(People) – This past season of New York Fashion Week, rapper-slash-fashion guru Kanye West debuted his first show at New York Fashion Week in partnership...
(Star Pulse) – The title of rapper Wale’s latest album is an unfortunate one – The Album About Nothing. From a critical standpoint, The Album About Nothing is another captivating...
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Christina Milian has confirmed her relationship with Lil Wayne. The 33-year-old singer discussed the 32-year-old rapper in an interview with Big Boy on...
MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Music mogul Russell Simmons is producing a brand new stage musical that will celebrate three generations of...
Cory Townes, EBONY (Ebony.com)—This story starts with a conversation in Brooklyn roughly last week. “Yo, you know what this means?” “No, what?” “This time next week,...
(Reuters) – Rapper Big Sean topped the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday for the first time, beating out rocker Kid Rock. Big Sean’s...
Free Class by Anthony Pinn and Bernard ‘Bun B’ Freeman Kicks off March 24 by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward...
NEW YORK (AP) — Drake’s surprise album has set records on Spotify. The music streaming service said Tuesday that the rapper’s new album, “If You’re Reading...
NEW YORK (AP) — Drake was featured on Beyonce’s surprise album — and now he’s taking a page from her book. The Grammy-winning rapper released...
Maya Rhodan, TIME Magazine (TIME.com)—2 chainz: rapper, fierce debater, champion for felon voting rights, and, now perhaps, mayor? Rapper Tauheed Epps, better known by his stage...
(CNN) – Song lyrics that glorify violence are hardly uncommon. But a prosecutor in California says one rapper’s violent lyrics go beyond creative license to...
by Kimetha Hill Special to the NNPA from the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Nigger. A very abrasive word. A very volatile word. A very powerful...
(Rolling Stone) – Oprah Winfrey’s Emmy-nominated Master Class series spotlights dozens of iconic African-American writers, actors, musicians and more discussing the civil rights movement. In the...
LOS ANGELES (USA Today) — Now this is how you ace every platform. Pharrell Williams served up an innately cool 2014 as our impresario of music, television,...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist One of my mentors asked me why I was so quiet and not making my voice heard in the streets...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An up-and-coming rapper pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he moonlighted as a gun-toting member of a...
Nia-Malika Henderson, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Over these last few weeks, it’s been hard to miss the presence of hip-hop in protests over incidents...
BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI, Associated Press MESFIN FEKADU, Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Big Bank Hank, a member of the pioneering hip-hop group the Sugarhill Gang responsible...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –In the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.,...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist So now that we know that the state of the Black Community is worse than it was 50 years ago, what...
Mesfin Fekadu, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Rappers are making their voices heard in song and on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri, in the...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Hip Hop has always had a fetish with gangster movies and characters. We often see artists referring to themselves in...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Many African Americans feel like there has been an unofficial war declared on Blacks, especially young Black males. Just in...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist I had the honor of sitting in on LL Cool Jay’s private listening session in New York City. He was previewing...
DAVID PORTER, Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Violent rap lyrics written by a man accused of shooting a fellow drug dealer in 2005 should not...
