About Jerry L. Barrow, Senior Editor

On April 27th NBA commissioner Adam Silver addressed the controversy surrounding racist statements made by Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angles Clippers basketball team, by saying that  Sterling was owed due process but that the league would move “extraordinarily quickly” in gathering facts and taking a course of action. RELATED: More Fall Out Over Racist Comments […]

After years of ruling over their respective fiefdoms in the Big Apple Hip-Hop scene Jay Z and the RZA finally connected on 2011’s “Watch The Throne” with the Wu-tang leader produced the track “New Day.”  The two vets have plenty in common when it comes to sustaining musical legacies, but of late another shared interest […]

Derrick “D-Nice” Jones is a man tailor-made for these modern times where skill diversification is more of the rule than the exception. The MC, DJ and photographer has been contributing to the advancement of hip-hop since the late ’80s as a teenaged member of the rap group Boogie Down Productions.  Under the tutelage of KRS-One, Kenny […]

A lot of late night shows and movies have taken to re-imagining rap standards in sanitized white face for a laugh, so it’s only fair that the reverse gets some burn. The creative minds behind Postmodern Jukebox have started a clever series called “Saturday Morning Slow Jams” were they give some of our childhood favorites a […]

In a classic case of “he said/she said” actress Taraji P. Henson and her good friend Tyrese Gibson squared off on last night’s “Arsenio Hall Show” about their love scene in John Singleton’s 2001 flick, “Baby Boy.” The sexy Henson claims that neophyte actor Gibson was nervous as all hell about having to take his […]

Every dad has done this. Your baby is minding their own business enjoying a refreshing beverage and for some inexplicable reason you move the straw, bottle or sippy cup just to get a reaction. You know damn well it’s gonna make ’em mad but you do it anyway. Why? Because dads are bullies! No, we’re […]

Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA first made the leap from rapper and producer to actor in the 1999 film “Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai” and since then has gone on to appear in a half dozen movies and made his directorial debut in 2012’s “The Man With The Iron Fists.” His appearance in “Iron […]

Two of our favorite Brooklyn MCs, Skyzoo and Torae have finally made good on their promise to drop a full length album together named for one of their best collabs, “Barrel Brothers.” The collection caves in the streets on May 27th and features guest appearances by Sean Price, Sha Stimuli and Livin Proof. The first […]

Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal are the best of frenemies. The two retired NBA vets have enjoyed a long-standing rivalry that extends back to their time on the basketball court. These days the bald and bold former athletes  spend their time trading jabs as basketball commentators on TNT and it’s often more entertaining than the […]

Tahiry Jose knows what boys like. The curvy video model and reality TV star has spent years as an object of  men’s desires in general and even one rapper in particular. Part of her seductive resume has been a series of revealing “Intimacy” calendars featuring the native New Yorker in all states of undress. She […]

Fans of “The Boondocks” finally got to find out how the popular series would fair without its creator Aaron McGruder. The first episode of the fourth season entitled, “Pretty Boy Flizzy,’ spoofed R&B singer Chris Brown and his many on-going legal problems, including the now infamous beating of his ex-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009.   The […]

Once upon a time rapper YG was on his Latarian Milton sh*t, doing hoodrat things with his friends. The 24-year-old Compton California native born Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson left a sizable footprint in the rap music landscape with his debut album, “My Krazy Life.” Thanks to hit records like “Toot It and Boot It,”  “Who Do You […]