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Tag: hip-hop music

Young Thug (Courtesy photo)
Posted inEntertainment

Young Thug Trial Begins in Atlanta

by Stacy M. Brown January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

The trial of rapper Young Thug has begun in Georgia, where a judge will allow prosecutors to use song lyrics as evidence against the star.

Gangsta Boo (Courtesy photo)
Posted inEntertainment

Trendsetting Rapper Gangsta Boo of Three 6 Mafia Dies at 43

by Stacy M. Brown January 1, 2023January 4, 2023
**FILE** Tory Lanez (Courtesy photo)
Posted inEntertainment

Tory Lanez Found Guilty in Megan Thee Stallion Shooting

by Stacy M. Brown December 23, 2022December 23, 2022
Chuck D continues to count as the voice of reason inside and outside the hip-hop community. (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)
Posted inLifestyle

Chuck D on Death of Takeoff: ‘When Corporations Show Up, God Leaves the Room’

by Stacy M. Brown November 9, 2022November 10, 2022
**FILE** Migos performs at the Veld Music Festival in Toronto in August 2017. (The Come Up Show via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inEntertainment

Migos Rapper Takeoff Shot Dead in Houston

by Stacy M. Brown November 1, 2022November 1, 2022
**FILE** Coolio (Courtesy photo)
Posted inObituary

Coolio, Grammy-Winning ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59

by Stacy M. Brown September 29, 2022September 29, 2022
Rapper Sneaky Bandz (Courtesy photo)
Posted inLifestyle

D.C. Rapper Sneaky Bandz Uses Painful Past to Guide Youth in Positive Directions

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor July 20, 2022July 20, 2022
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of the Smithsonian Institution. (Courtesy of nmaahc.si.edu)
Posted inCommunity

Smithsonian’s Black History Museum to Host Hip-Hop Block Party in August

by WI Web Staff July 13, 2022July 13, 2022
Harry Allen, DJ Mellow Dee (a/k/a Terminator X) Gets Swivvy (2 of 2), ca. 1980, From the Eyejammie Hip-Hop Photography Collection, © Harry Allen
Posted inLifestyle

African American Museum Opens Hip-Hop Photo Exhibition

by WI Web Staff May 6, 2022May 6, 2022
Posted inEntertainment

10 Ways Missy Elliott Changed the Game

by Washington Informer July 3, 2015October 30, 2020

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