Yo, everybody’s favorite rap group (well, at least mine), De La Soul, is being honored at this year’s VH1 Hip Hop Honors. They will be recognized along with Too Short, Cypress Hill, Naughty by Nature, and hip hop’s greatest storyteller, Slick Rick.
Actor/rapper/film producer/writer/director (remember The Player’s Club?) Ice Cube is hitting the press circuit to promote his latest film, The Longshots. The film stars Cube (coach and uncle) and Keke Palmer, and is directed by Fred Durst. The Longshots is about the true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history. Continued…
Looks like Puff Daddy/P. Piddy/Diddy/Bad Boy Sean Combs is ready to take his entertainment mogulism to VH1 with the debut of his new series I Want to Work for Diddy. He’s adding to his already successful television resume, which includes his executive produced MTV programs Making The Band and Run’s House.
SOHH.com is reporting that while on New York radio station Hot 97 recently, N.E.R.D. front man Pharrell Williams revealed to host Angie Martinez that the band is gearing for the release of their first film, directed by legendary hip-hop video director and filmmaker, Hype Williams.
Well, it looks like their has been a recent Will Smith sighting in New York City’s Time Square. This is because the filmmakers of this summers blockbuster Hancock needed to re-shoot scenes to tone down the subject matter for the film.
Hip-Hop legend DMC will hold a press conference on Monday (May 12) to announce a new partnership with Children’s Aid and Family Services, a Paramus, New Jersey based non-profit organization serving children in the state’s foster care/adoption system.
Highbridnation is reporting that The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) has announced the world premier of ‘Two Turntables and a Microphone’, a documentary about the life and death of Run DMC’s great DJ, Jam Master Jay.
Rapper/actor Common has been casted in the upcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (#4 in the series). He will play a fellow freedom fighter and member of John Connor’s inner circle. Terminator 4 is slated to released on May 22, 2009.
So Diddy is keeping the hollywood/hip hop legacy going strong. Sean Combs received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 2, during a ceremony that drew the largest crowd in the event’s history.
Ludacris is set to release his sixth album, “Theater of the Mind,” in September, a project he terms appropriately “theatrical.” He has been working on the Def Jam Records set while shooting Max Payne, the big screen adaptation of the popular Rockstar video game.