After Recent Deaths and Health Scares, Veteran Rappers Say Hip-Hop in Need of a Wake-Up Call
Filed under: Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop News, R&B News
The culture that in the 1990s lost its brightest stars to gun violence has in recent years seen a series of notable rappers die of drug- and health-related causes. Since 2011, hip-pop pioneer Heavy D, singer and rap chorus specialist Nate Dogg and New...
Rapper Ja Rule Released From Federal Prison Early
Filed under: Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop News
The Federal Bureau of Prisons says he left a correctional facility in New York's Adirondacks on Tuesday, though time remains on his sentence.
The bureau says the release date for the 36-year-old rapper, whose real...
Lauryn Hill Sentenced to Jail Time for Failing to Pay Taxes
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"I am a child of former slaves...
Sparks Fly When Baz Luhrmann Meets Jay-Z -- 'The Great Gatsby' Soundtrack Review
Filed under: Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop News, Soul/R&B, R&B News, Movies
"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain." Daisy Buchanan from "The Great Gatsby" gets to be reincarnated on the film's...
Lauryn Hill Tax Evasion Case: Singer Faces Sentencing in New Jersey
Filed under: Hip-Hop News
Hill pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. A judge two weeks ago said Hill had paid only about $50,000 of more than $500,000 she owes.
Hill said...
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