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Today Sesame Street turns 40 years old. As I still pour out tall boys of 211 for Fred Rogers , HipHopDX let me look back at some of the Hip Hop moments that happened in the land of " Sunny days... " Ice-T: Word On The Street His cameo in Breakin ' should've proved that Ice-T was the original rapper-turned-actor. So to see his "Sesame Street" cameo ...

In the underground world of hip-hop, the purity and passion of the artist establish credibility and longevity.

'Mercy' - Veronica tries to save a pregnant woman in the aftermath of a car wreck; Dr.

A recipe that includes a nondescript New York University dorm room, a heavyset Jewish kid from Long Island and a street-wise black guy from Queens seems like an unlikely one to cook up musical history.

King Tut might rise from his fake tomb at the Egyptian Theatre, but Right Said Fred will not be dancing on his head.

So You Think You Can Dance, 8-10 p.m., Fox; or 'Dancing With the Stars.' 9-10 p.m., ABC.

Winding up Herbie Hancock Listening Week at aworks, Watermelon Man remains the favorite.

Bill Cosby doesn't just make comedy or musical parody albums anymore. The comedian has announced he'll release a "socially-conscious" hip-hop record, Bill Cosby Presents The Cosnarati: State Of Emergency , digitally on Tuesday and to stores on Nov.

BROOKLYN, New York - Usually when hip-hop heads new and old gather to celebrate someone being recognized as a "VH1 Hip Hop Honors" inductee, it's a pioneering act like LL Cool J , Rakim or Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

Looking the part is half the battle. Take Common, for example. Details: Common performs with Maxwell on Monday, October 12, at American Airlines Center.

OK, so she's no threat to LL Cool J or Eminem or even T-Pain , but Miley Cyrus knows how to rap a little bit in a corny-cool old-school style and she knows how to milk a moment like nobody's business.

Which is which? Well, figuring that part out is the challenge. This year's edition of VH1's "Hip Hop Honors" series, which debuts Tuesday night, offers examples of both as it celebrates the 25th anniversary of Def Jam Recordings by making it the first record label to be inducted.

Last week in TV, something amazing happened. "NCIS" finished first in the ratings.

CBS have given the green light for a full season of the networka s latest hit series, NCIS: Los Angeles , which stars rapper LL Cool J. NCIS: Los Angeles is the networka s new #1 program of the season, averaging 17.47 million viewers over the past three broadcasts.

The year was 1989 and the gold chain era of hip-hop was in full effect. Rap was still a separate entity from the mainstream music and artists like LL Cool J, Run DMC, Eric B. and Rakim, EPMD and Big Daddy Kane ruled the scene.

The mashed-up, sample-heavy music Gregg Gillis makes under his Girl Talk moniker sounds like the greatest house party of all time - or, more precisely, a half dozen house parties, all held on the same block on the same Saturday night, each of which keeps turning up the volume in hopes of out-drawing its rivals.

The 37th Chamber 10.03.09: A Place To Call Home Posted by Patrick Robinson on 10.03.2009 In this week's Rant, it's all about the Record Labels! Certain labels develop reputations, whether good or bad, based on their artists, but should we really pay that much attention to them? Well, as you read this I should be in Tokyo unless something disastrous ...

Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons joined forces 25 years ago to form Def Jam : A record label dedicated to hip hop.

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network 2009-09-30 17:48:05 - ANTONIO BANDERAS' action film BALLISTIC: ECKS VS.

FINALLY, SOME good news in the ongoing saga of Maia Campbell , the long-troubled actress whose drug use and bipolar disorder have kept her off television and made her the subject of Internet ridicule.