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...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When he wasn’t busy being what prosecutors portray as the ruthless leader of a violent drug gang, Ronald...
NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce and husband Jay Z will launch the co-headlining “On the Run Tour” on June 25 in Miami. Beyonce made the...
[TIME] Pharrell’s G I R L is probably going to be synonymous forever with his omnipresent soundtrack cut-turned-No. 1 hit “Happy,” but its follow-up and opening track “Marilyn...
For more information, contact: LaTanya O’Kelly, Hip Hop Union madamepublicist@gmail.com Black Newspapers Reach Out to the Hip Hop Community Through Core DJs 10th Anniversary in Miami (NEW...
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...
[The Celebrity Cafe] Oxymoron, which was released by Top Dawg Entertainment, scored 139,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers, Billboard reports. ScHoolboy Q earned the largest rap...
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 What validates you? Is it someone, or something, an action or a specific process of thought? The late Steve Jobs said,...
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 Beginning this weekend, there will be two celebrations of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – one on...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., President and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus and Trayvon Martin’s...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Since its inception Hip Hop has been a target for problems in the Black community. 40 years later its still a...
HIP HOP CONNECTION By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist The rags to riches stories that have defined the Hip Hop movement as a viable path to the...
Lil’ Wayne by Truth Minista Paul Scott Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Weekly ‘There’s a chain of command/I’m the missing link” – God...
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...
[BET.com] Michael Phelps ended his Olympian swimming career as the most decorated Olympic athlete in history. With a total of 18 gold medals and 22 medals overall,...
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...
