The 2014 Grammy Awards brought memorable fashion and sexy performances, including Jay Z and Beyonce shutting it down as the opening act! With so much more of the show still unfolding, we’ll be updating this post with the best performances of the night! Watch the highlights from our favorite performances (so far). Jay Z & […]
Former Roc-A-Fella rapper Beanie Sigel has joined the long-list of celebrities that have gotten themselves in trouble with the IRS. The Philly rapper has been sentenced to two years in prison for tax evasion. While many believed Beans had no means of income, Beanie is the first first artist signed to the relaunched Ruffhouse Records. […]
From the moment Jay-Z and Kanye West took the stage at Philips Arena — on identical cubes with images of vicious Rottweilers rising from both ends of the venue — there was an inescapable feeling that there was going to be something regal about this show. After all, it’s the Watch the Throne tour, and […]
Hip-Hop Wired caught up with Big Boi this week as he discussed his new endorsement deal with Crown Royal whisky, “The Crown Life.” The hip hop legend and one half of OutKast also gave an update on the supergroup with him, Pill and Killer Mike as well as few more insights inside the world of […]
Big Boi of the legendary group OutKast celebrated his Crown Royal Black partnership in true ATL fashion recently at Door 44 in Atlanta. Fellow ATLlien rappers Killer Mike (aka Mike Bigga) and Pill were on hand to celebrate and perform with Sir Licious Left Foot to a packed crowd in Midtown. The three ATL heavyweights […]
One of the teens involved in the vicious assault that killed 18-year-old Bobby Tillman at a Douglasville house party last November has agreed to plead guilty to murdering him, reports the AJC.com. Emanuel Boykins, the 18-year-old who threw the first punch that started the random, fatal attack on Tillman, has agreed to plead guilty to […]
Georgia is now considered one of the top five states in the country for film and TV production with more than 274 projects shot in the state since July 2010, reports the AJC.com. TV shows shot in Georgia include BET’s “The Game,” MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” the Discovery Channel’s “Auction Kings” and AMC’s critically-acclaimed hit shot […]
Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt aka Geronimo ji-Jaga died of a heart attack yesterday in his home in Tanzania. The former high-ranking member of the Black Panther party and godfather of Tupac Shakur was unjustly incarcerated for 27 years after being falsely convicted of the kidnap and murder of Caroline Olsen on a Santa Monica, California tennis […]
Atlanta is considered a hotbed of hip hop these days, but that wasn’t the case in 1995. ATL’s own Dungeon Family crew would change that forever. Consisting of OutKast, Goodie Mob, Cool Breeze, Witchdoctor, producers Organized Noize and others, the Dungeon Family put real Atlanta hip hop on the map. Before Cee-Lo blew up with […]