Entertainment

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 […]

Entertainment

NEW YORK (AP) — The DIY television network is proving a comfortable home for rappers turned renovators. “Vanilla Ice Goes Amish” will debut on the network this year. Network executive Burton Jablin says the former rap star will live with an Amish community in Ohio to learn how they do construction. Vanilla Ice already has […]

It’s that time of the year to celebrate the greatest in music, and see some great performances or some lac luster ones. Sorry, Nicki were…

Music

Amor “Lilman” Arteaga of New York is a nine-year-old rapping phenom who gets the crowd crunk with positive rap. His latest project focuses on young men that somehow think that “saggin’” their pants is somehow cool. Watch video below.

TV & Film

Ice T may now be better known to TV fans as Detective Odafin Tutuola on “Law and Order SVU,” but to rap fans, he’ll always be the guy who put his then wife, Darlene, in a veeery revealing bathing suit on the cover of his now-famous1987 album “Power.” Now in his 50’s, Ice T was […]