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Multi-platinum producer, Drumma Boy, has made quite the name for himself in the Hip-Hop and R&B industries. From producing the award-winning club smash, No Hands, for rapper Waka Flaka, to Never Meant To Lead You On by Jagged Edge, Drumma has consistently proven his ability to make hit after hit. Now, in an insightful — and unexpected — blog post on the
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LOS ANGELES — A community center in L.A.’s notorious Rampart area is helping teenagers stay out of trouble by giving them a creative outlet.
A program at the community center, “Sessions LA” use hip-hop and deejay culture to teach them how to make beats using digital technology.
CNN reports:
Read MoreHuang eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he began to volunteer with Sessions LA, which uses hip-hop to draw kids in and keep them from
In a recent sit-down with Time.com, Moshe Levi (pictured), the rapper formerly known as Shyne (most-famously known for a voice reminiscent of Biggie and most-infamously known for his involvement in a 1999 New York nightclub shooting), went into detail about his legal name change; what kind of content to expect on his forthcoming albums, Gangland and Messiah; and what his gripes are with hip-hop. Of his criticisms, Levi
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WASHINGTON-The ATF and the Washington D.C. police had an operation in which officers posed as hip-hop music industry insiders and pretended to be a fake hip-hop label that confiscated $7.2 million in drugs and 161 weapons.
The ATF and D.C. police created a fictional rapper “Richie Valdez” and used a studio they called “Manic Enterprises” and reached out to the criminal underworld to catch criminals.
AllHipHop reports:
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MILWAUKEE-Fourteen people were charged with running a massive drug ring in Milwaukee after a rap video called “Trap House Money” led investigators to indict them for drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun offenses.
While twelve members have been arrested, the rappers in the video Eastside L Boog and Eazy (real names: Larry Hooker and Earl Willams) are currently on the run.
The Loop21 reports
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Somehow, Refinery 29 found out that Martha Stewart was a “big rap fan.” So when interviewing her, the style site prodded Stewart: Just what it is about rap that she likes?
“Well, not a really big fan,” she corrected. “But I like rap music. They’re all cute. Those are cute guys and they’re all talented.”
Though she never discloses exactly who she’s keen on, marketing execs would concur that
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Erick Sermon, one half of the popular hip-hop duo EPMD, suffered a heart attack on Saturday, but appears to be recovering, reports say.
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Longtime EPMD affiliate DJ Scratch tweeted: “Erick Sermon had a heart attack today,” Scratch wrote. “He’s ok, but still send your prayers. He is not on Twitter.”
The news comes just days after rapper Heavy D passed away in
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NEW YORK — 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the building credited as the birthplace of hip-hop has been given a new lease on life after Workforce Housing Advisors, a company dedicated to working class housing, bought it.
The building, where Kool DJ Herc held parties that would help create hip hop culture, had fell into disrepair after the business that bought it defaulted on the mortgage and fell into foreclosure.
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Rappers Maino and Jim Jones, along with TV host and actor Terrence J were among the various celebrities in attendance at the third annual “I Will Graduate Day.”
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The event, put on by New York Non-Profit Entertainers for Education Alliance (E4EA), aims to encourage and inspire young people to live their dreams
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A Dallas rapper is following in the footstep of artists like Prince, blending gender lines by wearing lipstick and flower print tights all the while contending that he is not gay.
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Rapper Dphillgood is spearheading what he calls the XY movement, hoping that people will reconsider what they think is normal
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