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Past February 2008, The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery recognized hip hop as an influential culture in the society and organized the exhibit called RECOGNIZE!, a display of Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture that included colorful graffiti murals lining all of the gallery hallways.

Record producer and rapper Dr. Dre has finally announced the release of his new album “Detox” sometime between November and December this year. As a recording executive, Dr. Dre considers the delay of his new album a natural thing bearing in mind he is always pursuing perfection.

Grammy winning singer and songwriter Robin Thicke is best known for his work co-producing artists such as Brandy, Christina Aguilera, Michael Jackson, Jordan Knight, and Marc Anthony, but this time columnist Clayton Perry remarks a facet in Thicke career that is not often ignored after the artist became the first white male artist that peaked [...]

Believe it or , while Hip Hop culture is gaining spaces in the public scene not only in America but worldwide, Rev. Thomas Sweatt said to a crowd that hip hop has corrupted a generation. The story was brought by reporter Ben Slivnick for The Morning Call, the newspaper for the Lehigh Valley in eastern [...]

The official Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards (HHHHOF) is a ceremony created in 1992 by TV show producer James JT Thompson that eventually became the first independent hip-hop show aired on BET network three years later. The very first ceremony inducted renowned artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, DJ Red Alert, Kool Herc, [...]

Whitbread prize winner Patrick Neate is a writer and journalist best known for his articles published by the British media including The Guardian and The Independent, newspaper in which his story about Afro Reggae, A Rio’s hip-hop band, caught the eye of the society who learned how young musicians are involved in social movements, by [...]

Continuing with the political fever in America, this weekend will be memorable for hip hop devoted followers heading for the National Hip-Hop Political Convention at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This is the thrid bi-annual convention and will bring to the discussion panel activists and artists alike.

Although the Roxe Jam Hip-Hop Festival is an event of regional importance in the south of Wales, UK, this two-day event is being recognized as one of the most representative events for a new generation of fans joining to the hip-hop culture in Great Britain.

Although Nas is one of the top rappers in the hip-hop music scene, he is mostly known for his hard-die opinions bringing to people’s attention facts that he likes, dislikes or simply are out of curiosity from his very personal point of view.

Released early this month, “The Wackness” is a movie portraying some of the live in the middle 1990s with hip-hop culture as an underlying motivator. This film is starred by Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen,and Olivia Thirlby, the film is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in the USA, and will be [...]