Check out who is featured by viewing our Mini Concert Playlist below. You can hear the My Mini Concert M – F at 11 a.m. on My927Charlotte. Wanna host your own mini concert? Send us an email to my927charlotte@gmail.com with your artist suggestions, including four of the artists’ songs you would like to hear during […]
In this exclusive video premiere on TheUrbanDaily, Dan Charnas, author of the epic new book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, bursts a few widely-held myths about hip-hop. Myth #1: Suge Knight sprung Tupac from jail Myth #2: The Source was the first hip-hop magazine Myth #3: Kool Herc “invented” hip-hop […]
September 7, 1996 was the last time Iron Mike Tyson walked out of the ring as a heavyweight champion. After defeating Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada the world’s youngest heavyweight was supposed to celebrate regaining the WBA title. But later that night his close friend Tupac Shakur was gunned down […]
VIA Globalgrind.com By Femi Kirby Earlier this year, Jay-Z told a British interviewer that once, when he called President Obama during his daily workout, “The Blueprint” was playing in the background. He continued to share that the President “loves Hip Hop,” and that he had been invited to the White House as a guest numerous […]
In recognition of Pac’s born day, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Stone Mountain held their second annual 2nd Annual 2Pac Birthday Celebration. Our Radio One partners at Hot 107.9 in Atlanta covered the event. Comedian Mike Epps and Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, hosted the celebration. Despite a downpour of rain halting […]
Remember road trips with your parents? In my family, we battled to control the radio. If the trip was longer than 10 miles, my parents won. Dad inevitably popped in a cassette. Often he played contemporary jazz. I heard the Crusader’s “Street Life” so many times, I dreamed living the type of life Randy Crawford […]
