I am Grouchy Greg. I founded AllHipHop in 1996. In addition to running the site, I enjoy breaking news stories. My stories have been cited in The LA Times, NY Times, NY Post, TMZ, Yahoo, Billboard, The Associated Press, CNN, and more.
http://staging.allhiphop.comA mistrial was declared today in the case of Roc-A-Fella rapper Beanie Sigel. The jury deliberated for a week but was unable to reach a verdict on any of the charges against him. Sigel was facing 20 to 40 years in prison if convicted of shooting a man outside of a bar in 2003. Terrance […]
Marvel Enterprises has inked a deal with AST Sportswear and will produce an urban streetwear line of clothing that features several characters from the Marvel Universe. AST, which makes the Source Clothing and World Wrestling Entertainment lines, will be released to specialty clothing boutiques this month. "Marvel is quite simply one of the premiere entertainment […]
CNET’s Download.com launched a free, legal music downloading service that enables users to download music from participating artists without spending a cent. http://music.download.com went live yesterday on download.com, one of the most visited sites for legal, software downloads. The site is live with basic functionality that allows users to browser, find, download and listen to […]
The IRS is seeking to "shame" people into paying their taxes and are listing delinquent United States citizens on State owned web sites. At least 13 states are using the tactic, which some states are branding an effective tax tool. Georgia’s web site boasts two celebrities, the estate of Tupac Shakur, which owes $85,260 and […]
A Federal Court in Memphis Tennessee has labeled rapper Virgil "Turk" Virgil a flight risk and ordered him to stay behind bars today, on the eve of the release of his latest album, Penitentiary Chances. Turk, who is being held in a maximum security prison in Tennessee, is accused of shooting a police officer while […]
GF Records CEO Bang ‘Em Smurf and protégé Domination (aka Silverback Guerillas) somehow managed to finagle a pair of verses from Tupac Shakur from a source they refused to divulge. Smurf told AllHipHop.com, "The Tupac thing – aw man – that Tupac joint man, we stumbled on that. We got that. I can’t even tell […]
The Alchemist can barely conceal his excitement for his debut album project called 1st Infantry. When entering his mid-town Manhattan studio, the underground beat maestro’s beats are already pounding sounds to be featured his masterpiece. Still, despite crafting his masterwork, putting in work from the ground up and producing tracks for industry heavyweights such as […]
Russell Simmons and Stan Lathan’s Simmons Lathan Media Group (SLMG) announced the details of the "Russell Simmons Presents: Def Filmmakers Screening Series." The series is sponsored by Motorola and Blackfilm.com and will showcase a new urban film every other month at theaters and venues in major cities across the United States. The first film will […]
RZA has signed on to score the music for "Blade: Trinity," the third installment of the "Blade" franchise starring Wesley Snipes. "On Blade: Trinity, we’re actually planning for an 80-piece orchestra. So for me it’s really fulfilling," RZA told Film Stew. RZA said that film scoring was different than Hip-Hop production, due to the emotional […]
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. will dump a marketing campaign that utilized Hip-Hop to promote their Kool Brand of cigarettes. Critics claimed that the campaign was aimed at luring black youth into smoking the cigarettes and that the campaign violated a legal settlement the tobacco company reached with 46 states. Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe, […]
Artist: GhostfaceTitle: The Pretty Toney AlbumRating: 4 1/2 StarsReviewed by: aqua boogie A lot has changed since Ghostface Killah first entered the fold as Wu-Tang Clan’s masked lyricist. Let’s be real, there was a time, somewhere between Wu’s debut “Protect Ya Neck” single and the video for “Can It Be All So Simple,” when Ghostface […]
Rev. Run was denied the status of poet laureate yesterday (April 23) in Queens, New York. The winner was noted Korean-American poet Ishle Yi Park who is ironically, a poet that appears on Def Poetry, which was created by the younger Simmons’ older brother Russell. Yi Park, 26, said that she was honored to be […]
VH1 will honor Hip-Hop’s pioneer’s with a new awards show, "VH1 Hip-Hop Honors." The show is scheduled for October 8. Network president Christina Norman told the Associated Press the event will be annual and was a perfect fit for the network and their new push into pop culture. "The people who grew up listening to […]
Just one day after being released from prison, Suge Knight’s release has already sparked some controversy, in the form of a message delivered to Knight from former Death Row Records artist, Daz Dillinger. "You f*ggot ass n*gga finally you get outta jail," Daz said on an audio statement posted on his website, DPGRecordz.com. "They stuffed […]
AllHipHop represents for those who can recite a verse from beginning to end, those who quote lyrics to explain serious life situations, and those who have an arsenal of punch-line snaps in they raps. But AllHipHop has just as much love for the producer. From eight bar loops, to live instrumentation, to the Triton, we […]
Marion "Suge" Knight was released from prison yesterday, after spending 10 months behind bars for violating his probation. The CEO of Death Row served most of his time at the Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California. In a controversial decision, a California parole board determined that Knight punched a parking valet and violated the […]
Officials at Georgia State University suspended a fraternity after two of its members appeared at a Hip-Hop theme party in blackface. The university’s Senate Committee on Student Discipline ruled that the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, which is mostly white, violated the code of conduct for students during the party, which took place in late January. […]
Jurors in the trial of Beanie Sigel said today they cannot reach a verdict on any of the charges related to his attempted murder case. Shortly after 1 p.m., jurors told Common Pleas Court Judge Karen Shreeves-Johns that they decided they couldn’t reach a verdict in their second day of deliberations. Shreeve-Johns told the jurors […]
Monie Love, who shot to fame with her hits "Monie in the Middle," "It’s A Shame" and her classic verses on De La Soul’s "Buddy" and Queen Latfiah’s "Ladies First," is working on new material due to her passion for the art of Hip-Hop. "I’m working on putting a mix CD out of myself basically […]
Doug E. Fresh will headline the National Hip-Hop Forum at the Cobo Center in Detroit, presented by the Freedom Institute for Economic, Social Justice and Political Empowerment. According to Reverend Wendell Anthony, chairman and founder of the institute, the forum will focus on the evolving business of Hip-Hop. "We are not just doing a summit […]
