December 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News December 2008
25 Joints to Get U Through the Day #6 We're Fired Out This Week w/ Jasiri X-Episode #13 From Goddess to Gangstress-The Devaluation of the Diva The Real Jordan Legacy-200 Dollar Sneakers Ina Recession? Why President Elect Barack Obama is not the first Hip Hop President Chicago Rappers Remake Self-Destruction Dr Dre & Eminem Used in Music Torture program at Guantánamo Katrina's Hidden Race War The 10 Greediest People of 2008 Tasers Are Sold as 'Non-Lethal' -- But They've Killed 400 So Far If Obama Is Pro-Science and Honest, He'll Put the Kibosh on the Drug War
Breakdown FM: The Great Harlem Debate-The Report Back & Audio Paradise of X-Clan Responds-Notorious BIG IS NOT overrated Hip Hop Mogul 50 Cent Worried About His Money In Sagging Economy Top 10 Barack Obama Player Haters of 2008
White Rapper Contestant Facing jail-time-She Was a Victim of Domestic Violence What's So Big About Biggie Smallz?-Notoriously Overrrated From Head Bussa to Peacemaker-Meet Silky Slim Murs=Next: Don't Sleep on this Man.. Obama's true colors: Black, white ... or neither? The Auto Bailout-Don't Let Them Destroy Our Union
Op Ed: What if John McCain Won? Man Badly Beaten for Wearing an Obama T-Shirt in Louisiana Top 5 Corrupt Politicians for 2008 Hip Hop Segregation by Hector 'Heist' Alvarez
Busta Apologized for Arab Money, But who will apologize to Black Women? Busta Apologizes for Releasing Arab Money Song and Video The Great Debate in Harlem-Is Obama Good for Black America? An Interview w/ Sista Soulja-(Still at War Till Midnight) This Week w/ Jasiri X Episode #11 Andre 3000 Sued Over Class of 3000 Cartoon Show Jeremiah Wright Calls View Co-Host a Dumb Broad A Message to Obama-Please Bring Down the Border Walls
Lil Wayne Gets 7 Grammy Nominations-Told You He Was the Best Damage Control-Tribute to Pimp C (RIP) Hip Hop Chess Federation Steps Its Game Up KRS-One Sits Down w/ Former Rival Roxanne Shante December 4th-Remembering the Murder of Fred Hampton & Mark Clark Is Plaxico Burress Getting a Bad Deal? How Far Have We Come-from Slavery to Obama
Warning: RIAA & Industry Pigs are Deleting Music Blogger Posts First a Black President; Now a Black Jesus America Mourns the Death of "Joe the Racist": Will Racism Rest in Peace? NY Oil at the State of the Black World Conference Behind the Screwy Obama Birth Certificate Controversy
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November 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News November 2008
President Bush Pardon's John Forte Two Hip Hop Camps Rumble at Awards Show Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Reverend Jeremiah Wright -He Was Never Wrong Flint Rapper MC Breed dies at 36
Maryland Police Spied Upon Activists Houston Police Critically Beat Father of NFL Player KRS-One Busts Out Rhyme About Obama & Democracy
Al Quaida Leader Calls Obama a House Negroe Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Toki Wright-the Unofficial Mayor of the Twin Cities Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Oakland Rap star Ras Ceylon B-Boys & B-Girls Make the World Go Round by B-Fresh Black-Brown Unity Film Set to Kick Off in South Central Update on KPFA Drama-Nadra Foster Court Date Tomorrow Law Professor fires back at song-swapping Lawsuits Hip Hop Mogul Damn Dash is Broke Dick Cheney & Alberto Gonzalez Are Indicted in Texas
25 Joints to Get U Through the Day #4 pt1 25 Joints to Get U through the Day #4 pt2 An Open Letter to Barack Obama from Ralph Nader Reflections of the Born In The Bronx Hip Hop Conference at Cornell University Suge Knight Sues Kanye West Over 2005 Shooting 10-Year-Old Held 3 Days After Classroom Clash Grab the Raid! Another Homophobic Cockroach Rapper!: Trick Trick. A Final Response to the More-Radical-Than-Thou Critique of Obama Supporters
White Mob Goes 'Beaner Hunting and Kill Latino Man in NY Mama Africa Has Passed-Miriam Makeba's Spirit Lives On Black Voters, White Bias & Cali's Gay Marriage Proposition How the Greedy Music Industry is Hurting Satelite Radio Is the US Dollar About to be Extinct? Davey D: Economy forces hip-hoppers to be more self-reliant An Open Letter to Ralph Nadar About His Dis to Obama
America's Great Hope (Obama Was Necessary) by Immortal Technique A New Day by Jeff Chang President Elect Obama: 'Change Has Come to America' (Yes. He. Did.) Obama Wins and Redefines What It Means to Be American A Good Day in Texas.. It Ain't Blue Yet But it Will Be... Why the Democrats Are Winning Back the South Prop 8 Loses in Cali-Gay Marriage Is Gone-Meet the Man Behind the Efforts The Obama Administration: Who Could Get Picked?
Ain't Going Out Like That-The True Story of ACORN Emergency Actions to Take if Elections Wind Up Shady Warning! McCain Could Win This Election Unless You truly Understand..
