On this date 54 years ago, Hip-Hop’s first matriarch was born in Newark, New Jersey. Born Dana Owens, Queen Latifah grew from an affluent and promising basketball player from Irvington, New Jersey into one of the most iconic figures in the world’s most transformative sub-culture known as Hip Hop. Whether it’s hitting the booth over the past three decades, delivering …

Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. When Hip-Hop was being passed off as a fad that wouldn’t last beyond “Rapper’s Delight,” a vivid reenactment of the introduction of this artistic culture to the world was made. In 1983, film director and …

La rapera colombiana Farina continúa ofreciendo píldoras de su nuevo material y ahora es el turno para Dora, su nueva colaboración junto con el dominicano El Alfa ‘El Jefe’. El anuncio de su nuevo tema ha desatado una ola de entusiasmo entre los fanáticos de la música urbana. En ‘Dora’, Farina se inclina hacia el estilo de El Alfa donde …

Even though pop sensation Bruno Mars has reached the ninth year of his residency at Park MGM in Las Vegas, which is slated to continue throughout 2024, it has been reported by News Nation that Mars has racked up a ridiculous gambling debt at the casino. “He owes millions to the MGM [from gambling],” an unnamed source told News Nation. …

According to his manager Wack 100, L.A. rapper Blueface reportedly got into a fight this weekend while serving time in the Los Angeles County Jail. Wack took to social media to speak on the scuffle, giving a brief description as to what happened to the troubled rapper. “He had a little fight. That’s it. Just let her [Blueface’s mother] know. …

On this day in Hip Hop history, Atlanta based tag-team Kriss Kross released their ridiculously successful debut album, Totally Krossed Out. The album was the follow up to the mega-hit single Jump released in February of the same year. Largely written and produced by Jermaine Dupri, it took two years to produce the album after the musical concept for the …

On this day in 1972, the late legend Sean Price of the Boot Camp Clik was born.  His first appearance was on Smif-N-Wessun’s 1995 album Dah Shinnin’, and his next major appearance was in 1996 as part of the duo Heltah Skeltah, who released the album Nocturnal on Duck Down Records. They would release two more albums as a duo, Magnum Force in …

On this day in 1956, Lumumba Carson aka Professor X of the groundbreaking X-Clan was born. He would’ve been 68 years old today. Known by his stage names Baba Professor X the Overseer, Professor X, or PXO, was born the son of Brooklyn-based activist and community leader, Abubadika Sonny Carson on this day. Abubadika was a black nationalist and very …

On this week’s episode of SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden,”James speaks with Dr. Dre. During the interview, the recent Hollywood spoke about working with Snoop Dogg on his new, upcoming album, his health challenges, having to be an adult at a very young age and also some of his favorite hits that he’s produced in his illustrious music career. …

Kenia Os decidió robarse las miradas de sus fieles seguidores con Tortura, su nueva propuesta musical. “Tortura” es una refrescante mezcla de pop acompañado de guitarras y armonías nostálgicas. En esta canción, Kenia escogió como temática de la letra de esta nueva canción una relación secreta y muy intensa que tuvo como escenario la ciudad de las estrellas. La canción …