The top 5 rap lyrics of the week
RAP GENIUS - This week, Common comes out to pla-ay, Kendrick watches classics in the back of the tour bus, and Jon Connor goes for the superhero blockbuster...
The top 5 rap lyrics of the week
RAP GENIUS - We watched a small part of our childhood die this week, as Naughty By Nature finally (and viciously) split up...
The top 5 rap lyrics of the week
RAP GENIUS - This week, our list is dominated by two phenomena. Funkmaster Flex dropped a massive, 56 song mixtape that gives us three of our entries...
Hip-hop's most notable name changes
Check out our list of some our favorite artists that went by a different rap handle or nickname...
Magic Johnson jumpstarts celeb mentor project
theGRIO REPORT - Johnson, alongside hip-hop artist, Common, and BET boss, Debra Lee, have joined forces with Coca-Cola to serve as mentors...
Common: 'LUV' will open guns conversation on guns
theGRIO VIDEO - Common says that his new film 'LUV' will help bring up a dialogue about gun control and violence in the urban community...
Common on guns and black families
VIDEO - Rapper Common joined a panel discussion Tuesday on the show Now with Alex Wagner in order to discuss poverty and gun violence in America...
Judge puts rapper Meek Mill's tour plans on hold
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill has been barred from touring for a month after a judge found he violated probation restrictions...
Common brings awareness to help free activist Leonard Peltier
NEW YORK (AP) - When Harry Belafonte asked Common to participate in a benefit concert in support of freeing Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving two life sentences for the 1975 execution-style deaths of two FBI agents, he did some research before giving his answer...
'Malcolm X' star Lonette McKee on Spike Lee: 'Hollywood is racist'
theGRIO REPORT - Lonette McKee has enjoyed a film career spanning more than 30 years, and she has no plans of slowing down now. During a recent interview with theGrio, McKee defended Spike Lee's recent body of work...
