Rhymes and Reasons interviews Pugz Atomz about the Hip Hop songs that changed his life: Saafir’s “Light Sleeper,” Whodini’s “The Freaks Come Out,” “Spaceship” from Kanye West, GLC, and Consequence, and “Brooklyn Hardrock,” by Thurston Howell III.
Yesterday a mistrial was declared in the trial of Joseph Weekley, who is accused of fatally shooting 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a police raid that was being filmed for a reality show.
An amazing Newsweek article by Joshua DuBios highlights the struggles of black men in America, and the horrific consequences of their large-scale incarceration. According to the article, there are more black men incarcerated, on probation, or on parole than there were slaves in the 1850s.
Happy Juneteenth, everyone! As many of you know, Juneteenth is a day that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. What began in Texas in 1865 is now a holiday that many blacks commemorate.
But after a funny but problematic meme began making its rounds online – with the caption “That moment when you realize that you don’t have Tracee Ellis Ross’ hair” – Ross launched a counter movement; the “Hair Love” campaign. Though flattered by the compliment, Ross wants young women to love and embrace who they are.
Mass protests against the policies of the GOP-controlled legislature continue in North Carolina. Moral Monday protests in the North Carolina General Assembly building led to 84 arrests. Over 500 have been arrested since demonstrations began in April.
Serena is at it again. In the upcoming Rolling Stones article she makes some controversial (to say the least) comments about the Steubenville rape victim. When she heard the news on the verdict of the trial she is recorded as saying Do you think it was fair, what they got? They did something stupid, but […]
The parents of the late Hadiya Pendleton sat down with HuffPost Live to discuss the gun violence crisis in Chicago: “Many of us walk around in a bubble like if we do what we’re supposed to do in terms of rearing our children, and making sure that they’re not part of the problem, that we’re doing enough. And it’s not enough.”
Lil Wayne has responded to the controversy surrounding a video that surfaced online of him walking all over the American flag for a music video. Weezy says he had no intention of desecrating the American flag, and that the video that surfaced online captures a camera trick in progress.
Congratulations to Ethel “Ellie” Hylton on graduating from Harvard with the highest GPA in her class!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RvKxDp9o44 Honestly I never intend to write this song. My producer Religion, saw a post I put up about a extremely racist commercial from the pen company Uniball. He was so angry about it he made the beat which would later become “New Nat Turners“. He called me after he sent it and we discussed […]
Rapper Chief Keef was arrested yesterday by officers from the Chicago Police Department as he was leaving a Skokie courthouse. In a statement, the Chicago rapper’s camp claims that CPD officers used excessive force.
