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Hip Hop legend Dwight Heavy D, Myers will be laid to rest at a private funeral ceremony Friday, November 18, 2011. Grace Baptist Church established in 1888 by five spiritually powerful women will open it’s doors in The Home Going Celebration to honor the Hip-Hop hero … Heavy D.
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After doing his first live performance in 15 years on the BET Awards, Dwight Myers aka Heavy D has passed away at the age of 44. He was actually working on new material that he planned to release as his re-emergence into the Hip Hop industry.
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As you remember theurbandaily.com reported on an interview that was done by BET back in 2009 with Rakim and when he was asked that very question he said he would shoot a new hole through Big Daddy Kane.
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Hip-Hop is often shunned by critics and regarded as hazardous to Black youth. But can rappers be viewed as role models, especially to youth who lack parental guidance?
An opinion article on The Root reports:
Read MoreIn the late 1980s and into the 1990s, the answer for many of us was hip-hop. Nowhere was there a more ready supply of black men with something to say and the ability to articulate it
Last Firday at the Anthology Theater in New York City, the controversial hip hop Mockumentary (Mock Documentary), “Monkey Gang: The Mockumentary” was shown in New York City to a packed house. The crowd laughed throughout the whole movie and got the message about the satire and parody of negativity in hip hop culture.
After the movie, executive producer Montaigne “Logic” Massac, executive producer writer and star of the movie, Casey Gane-McCalla,
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BOSTON – According to reports on Twitter and on Boston Hip Hop forums Boston Emcee, Akrobartik has had a heart attack and is in a coma.
Akrobatik, real name Jared Bridgeman is from the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and has had his music featured on “The Wire” and the video game “NBA Live” and has released music on Rawkus and Fat Beats. He also was a regular on the Jamn 94.5 Morning
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NEW YORK- Last week, the Poetry & the Creative Mind benefit, organized by the Academy of American Poets, had a poetry reading at Lincoln Center.
Authors such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poem Alan Ginsberg and others were read by celebrities such as “30 Rock’s” Alec Baldwin and “The Social Network’s” Jesse Eisenberg. Oscar Award winning actor, Adrien Brody decided to read Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments.”
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She has demonstrated an untouchable ability to blend various music forms together in a perfect transition. Demanding request for her talent and appearance in Hip Hop, R&B as well as a favorite Lyricist of Spoken Word.
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PITTSBURGH -C onscious Emcee, Jasiri X has continued his string of politically oriented bangers with “3 Little Girls.”
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The song talks about the murders Christina Taylor Green, killed during the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Brisenia Flores, gunned down by an anti-immigrant militia intent on starting a race war, and Aiyana Jones, shot to death while sleeping in her home, by the Detroit Police
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MARYLAND – The NAACP is receiving criticism for showcasing different Hip Hop acts at their upcoming “NAACP Image Awards” including Jaz-Z, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj. Rev. Delman Coates, a pastor of the Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Maryland has directly addressed the civil rights groups choice of performers.
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AllHipHop News reports:
“On one side these are young black men that are great business men,
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OAKLAND, Calif.—The City of Oakland will pay $300,000 to a parolee who said an Oakland police officer planted a gun on him.
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Assistant City Attorney Barbara Parker tells the San Francisco Chronicle that the Oakland City Council voted 5-3 in a closed session on Tuesday to pay the amount to Lorenzo Hall as well as his attorneys’ fees.
A federal jury awarded Hall $175,000 after a weeklong
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NEW YORK- One month after releasing the first trailer for their movie “Monkey Gang” the fictitious Hip-Hop parody group is releasing a new trailer for their movie, “Monkey Gang: The Mockumentary.” The first trailer was featured on the number one Hip-Hop website in the world, WorldStarHipHop.com and quickly spread all over the internet.
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The movie is already being compared to
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BRONX-Kool DJ Herc, the deejay many credit with founding hip hop music is very ill without health insurance to help him pay his medical bills.
DJ Premier of the group Gangstarr said on his Sirius radio show:
Read MoreFor those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing well. It’s funny how we have a father of a culture that still lives, where
WorldStarHIpHop is back online. According to several sources, federal authorities shut down the popular urban website, WorldStarHipHop.com. WorldStar is known for showing rap videos, footage of rappers engaging in ignorant behavior, fights, newsclips and the occasional sex tape. Reports are that they were shut down by Homeland Security.
Federal authorities have already shut down the sites, OnSmash and Rap Godfathers, last year as well as several torrent sites. Rapper 50 Cent has
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Singer Calvin Richardson talks about how singer Charlie Wilson inspired during this segment of Way Black When.
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