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October 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News October 2008
Former Source Editor Releases Tell All Book What 50 Cent Can Learn from the McCain Campaign Def Jam Executive Stewart Shakir Kills Himself.. Hip Hop History 101-The Story of Spoonie Gee Hip Hop History 101-The Story of Kurtis Blow DJ Kuttin Kandi Does Video for Rosa Clemente Protect Your Necks-Voters Across the Country Hit w/ Dirty tricks An Open Letter to the Undecided (You're Better Than This) An Open Letter to 40 Glocc About His Homophobia
Vote Your Values: An Interview w/ Rosa Clemente Bun B, Chamillionaire, Paul Wall & H-Town Allstars Do Song for Obama An Interview w/ Manny Fresh Hip Hop is Running for Mayor in Berkeley An Interview w/ Hip Hop professor Jelani Cobb
Texas is in Play Screening Tonite in Brooklyn This Week w/ Jasiri X - Episode 8 (The Final Countdown) These Are the Same People that Want Blacks to Support Gay Marriage CNN: Breaking The News? DL Hughley has Got to Go An Interview w/ Big Pooh of Little Brother & Tiye Phoenix An Interview w/ Manny Fresh-Southern Hip Hop & Obama An Interview w/ Boots Riley of the Coup on 2008 Election Chuck D's Important to Texas-Black & Brown Unity Will Turn It Blue Here's An Important message for Us to Ponder About the Elections Here’s a Dope Freestyle to Blow You Away Let’s Remember the True Legacy of John McCain Is McCain's Racially Charged Campaign Leading to Nazi Skinhead Attacks? Lessons Hip Hop Can Teach You About Thriving in Hectic Times
The Real Reason Katt Williams Was Dropped by BET Horror in Paris, Texas, Another Black Man Dragged to Death Rise up Hip Hop Nation, Wise Up: The Choice is Yours The N Word Flourishes Among latinos Within Hip Hop-Should We Care? BET Hip Hop Awards Go Political Southern Rapper 'Nov 27th Gets a New Life Paris/Acid Reflex: The Critics Weigh In | $10,000 Scholarship Contest
Top 10 Racist Rush Limbaugh Quotes Police, Swat Teams Prepare for Civil Unrest if Obama Losses Scarface Speaks on Obama & Politics The McKinney Choice-Why I am Voting for Her Why I'm Voting for Obama (Instead of a 3rd Party Candidate) Stop the Execution of Troy Davis-Stop The Lynching of an Innocent Man
Republicans are Racists-This Week w/ Jasiri X Episode #7 The Passing of a Legend-Rudy Ray Moore aka Dolemite Shocking Images: An Interview w/ Rudy Ray Moore aka Dolemite 1993 An Open Message to the People in Texas (Times Are Changing) The End of Karl Rovian Politics-McCain's Age Becomes a Factor John McCain and the Hatred Within Him An Open Message to Sarah Palin An Important Message from Journalist Adisa Banjoko Dead bear covered with Obama signs found at school Any Problems with Voting Because of Cheating republicans Call 1-866-Our-Vote
Cynthia McKinney & Ralph Nader Respond to Presidential Debate All Across America the Disgusting Ignorance Continues The New Jena-Look at Ambridge Joe the Plumber is Phony as Hell-Like Vanilla Ice
A Skinhead Shoots Black man For Wearing Obama t-Shirt in London Lil Eazy E, Mack 10 & Jamie Foxx Kick Off 'My Hood Votes' Rappin' for the Republicans-How Hip Hop Helps the Conservatives NY Oil Speaks About The Divisions Within Hip Hop Rev Run Confirms 50 vs Kanye Feud Was Fake New Orleans Rapper Truth Universal Comes Correct with New Video Boston Rapper Uno tha Prophet Drops New Video How McCain Will Steal the Election from Obama (Sort Of)
NY Times-Obama Voters Being Illegally Purged Off Voter Rolls in Swing States Breakdown FM-Born in Atzlan-Respect the Lyrical Prowess of Apakalips Slick Rick Still Has Immigration Problem In spite being Pardoned Obama's Got Our Support But Does That Mean That We Don't Hold Him Accountable? Tavis Smiley Sets the Record Straight Davey D Joins Media Justice Panel in Atlanta this Weekend The Willie-Hortinizing of Barack Obama Cheese & Strawberry Quick Are Killing Kids-As drug dealers Market to Kids
Cornell University Host Free Conference on Hip Hop Origins Hip Hop Pioneers from Cold Crush Bros Sign Record Deal Revolutionary Hip-Hop Icon Paris Offers Scholarship Thousands of Troops Deployed to US Streets for 'Crowd Control' Top 5 Things That Might Keep You From Voting Ice Cube's Northern Cali production team raises the Stakes Jay-Z Stumpin' for Obama-is that Good or Bad? Cynthia McKinney Claims 5 Thousand People Killed During Katrina
Never Trust a 'Big Butt and a Smile' (It Could Be Poison) Quincy Jones: When it comes to hip hop, Wynton Marsalis Blows It Famed Tupac Hip Hop Producer Johnny "J" Commits Suicide Rosa Clemente & Matt Gonzalez Respond to VP Debate.. Teacher Tells Class 'Help Get a Nigger Elected' Frank Talk of Obama and Racial Politics in Virginia Film maker Michael Moore's 10 Point Bail Out Plan Become An Election Poll Worker-Stop Voting Theft McCain-Obama tie possible in Presidential Race
