Lips still sealed in Jam Master Jay slay
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The mother of rap icon Jam Master Jay knows the truth: The people who brazenly pumped a bullet into her son's head remain on the street. So do the witnesses Â some of them Jay's friends Â who can identify the killers.
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O.J. Simpson beat a murder charge. What about allegations of assault with a deadly weapon and armed robbery? Inside the Juiceâs latest jam.
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The Knights Tour, a feat of mental agility involving a chess board, isn't the only overlap between the magic shows of Eric Walton and Ricky Jay.
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DJ Spooky assembles his compilation celebrating Trojan Records' 40th birthday, and he finds countless parallels between the Jamaican reggae scene in the 1960s and '70s and the digital mashup ecosystem of today. Spooky elaborates in this Wired News interview.
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R. Kelly is ready to bury the hatchet and perform again with Jay-Z - despite the fact that Jay-Z&#39;s entourage blasted him with pepper spray.
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John Lennonâs killer Mark Chapman will not be released from prison after being denied parole for the third time. Chapman stood before a parole board yesterday (October 5) who were to decide if Chapman would
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Plastic, grooved tips let drumsticks last longer yet ring true.
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Hip-hop giant Jay-Z, who has kept his distance from R. Kelly since the R&amp;B superstar&#39;s 2002 indictment on child pornography charges, apparently no longer has a problem joining forces with his erstwhile collaborator.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - When Nas and Jay-Z set aside their feud and joined forces last October, it was a great moment for hip-hop, but an even greater moment for Nas. Having been Columbia's staple rap artist for more than a decade, the acclaimed yet commercially unreliable MC seemed poised to reap the benefits of Def Jam's hip-hop savvy.
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Paul McCartney played beautifully, in tight control of his voice and his musicianship, through a clutch of new and old songs at the Highline Ballroom on Wednesday.
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The Cooler King is still the King of Cool.
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As a white-tuxed Jay-Z stood on stage at Radio City Music Hall, celebrating the 10th anniversary of his debut album &quot;Reasonable Doubt&quot; and planning a world tour, it seemed as if a wide chasm separated the hungry rapper who made that dazzling debut and the mogul on the mic.
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Richard Jefferson promises to still be the first one in and the last one out every practice. This from a guy who has played more basketball than any NBA player over
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New York | All ears have been on singer Ashlee Simpson since she walked off &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; in a does-she-or-doesn&#39;t-she-lip-synch moment.
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It certainly looked as though singer Ashlee Simpson has taken up lip-synching her performances. On Saturday Night Live, Simpson took the stage for the second time, and before she started singing her hit single
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Jay-Z has been named  president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings, home of such acts as  Grammy frontrunner Kanye West and rap veteran LL Cool j.
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Jay-Z, the rap superstar and president of Def Jam Records, has quietly returned to the studio to record an album of new songs inspired by the forthcoming movie âAmerican Gangster.â