Sean John Takes Hip-Hop to Midtown
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Sean John's new store on Fifth Avenue at 41st Street takes hip-hop style to an upscale setting.
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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
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Three albums that reached stores ahead of schedule will lead the next Billboard 200 chart and raise the profile of hip-hop and R&B.
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Marshaling hip hop's influence on young listeners, a city official and youth activist joined celebrities of the rap and mainstream entertainment worlds Wednesday in announcing a nationwide initiative to foster community service and curb gang violence.
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In a boost to downtown Manhattan,  JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to build a skyscraper near  Ground Zero and will relocate its investment banking  headquarters from midtown.
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Negotiations continue over a Bronx building, with tenants hoping to maintain its status under the Mitchell-Lama program. The hip-hop movement started in the building's community room in 1973.
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The shorn locks provide a clue to  rapper Ludacris' new musical direction.
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It wasn&#39;t wife, J-Lo, whom singer Marc Anthony credited yesterday with keeping him on &quot;the straight and narrow&quot; but K-Lo.
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P. Diddy Takes Get-Out-The-Vote Drive to Swing States; Rallies Planned for Six Cities. NEW YORK Oct 24, 2004 - Hip-hop mogul Sean &quot;P.
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Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard had begun spending more time with his family in Brooklyn in recent months after traveling much of the past decade with Staten Island&#39;s Wu-Tang Clan or as a solo artist.
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The rapper, who claims to be retiring from hip-hop, got a fitting send off Sunday night at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards winning four of the six categories he was nominated in, including
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The party&#39;s just begun, and Jay-Z and Outkast are already cleaning house, a fitting start for the first Video Music Awards to be held in the hip-hop haven that is Miami.
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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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Hereâs a measure of how healthy new music is in New York these days: In a city with roughly a gazillion new-music groups, a new one made its debut on Monday evening at Mannes College the New School for Music, and the schoolâs auditorium was packed.
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Jin may have earned his hip-hop stripes on the street, but the rapper spent a recent afternoon copping a brand new street cred.
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The rapper M.I.A. performed Thursday as part of the CMJ Music Marathon. Reviews of her show,  Unkle,  St. Vincent  and Dan Deacon.
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In this overly long concert film, the rapper Jay-Z performs his own movie-length swan song set to thumping rhythms in Madison Square Garden.