The Sound

An attempt to bring Hip-Hop to Broadway in 2014 didn’t exactly go as planned when the Tupac Shakur-inspired “Holler If Ya Hear Me” closed within two months of its debut. Russell Simmons hopes to change that with his upcoming Hip-Hop musical, “The Scenario.” “People will sing along and leave happy,” Simmons told The Huffington Post. […]

Rolling Stone magazine gave it four stars. The New York Daily News called it “as gripping and dense as a prime Jay-Z rhyme.” Entertainment Weekly put it on their “Must List” for the holidays. And now you can win a copy of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop on The Urban […]

In this exclusive video premiere on TheUrbanDaily, Dan Charnas, author of the epic new book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, talks about one very interesting event in Jay-Z’s breakup with Dame Dash that you won’t read in Jay-Z’s new bestseller, Decoded. Check out the video below: Dan Charnas, author of […]

In this exclusive video premiere on TheUrbanDaily, Dan Charnas, author of the epic new book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, discusses a very controversial story within it.

In this exclusive video premiere on TheUrbanDaily, Dan Charnas, author of the epic new book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, bursts a few widely-held myths about hip-hop. Myth #1: Suge Knight sprung Tupac from jail Myth #2: The Source was the first hip-hop magazine Myth #3: Kool Herc “invented” hip-hop […]

In Dan Charnas’s up-coming book, The Big Payback: The History Of The Business Of Hip-Hop, the former magazine editor, record producer, and current InteractiveOne managing editor reveals a little-known truth about the relationship between one of hip-hop’s biggest executives and the late Jam Master Jay.