When it comes to being an entertainer, a lot of artists are here today and gone tomorrow. for some rappers, they survive the business, but don’t ever reach the success they hoped to have. Our friends at The Smoking Section did a rundown of 14 rappers who were underacheivers in their careers. Check out an […]
As a writer, you’re always listening to music while you work, or at least I do. And with most people, I don’t catch every single word said in the first few listens. Sometimes, it will take me forever to figure out one word or what an artist meant when they said something in a song. […]
Rapper Busta Rhymes is headed to court. The legendary rhymer is being sued by a recording studio for racking up excessive hours in the studio without paying for any of it. Paramount Recording Studios is suing the recent Young Money signee for $70,300. According to them, Bussa Bus used their studio for more than 375 […]
The Hip-Hop culture is very unpredictable. At one moment, you’re just at a random show and the next you’re witnessing a freestyle so dope, people still remember the words 15 years later (Biggie and 2Pac freestyle at Madison Square Garden, anyone). The most legendary moments in hip-hop happen when you least expect it. Our friends […]
A friend of mine once said, “Correctly applied heavy effort is greater than hard work.” The family of Emmett Till must have heard that saying before because just days after they said they would pressure Mountain Dew to drop Lil Wayne as a celebrity spokesperson for his insensitive rap lyric referencing Emmett Till, Weezy penned […]
Actor Lance Gross has been the fudge in plenty of women’s chocolate sundae fantasies since getting his big break as Calvin on “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” in 2007. When not causing your girl to mentally cheat on you, Gross has been busy racking up acting credits on the big and small screens. Gross was […]
[twitter-follow screen_name='TheUrbanDaily'] Rick Ross is still feeling the heat from his rap lyric that references rape on the Rocko song “U.O.E.N.O.” While the Maybach Music Group leader has come out and said he doesn’t condone rape, he still hasn’t fully grasped why people are coming at his neck so hard. Rick Ross has been unable […]
Rap godfather Snoop Dogg has been one of hip-hop’s biggest supporters when it comes to marriage equality in the country. However, just because he believes all Americans should have the right to marry whomever they choose, he doesn’t think homosexuality will ever be accepted in the world of hip-hop despite Frank Ocean coming out as […]
Hip-Hop has the reputation of being a culture full of violence and degradation in some circles. Those circles will have a field day with that conversation after hearing about a Chicago shooting at an aspiring rapper’s album release party. The shooting took place at Mr. G’s Supper Club in the Gresham neighborhood of the windy […]
Being a journalist has it’s positives and negatives. While we get access to celebrity events and albums a week or two before they hit iTunes, we still have to deal with the bad things like struggle rappers. The mere mention of a struggle rapper in this post will illicit about five to ten responses on […]
