[youtube id=”hszpWe5WR7w”] Da Bush Babees were a three-man (Mr. Man, Lee Majors and Y-Tee) group from Brooklyn via Jamaica and Trinidad with affiliation to the Native Tongue collective. Ali Shaheed Muhammad produced “We Run Things (It’s Like Dat)” which was from their debut album, Ambushed. The influence of their CaribbeanContinue Reading
[youtube]_Tr8KRqyGJk[/youtube] Chris “Mac Daddy” Kelly and Chris “Daddy Mac” Smith were teenaged performers when So So Def founder Jermaine Dupri discovered them in 1990 performing at a shopping mall in Atlanta. They were soon signed to Ruffhouse Records and Dupri’s So So Def imprint and Kriss Kross’s Totally Krossed OutContinue Reading
[youtube]010KyIQjkTk[/youtube] Chris “Mac Daddy” Kelly passed today at his Atlanta home of a drug overdose. Kelly was one-half of the early ’90’s hip-hop duo Kriss Kross that was known for their song “Jump” and wearing their clothes backwards. Jermaine Dupri discovered them at a shopping mall and signed them toContinue Reading
1. Did Jermaine Dupri really make death threats against blogger Sandra Rose? 2. Is it really surprising now that Essence is owned by Time that they’ve hired a white fashion editor? Why don’t people understand that until magazines like Vogue and W start integrating Black editors into their organizations thatContinue Reading