Nipsey Hussle, the South Los Angeles rapper and philanthropist who was shot to death outside of his store last week, was memorialized in Congress on Wednesday. California’s Rep. Karen Bass, a Democrat, honored the late rapper-turned-entrepreneur on the House floor, highlighting Hussle’s efforts to uplift […]
Lil Kim has announced plans to release her first album in 14 years this summer. The Queen Bee hit up Twitter to reveal that her latest full-length album, which will be her fifth LP, is titled 9. Jay-Z To Receive Special Honor At NAACP Image […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay-Z will receive the President’s Award during the 50th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday. The NAACP announced Thursday it selected the 49-year-old rapper and entrepreneur for “shedding light on the issues that plague the black community including systematic racism and unjust […]
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Gary Clark Jr. has created a lot of conversation with “This Land,” the provocative first song off his latest album that shares the same name. In the angry blues-rock song, he recounts racial epithets hurled his way and other racist […]
Lollapalooza is headlined by several larger-than-life artists but none taller than NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal. O’Neal dabbled in music throughout his storied NBA career to the tune of the sports world’s only platinum album, titled Shaq Diesel in 1993. O’Neal has now morphed fully into […]
US rock guitarist Dick Dale, whose music featured over the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, has died aged 81, reports say. Dale, who is known for creating a style of music associated with surf culture referred to as surf rock, died on […]
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