Last Night's VP Debate-What Did You Think? Hip Hop Conference in San Francisco This Weekend Jay-Z Set to Do two Concerts for Obama Breakdown FM: 23 Slamming Hip Hop Joints to Get You Through the Day Itunes May Be Forced to Shut Down-The Greed Doesn't Stop Redman, Color of Change & DJ Zin Speak on Elections
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September 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News September 2008
In Response to 'Healing KPFA' Letter Have U Registered Ur Local Crackhead/ Gangbanger to Vote? Rebel Diaz Addresses the Wall Street Bailout This Week w/ Jasiri X #4- McCain gets a Foot in His Ass Killer Mike Addresses the Election at Ozone Awards Killer Mike brings the Pressure w/ Ice Cube... Breakdown FM: Interview w/ SF Rapper Paris & His New Album Acid Reflux'
How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics Rappers Slim Thug, Killer Mike & Malvadre Speak on the Elections An Interview & Video profile of Green Party VP candidate Rosa Clemente 50 Cent vs Barack Obama-Defining Blackmanhood
McCain, Bush, Cheney, Palin get the Hip-hop ETHER!-Jasiri X Episode 3 Run DMC To Be Inducted Into the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame Talib Kweli Helps Launch Voting Online Competition & Youth Agenda Justice for Nadra Foster-Hip Hop Reporter Beaten By Police at KPFA Radio Station The Wall Street Collaspe-An Economic Coup d'etat (You Must Read This) Seize the Time-Cynthia McKinney Speaks the Collaspe of Wall Street Paul Wall & Game Issue Statements About Travis Barker & DJ AM Tragedy It'll Take More Than a T-Shirt for Obama to Win-It's On You
48 Laws of Obama: An Interview with Strategy Expert Robert Greene Welcome to Politics Hip Hop: U Got Knocked The F!@# Out (reprint from 2004) How a Texas Senator Ruined Our Economy (And Can Ruin it Some More) Bad Karma & Out of Control Republicans-Ya Gotta Love America
Jasiri X of One Hood Kicks Off Hip Hop Newscast This is Your Nation on White Privilege (Can You say Sarah Palin?)
An Open Letter from the SF Bayview Newspaper Hip Hop Artists Determined to Turn Texas from Red to Blue Mayor Willie Brown Speaks on Barack's Campaign BET's Jeff Johnson Named aa One of the two to Replace Tavis on TJMS Green Party VP Candidate Rosa Clemente Calls Out Police -Challnges Hip Hop Leaders Were the Protestors at the RNC & DNC Undercover Cops? Conservative Group sells 'Obama Waffles' with Racial Stereotype Sarah Palin vs Michael Vick-Talk About Being a Savage Jeremiah Wright in the Propoaganda System Black Man Claims to be Father of Sarah Palin’s Daughter Child
Mistah FAB vs Big Von: Reveals Beef With Bay Area Radio Station MC Breed On Life Support; Needs Kidney Bigger Than Hip Hop-Vote Kevin Powell 4 Congress Tomorrow-Sept 9th Lil Wayne Seeks out Eminem RNC Coverage-The Poor People's March & Police Drama at the RNC RNC Coverage-Police Terrorize Journalist in St Paul-An Interview w/ Amy Goodman McCain Complains & MSNBC Removes Keith Olberman & Chris Mathews from Anchor Seats Election Observer Arrested in Arizona-The Terror Continues Sarah Palin's 9 Most Disturbing Beliefs St Paul City reporters Maced and Assaulted by Police During RNC Protest Nearly 600,000 Voters Could be Purged from Voter Rolls in Ohio on Some Shady Shit
RNC Coverage-Drama, Chaos & Police Terrorism at the GOP Convention RNC Coverage-McCain's Plan to Scale Back RNC Backfires-There's Drama in the Streets RNC Coverage-Sarah Palin for President! The Connection between Hip Hop and Gentrification in Portland … and Beyond
DNC Coverage-The Remix of Barack Obama (We Shall Overcome) DNC Coverage-Interview w/ Bun B of UGK DNC Coverage-Interview w/ Boots Riley of the Coup DNC Coverage-Interview w/ Michael Eric Dyson DNC Coverage Actor Wendall Pierce aka Bunk from The Wire on Katrina DNC-Coverage-Interview w/ Chairman Fred Hampton Jr Police Terrorize Black KPFA Programmer in the Station
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August 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News August 2008
2 female cops are charged in Bronx road rage -pistol-whip man The Top 10 Political Rumors/Conspiracies of 2008 (Thus Far) Giant in Internet Radio-Pandora May Soon Close Its Doors Music Biz Still Trying to Kill Web Radio Hip Hop's Innovator-An Interview w/ Kool DJ Red Alert Longtime Outspoken Cali Activist Najee Ali Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison Did Scientology Kill Isaac Hayes? For America's Scholars Of Race, An Obama Dilemma
Trials of a Hip Hop Educator: Reflections on the 2008 Natl Hip Hop Political Convention Rick Ross Sued for Beat Down of DJ Vlad Master P Opens up New Black cable TV Network Jesse Jackson Speaks On Obama, Race, and the N-word Blue Scholars, Common Market, The Coup & Dead Prez to Perform at DNC Protests Interview w/ Zach de la Rocha War games-The Fall of the US Empire Folks Gear Up for the Million DJ March Aug 29-30th
Who Has the Dopest Afro in Hip Hop? Afro-Wars #1 w/ NY Oil Obama Is My Slave' T-Shirt Peddler Gets Beat Down in His Store Hip-Hop Politics Joins Conservative Hitlist Fear of a Rap Planet-Prodigy Calls Out Flava Flav An Important Message to Obama About Hip Hop
