The Hotter The Berry, The Sweeter The Hook
By Staff For over twenty years, Halle Berry has been mentioned in more rap songs than any other actress. From Kendrick Lamar’s current track, “Money Trees,” to Missy Elliot’s 2002 hit “Work It,” Berry does not seem bothered by the attention. In fact, she actually finds the references quite flattering. The 46-year-old thespian opened up [...]
NBA Star Kenyon Martin Says “F*ck Basketball Wives”, It’s “Toxic to Your Soul”
You hate when the pot calls the kettle black. NBA star Kenyon Martin is no masterpiece himself, but he seems to take issue with the hit show, “Basketball Wives.” Martin seems to think that the women on the show are worthless and that the show itself is garbage. Not that we disagree with him, but [...]
Forbes Magazine Names Dr. Dre This Years Highest-Paid Musician In The World
The Beats By Dre co-founder and Hip-Hop super producer has secured the number one spot on Forbes magazine’s World’s Highest-Paid Musicians list after earning $110 million in 2012, before taxes. Says Forbes: With a whopping $110 million in pretax earnings, Dr. Dre is this year’s top-earning musician—thanks largely to his Beats headphone line. He leads [...]
Wu-Tang’s GZA To Use Hip-Hop To Teach Science
According to The New York Times, The Genius, AKA GZA of Wu-Tang fame, will be teaming up with a professor from Columbia University to make the sciences more appealing to school students using Hip-Hop. While doing research at M.I.T. for his next album, “Dark Matter,” GZA met Dr. Christopher Emdin on a radio show and realized they had [...]
TI and Tiny Talk about a New Late Night Talk Show and Upcoming Album
TI and his main baby mama Tiny made a stop by the VH1 show “Morning Buzz” to talk about their plans for the future. Tiny surprised the audience by revealing that she has a late night talk show in the works. When you think that Tiny is just sitting around waiting for her man to [...]
The (Ree)lationship Guide: VH1′s Evelyn Lozada and Chrissy Lampkin Are Further Exploiting Lesbian Intimacy
by Ree “The (Ree)lationship Guide” Pictures of Chrissy (from VH1′s “Love and Hip-Hop”) and Evelyn (from VH1′s “Basketball Wives”) touching each others (a*s)ets for an apparent magazine shoot surfaced the net this week. Both ladies are currently engaged to be married to men. While everyone is entitled to keep their sexuality private, I wonder how [...]
For our daughters’ sake, let’s end misogyny in America
In this video, I discuss how Rush Limbaugh is just the latest example of the disdain this country has for women. It has to end if we really care about future generations of women. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGXnm7umKI&w=420&h=315]
What I Learned About Marketing From Lil Wayne
For the last 4 1/2 years it has been virtually impossible to turn on the radio or video channel and not see some representation from the crew the music world has fondly grown to know as “Young Money”. A brain child spawned from the imagination of Dwayne Carter, AKA Lil Wayne who was mentored since [...]
Niki Minaj An Author? LORD NO!
Nicki Minaj‘s bid for world domination has just taken a new direction with her recent announcement. The petite chart-topping rapper has just announced that she is working on two books. As far as who the publisher will be, mums the word, reports EURweb. On Twitter, Minaj wrote, ”Wrkng on 2 books actually…,” after someone [...]
Dyson, Watkins Debate The State of Hip Hop at Brown University
In the video below, Dr. Boyce Watkins debates with Michael Eric Dyson on whether or not hip hop artists should be held accountable for their words. The video is below and will begin after a brief advertisement:
Rapper Too Short Claims Execs Told Him Not to Release Positive Music
Exclusive: Short says Jive Records pushed him to be exclusively nasty and that the major labels plotted to keep positive Rap off the radio airwaves. He also explains the Dangerous Crew’s disbanding. During his recent interview with HipHopDX, the purveyor of punany raps, Too Short, addressed allegations that he had encouraged the s****l assault of young girls [...]
Beyonce and Jay-Z Makes Huge Donation To The Hospital Where Blue Ivy Was Born
Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z gave the hospital where their daughter was delivered a six-figure sum before she was born, it has been claim. The power couple of R’n’B and Hip Hop music are said to have given the money to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York last year, and quite some time before [...]
Master P’s Brother, C-Murder, Loses Murder Conviction Appeal
Younger brother of Hip-Hop mogul, Percy “Master P” Miller, will be spending the remainder of his life in jail for the 2002 murder of a teenager at a club. Corey “C-Murder” Miller appealed his 2009 second-degree murder conviction in Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal for the shooting death of Steve Johnson, and [...]
‘American Boy’ No Longer? Kanye Rumored To Be Moving To UK
Your Black Gossip reports: Long recognized for his global fashion sense and mass appeal across world-wide, super-star Hip-Hop artist and producer, Kanye West (pictured above leaving Embassy Nightclub in Mayfair, London), is reportedly taking his talents across the pond. British tabloid The Sun reports that Kanyeze is looking for studios and residential property [...]
Kid Cudi Cries Over Fan’s Untimely Death Two Weeks After Near Death Experience
Your Black Gossip reports: Ben Breedlove, a young man who posted a YouTube video detailing his near-death experience, died from a heart condition on Christmas Day. In the video, he holds up flash cards describing step by step exactly how he feels during the experience (proud of himself and his life) and who [...]