Nas showed his Philly fans some serious love and appreciation this week during the Heineken Red Star Access event at Electric Factory. Check out the video by clicking the image above or the link below plus a few photos as Nas steals the show and has the entire crowd singing every song he performed. This is what Hip Hop […]

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PHILADELPHIA — One of the alleged victims of a woman accused of holding mentally disabled adults captive in a benefits fraud scheme sued her aunt…

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PHILADELPHIA — A police officer was shot to death blocks from his precinct house just after he finished his shift early Saturday in what authorities…

A few years ago, a group of mostly black and Hispanic children from inner-city Philadelphia day camp were denied swimming privileges at the Valley Swim…

Ashanti performs live. (Photo: Getty Images) Ashanti stopped through Hot 107.9 studios to spend a little quality time with The Home Team. Check out the interview as Ashanti talked about her latest single, “The Woman You Love,” upcoming album and Braveheart, set to release sometime in April. The interview took a turn as The Home […]

In honor of Don Cornelius and in memory of the late Whitney Houston, 100.3 WRNB set out to break the Guinness World Record for the “Longest Soul Train Line.” The previous record of 211 people was shattered as almost 350 people danced their way into the record books, becoming the largest crowd to ever gather […]

Hip Hop royalty can often come with a bit of drama and it looks like Kanye West is still healing from old and open wounds when it comes to his ex Amber Rose this week. After what seemed to be a very unsettling discontinuance of their relationship (she’s now tied to Wiz Khalifa and only […]

What can be said about The Roots that hasn’t already been said? Everyone knows they are the go to band for rappers wanting to experiment with live instrumentation. Need we remind you of their performances with Jay-Z for his Unplugged show in 2001 and his Fade to Black concert film? The Philadelphia bred hip-hop musicians […]

A space where hundreds of Philadelphia charter school students have been eating their lunches during mundane weekdays has been doubling in its off-hours as nightclub, offering dancing and drinking despite an expired liquor license. City and school officials are not happy about the arrangement between Club Damani and the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, which serves about 450 children in kindergarten through eighth grade.

The Sixers announced yesterday that Iverson will not be with the team for the remaining three games on its West Coast swing and that he will be away from the team indefinitely after that for personal reasons.

On Wednesday January 13th at 9:59 PM Soul music legend <strong>Teddy DeReese Pendergrass</strong> died at the age of 59.