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Hip Hop Birthplace Saved From Developers
A New York tower block widely acknowledged as the birthplace of hip-hop has been saved following a three-year campaign by rap pioneer DJ KOOL HERC.Kool Herc - real name...
8 Sep 2010, 6:34 am | click here to view more
Hip-Hop Cash Kings
Which rappers and hip-hop producers banked the most bucks last year?
8 Sep 2010, 5:08 am | click here to view more
Historic Bronx hip hop building mortgage is sold
A housing group has pledged to restore “dignity” to a Bronx apartment building known as the birthplace of hip-hop. DJ Kool Herc started playing hip-hop records at parties in the building’s recreation room during the 1970s. Now housing advocates are praising the sale of its mortgage. The city has...
7 Sep 2010, 8:17 am | click here to view more
Hip Hop's Birthplace Saved: The Bronx's 1520 Sedgwick Avenue is...
The Bronx's 1520 Sedgwick Avenue is notable as both the birthplace of hip-hop and a poster child for the real estate boom and bust. The building was purchased in 2008 for $7M, despite the city saying the financing was unstable....
7 Sep 2010, 8:12 am | click here to view more
Joaquin Phoenix's Hip-Hop Doc Gets Public Premiere
Filed below: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , Movies Is it a hoax or not? That was the big question when Joaquin Phoenix 's hip-hop odyssey 'I'm Still Here' premiered at the Venice Film Festival Saturday night (Sept. 4). Phoenix, who has been a recluse since retiring from acting and starting the project, was a no-show at the premiere, but director Casey Affleck was there to take questions and was ...
7 Sep 2010, 5:04 pm | click here to view more
Birthplace of Hip-Hop Saved
Filed below: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News Hip-hop's birthplace is still intact. 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx is where Kool Herc -- considered to be the dad of hip-hop -- first DJed a birthday party for his sister in their building's community room in 1973. The two would go on to host several back-to-school parties there, with Herc manning two turntables. The relax is hip-hop history. 1520 ...
7 Sep 2010, 1:34 pm | click here to view more
Aspiring hip-hop artist shot dead in Jersey City apartment, officials say
Google Maps A 30-year-old man was shot to death in his Jersey City apartment on Tuesday morning, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. Around 2:20 a.m., Ardell Blake, an aspiring hip-hop recording artist who also went by the stage...
7 Sep 2010, 12:49 pm | click here to view more
Hip hop changed my life
Gdub is a young hip hop artist using music to overcome difficult life challenges
6 Sep 2010, 2:43 pm | click here to view more
Hip-hop star regrets row with Swift
NEW YORK: Hip-hop star KANYE WEST is still feeling the pain over his ambush of TAYLOR SWIFT last year - and he's expressing his pain every over Twitter.
6 Sep 2010, 12:37 am | click here to view more
Rising hip-hop stars call Pittsburgh home
An outsider looking in on Pittsburgh's hip-hop music scene today would find it bursting at the seams, poised to blast through Pennsylvania's borders to engulf an industry thirsty for new talent.
6 Sep 2010, 11:49 pm | click here to view more