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It has come to the attention of the National Black United Front (NBUF) - Houston Chapter, hip hop icon Professor Griff suffered the loss of his home in Atlanta, Georgia while he was in New York to do a lecture. The house burned after an explosion caused by a gas leak.

Upcoming police drama Street Kings has hip-hop written all over it, not only do Common and the Game have starring roles but former Cypress Hill producer DJ Muggs is also providing the score for the film.

Set on the gritty streets of Los Angeles, Street Kings features Keanu Reeves as an LAPD Vice Detective, determined to track down his former partner's killers. Forrest Whitaker, Common and the Game also star in the David Ayer-directed film. Ayer is known for writing such past films as Training Day and The Fast And The Furious.

Due out in April, the flick also features a score created by renowned Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins producer, DJ Muggs. In a recently released statement, Muggs described his duties on the project:

"We began the process of Street Kings by talking to David Ayer about the direction of the sound and how we wanted to convey certain moods in certain scenes," DJ Muggs explained. "Once the movie was shot, we went to work and brought the sound and movement to life."

"The main difference from scoring and making records is that in scoring the music can't loop," Muggs explained. "You gotta build, take away and add changes constantly as each frame changes. And the other difference is that when I make music, I only have to answer to me. This time I had the director and the producers and the studio Fox Searchlight. You have to make sure they get their vision across as well as the energy and emotion they want in the sound of their film. I'm here for that purpose."

DJ Muggs is currently working on his compilation album Soul Assassins III, as well as the concept album DJ Muggs vs. Planet Asia with Planet Asia..

Street Kings lands in theaters on April 11th.

The hip-hop mogul said Sunday he is endorsing Barack Obama for president, inspired by the diversity among the Illinois senator's supporters. Obama has built an unprecedented national movement of people from all ethnic, racial, political, social and economic backgrounds, Simmons said in a news release.

A Bronx building where a young DJ pioneered hip-hop in the 1970s has been saved from a plan that would have moved it from affordable to market-rate housing, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday.

Last year, tenants of the building reached out to DJ Kool Herc, a former tenant, after receiving word that the owner planned to leave an affordable housing program that would have opened the door to rent increases.

During the 1970s, DJ Kool Herc began spinning records at parties in the basement recreation room of the Sedgwick Avenue building.

The hip-hop movement then spread around the world.

The 100-unit apartment building has been deemed eligible to be listed on national and state registers of historic sites.

The affordable housing program, known as Mitchell-Lama, offers owners incentives such as low-rate mortgages and tax breaks in exchange for charging tenants low to moderate rents for a certain period of time.

METHOD MAN TALKING ABOUT HOW HE WAS DEALING WITH A REAL SERIOUS FAMILY MATTER THAT HE HAS TRYING TO KEEP PRIVATE AND WENDY WILLIAMS SPREAD THE WORD...WOW

It seems that more and more of our Hip-Hop artist are falling prey to all the stereotypes and ignorance plaguing our communities. when is this cycle going to end.Lil Wayne getting arrested on gun and drug charges.We need to wise up how are you a millionaire getting legal money getting caught up on illegal charges. You are famous everything you do is being watched at all times one mistake can catch you up in a bad situation.

LeBron speaks about incident

I can't even say anything...

Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and a check-fraud scam, despite her plea that she not be separated from her two young children "even for a short period of time."

"I ask you to be as merciful as a human being can be," said Jones, who cried on her husband's shoulder after she was sentenced.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas gave her the maximum under her plea deal "because of the need for general deterrence and the need to promote respect for the law."

Prodigy was to start his sentence on January 9 but was in the Emergency Room on January 7 after pleading guilty to criminal possession of a loaded handgun. Prodigy who has Sickle Cell Anemia stated if they put me in a facility that can’t treat sickle cell, then I can sue the state. So they gotta make sure they put me in a facility that can handle that"."Throughout my life, I have always lived through adversity. I’m a survivor. You don’t understand the mental power that I have. While I am locked up, I’m going to be writing lyrics, working on the script for my second feature film, Dope, and finish writing an autobiography of my life which will be finished by the time I’m released".

Young Buck of G-Unit was robbed by gunpoint outside a Nashville TN Nightclub The Place his jewerly and Bentley were stolen..Young Buck states that he was not robbed but had an altercation and lost his watch : "There was an altercation between me and a dude here in Tenessee and during that altercation, I lost a watch which came off my arm. But as far as someone taking my Bentley, my Bentley is sitting pretty without a scratch on it, right here in my driveway and my jewelry is right here too. I guess this is what people wanted to happen. I didn’t get robbed for anything."