About MrMecc

After serving as Music Editor of The Source magazine and writing countless pieces for various publications, this on-air correspondent, unhinged writer and closet comic is pushing his pen for TheUrbanDaily.com.

  The Gods of the Yes-Men are rejoicing heavy now. Jamie Foxx, the Oscar Award-winning star of the silver screen was reported by In Touch Magazine via multiple-source confirmations that Jamie was jumping off with Katie Holmes on a regular basis. In other words, Foxx pulled the ultimate homie-hop by claiming Katie, ex-wife of his […]

Last week on the hit series “Scandal,”  Joe Morton, aka Rowan Pope, gave audiences full of adoring fans a dose of the Holy Ghost in their living rooms when he read his home-wrecking daughter the wrath of God for getting busted sleeping with the POTUS.  He offered her a one-way exit strategy and ended his […]

The Internet has been going crazy since BET leaked a 15 sec teaser of their 2013 Hip-Hop awards cypher which revealed an animated Kendrick Lamar spitting: “Yeah…and nothing’s been the same since they dropped “Control”/ And tucked a sensitive rapper back in his Pajama Clothes.” Since Drake’s album is named Nothing Was The Same and […]

Movies

“It’s important to remember that Fred and Lee actually went to Rome in 1979 and showed canvases of their work. And this is two years before Basquiat started to do similar things.” – Charlie Ahearn, Director of “Wild Style” In 1983, a few folks got together for a film based around the story of a […]

  It’s been an interesting turn of events for Nelly. After several years off the scene and a couple of false starts St. Louis rapper played his new album “M.O.” for an eager crowd of journalists at Jungle City Studios in NYC. Through bites of Bon Chon chicken and a bunch of banging beats, here are […]

Three albums have passed, but when it comes to Drake, some things painfully refuse to change. “Nothing Was The Same” leaked early to a good chunk of anticipation… but the trademark Drake is back in the booth bringing the emo staples that make women swoon while the fellas wince. Yep, more rhymes about more feelings […]

  So I was sitting in my house watching Breaking Bad, trying to figure out if my neighborhood has been gentrified enough to turn my closet into a meth lab when I get an email about new music from Juvenile of Cash Money fame. I figured a lil Nawlins would be the perfect motivation to […]

  I’m telling you now, this ones gonna be a little, um… well, different. Under normal circumstances, I would take one look at Gucci Mane deciding to publicly sever ties with the label he started, 1017 Brick Squad Monopoly, over Twitter, and go ham. I’d wanna know why they didn’t unplug the computer when he felt […]

  I’m not gonna pretend to understand this at all… Toure is a journalist…that much is clear. I mean the man’s a writer, serves on The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame committee and hosts “The Hip-Hop Shop” for Fuse. Hell, he’s even a contributor for MSNBC. So you’d like to assume he’s well informed. […]

Today, we celebrate the birthday of the King of Pop music, Michael Jackson. A man whose talent was as limitless as his acclaim who left us too soon but gave us a catalog of classics to remember him by. And remember we do… except when we don’t. Now don’t get me wrong, Michael was a genius […]

  This has got to stop… The VMAs have always been known to get a little raunchy, that’s pretty much been a fact since the beginning. Every year the good people at MTV have allowed artists to push the envelope during performances in their attempts to out do each other’s red carpet relevance. Between Lady […]

Twelve years ago today the world was rocked by the death of Brooklyn born singer Aaliyah Dana Haughton, better known to her millions of fans simply as Aaliyah. Though it’s been over a decade since music lost one of its brightest rising stars, the impact of her life and music resonate with us still. As […]