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July 15, 2010
theGRIO VIDEO - Russell Simmons and Rabbi Marc Schneier are more concerned with promoting racial tolerance and acceptance than setting…
July 14, 2010
NEW YORK - Rapper Lil Wayne, who is jailed on New York's Rikers Island on a weapons charge hardly makes…
July 14, 2010
SLIDESHOW - Pete Rock, CL Smooth, Money Making Jam Boys, Curren$y, Skyzoo, Fashawn and others take the celebration back to…
July 14, 2010
"Amazing" and "perfect" don't do justice describing the lyrics Lil Wayne is writing in jail...
July 6, 2010
REVIEW - In its exhilarating music and strong lyricism, 'Chico Dusty' asserts that 'hood life can go far beyond the…
June 29, 2010
The 27-year-old Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rapper -- already behind bars on a probation violation -- was indicted on first-degree murder…
June 29, 2010
Lauryn Hill has influenced millions in the hip-hop generation. One woman sits down with some of her fans to see…
June 29, 2010
OPINION - Being a badass, in the traditional sense, isn't appealing to consumers in the same way it used to...
June 25, 2010
theGRIO VIDEO - Health and wellness isn't the most popular topic in most chart-topping hip-hop songs. One New York emcee…
June 25, 2010
'It is a song that spoke not just to me, but every mother that has been in that situation, and…
June 24, 2010
ALL HIP HOP Q&A - We ask Drake about how he intends to appease his highly critical base and his…
June 24, 2010
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) - Dr. Dre and Timbaland went back to school Wednesday night. The rapper-producers shocked students when…
June 23, 2010
Though he failed to join mentor Lil Wayne in the one milli club in his first week on the charts,…
June 22, 2010
REVIEW - Going past the themes of perseverance, several of the tracks call on listeners to get up and work…
June 19, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - The two rap titans were there for West to answer questions about a celebrity-packed Miami Beach…
June 19, 2010
OPINION - Hip-hop is more than a "Hot 16," "fresh new gear" or "swagger devoid of substance." At the end…
June 19, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - LaMar Queen, 26, is now known at Los Angeles Academy as the rap teacher, but his…
June 18, 2010
OPINION - Hip-hop and Islam intersected early on in rap's history when the young poets began to embrace the teachings…
June 18, 2010
A permit for Jay-Z's performance would have been granted only if organizers could keep the show secret, but word of…
June 18, 2010
OPINION - For almost 20 years hip-hop was used to drive white voters to conservative political candidates, to conservative political…