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*Rapper Talib Kweli on Monday weighed in on the Rick Rock controversy surrounding his verse on the song U.O.E.N.O. During a HuffPost Live segment hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Kweli took issue with Ross’s contention that his line seeming to promote date rape, was simply a “misunderstanding.” “I don’t care if Rick Ross is 40 [...]
*Prince will be honored with a March 7th benefit concert to be held at Carnegie Hall and double as a fundraiser for music education programs, reports the New York Times. Scheduled acts for the show include Talib Kweli, the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Roots. The event will mark the ninth year that City [...]
*Stacey Dash drew outrage on Sunday when she took to Twitter to express her support for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. “Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future,” the actress wrote in a post that was accompanied by a photo of her in front of an American flag wearing a red dress. Dash, [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “No person is your friend who demands your [...]
*On Thursday (Feb. 9), PBS will premiere “Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975,” a documentary that follows America’s black power movement and features interviews with many of its major players – including Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver and Elaine Brown. Armed with 16 millimeter cameras, Swedish television journalists flew to America in the mid-60s to document [...]
*Activist and university professor Angela Davis – the former Communist Party associate and Black Panther Party member whose afro and raised fist alone personifies the black power movement of the 60s and 70s – says she isn’t 100 percent satisfied with the current occupant of the White House. “Of course there are critiques that I would [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE People pay for what they do, and still [...]
*Lauryn Hill is beginning to disappoint her fans again with her hit or miss performances. On Thursday, on stage at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in Toronto, she just couldn’t hold up. According to the National Post, the former Fugees frontwoman’s set was compared to an “artist writing their own obituary on stage.” YIKES! This leg [...]
*The lineup for hip-hop’s premiere festival, Rock the Bells, hit the Internet last night with Lauryn Hill and Nas slated to return for the 2011 tour beginning August 20 in San Bernardino, CA. The bill also includes Wu-Tang Clan members Raekwon, Ghostface, Masta Killah and GZA, plus Black Star members Mos Def, and Talib Kweli, [...]
*Snoop Dogg’s new heavily criticized endorsement for Colt 45′s Blast has been blamed for marketing to minors and even mocking the appeal of Four Loko, an alcoholic energy drink that has been banned in several states. But the malt liquor company spoke up for their new spokesperson. “That’s just him being a true partner and [...]
Recently Talib Kweli and David Banner held forth and represented hip hop to the fullest at LA’s Club Nokia. EURweb’s Darryl Yates eye-witnessed what went down and has this report: *It still amazes to me to see the ability of real lyricists. Being able to think two steps ahead and create a song perfectly syncopated [...]
*Well, conscious Hip Hop just took a turn for the worse, but not over the mic. Talib Kweli and his wife got into a squabble, the kind you get arrested for at his own record listening party. His woman, DJ Eque, spotted Talib flirting with some other women and “flew into a rage and launched [...]
*The hip hop world has lost another respected artist to cancer. DJ Hideo, who worked with several radio stations and opened for such West coast acts as Xzibit and Coolio , died of colon cancer on Saturday (April 24) at Mission Hospital in Orange County, California. He was 42. Hideo launched a Web site shortly [...]
*Usher, Ludacris, Akon and Jamie Foxx are among the star-studded artists taking part in a new album celebrating the music of multi-Grammy winning producer, composer and arranger Quincy Jones. “Q: Soul Bossa Nostra,” due this spring from Interscope Records, features contemporary versions of popular recordings from Jones’ massive catalog. released. Other artists on the album [...]
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