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May 15, 2017

Ed Lover & Monie Love Launch New Weekend Radio Show - Weekend Blast

Hip Hop Legends Debut 2-Hour Weekend Show in Over 15 Markets with Star Power and Listeners’ Hip Hop Culture Fix Hip Hop legends Ed Lover...

Hip Hop Hall of Fame Adds Performance Venue, Hotel, and Retail Space to Design Concept

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:36 PM

After two decades of development, the Official Hip Hop Hall of Fame ("HHHOF") is poised to become "the Hip-Hop institution...

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August 30, 2016

Grandmaster Flash Talks 'The Get Down' and Gives Amazing Hip Hop History Lesson

Urban Radio Nation Staff 11:03 PM

Grandmaster Flash recently hung out with the Ebro in the Morning crew to give a history lesson on the origins of Hip Hop. He says the DJ c...

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November 19, 2014

Hip Hop: The Billion Dollar Industry that Criminalizes Black People

Urban Radio Nation Staff 7:30 AM

In 2006 Nas declared that "Hip Hop is Dead." So anything that appears to be Hip Hop now should be thought of as the music indust...

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September 2, 2014

Chuck D teams up with Mavis Staples for “Give WE the Pride”

Urban Radio Nation Staff 7:00 AM

Chuck D has teamed up with legendary soul singer Mavis Staples on a song that direct attacks today’s rap music and its lyrical content t...

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July 30, 2014

All Hip Hop founder Chuck Creekmur Open Letter to Nicki Minaj

Urban Radio Nation Staff 9:47 AM

Perhaps the founder of All Hip Hop.com should familiarized himself with the phrase "chickens come home to roost." The consequenc...

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June 11, 2014

Chuck D 'It's not Just Hot 97, Urban Radio Needs to Get It Right'

Urban Radio Nation Staff 8:25 PM

Chuck D is Ready to Destroy the Urban Radio Format In a recent interview with Billboard , Chuck D says he wants Urban Radio to "get...

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February 14, 2014

De La Soul Makes ALL of their Music Available for Free

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:30 AM

READ OUR UPDATE ON THIS POST BELOW... De La Soul is giving away their entire catalog for free today, February 14th in anticipation...

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January 3, 2014

Power 105.1 Showing Love to New York's Finest This Weekend

Urban Radio Nation Staff 9:53 AM

Kendrick Lamar won't be the King of New York this weekend on Power 105.1 FROM POWER 105.1 -- "It's about time to show not...

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September 16, 2013

Charlamagne @CthaGod Comments on Hot 97 Mister Cee

Urban Radio Nation Staff 4:00 AM

Charlamagne Gives 'The Donkey of the Day' to the Hip Hop Community and their Homophobia Charlamagne calls out Hot 97 for exploit...

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September 11, 2013

Hot 97 Mister Cee Resigns and Twitter Reacts

Urban Radio Nation Staff 10:49 PM

Marc Lamont Hill Addressess the Hip Hop Community Fears in Wake of Mr. Cee's Announcement

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September 5, 2013

John Legend Says Some Rappers Sound Like A**holes

Urban Radio Nation Staff 8:39 PM

John Legend takes hip-hop to task for misogny R&B superstar John Legend is riding high off the release of his fourth solo album, Lov...

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September 7, 2012

An In-Depth Look: Atlanta's Hip Hop and Strip Club Culture

Urban Radio Nation Staff 5:01 AM

In Atlanta, where hip-hop rubs up against notorious strip clubs, rappers who want to make it big get their start by making it rain. DOES t...

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August 29, 2012

Beanie Sigel Arrested With Gun And Drugs After Traffic Stop

Urban Radio Nation Staff 6:04 PM

Rapper Beanie Sigel was arrested on Wednesday morning (August 29), just two weeks before he was scheduled to turn himself in to begin a two-...

SPIN Magazine says 'The Problem With Hip-Hop in 2012: Not Enough Street Rap!'

Urban Radio Nation Staff 11:40 AM

The side effect of this soul-crushing major-label system is that many rappers who once would have tried to sign with a major and reach the ...

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July 11, 2012

How Mixtapes Are Killing Black Music

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:29 PM

If Lil Wayne comes out tomorrow and states that the Mixtape game is dead and he will no longer deal with it, then watch how many rappers fol...

Adidas Sneakers Controversy, But What About the Rapper's Name?

Urban Radio Nation Staff 11:48 AM

2Chainz explains his name, it means a second chance right ??? This sounds strange. A 36 year old rapper becomes popular after a name chang...

MTV’s Hip Hop POV with Power 105.1's Charlamagne Tha God (Full Episode 1) [VIDEO]

Urban Radio Nation Staff 7:58 PM

Here is the first episode of MTV’s new weekly show “Hip Hop POV” which will give viewers an inside look into the world of Hip Hop. The first...

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February 27, 2012

Dr. Boyce Watkins: Black People Must Take Commercialized Hip-Hop to Task

Urban Radio Nation Staff 5:39 AM

Tyler the Creator is destined to become the most popular Tyler in the country, if what is now called hip hop is left in the hands of corpo...

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December 16, 2011

Common Releases His Entire New Album “The Dreamer, The Believer” on YouTube [Listen Here]

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:00 AM

We grabbed the full version from YouTube and you can listen to it below In the world of marketing and promoting new music the rules for dist...

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