Is Hip Hop Mentally Challenged Music? A Message to the Hip Hop Grassroots-Dhoruba Bin Wahad Adresses the Hip Hop Nation Paging Mr D-Mr Chuck D.. Where Have All the Hip Hop Activist Gone? Movement or fan club? Getting the vibe at this year’s National Hip-Hop Political Convention Isaac Hayes.. This is who he was.. We Remember him foundly
Come to SF BayView Newspaper Community Forum & Party How Hip Hop Can Help Restore voting rights to felons, empower young people Update: NYPD Arrest Club Employee for Woman's Death at Lil Kim Party 2008 Hip Hop Leaders World Conference for Peace at UCLA
Woman Beaten to Death at Lil Kim Party-Bouncers Suspected Detroit's So Called Hip Hop Mayor Sent to Jail Radio Facts Industry News-Urban Radio Programmers Afraid to Speak Comedy Central Sits Down w/ Green Party VP Candidate Rosa Clemente Breakdown FM: NHHPC-Hip Hop and the Academy-a keynote by Dr Lamont Hill The FCC is Keeping Hope- and Internet Freedom- Alive Congressman Ed Towns Too Scared to Debate Hip Hop Activist Kevin Powell
Republican Rapper Comes out and Disses Ludacris with a New Song David Banner Delivers a Heartfelt Message to the Music Industry Former R&B Singer Accusses Suge Knight & LAPD of Biggie Murder Plot A Nice Commentary on Luda vs Obama Beyond Politics by Mumia Abu-Jamal Breakdown FM: An Interview w/ Slug of the Group Atmosphere Breakdown FM: Maria Isa Coming Straight Outta Sota Rico (Minneapolis) Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Gabriel Teodros Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney Breakdown FM: NHHPC-Electoral Politics Panel Pt1 Breakdown FM: NHHPC-Electoral Politics Panel pt2
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July 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News July 2008
Shocking Video of NYPD Dipshits NYPD Brutally Beating Another Black Man From Boss to Da Boss Why Do Rappers Gotta Front? An Open Letter to Luda-Don't Call Hillary a Bitch!
Hard Knock Radio Presents-A tribute to Donny Hathaway Kevy Kev's Weekly Girls-Rza and the Roach Simon & Schuster Sues `Foxy Brown' and `Lil' Kim' Clear Channel makes Major Moves into Online/Internet Radio The National Hip Hop Political Convention Interview/ Troy Nkrumah
Lil Wayne sued over Stones song Dr. Dre's introduces New Headphones: They're Chronically Good Hollywood Producers Say Danny Glover Film needs More White Heroes Hate Crimes on the Rise in LA-Blacks are Victims to Latino & White Racist Gangs Fiddy Takes on Taco Bell Talking Politics: Hip Hop, the Election, and Service over Leadership Rise Up Hip Hop Nation, Wise Up: Same Divide, Different Day Foxy Brown Takes on Jay-Z
Exploring the Historic Links of Hip-Hop, Gang Culture Despite denials, Smoking Gun records show Rick Ross worked as corrections officer McKinney & Clemente: Black, Brown, Green and True Pan Africanism; Nkrumah To Obama Amiri Baraka Calls Out Obama-Haters-says; 'Do Something' Will Smith Tops Forbes List Rapper Nas Delivers Fox News Petition, Says Network Is "Scared"
Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente: Building a Movement for REAL Change Keak Da Sneak Arrested-Charged w/ 4 Felonies T.I. & Hip Hop Caucus Team Up to Launch Get Out The Vote Campaign New Book Out on Chicano Rap The Industry Doesn't Like "Dark Butts" Either Expert to Investigate if NFL Players are Throwing Up Gang Signs Chicago Wants to Bring in National Guard to Fight Gang Violence
Spokesman for Black America is Still Up for Grabs Game Set to Replace Mack 10 in Westside Connection Playahata Album Review of Immortal Technique's 'The 3rd World' Playahata Alum Review of Nas' 'Untitled' Playahata Review of NY Oil's 'Hood Treason' Imagine if this Were on the Cover of New Yorker Magazine cover.. Jose Canseco Gets Bashed and Knocked Out in Boxing Cynthia McKinney's Acceptance Remarks for Green Party Presidential Nominee Another world is possible: Boots of the Coup interviews Mumia Abu Jamal AllHipHop: Nas Interview- Portrait of an Untitled Hero KRS-One Endorses Kevin Powell for Congress
What happened to Hip Hop's social consciousness? Who Will Be The New Jesse Jackson? (Not Nas or Lil Wayne) Death Row Records Sold Off in Auction to a Skin Care Company Rosa Clemente's Acceptance Speech for Green Party VP (Full Text) An Open Letter to Rev. Jesse Jackson The New Yorker Depicted Obama Horribly Wrong, But Got It Horribly Right
Interview w/ Rosa Clemente About Accepting Bid to Run w/ Cynthia McKinney Hip Hop History: Interview w/ the Legendary Crash Crew Davey D Hip Hop Song of the Day-Akrobatik Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Dizzie Rascal Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Tiye Phoenix HKR: Interview w/ Cedrick Muhammad of Blackelectorate.com-The 2008 Presidential Race Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Soul Singer Jessica Cellious Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Rebel Diaz (Welcome to SoBro) pt1 Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Rebel Diaz (The Struggle from Chile to Harlem pt2
