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New York, NY – As the first group in the Hip-Hop community to publicly endorse presidential hopeful Barack Obama back in late 2007, Kidz In The Hall will continue their unwavering support for the Chicago native this evening (Monday, March 31st) with the help of some friends. Kidz In The Hall’s whose soulful ode to [...]

There are female MCs, and then there’s Roxanne Shante. The original bad girl blindsided Hip-Hop fans in 1984 with the Marley Marl produced “Roxanne’s Revenge,” her clever lifting of UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne.” At 14, she was already a superstar and began battling (many times unprovoked) everyone from Kurtis Blow to MC Lyte. At 21 she [...]

*The singing Levert family of Cleveland has lost another son and brother. Sean Levert has died. Levert, 39, the son of R&B legend Eddie Levert and brother of Gerald Levert, who passed away in 2006, collapsed at the Cuyahoga County Jail late last night and was immediately rushed to the hospital. The warden of the [...]

*Hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa joins XM Satellite nation with the April 5th 10 p.m. premiere of his new show Zulu Beatz on Channel 65 – The Rhyme. The South Bronx native and founder of socially-conscious rap movement Universal Zulu Nation will host the show along with The Cutman LG and Mickey Bentson aka Mick [...]

This season’s second “banned” episode of Adult Swim cartoon The Boondocks has leaked online, after airing in Canada. In what was supposed to be the Season Finale, racist black character Uncle Ruckus is given a reality show on BET. The show sees Ruckus giving a tour of the mini-shrines to white people in his home, [...]

A Los Angeles Times story about a brutal 1994 attack on rap superstar Tupac Shakur was partially based on documents that appear to have been fabricated, the reporter and editor responsible for the story said Wednesday. Reporter Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology Wednesday afternoon. The statements [...]

Los Angeles, CA – From April 25 through April 27, 2008 the picturesque fishing village of Plymouth, Tobago will transform into what Forbes Traveler has noted as “one of the world’s coolest music festivals.” For these three glorious days, jet setters, international partygoers and music lovers from around the world will transcend upon the Caribbean [...]

Erykah Badu’s Texas-bred urban mystic R&B returns with an album of music lead by its own momentum eschewing past tendencies to deliver neat songs preferring to go wherever her concepts steer her. New Amerykah is an artistic statement that only heeds convention on the slippery funk synth of the 9th Wonder produced single “Honey.” The [...]