Hip-Hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc (born Clive Campbell) is in good spirits but still needs medical and financial help. Late Monday, The New York Times reported that the hip-hop pioneer was recently hospitalized due to complications from kidney stones — a painful, yet treatable, condition made all the worse due to Herc’s lack of health insurance.
“We live in one of the superpowers of the world!” Herc said in a statement to MTV News on Tuesday (February 1). ” ‘Give me your tired, your poor … ‘ and then you don’t take care of them? There should be no weak ants in the colony. There shouldn’t be anyone fighting for health care! This has been going on too damn long! We fought for 1520 Sedgwick to get landmark status, and in 2007, New York State officially recognized it as the ‘Birthplace of Hip Hop.’ Now we are fighting for health care not just for me, but for everyone. I see this situation as another quest for me to shine light on a sensitive issue for the community. I’m an instrument of God. I’m here for a purpose and I want to be here for the solution.”
Watch excerpts from a rap video made by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The incumbent president is using the rap to secure the combined farmer and youth vote in Uganda.
The 2011 Grammys are among us.. February 13, 2011 to be exact. See what artists are being nominated below. Sidenote: Its a blessing to see Chris Brown being nominated considering nearly two years ago, he got into that whole controversy at the 2009 Grammys. Read more inside. (more…)
From Chris Brown to Washington Wizards’ star John Wall to ESPN’s Skip Bayless , “The Dougie” has impacted not only hip-hop culture but it has transcended into mainstream America. Here The WSJ analyzes Cali Swagg Districts hit record.
Multiplatinum rapper Soulja Boy, who has 2.5 million Twitter fans and has had his videos watched more than 500 million times on YouTube, talked to WSJ’s Lee Hawkins as part of “WSJ Weekend Conversations. ” The 20-year-old rapper discussed his Internet marketing strategy for his forthcoming single, “Speakers Going Hammer,” and performed the single for a crowd of fans.
“Teflon Don, that’s the album of the year right now, I don’t care what it sold,” MTV News’ Shaheem Reid said during the Hottest MCs roundtable. “From ‘I’m Not a Star’ down to ['All the Money in the World'], ‘Tears of Joy,’ it just really grips your soul when you hear him having the foresight to bring Cee-Lo back. Cee-Lo was singing his heart out. I feel like I’m in church.”
The co-founder of Def Jam Records and the creator of the Phat Farm clothing line talked to WSJ about his new show “Running Russell Simmons,” his charitable work and his activism around the mosque controversy at the 9/11 site.
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