**Update** Verizon Removes Technigga Content From Website Name-Dropping Jay-Z? Shawn Carter? Mr. Z? Trials of a Hip Hop Educator: Dealing w/ Souljah Boy HHNLive: Dream Big-Interview w/ Crooked I Kanye West Headed to Anger Management Bushwick Bill Dropping Gospel Album Soulja Boy, Ice-T Feud Officially Over Brawl Erupts at Missy B-Day Party Verizon Cuts deal with Racist to License Offensive Content Called Technigga Houston to Host 3rd Annual Ozone Awards-8/8-8/11 America Is in Major Need of Electoral Reform GOP Looks To Redistrict Itself Back Into Power Wyclef Jean for President? The Black Stake, and All Our Stakes, in the Media Justice Movement, Part 1 of 2 An Open Letter About Fox News-They Doctor Images of Their Guests Houston to Host 3rd Annual Ozone Awards-8/8-8/11 The Hidden History of US Broadcasting Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It Will Smith vs Armond White-The Pursuit of Crappyness
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June 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News June 2008
NYPD is Still Messing With Rebel Diaz-They ransack House w/o a Warrant Ice T vs Soulja Boy: Ice T Explains Himself National Hip Hop Political Convention Set to Unfold in Las Vegas Jacob the Jewler Gets 2 1/2 Years for Lying About Drug Ring Az Sheriff Department Wants to Can Shaq Over Kobe Freestyle Diss BET Prepares for Hip Hop vs America pt2 Real Road Rage: Mumia Comments on Gas Prices The Coup's Boots Riley Charged With Public Profanity The Loud Silence of Feminist-As Attacks Unfold on Obama's Wife
Industry Ears makes It hard for Hip Hop Media Executives Man Who Defaced Tupac Statue Explains Actions 50 Cent Explains Why He Released Phone Convos w/ Young Buck Democrats Sell Out and Give Into Telecommunications Companies Barack Obama Caves Into George Bush-Is this the Change We seek? Cynthia McKinney's Call to Action-Supports Kucinich Articles of Impeachment Hip Hop Elitism: Why Souljah Boy is More Hip Hop Than You Information age: M1 of dead prez interviews Mumia Abu Jamal
Hip Hop Congress Announces 7th Annual Conference in Mississippi A review of John McWhorter's Deeply Flawed Book on Hip Hop The Rise of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five by Mark Skillz Police Terror Strikes the Bronx-Rebel Diaz Beaten Up
Should the Black Community Still Be Supporting R.Kelly-Black Men Stand Up to Kels Mos Def Does Comedy-Set to Partake in the Ultimate Emcee Battle Young Buck Pleads With 50 Cent, Breaks Down During Phone Conversation Latino Teacher Fired for Being 'Too Afrocentric' Obama's Daughters Called Nappy Headed Ho's-Is Today's Rap Music To Blame For This? HKR-Should R. Kelly Be Free? (Radio Panel Discussion) HKR-3Tha Hardway-More Coverage from the National Conference of Media reform
Don't Judge Me-Empower Me-Women in Entertainment Tour Kicks Off Lil Wayne & Birdman: Sometimes A Kiss Is Just A Kiss! 'Snowman' Rapper Unsurprisingly Implicated In Cocaine Ring So! You’re Mad at the South? Tough Shyt! Hip Hop Icon or Bearer of a Legacy – Tupac Shakur
Breakdown FM: Kevin Powell Speaks About His Meeting w/ 2Pac's Dad Real men don't walk away from the Babies Why the Conscious Hip-Hop community needs a DJ Khaled Ending the mess with Motown-Industryears Steps to Ashanti About Violent Video Between the Right and Racial Justice: Wedging The Movement for Media Reform
Tim Russert of Meet the Press Dead at 58-Heart Attack R.Kelly Acquitted-Wow Talk About Being Made of Teflon 7 Reasons Why The Roots are Truly Legendary A History to Learn From: Cointel-Pro and Other Forms of Gov't Spying & Infiltration Talk Radio's Last Stand? Are Shock Jocks In Trouble? Breakdown FM: Introducing Pittsburgh's Finest-Kellee Maize Breakdown FM: A Detroit Summer-Meet Invincible Hard Knock Radio: Dan Rather Meets Davey D-National Conference for Media Reform
A Provocative New Film Explores The Decline Of Black Radio Wendy Williams Husband Accussed of Plotting to Kill Wife's Hot97 Radio Rival Grandmaster Flash Pens Tell All Book An Open Letter to JR Writer & the Dipset The House that Hiero built Atlanta DJ Greg Street Comes Under Attack- His Payola Hustle Gets Blown Up Is Producer Scott Storch Going Broke? This is How All TV News Reporters Should Get Down Unlicensed Black Radio Station in Boston Facing FCC Fines & More An Open Letter to Certain White Women About Obama-Your Whiteness is Showing
Writer Adisa Banjoko is the Man- He Was Right & I was Wrong Dennis Kucinich Offers Up Impeachment Articles Against George Bush Def Jam Dumps Janet Jackson Queen Latifah Set to Marry Long term Partner The Torch Has Been Passed-Free H Rap Brown Rally Martial Art of Chess, Promoted by a Rapper Hip Hop Star Raps for Obama's Victory Luniz' Numskull Facing Life In Prison For Rape Foxy Brown and Rick Ross is Hip Hop's Newest Couple
