Last night, around 11 p.m., Carmelo Anthony was finally traded to the New York Knicks. It took several months of dizzying rumors, involved almost half the teams in the league and allowed Isiah Thomas to worm his way back into James Dolan’s ear, but it’s finally done. Read the rest of this entry »

Ab-Soul’s life has to be a little heady. His notoriety and skill have only grown over the past year, and show no signs of slowing. But instead of succumbing to the fast-paced lifestyle that this could entail, he prefers to lay it back with a bottle of “Moscato.” This smooth cut is a spiritual cousin to “P&P 1.5″ off Kendrick Lamar’s O(verly) D(edicated), featuring the same two talented emcees, a similar laid-back feel, and inspiration born from a little bit of alcohol. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody has had the wind knocked out of them in minor sports scuffles or random acts of clumsiness. Now imagine getting your oxygen belted from your lungs with a lead pole dipped in cryogenic temperatures.

Yeah, the latest audio pamphlet from Stone Mountain, GA’s Big Rec hits you just like that. Read the rest of this entry »

Los Angeles has essentially become Fred’s second home so folks in the city should make plans to catch him tomorrow @ Troubadour. Performing with a live band The Park and other acts include Free The Robots, The ’87 Stick Up Kids and our friend from The Bay, DaVinci. Read the rest of this entry »

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At some point, soundtracks disappeared in the cinema world. Think about it, when was the last time a really great soundtrack came around and in turn made the film it was catered towards that much better? It’s been awhile. That doesn’t mean the great ones of the past suddenly became irrelevant in the all but extinct field of “motion picture music.” In fact, it’s all the more reason to pay homage to them. Read the rest of this entry »

For the past week, the wrestling world has been eagerly awaiting John Cena’s response to The Rock tearing him apart on Monday Night RAW seven days ago. Cena opened this week’s show with his own 10 minutes to go at the People’s Champ. What a lot of people don’t realize is that this feud is a very real one. Read the rest of this entry »

The common assertion is outsiders point and laugh at Detroit, unfairly choosing the historic city as an object of ridicule. The idea’s false for me because I view the city as a microcosm of what’s happening in other large cities, states and, more specifically, urban districts. Watching equal parts The Wire and WSHH come to life could never be considered a joke. Read the rest of this entry »

Before anyone could accuse The Snowman of his melting his ice cold grills for a warm and bubbly radio hit with Justin Bieber, Jeezy’s #1 spokesperson, DJ Folk, immediately buried confirmations of such a collaboration. They just simply happened to be two celebs in the same place, at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

Words by C. Paicely

The king of character rapping is back to painting images of an incomprehensible world, but this time Lupe composes a revolutionary’s euphoria. It’s a guarantee no one else would use the words Bill O’Reilly, Quran, George Bush and Iran quite the way Lupe does in “All Black Everything” and envisioning early Eminem as the socially excepted Hip-Hop norm while a black rapper fights to be heard is just as unprecedented. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s almost crazy to believe six years have passed since Cam’ron took those bullets in Washington D.C. for not handing over his Lamborghini. That started a chain of events which included driving himself to the hospital and later blaming Jay-Z for the attempted hit on the hilarious diss record “You Gotta Love It” Read the rest of this entry »

The original version of “Top Down” found Swizzy rapping solo over this beauty of a beat and was featured on Liberty City’s 102.7 The Beat. To fill in those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, the radio station was one of two Hip-Hop stations in the maniacal world of GTA IV. Read the rest of this entry »

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Brady Jardine’s Dunk Will Be Accepted As ‘On Time’ [With Leather] Read the rest of this entry »

The Internet makes stars almost as quickly as it ditches them. Awhile back, I remember seeing this clip of college students from Texas A&M who specialized in making insane basketball shots from the top of water towers, back of trucks and any other type of setting you can fathom while you’re wasted. Read the rest of this entry »

Aloe Blacc’s “Fourteen” catches the Cali artist fondly recalling his days long before he needed dollars. 14KT’s production sets the tone for this flashback track featuring no frills MC’ing on Aloe’s end. What’s more is the song will likely make you recollect on your younger days when things were so simple. Read the rest of this entry »

Some people prefer bacon and some folks just like a side of i’gnant with their waffles and eggs. The International House Of Pancakes is place for many things besides just satisfying your stomach. You can obtain the latest scoop of your city’s happenings, the digits of the cutie across the table from you and a nice, fresh ass-whooping before your blueberry short stack is on the table.

In Fox News’ recent attempts to be “fair and balanced” (ha!) they seem to have found themselves in between a rock and a hard fist in Sacremento, CA. After trying to cover a story of a man who was recently gunned down at an IHOP (imagine that!), he encountered an angry pack of well…whatever.

When FOX40 reporter John Lobertini and photojournalist Rebecca Little approached around 4 p.m. to see if anyone wanted to talk about what happened, they were attacked.

Several people pulled Little to the ground by her hair and kicked her in the face. “When I fell on the ground I was protecting myself, and then she kicked me and I was still kinda paralyzed, and I hear my reporter John say, ‘get up, get up,’” said Little.

Lobertini was also attacked. “I was punched on the side of my face,” said Lobertini, “but it was a situation where I was trying to fight off 6 or 7 or 8 people, I can’t even count them.”

Good luck on getting this guy to a Baptist church anytime soon.

Via Fox40