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Source: Kennedi Carter / Glamour Magazine Congratulations to Megan Thee Stallion as the rapper has officially walked across the stage, making her a 2021 graduate of Texas Southern University! The rapper graduated from the College of Pharmacy & Health Services at Texas Southern in a public graduation ceremony this afternoon where she earned her bachelor’s……
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Hip Hop Looses Another Legend
The BET awards this year hosted by Taraji Henson included a tribute to the multi talented Queen Latifah who was presented the Lifetime Achievement award. The tribute performance was epic as MC Lyte, Rhapsody, Monie Love and Lil Kim took the stage to perform a few of Latifah’s hits, check out the performance here>https://youtu.be/TXS93smlLtw. It…
This past year has been bought us some new challenges as “the rona” closed business’ and schools alike we all got really familiar with phrases distance learning and zoom meetings. Hip Hop did what it always does and innovated to help the world heal D-Nice turned his IG live into an Iconic moment that the world will remember!
Closer to home DJ Cosmo Baker and the Philadelphia-Camden chapter of the National Non -Profit After School all stars added DJ Academy to their program offerings, Initially slated to be an in person program reminiscent the Dj Scratch Academy (that no longer has a Philly Branch) Pandemic safety precautions made it a Zoom based program that allowed participants to decide on their own DJ names and learn about the origin of the craft while also experiencing different eras of music. read more about it here https://www.inquirer.com/life/dj-cosmo-baker-philly-camden-after-school-all-stars-20210326.html
The hip hop community is mourning yet another iconic member of our culture DMX. We recently reported a few days ago DMX was admitted to White Plains NY hospital suffering from a heart attack. Since then there have been numerous prayer vigils and his family members and his closest friends came to pay their last…