March 2016 – Phife Dawg’s Death Shakes a Nation
When I powered on my phone on the morning of March 24, 2016, I couldn’t believe the news that day. I just wanted to close my eyes and...
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Channel: When Hip-Hop Happens
Sometimes when you least expect it, despite the efforts of the main stream media, Hip-Hop – the international phenomenon happens – and there ain’t nothin’ nobody can do about it.
When Hip Hop Happens
May 2015 – All Hail To the Queen!!!
Earlier this year the Hip Hop community took a collective punch to the belly when Queen Latifah sold her New Jersey mansion and said “ba-bye†to her...
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When HIP-HOP (doesn’t) Happen
Iggy Azalea – Check Your Black-cent @ The Door
It was about a month ago when a random flipping of the dial led me to the Today Show on WNBC in NYC and it was there, during the Toyota Concert Series,...
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Hip-Hop Love On The Big Stage – It’s a D.A.I.S.Y. Age
Dateline – Jan. 6, 2014
It was the night of the National College Football Championship game and with the help of two, 70-plus...
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2013 – Year of Yeezus
As 2012 slowly and surely turned into 2013 we said goodbye to the old year, much in the same way in which we would welcome the New Year – with the blessing of Kanye...
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When Hip-Hop Happens – July 2013
Edu-tainment: Hip-Hop Matriculates to the Ivy League
Visiting Cornell University scholar Afrika Bambaataa
“Remember Rappin Duke? Duh ha, duh ha – you never thought that Hip-Hop would take...
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Crazy In Love – Jiggaman and B Create an International Incident
When I cavalierly reported that Hip-Hop mogul and businessman Jay-Z took his lovely wife, Beyonce to Havana, Cuba to celebrate their...
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WHEN HIP-HOP (doesn’t) HAPPEN
THE HARLEM SHAKE – NOT!!!!
The internet has been all a buzz this past week over all of the amusing video spoofs folks have been posting in celebration of Baauer’s Harlem Shake.
Okay, a part...
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KANYE IS ROCKING A DRESS
The end of October 2012 was a life changer on the East Coast of the US.
A monster storm, a category 1 Hurricane named “Sandy,†rolled up on the New York and New Jersey...
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WHEN HIP-HOP (doesn’t) HAPPEN
Periodically we comment on points in time when Hip-Hop, the international art form, impacts the greater society and regardless of all of the haters, thrusts itself into the dialogue of social commentary.
We...
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