There is a petition going around to get the Brooklyn street corner where the Notorious B.I.G. grew up renamed in his honor. If passed it would change the intersection of St. James Place and Fulton Way to Christopher Wallace Way, reports Complex.com. “Artistically during Christopher Wallace’s time in music he was considered the best at […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hip-hop may need a checkup. 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 York rapper […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch (yowk) rapped that he wouldn't "sell my songs for no TV ad." His will shows he wanted to make sure that held true after his death. The will was filed in a Manhattan court this week, three months after his death from cancer at age 47. […]
Adam Yauch, the gravelly voice Beastie Boys rapper who co-founded the seminal hip-hop group died Friday May 4th.