Twista Has Beef w/ Catholic Priest Micahel Pfelger Hillary Finally Concedes But Obama Found Out Via the Media 11 Things We Will Miss About Billary Hip-Hop Photographer's Collection Up For Sale For $ 1 Mil Hillary vs. Barack: Who Had the Smartest Media Strategy? Jena 6 case still unfolding Obama Resigns From the Black Nation by Glen Ford Obama, Pfleger, Trinity, Whites, and Black America
Anti-Black Attitudes, Alleged Democrats & Black Deference San Jose Proposes Tyrannical Bill to Hurt Hip Hop Club Promoters 50 Cent's Long Island Home Burns Down An Open Letter To My Boricua Brothers and Sisters Breakdown FM: Interview w/ DJ B-Girl Chillz Breakdown FM: Interview w/ Jennifer Johns Breakdown FM: Cynthia McKinney Speech
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May 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News May 2008
Xzibit Mourns the Sudden Loss of His Newborn Son Fidel Castro Comes Out and Clowns Barack Obama Another Perspective on Cuba & Castro's Response to Obama (Middle Ground) Is the Democratic Race a West Wing Re-Run? Life Imitates Art
The Greatest of All-time: KRS-One vs Jay-Z? Boston Rapper Akrobatik Speaks on his friend Camu Tao (RIP) This is what they think of us in Kentucky How Hip-Hop Parliament is giving youth IN SLUMS of Kenyan a Voice Hip Hop is a Big Flop in Tampa Bay Rapper gets Tasered by Austin Police at Bun B Show Making Real Change-Taking On Black Commercial Radio R. Kelly: Let The Trial Begin! Police Terror and Lawless Order The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All (Who is Michael Savage?) The Assassination Proclamation Military Chief Warns Troops About Politics R.Kelly's Lawyer Wants News Reporter To take Stand & Be Charged 2008 Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Criminal Justice Snitch (The Challenges of Working with the Police while Living in the Hood) T.I. Explains Firearms Bust-I Let My Concerns For Family Deter My Judgement
NY Governor Pardons Hip-Hop Pioneer A Phone Conversation Between Barack & Hillary Minister Server from Temple of Hip Hop Loses Everything in Fire Hip Hop Artist Stand Up to Police Abuse Prodigy Speaks: Eurpeans Invasions & Nelson Mandela Stop the Silly Talk about an Obama-Hillary Dream Ticket
Al Sharpton Denies Shaking Down Dr Dre for Half a Million Dollars Too $hort's new studio offers a glimmer of hope for local music. Nas Forced To Change Album Title-No Longer called 'Nigger' South Africa Condemns Isreal's 60th Anniversary Israeli youths burn New Testaments
Breakdown FM:Connecting the Dots: Meet DAM-Coverage of the Nakba pt-3 Breakdown FM: Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet-Hip Hop Style Police Terror Strikes Southern Cali Again-Two Mentally Ill People Shot By Police Disabled Hip Hop Artists Finally Land a Radio Show Immortal Technique Sets Off High School Writing Contest The Effects of Media Consolidation on Urban Radio Connecting the Dots: DAM, Boots & Rebel Diaz Speak Out-Nakba pt-3 Breakdown FM: Free Palestine-Arab Hip Hop in Full Effect-The Nakba pt 1 & 2
Hip Hop Song of the Day (May 15th)-Immortal Technique It Needs To Be CED: Rappaz R. N. Dainja Running to the Right: Barack Obama's DLC Strategy Remy Ma Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison-Papoose Has to Be Restrained Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause Mainstream Rap Songs That Have a Positive Message CAN THE MEDIA STEAL THIS ELECTION from Barack Obama?
Police Terrorist Commit Sean Bell type Murder on Mother's Day Comcast Censoring Political Speech Once Again Suge Knight Gets a Beat Down at LA Nightclub Before the Crips & Bloods-The LA Businessmen Return Hidden Gay Life of Macho Hip Hop Stars The Politics of Denunciation by Mumia Abu Jamal Obama, Wright, and How the Post-Civil Rights Generation Will Rise to Power Breakdown FM: NY Oil Speaks: Sean Bell Ain't a Nigga and Neither Are You Breakdown FM Interview w/ Immortal Technique pt1 Breakdown FM Interview w/ Immortal Technique pt2
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April 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News April 2008
Channel Chnager: Can BET Be Saved? Jay-Z sets up trust Fund for Sean Bell's Kids Pharoah Monch Weighs in on Sean Bell Verdict Breakdown FM: Dead prez, Rosa Clemente, Jared Ball Speak on Sean Bell
Two Compelling Articles on Obama and His Pastor Immortal Technique Speaks Out Against Police Brutality Cynthia McKinney's Statement on the Sean Bell Verdict Passing The Torch of Police Brutality: Sean Bell & The Solution Who The Hell Am I? I Like Obama But He Can't Do Shit For Me The Sean Bell Tragedy by Kevin Powell
Why NY Oil is Right for Challenging Nas Obama's Pastor Jeremiah Wright Responds to Criticism The Ballot, Not the Bullet-Oakland's Town Bizness Brings Out the Hip Hop Vote
Key Hillary Supporter Shows Love to Farrakhan-Will She Now Disown Him? Why Nas is NOT that Nigga or Is He? By NY Oil Bitter, Clinging to Our Guns & God in Pittsburgh
