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A magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit the central coast of Ecuador Saturday night, killing 233 people and injuring over one thousand

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Slick Rick is officially an American Citizen. The hip hop legend, known as Ricky Martin Lloyd Walters, was officially sworn in at a ceremony in New York on Friday. His citizenship will keep him from being deported: a ruling from a judge that pardoned him from a 1990 shooting he was convicted of. Slick Rick […]

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“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why!” -William Barclay Sometimes we dread our birthday’s. While others embrace it! A look at these super stars whom will be celebrating their Cake Day’s soon.   Your Thoughts? Jade West “Always On a Musical […]

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Kendrick Lamar, Tamar Braxton, and Robin Thicke all won Soul Train Awards. Anthony Anderson hosted the show. The list was a mile long when it came to performers but if you must know who Jennifer Hudson, Chaka Kahn, T.I., Warren G, Doug E Fresh, Slick Rick, and Big Daddy Kane took the stage. The full winners […]

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The original human beat- box, Doug E Fresh is 47 today! Happy birthday to Douglas E. Davis aka Doug E Fresh aka The World Greatest Entertainer!  Here’s footage from the “King Of The Mic” tour when it rolled into Cincinnati at Riverbend.  Leave your Birthday wishes for the Birthday Boy, Doug E Fresh below. Your thoughts? […]

For Black Music Month Jermaine Paul, the season 2 winner of “The Voice,” spoke to TheUrbanDaily about his favorite old school hip-hop album, The Great…

David Carter was all about the badge. The 46-year-old Bronx, NY native came from a long line of law enforcement officers. His father was one…

The Ruler is back! Our dude, Slick Rick, shows these new age rappers how to make everyday mundane topics interesting on the song, “Need Some Bad.” Boasting production from the legendary DJ Premier, Slick Rick exercises his trademark narrative rhyme techniques throughout Premier’s updated drums lifted off “The Show.” The song turned up on Premier’s […]

If one more sing-song rapper makes one more song about being famous, I may have to cut my ears off. I expect rappers to boast about the luxuries that come with fame. But when an artist’s catalog contains multiple songs dedicated to explaining just how famous he or she is, and when mind-blowing beats are […]

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Hip Hop Hooray!!! Salt n Peppa, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh, Naughty By Nature will invade the Cintas Center April 8th. Still don’t have your tickets? Keep listening to your number one station for Hip Hop and R&B, 101.1 the Wiz and get ready to win. Your next chance to win will be with my […]

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While partying at Club Tempo, MC Slick Rick took a minute talk about who inspired him to become an MC in this installment of Way Black When. http://media.kyte.tv/js/kyte.jsKyte.Embed.path=”http://media.kyte.tv”;Kyte.Embed.altpath=”http://www.kyte.tv”;window.kyteplayer=new Kyte.Player(“”,{appKey:”default”,width:416,height:436,p:”s”,s:1121162,tbid:”7″});

This weekend’s Fat Laces & Fades concert in downtown Baltimore was undeniably one of the  hottest shows of the year. The lineup included some of the heavy-hitting pioneers of hip hop music including Big Daddy Kane, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick and Whodini. DJ Reggie Reg and 92Q’s KiKi Brown hosted the show. […]