By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 26, 2012 Tomorrow night, Kasseem Dean, better known as Swizz Beatz, will be formally appointed Global Ambassador for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. The Fund for HHC saw the making of a good ambassador for their organization because of Beatz’ strong history of philanthropy for [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 24, 2012 Five years after Arioose robbed another Haitian at gunpoint, their re-encounter brought a rare and peaceful resolution to a story that could have gone a very different direction. In May 2007, the yet-to-be-made rapper and another masked juvenile robbed Fan-Fan’s convenience store in Elizabeth, New Jersey. [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 21, 2012 A little over a month after NASA’s Curiosity rover was launched toward Mars, a signal from the red planet was beamed back to the space program’s headquarters. However, the highlight of Wednesday night’s broadcast of the mission was not footage from the alien terrain, but of [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 19, 2012 Releasing any work posthumously is always a subject fraught with conflict, especially when the permissions of arriving at that decision are unclear. Ever since the announcement that Drake would be producing Aaliyah’s second album of previously unreleased music was tweeted by Jeffrey Walker in March of [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 17, 2012 The news of Lil Webbie’s reported assault and robbery of a woman gets more and more convoluted. On Thursday, Webbie was arrested on charges of battery and robbery, accused of kicking a woman down a flight of stairs in the Chase Suite Hotel in Baton Rouge [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 14, 2012 Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, a.k.a. Nas, is being sued by a concert promoter seven months after paying ransom to rescue the man and his son from a kidnapping in Africa. Nas’ failure to show up for his slated New Year’s Eve performance in Angola set [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 12, 2012 Despite President Obama’s self-deferential proclamation that at a certain point, “your kids get old enough where they’re just hipper than you are”–specifically when asked to comment about Hip-Hop–he seems quite savvy to connecting with its luminaries. When Nicki Minaj’s lyric “I’m a Republican, voting for Mitt [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 10, 2012 A year after pushing a woman out of a moving vehicle, Gucci Mane is still haunted by repercussions of that incident. The rapper had picked up a woman in Atlanta in January 2011 and propositioned her to return to his hotel room; her refusal while in [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 7, 2012 Sometimes even if the run-of-the-mill verbal sparring in Hip-Hop doesn’t escalate to physical outbreak, a diss can go too far. Following his scornful mockery of rap rival Lil JoJo’s death, Chief Keef came under a blitzkrieg of shaming criticism. Joseph “Lil JoJo” Coleman died of a [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 5, 2012 Impacted by the recent spike in homicides and gun violence, Chicago’s native son Twista declared his intention to launch a new youth center to mediate what he says are gangs “taking it back to the whole vibe of getting into it with each other.” The idea [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER August 31, 2012 Go Hard: The Takedown of Ace Capone is a semi-autobiographical account of the titular Philadelphia drug kingpin’s illicit activities, penned while still in prison. Ace Capone, born Alton Coles, once moved $25 million worth of cocaine between New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. This all carried [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER August 29, 2012 Allegations that Nas’ “Nigger” album was ghostwritten by other music artists stirred a lot of controversy, which is not to say that such an incident is new to Hip-Hop. A few weeks ago, Dream Hampton tweeted that Stic of Dead Prez and Jay Electronica were the [...]
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