Killa Cam is one of the more outspoken individuals in hip-hop. Whenever you put a camera and microphone in front of the Harlem representative, you’re almost guaranteed gold! Thanks to Rap Genius and MTV, we’re treated to the Diplomat‘s very first interview with MTV News. Fresh off the release of his debut album ‘Confessions […]
Boom Moment In Hip-Hop (1997) It’s been one chaotic week to say the least for Diddy. After his run in with his son’s football…
Like many other unspeakable tragedies, we look at icons for some truth to disperse the dark cloud. Nas did some of that following the Charleston tragedy. VIBE caught up with Nas at the premiere of the hip-hop fashion film Fresh Dressed and asked him about his thoughts. “We have to live our life in this zoo,” Nas said, after […]
Boom Moment In Hip-Hop (May 27th) Today we celebrate the birthday’s of two of hip-hops all time greats, Andre 3000 and Jadakiss. Both rappers were…
Fresh off the announcement that his lyrics are set to be used on the side of Sprite cans, Nas recently revealed that he has partnered with the New York-based chicken and waffles restaurant Sweet Chick. Co-owner John Seymour made the announcement at the one-year anniversary of Sweet Chick’s Manhattan restaurant earlier this week. “As we continue […]
Mister Cee kicked off his career in music officially alongside Big Daddy Kane in the late 1980s. In 1991, just after his final tour with Kane, a persistent local deejay delivered a demo tape of a young The Notorious B.I.G. to Cee. Shortly after, Biggie was featured in The Source’s “Unsigned Hype” column, Puffy caught wind, and the next few years launched […]
Today marks five years since the passing of the emcee Keith “Guru” Elam. The late Hip-Hop icon was best known for his fifteen-year run with DJ Premier as Gang Starr, pumping out classics like “Mass Appeal” and “Just To Get A Rep.” With a gruff voice and rhymes that straddled between street-savvy thinking and exploring challenges faced […]
Another Monday has come and gone and guess what that means? Yep, another wild episode of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta has been added to the archive. This episode’s highlights included new allies, unreasonable debt, a surprise musical guest, a hoodrich “proposal” and plenty of quotables. Let’s get started. Joseline meets with Nikko’s wife, Margeaux. Despite not […]
Where in the world has the time gone? Christopher Wallace Jr., the only son of rapper Notorious B.I.G. has done something that his uber famous father was unable to do… Christopher Wallace Jr. graduated from High School. The son of Biggie and Faith Evans graduated from Santa Margarita Catholic High School and his mama took to her Instagram […]
Chicago rapper Common is hard at work promoting his upcoming album “Nobody’s Smiling.” The second track to be lifted from it is the Biggie-sampling “Speak My Piece.” The song finds Common just trying to knock some sense into the wild youth of the Windy City. While the song does talk about the drama going on […]
It’s hard to fathom that The Notorious B.I.G. was killed 18 years ago, on March 9, 1997. Although many years have passed, the memories of that Sunday morning that swept the news, is just as fresh in our minds as if it happened yesterday. With only two albums, Ready To Die and Life After Death—and […]
