Chi Modu, the celebrated hip-hop photographer, dies aged 54 | Hip-hop
[ad_1] Chi Modu, the photographer behind some of hip-hop’s most celebrated photographs, has died aged 54. The news was announced on Saturday via Modu’s official Instagram. “Our hearts are broken … we continue the fight,” read the post. The details surrounding his death have not been divulged. “The family request privacy at this time,” the […]
DMX posthumous album Exodus due for release in May | Rap
[ad_1] A new album by the late rapper DMX, who died in April, will be released later this month. Featuring new material produced by Swizz Beatz, Exodus is the first DMX album since 2012’s Undisputed and marks his eighth overall. Swizz Beatz told Rolling Stone: “My brother X was one of the most pure and […]
Childish Gambino sued for alleged This Is America copyright infringement | Childish Gambino
[ad_1] Childish Gambino is being sued for alleged copyright infringement, with the rapper Kidd Wes saying the Grammy-winning hit This Is America was lifted from him. According to US federal court documents Emelike Nwosuocha says the 2018 song from Donald Glover, whose alter ego is Childish Gambino, is “glaringly similar” to a song he released […]
DMX’s powerful work confronted an American hell of trauma and poverty | Rap
[ad_1] Listening to a DMX song from the late 1990s is like riding a wrecking ball through a gated community. The music video for Stop Being Greedy – one of many confrontational highlights from the rapper’s 1998 Def Jam debut, It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot – shows DMX hunting a wealthy white man across […]
US rapper DMX dies aged 50 following heart attack | Rap
[ad_1] DMX, the New York rapper whose gruff tone electrified the US music scene in the late 1990s, has died aged 50. The star, whose real name was Earl Simmons, was hospitalised after a heart attack on 2 April, and had been placed in a critical care unit at White Plains hospital, New York. His […]
New York prayer vigil for rapper DMX – in pictures
[ad_1] Supporters and family of the rapper DMX have held a prayer vigil outside the New York hospital where he remains on life support after being admitted on Friday after a heart attack Continue reading… [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
TI and Tiny deny sexual assault allegations from three further women | Rap
[ad_1] Rapper TI and his wife Tiny have denied allegations of sexual abuse from three women, adding to denials earlier this year after four other women made similar allegations. On Friday, New York lawyer Tyrone A Blackburn announced he was “speaking with investigators from multiple jurisdictions to pursue criminal charges” after the new allegations. One […]
Rihanna’s 30 greatest singles – ranked! | Rihanna
[ad_1] 30. Cheers (Drink to That) (2011) A buoyant paean to the quick-fix method of forgetting life’s worries by getting drunk, complete with big-up for the restorative powers of Jameson’s whiskey and a nod to Tyra Banks’s character in Coyote Ugly, Cheers (Drink to That) sounds elated and chaotic in equal measure: a messy night […]
YouTube rejects internal request to censor rapper YG over robbery lyrics | Rap
[ad_1] YouTube has rejected a proposal from within the company to remove a video by successful Los Angeles rapper YG, which features lyrics about targeting Asian neighbourhoods for robbery. Employees had requested the 2014 track, Meet the Flockers, be removed, following the 16 March shooting in Atlanta that killed eight people, six of them Asian […]
Gurrumul, Omar Souleyman, 9Bach and DakhaBrakha: the best global artists the Grammys forgot | Music
[ad_1] This week I wrote about the glaring lack of international inclusivity in the Grammys’ newly redubbed global music (formerly world music) category. In the category’s 38-year history, almost 80% of African nations have never had an artist nominated; no Middle Eastern or eastern European musician has ever won; every winner in the past eight […]
