Amid outcry from the state police union, a New Jersey university has decided to cancel a commencement speech from rapper Common over a song he wrote a fifteen years ago in honor of Black activist Assata Shakur. Kean University students expressed interest in hearing Common speak at graduation in large part due to his powerful and emotional […]
This morning Jay-z and Swizz Beatz dropped a new track “Open Letter“. In the new track “Open Letter, Jay addresses all this heat over him visiting Cuba without permission. In this song he makes some reference to the White House giving him clearance. He also mentions that he spoke to Obama about the issue. Here […]
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A film based on the late rapper/actor’s life is still in Limbo (Antoine Fuqua was to direct it, and even began the casting process 2 springs ago, but nothing came from that, and Fuqua left the project; John Singleton then was said to have taken over for Fuqua, but then he left the project as well); but a Tupac […]
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The kids of late musician David Pryor filed a copyright lawsuit against rapper Kanye West claiming his song Gold Digger uses an unauthorized sample of their father saying “Get down,” from his song Bumpin’ Bus Stop. Trena Steward and Lorenzo Pryor claim that 35-year-old West used a line in his song taken from a track Pryor recorded with […]
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