Dangaaaaa! Mystikal is back!

DANGAAAA!!!
Uh-ooooooooh *side-eye* Seems like when 1 go in, 1 come out. It’s like the rap game is a phone booth or I guess the sound booth.
The magical microphone emcee I mean yeller I mean rapper is outta jail, yall. “WATCHA-SELF” First I’m VERY curious to know if he swelled up to the size of [...]

DEF JAM RECORDINGS: TOUGHER THAN LEATHER

In 1984, in the confines of an NYU dorm room, Rick Rubin and Russell “Rush” Simmons formed a record label. They wanted to create a brash, loud, honest kind of music, a redefinition if you will of what people were starting to call hip-hop. Little did they know that this company, Def Jam Recordings, would [...]

“Mane” Down!

First T.I. then Lil Boosie now GUCCI!…I’m trying to figure out, when did the music contract get mixed up with the court papers? Our new hip-hop habit demands the artist to be “Out with the skinny jeans and in with the P.O’s”!

Sammy Sosa As A White Guy?! Hilarious!!

Even though this isn’t a joke at all maaaaan, how hilarious! Either he has a serious case of the Wayans Brothers White Girls syndrome or he fell into a big ass tub of Middle Aged White Guy circa 1973.

DJ Drama Take Off Your Hat!

Along with this being a great topic to discuss I couldn’t help but notice how out of place DJ Drama seemed to be. I know people (ahem!) who were watching this CNN special, ready to throw more fuel in the fire that is ‘hip hop haters’ after seeing how DJ Drama was dressed.

Did Rihanna Headbutt Chris Brown?!

I thought, in lieu of all the seriousness of the topic and said to myself…”Damn her forehead is freakin’ huuuuuge! She had to head butt Chris a few times right? Like Tina did Ike? Or better yet *E.Honda style!”

Jamie Foxx rips on Plies! Audio inside.

So reluctant to post anything about this guy, seriously. Jamie Foxx discusses a video shoot he had with Plies where he saves Plies from getting jumped. Of course Plies wasn’t up to ‘goonin’ up.’ Audio inside.

Medallion Mayhem! T-Pain and Chris Brown are nuts!

First T-Pain’s “BIG ASS CHAIN” now Chris Brown’s diamond encrusted “Oops”

Ya boy, C-Breezy, was seen at Diddy’s, Malaria no more”, white party rocking a $300,000 charm that displayed the words “Oops”.
Some speculate the show piece to be his way of apologizing OR it [could] be a jab at the media and masses that assumed [...]

Bum Rush The Page Episode II: Attack of the Swine

Strange things have been occuring in the last few weeks, stuff that I’ve ben taking careful notice of. At first I thought it was the normal influx of activity and restlessness that accompanies the arrival of spring. After a very long and tiring winter everyone has plenty of pent up energy that’s just bubbling to [...]

BUM RUSH THE PAGE….

In 1987, when I was just ten years old, I had three things on my mind: Music, Movies, and Comics. Growing up as a little boy in the 80s was a special thing, being exposed to several different movements in different areas of popular culture that would later be known as “classic”. The birth and [...]

Does Underground Rap Exist Anymore?

When I ask this question, I’m not asking in the sense of whether “real” rap still exist: I’m asking whether there is a cohesive aesthetic or community that can call itself underground rap? The Internet, with the help of smaller magazines and blogs have blown the lid off what can or cannot be [...]

Zebra Panties-The black and white of it all

The “angry black woman” stereotype is so played, and I don’t want this article to be an ode to this misrepresentation of myself as a black woman, but rather a declaration of my being a woman. I remember as a child watching music videos and to see a woman in a sports bra and [...]

Paranoid P is at it again

Prodigy of Mobb Deep is a small man, but his mouth belongs to a man of stature, or in this case, his pen. There has been a letter that Paranoid P (let’ s just say I prefer this name now, especially after that video for Return of the Mack) sent from jail airing out [...]

The Hope For a Diva-Less Planet

I’ve been investigating hip hop beef a bit lately and the beef that has me excited is not the 50 Cent/ Rick Ross Thrilla in Vanilla, but rather one for the ladies: I really, sincerely hope that Keri Hilson drags Beyonce’ through the dirt. Now Hilson has tried to send Polow da Don [...]

How Swagger Lost It’s Groove

Dear Swagger,
I’ve enjoyed my time with you, but I’ve come to a new place in my life and I just have to discontinue our relationship.  It’s going to  be hard and you’ll still be in such high demand among so many everywhere, but it just isn’t going to work between me and you.  After I [...]

In Defense of Auto-Tuning

It’s hard out there for the pimps who like Auto-Tuning: I have come to the defense of the practice and it’s practioners for a while now and most of the time my peers look at me as if I suggested that we all drink the Kool-Aid. I came down hard at the [...]

Former Bad Boy Rapper’s Tell-All book on Diddy’s Shady business deals

Former Bad Boy rapper Mark Curry is releasing a tell-all book based on his time with the record label and his memoir reveals shady business practices by Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The book, titled Dancing With The Devil, is slated for release in February. In the first chapter of the book featured on Curry’s site, Curry claims [...]

Video Preview:: Mike Tyson Documentary

Predictably, the flick garnering outright adoration and even a standing ovation at its first screening at this week’s SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL is the gripping “Tyson” documentary by director and miraculous Tyson wrangler JAMES TOBACK. Told entirely in the lisping voice of the former champ in footage culled from countless hours of interviews, the father of [...]

Most Ghetto American Idol Auditions Ever!*

By Jerry Barrow via urbandaily.com
It’s that time of year again when Simon, Paula and Randy get to strap bombs to the pride of hundreds of wannabe entertainers and send their self-esteem hurling through the air in bits and pieces to the delight of the American TV audience. But it’s not all their fault!
Over the years [...]

Video:: FOX 10 Exclusive: John Hook talks with DMX

DMX is one of the most successful rap artists of all time, he’s made millions of dollars and sold 22 million records. But the only record anyone seems to be hearing about these days is his police record. FOX 10’s John Hook sat down with ‘X’, aka Earl Simmons, to talk about his time here [...]

JoJo Simmon Freestyle-Good or Bad?

I guess there are tons of benefits from being born into a family like the Simmons, but really JoJo? Come on kid, you know you can’t flow. Well, he is young so we’ll let you decide on it. Peep the video below and comment to whether you think JoJo has any promise or not.