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Hip Hop entrepreneur Kevin Black has been casted for Launch My Line , Bravo 's lasted television competition series.

When hip-hop blew up, Kurtis Blow was there. His 1980 song "The Breaks" became the second rap track to reach the Top 5 of Billboard magazine's R&B chart .

Altuism in all its forms is celebrated in the film "A Passion for Giving." Stories This article was written by CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi .

Caption: Curtis James ' 50 Cent ' Jackson Premiere of 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood - Arrivals Los Angeles, Caifornia .... Rapper 50 CENT has put his money behind a new documentary about slain RUN-DMC DJ JAM MASTER JAY as a tribute to the man who mentored him to become a hip-hop heavyweight.

Rap-rock, as a genre, has a bad connotation. In many cases, rightly so. The music world has been exposed to plenty of hip-hop-meets-rock incarnations since Steven Tyler busted through Run DMC's wall back in the day.

The Bad Young Brother was doomed to commercial failure, but won something more valuable for the fledgling UK rap scene in the 80s a ' respect How you rap is no longer an issue for British hip-hop artists such as Speech Debelle , who owe this debt to Derek B. Photograph: Simone Joyner/Getty With Dizzee Rascal seemingly a national treasure, and the ...

It's Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ, By Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeno, powerHouse Books, $22.95. The Rat That Got Away, by Allen Jones with Mark Naison, Fordham University Press, $29.95. What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, By Michael Rosen, ...

Joshua Hergenroder a.k.a. One's DJ Kalifornia. You might not recognize the name Joshua Hergenroder, but you've probably seen his face before.

Fuse '20 Hottest Hip Hop Videos': Run-DMC's "Walk This Way" Posted on November 11, 2009 at 05:42 AM It doesn't get more classic than this! Run-DMC were the first crossover rap act and if anyone is uncertain about that, "Walk This Way" makes it pretty clear.

Master P is a pioneer of the rap game-period. His business acumen and his No Limit movement will forever ring in the annals of Hip-Hop History.

It's Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ, By Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeno, powerHouse Books, $22.95. The Rat That Got Away, by Allen Jones with Mark Naison, Fordham University Press, $29.95. What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, By Michael Rosen, ...

Last Recast, we looked at film with an excellent score and added some licensed music to spice it up with mixed results .

Nio: 'very much a Californian' Carlos Nio had a change of heart around the age of 28, one that is at once thought-provoking and controversial.

It's going to be a classic scene. Actors playing the parts of Run-DMC's Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels and Jason Mizell stroll onto the stage, and a member of the cast asks them why they're cruising down this particular street in Queens, New York, weighed down by hip-hop jewellery.

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Nightlife and entertainment leader PURE Management Group today announced that multi-platinum rap artist 50 Cent will ring in 2010 at PURE Nightclub with a very special New Year's Eve performance.

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.

You read it right. The legendary rap group could be getting the musical treatment.

According to the New York Times , a musical is in the works that features the story of hiphop legends Run DMC.

Children's Aid and Family Services Hosting Adoption Celebration - Special Guest Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC By Mel Fabrikant Wednesday, October 28 2009, 02:44 PM EDT Children's Aid and Family Services is hosting an Adoption Celebration to launch its new Adoption Services on Sunday, November 15, 2009, from 1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. at its Adoption ...

Run-D.M.C. may be following in the footsteps of U2 and Billy Joel. U.K.' s The Guardian reported last week that producer Paula Wagner is in preliminary talks to create a rap opera featuring the iconic '80s group's back catalog.