The Hip Hip culture was created in the Bronx in 1973 but as a concept, Hip Hop and more specifically Rap can be traced back hundreds of years in West Africa. Griots (prounced “gree-ots”) were storytellers, loremasters and the keepers of their peoples’ histories. While Europe and most of the Asian continent had developed their […]
This is the last photograph taken of Tupac Shakur about an hour before he was gunned down in Las Vegas in a drive-by shooting. He would die in the hospital a few days later. Shakur, who was 26 years old was a passenger in the car. The driver, Suger Knight–yes, THAT Suger Knight–was not […]
…Ok here we go. Another live action remake of a Disney movie, another wave of closet biggots or racists want voice themselves. I’m gonna make this my “one and done” article in regards to the Live Action version of The Little Mermaid. Like the 2014 version of Annie starring Khuvenzane Wallis, much of the […]
If you were alive and older than 6 in 2000, you probably remember Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men, a Carribbean group based in The Bahamas (hence the name “Baha” Men): The song became mainstream in the U.S. after it was famously included with Nickelodeon’s secons Rugats movie Rugrats in Paris. […]
Circa 2002, a then up and coming rapper named Eminem aka Slim Shady–real name Marshall Mathers–had solidified himself as an American Rap Icon. Ths movie tells a fictionalized story of his life getting into the Underground Hip Hop scene. The majority of the movie is a bit of a yawnfest–by design–as the real meat […]
Real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr., Coolio is of course most known for this legendary song: Gangsta’s Paradise is easily one of the top 5 greatest rap songs EVER. Made for the 1995 blockbuster Dangerous Minds starring Michelle Phifer, the song is the reason that movie broke a lot of box office […]
Anyone who’s around my age and older probably knows him for this song in particular: The iconic rapper passed away from Diabetes related complications on July 16. He was 57 years old. Biz Markie did continue to make music like Lou Vega’s Mambo #5, he was never able to replicate the popularity of this […]
It’s simple: Macauley Culkin isn’t in them or even mentioned. Give credit where credit’s due for at least trying to make a movie series out of it. 1997’s Home Alone 3 featured an entirely new cast but with the same premise as the first movie: A 10 year old kid outsmarts would-be crooks by […]
…Before there was New Kids on the Block, there was New Edition. Formed in 1978, the group was comprised of Bobby Brown, Michael Bivins, and Ricky Bell though they were later joined by Ralph Tresvant (lead singer) and then Ronnie DeVoe after they signed their first recording contractin 1981. The first song after signing? […]
It might scare you to know I can remember as far back as when I was 3 years old. It’s not hard when you spent most of the first 10 years of your life not in school in the hospital. Hence this song: It took me 30 years to recall the song. As soon […]
Memories from Way Back When 