Rapper David Banner will be inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame during a ceremony to be held tonight. Banner was honored during a private ceremony that took place in his hometown of, Jackson, along with artists like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Charlie Pride, Conway Twitty, Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, Elvis Presley and others. […]
Video is surfacing of a rap group called the “Monkey Gang” who critics are calling “The Most Ignorant Rap Ever.” Rumor is that it might be a parody, but the way rap is going, who knows. RELATED STORIES Mighty Casey “Crackhead Superheroes” [VIDEO] VIDEO: Mighty Casey “Black Rapping School”
Thirteen years after Tony Toni Toné broke up, the group’s front-man Raphael Saadiq is still going strong, with his fourth solo studio album, Stone Rollin’, due out in March.
As a child Monica Wood, principal and lead strategist for MWPR, Inc. (Monica Wood Public Relations), was influenced by her mother’s classic style. Below the…
Ok, so after Kanye ‘jumped out the window’ with his “G.O.O.D. Fridays” Artist-Approved-Weekly-Free-Download series, every other artist has to follow suit, right?….With Timbaland & Snoop Dogg having already begun releasing music under #TimbalandThursdays & #PuffPuffPassTuesdays, it would seem so to us earthlings that this is the new hot marketing tool in music, but at closer […]
Was there a better decade for black films than the 1970’s, when the Blaxploitation era was in full effect? Though it was a controversial era for African-Americans, Blaxploitation cinema was a creatively rich period that broke down racial barriers for many black actors and filmmakers. Names like Richard Roundtree, Pam Grier, and Melvin Van Peebles […]
With all due r-e-s-p-e-c-t to Aretha Franklin, we have to agree with Halle Berry that she probably isn’t the ideal person to play her in a movie on her life. Given her place in history as one of the greatest voices in music, you can’t have just anyone lip-sync their way through her biopic. At […]
With two episodes under it’s belt, the new season of The Game is shaping up to be one crazy season! Take a sneak peak into next weeks episode when Malik is confronted by his cousin for all the foul that he has done over the years. BET Videos
Thisis50.com takes you behind the scenes for Lloyd Banks’ new single off HFM2 with Jeremih, “I Don’t Deserve You” for an exclusive look of the video. The video is set to drop January 23rd
On January 19, 1918 John H Johnson, publisher of “Ebony Magazine” and “Jet” was born. In 1982 he became the first African-American to appear on the Forbes 400.
This is funny! This is way before he was Carlton Banks on “The Fresh Prince”. I think this was during the time he was on a show called “Silver Spoons”. Check out this commercial of his very own product, teaching you how to Breakdance.