Michael Moore Endorse Obama-Clowns Hillary How Conscious Hip Hop Failed Us Obama's Words About Hip Hop & The Response from the Haters Debate Analysis: ABC Asked Most Scandal Questions, Obama Was Clear Target Obama vs Hillary-Where's the Mainstream's Research Teams? This is Racism at its Best-God Bless America.. Arizona attempts to outlaw MEChA and Chicano Studies Democrats & Nancy Pelosi Plan to Issue Blank Check for War
Akon Busted Lying About His Criminal Past Rebels of Rap: Hip Hop in Iran Rap on Rap: A Study of BET/MTV video programming Dont Hate on Tavis Smiley's Hatin Breakdown FM: Afrika Bambaataa vs Hot 97-It's All About Mind Control Krip Hop (Disbaled) Artists Are Making Big Moves
RZA Launches WuChess.Com; New Films, Album FCC Hearing on Net Neutrality this Thursday at Stanford A Message From Cynthia McKinney-She Touches Down in Southern Cali An Interview w/ Mumia Abu Jamal About Recent Court Decisions Bill Cosby to release Rap album in May Commercial Takeover: Internet Radio Being Stifled by Outrageous Fees Making Sense: Hip-Hop Star Common Raps About Rev. Jeremiah Wright Alicia Keys Says Gangsta Rap Was Created to Get black People to Kill Each Other Breakdown FM: Holding It Down for Memphis Meet Brotha's Keepa Breakdown FM: Rakaa of Dilated Peoples Speaks on Race & Politics Breakdown FM: One World, One Mind, 1 Hood-Meet Pittsburgh Rapper Jasiri X
All Hail Hip Hop's Ageing Parents Eminem On Board For Mandela 90th Bday Concert Clinton vs Obama - Who is the Real Elitist? Bill Clinton Flashback-He Talked About Insecure White People An Open Letter from Small Town Officials About Obama's Remarks Bush Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in US 40 Years in the Wilderness by Paradise of X-Clan An Update on Mumia's Situation Breakdown FM: Rev Yearwood of Hip Hop Caucus meets Dr King Breakdown FM: Revolutionary Situation-2Pac's Mother Afeni Shakur Brings Heat
TI Confesses He Brought It on Himself... Is Oprah Paying a Price for Backing Obama? Did Tavis Smiley Pay a Price for Not Supporting Obama? Foxy Brown's Legal Troubles Not Over Just Yet Fear of Black-Brown Race War in Los Angeles Hip-hop's healing voices not invited to King event Popular Bay Area Rapper Shot Dead by Police Going Off w/ the Biz-An Interview with Biz Markie
BET, Low powered Radio & the Congressional Black Caucus 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather Get Into a Tussle SF Olympic Torchbearers Wave Tibetan Flag Cause Uproar Hip Hop Pioneer Calls for Boycott of Olympics Hip Hop Chess Tourney Returns to Bay Area This Weekend 50 Kicks Young Buck Out of G-Unit Bad Times-How the LA Times Royally Screwed Up Jailed Prodigy of Mobb Deep Goes Off in Recent Vibe Blog Hip Hop Appreciation Week 2008 is Announced
Spanish Rap Breathes Life Into Hip Hop 10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t): 'Stop Loss': Patriotic Bluster Dressed up As a Protest Movie MC Breed Arrested for Not paying Child Support Hip Hop Pioneer Frosty Freeze of the Rockstaedy Crew Passes (RIP) Tribe Called Quest vs Outkast-Who Would Win?
The Birthplace of Hip Hop is Not the Bronx A March To Protect Our Children The Top 10 Myths Keeping Hillary in the Race 50 cent is No Longer Supporting Hillary Rev Amos Brown Speaks on the Controversy Surrounding Jeremiah Wright
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March 2008 Headlines
Hip Hop News March 2008
Sean Levert-Brother of Gerald Levert Dies in Jail Hip-Hop community sees backlash in Kilpatrick indictment Ten Troubling Questions Obama Needs to Answer... Will Hillary Disassociate Herself from Maya Angelou?
Breakdown FM: Meet the Godmother of LA Hip Hop-Medusa Jimmy Henchmen Replies To LA Times' Apology; Afeni Speaks Rapper Beanie Sigel Gets Three Months In Jail T.I. Sentenced To A Year 'In The Public's Interest' Feds Deny Mumia A New Trial-He Faces Death Penalty
Remy Ma Found Guilty, Facing Up to 25 Years Yo-Yo Teams Up with MC Serch to Seek Out Best Female Rappers Big Phat Liar-The LA Times Wrongly Accuses Diddy-They Get Fooled & Clowned LA Times Apologizes Over Article on Diddy Shooting 2Pac NW Hip Hop newsletter March/April Edition A Breakdown of the Gangs Infiltrating Memphis Prisons Are Great Money Makers for Corporations
Obama's Schemes to Tiptoe Past the Devil A Brief for Whitey-How to Handle Obama & Black People) Feds Deny New trial for Mumia-He Now Faces Death Penalty Hearing Hillary Compare's Obama's Pastor to Don Imus Young Black & Brown Voters Moving Away from Democrats Is It Hillary's Turn to 'Denounce and Reject' Her Problematic Pastor? Hillary Donors Including BET's Bob Johnson Threaten House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Freedom Rider: Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran Woman Beats Down Man in Front of Kids (video)
Take Back America- Davey D Confrontation with Fox News Informant Claims Mob Figure Was Shaking Down Rap Artists Ethan Brown's Book 'Snitch' Is Banned from Prisons Why Is Hillary Clinton Reviled-Is She a Monster? No, really, God Damn America The Ignorance, Innocence or Wisdom of DMX on Politics Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth The Full Story Behind Jeremiah Wright's Sermon-Here's the Whole speech Cynthia McKinney: A Discussion of Race Worth Having
