On Friday (Jan. 5), The Recording Academy announced their 2024 Special Merit Award honorees, including the six musical acts who will receive the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award. This year’s Lifetime Achievement honorees include Donna Summer, Gladys Knight, N.W.A., Laurie Anderson, Tammy Wynette, and The Clark Sisters. “The Academy is honored to pay tribute to this year’s […]
The White House is pressuring Congress to pass a $1.9 billion bill to provide emergency funding for Zika.
A protest in the Bay Area – held not only to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. but also to seek justice for Mario Woods, a man shot and killed by San Francisco Police officers last month – included protesters shutting down highway lanes near the SF Bay Bridge. The demonstrators halted all traffic, resulting in […]
The son of late rapper Eazy-E has reason to believe his father was murdered by Suge Knight.
Dee Barnes continues to speak out about her abuse at the hands of Dr. Dre in a response to his apology.
The overwhelming success of the N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton, has been making headlines all week. Praise has been heavy for director’s F. Gary Gray‘s…
Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, former CEO of Death Row Records, is under fire again as attention is redirected towards a HIV/AIDS joke he made over a decade ago about N.W.A…
The N.W.A biopic film "Straight Outta Compton" shattered box office records, but unfortunately that didn't make headlines.
Marion “Suge” Knight, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube have been named in a wrongful death lawsuit [PDF] filed by the family of Terry Carter, the…
June 15, 2010 marks the 41st birthday of O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson, one of the best MCs to ever touch a microphone.
