While most people have only heard of Akron, Ohio because of the great play of Cleveland Cavaliers Lebron James, there is another great phenomenon happening in the former “Rubber Capital of the World”; but instead on the basketball court, it’s on the radio.

Lindsay Lohan says she is “back on track” and back in the studio working. “I’m recording right now with Motown and being in the studio again has been really great,” the album will be a mixture of music including dance, hip hop and R&B. “It’s all coming together,” she said.

Busta Rhymes was sentenced (March 18) in a Manhattan Criminal Court for assault and DUI charges that he plead guilty to earlier this year as part of a plea deal.

Master P and Son Romeo Star in New Hollywood Horror The Pig People. The father and son duo are set to star in the upcoming horror film, The Pig People a big screen horror film with franchise potential.

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Method Man and Redman are back in the studio together after nearly 10 years, recording a new collabo project Blackout 2, which will be the follow-up to the duo's platinum selling disc Blackout!

On Thursday (March 20th) a federal judge ruled that T.I. is allowed to be away from home 8:30 AM to 2 PM on Sunday in order to attend a service sponsored by New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

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.

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.

By Chris Richburg

The preservation of Hip-Hop culture received a major blow Friday (Jan. 11) as noted activist Bill Adler announced plans to close the Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery after four years of operation.

Adler, the Gallery’s founder and curator, cited a lack of funds as the reason behind the closing.

"I've had a ball running the Eyejammie gallery for the last four years, but it now looks very much as if I'll have to shut it down at the end of February," Adler said via e-mail. "I simply don't have the money to keep it open."