An icon to rappers Ice-T and Snoop Dogg, Iceberg Slim put the intricacies of the pimp game into words better than anyone else, becoming the USA’s best-selling black author in the process with over six million books sold. Now author Ian Whitaker has published ‘Iceberg Slim: The Lost Interviews With The Pimp’, a fascinating collection [...]

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By Richard Watson
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Nas dropped a verse airing out Kelis and bemoaning the burden that child/spousal support was placing on his wallet. Sure, 52K a month is a little steep, but if Nasir hadn’t gone mad on that dinner plate-sized QB pendant a few years back, he [...]

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Never one to avoid either the spotlight or the caps lock button, Kanye West blogged against critics of the pelt-centric ensembles he and his lass have been flossing lately, and insisted that, post-Obama, black folks are denying their love of fur coats, fried chicken and red leather. “I CAN HEAR [...]

Come April, Memphis men 8Ball & MJG will be releasing their ‘Ten Toes Down’ album through TI’s Grand Hustle enterprise. With input from Snoop, Bun B, David Banner, Drumma Boy and Mo B Dick, they’ve dropped a pre-release behind-the-scenes video teaser, plus the tracks ‘Ten Toes Down’ and ‘Bring It Back’. Speaking about the project, [...]

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By Richard Watson
Hard to believe that life could throw up any more cruel surprises for the kids orphaned in the Haiti earthquake tragedy, but it emerged this week that one of them could be getting Trina for a mother. Meanwhile, Russell Simmons defended Wyclef’s much-scrutinised Yele for Haiti charity and there [...]

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There was no doubt about this week’s hardest hitting headline as Kwame dropped the bombshell that he’s never seen Coming to America or Friday, despite owning both movies on DVD. He’s also got the entire box set of Jeeves & Wooster, which he swears he’ll get round to watching one [...]

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By Richard Watson
Who’s up for Coco? With the nation feeling the freeze, Ice-T and the old trouble and strife warmed up Britain – and, indeed, Fern Britton – on All Star Mr & Mrs. Meanwhile, back in snow-free LA, Tracy’s old mucker Ice Cube mean-mugged Conan O’Brien and Snoop moonlighted as [...]

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“It was all a dream/I used to skim through Time magazine…” After a year of internet grinding, Raekwon saw ‘OB4CL2’ nab the number seven spot on Time’s Top Ten albums of 2009. Rae toasted the news with Capone and Noreaga, whose own reunion set was voted ninth best album of the [...]

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Going to a dinner party filled with Lost fans but clueless about the series? This week, 88 Keys came to your rescue with a track dedicated to JJ Abram’s ratings juggernaut. Staying on the TV tip, Snoop Dogg appealed for a role in vampire drama True Blood and the RZA promoted [...]

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By Richard Watson
With the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors celebrating Def Jam’s 25th anniversary, KRS-One offered a more balanced opinion on the label’s legacy, naming it single-handedly responsible for hip-hop’s destruction. Which we don’t think was an actual award. In tangentially related news, it emerged that Def Jam alumnus Foxy Brown may be the [...]