Bay Area Soul Singer Goapele to host I.S.I.S Science & Culture Festival on Sunday, September 5th at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California with NASA’s first ever holographic presentation featuring Rapper/Actor Mos Def & Astronaut Leland Melvin, encouraging the youth to embrace Science, Math & Discovery Location: Chabot Space & Science Center [...]
1. Was Mary J. Blige accepted to Howard University or not? 2. Why is 50 Cent pushing a petition against Diddy using B.I.G.’s name??? Why? 3. Are we surprised at the chaos that erupted after the verdict was revealed in the Oscar Grant III case in Oakland where the BART officer Johannes Mehserle, who shot [...]
When the story of hip-hop is told most times it is always the Holy Trinity of Herc, Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. They are indeed pioneers but for some reason DJ Hollywood’s story always gets lost in the other stories. But it is Hollywood who opened the floodgate for the emcee to become the focal point [...]
Another panel discussion on the pitfalls of hip-hop’s co optation by companies that always seek the lowest common denominator to promote.
The Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble is preparing for their December 9th show at U of M’s Britton Recital Hall. Their use of the iPhone to make music is similar to the way hip-hoppers have used technology because they are taking something designed for one purpose to use for something else.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2009—It’s back to school for Cash Money CEOs and co-founders Ronald “Slim” Williams, brother Bryan “Birdman” Williams and their latest hit artist Jay Sean. The principals behind the historic, New Orleans-based hip-hop label will take part in “Where Do I Sign?,” Pace University School of Law Professor Vernon J. Brown’s [...]
BILL COSBY SOUNDS THE ALARM FOR ‘STATE OF EMERGENCY’ Socially Conscious Hip-Hop Project Launches Oct. 19 Via Virtual Town Hall In New York City Free track from Bill Cosby’s Cosnarati, State of Emergency available at billcosby.com LOS ANGELES—Bill Cosby rekindles hip-hop’s socially conscious flame on “Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency,” an album [...]
Bravo to Chris Rock for taking on his daughter’s impending colonization with a documentary on a Black woman’s most sensitive attribute. This is actually Nelson George’s film you may remember their earlier collaboration CB4. I can’t wait to see the distribution on this.
