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...
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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...
The roots of a culture, the power of unity, the power of the word and a powerful Brooklyn concert by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Lately, Hip Hop news has been fueled with beef and rants of all kinds. Meek Mill is beefing with Wale because...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist It’s a war going on outside, no man is safe from, you could run but you can’t hide forever, from...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Movements for social change do not just happen in a vacuum. The historical and contemporary contexts of all...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist African American History Month is an appropriate time to raise the question of the relationship between the Civil...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Is Hip Hop losing its color? Recently Rapper Macklemore recognized that it is White privilege that catapulted him to success. In...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Hooray! The Associated Press reported that America’s Blacks voted at a higher rate than Whites in 2012 for the first...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist As Memorial Day approaches, I can’t help but think about Miami’s unofficial Urban Beach Week. It’s the largest urban festival...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist I’ve often debated with myself over the obvious ramifications the Hip Hop lifestyle imposes on society. Still, I proudly raise...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist I call it The Hip Hop Dilemma. The symptoms are all around us. You hate the new direction Hip...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call The latest to feel public pressure is former prison guard-turned rapper Rick Ross, who also...
Suge Knight recently appeared on the Howard Stern show and he had some really crazy things to say about Dr. Dre, as he accuses the good...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service During Russell Simmons’ recent visit to Israel, he realized the longstanding Palestinian-Israeli conflict looked a lot like something...