Still a Good Day-An Interview w/ Ice Cube The Politician and the Preacher-(Please Don't Falter Obama) Study Links Rap Music to Sexism Fat Hip Hop Critic Wins Prestigious Journalism Award Tacoma Police Halt E-40 Concert Claim He is a Gang Member Too Short still a major player on rap scene LA Times Claims Associates of Diddy Shot 2Pac Iranian Rap Music Bedevils the Authorities
Juice Crew vs Wu-Tang: Who Would Win? Trials of a Hip Hop Educator: Taking Charge of the Class An Open Letter for Professor Griff of Public Enemy An Open Letter to Hillary-Correct the Wrongs Done to Obama
Is Geraldine Ferraro an Idiot or Did She Speak the Truth? Breakdown FM: The 11th Hour-An Interview w/ Del tha Funkee Homosapien Mother of Teen Protests Tony Yayo Book Tour Dru Hill Unite than Break Up on the Air Rakim Set to Drop Album Black & Brown Come Together-Fight Against the Klan Building Owner Fights Redneck Klan Shop
Seattle Hip Hop Artist Under Arrest for Protesting Immortal Technique, San Quinn Set to Host Panel in San Francisco An Interview with KRS-One on new Technology The Return of LA Hip Hop-Blu is in the Building LA Rapper Shot and Killed By Police It sounds crazy but the Clintons are offering Obama a VP spot. Shyne's Father becomes Prime Minister of Belize
Russell Simmons Steps Up For Obama Obamamania-Does It Equal American Stupidity? Act Like You Know-Amiri Baraka Smashes for Obama
Oakland Rapper/ Activist Killed by Amtrak Juvenile's Daughter Killed By her Brother Fans Erupt After Canceled Lil' Boosie Concert in Omaha Judge Doesn't Allow Ja Rule to Post Co-Defendants' Bail
Hip Hop Pioneer Too Short Speaks About the Fall of the Hyphy Movement Ingrained Selection is Natural-Interview w/ DJ Shadow The Assassination of Larry Davis w/ Fred Hampton Jr & Nephew Barry Davis The Dark Side of Black History-Time to Tell on Cointel The Year of the Hip Hop Women Officially Begins March 2008 Its Bigger Than Hip Hop; Truth Behind the Evergreen Uprising Did KMEL Radio Kill the Bay Area's Hyphy Movement?
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February 2008 Headlines
February 2008
The History of Hip Hop (re-print 1985) Paradise of X-Clan's Open Letter to Tavis Smiley About Barack Obama This Weekend's Riots in Olympia Washington & dead Prez Talib Kweli Speaks Out About Voting & Brack Obama Game Pleads Guilty-Set to do Four Months
Nas Sparks Controversy at Grammys The Boondocks vs BET-The Banned Video Resurfaces Game Pleads Guilty-Set to Do 4 Months in Jail An Interview w/ Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney How the Hell Did Hillary Win Cali? Something Ain’t Right! The Historic Role of Police Brutality in the Black Community The RIAA Inacts Terroristic Penalties/ Cuts Artist Royalties Erykah badu gets Gangsta & Stands Her Ground Democrats Pose Greater Peril to Obama/Clinton than GOP
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January 2008 Headlines
January 2008
Who is the Greatest Producer of All-Time-Dre, Primo or Dilla? Racist Hampton Newspaper Disses Barack Obama Trials of a Hip Hop Educator: The Caged Lion and the Key Chuck D Speaks Out on Def Jam President Vacancy Lil Wayne Arrested In Arizona On Drug Charges Sean 'Diddy' Combs Set To Go To Trial In Assault Case Nate Dogg Suffers from Stroke
Martin Luther King vs The Radio Looking in the Mirror w/ Rhymefest Ice Cube Brings the Real Hip Hop & Drops Bombs Why Bob Johnson is an Asshole & Hypocrite Martin Luther King vs. the Radio-Celebrate the Legacy
Martin Luther King Meets J-Dilla-Reclaim the Dream
Dr King Meets Ghostface-The Dream Continues
Hip Hop for President Tour Announced Move Over Hillary & Barack-Cynthia is Running for Prez Hip Hop Gets its First Fraternity at Indiana U An Open Letter to Presidential Candidates from Russell Simmons Foxy Brown Appeals For Her Freedom, Health David Banner Teams Up with Ice Cube for Movie
Davey D's End of Year 2007 Hip Hop Awards RIAA Says Its Illegal to Make Personal Copies of Your CDs Fresh Coast Report: Hip Hop & the Genocide in Kenya Locked Outside the Gates: Housing Drama in New Orleans NW Hip Hop Congress January Bulletin
Top 5 Low & Top 10 High Moments in Hip Hop for 07 What Was the Hip Hop Album & Song of the Year? An Open Letter for Music Business CEOs to Ignore Ani vs KRS-One The Lost Interview Reflections on Hip Hop Culture, Christianity & Social Capital Ladies First Spotlights Seattle Hip Hop’s Best Femcees
Jay-Z Speaks Out On Racism, Violence & Hip Hop’s Decline Hip Hop's Original Hip Hop Cop pt 1 (Infiltrating the KKK) Hip Hop's Original Hip Hop Cop pt 2 (Crips,Bloods & Gangsta Rap Come to Utah) Hip Hop's Original Hip Hop Cop pt 3 (Studio Gangsters, 2Pac, LA Street Gangs vs the Mafia)
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August 2005 Headlines
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