | Entertainment
The album isn't overly pious, but Jawz's faith is apparent in the absence of the macho bull and gangsta pretension of other mainstream rap.
Matt Stewart | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment
I'm not fifteen and pissed off anymore, and today's fifteen year-olds don't seem as pissed off as I was at their age. America has changed, and I have too.
Shola Lynch | Posted 11.24.2008 | Entertainment
Who knew that so many artists had non-profit foundations that are giving back to their communities?
Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 11.22.2008 | Media
Watching Palin sit through the SNL skit, it amazed me how politics and Hip Hop have established some sort of weird intertextuality.
Jon Chattman | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment