Last night, Action Bronson and Big K.R.I.T. sold out the Middle East in Boston and delivered one of the most concise yet high-energy shows the venue has seen.
Once upon a time hip-hop beats were largely constructed of short musical phrases sampled from vinyl records and rearranged in collage-like format to create something wholly unique and original.
It was and still is an art form unto itself...
New York-based chef/rapper Action Bronson is absolutely winning the internet today. His newest mixtape Rare Chandeliers has hit the blogosphere and it's blowing up like a double barrel shotgun.
The GIF cover above features Bronson in a Wolf-skin hat (complete with teeth) surrounded by a menagerie of odd characters: An alligator with a laser turret affixed to its head is juxtaposed by the bouncing
Game is being sued for $250,000 after skipping a Beirut concert and its subsequent make-up date in Dubai, and holding onto his $30,000 advance. C'mon son.
DJ Khaled is also being taken to court for back rent on his Miami apartment, after failing to make two agreed-upon $66,000 payments...
It's "Too Hot" for Coolio's son, Grtis Ivey, 22, who has pleaded guilty to a felony robbery charge, and is headed to prison for 3.5 - 10 years, after he and a prostitute friend robbed a man at gunpoint in Las Vegas.
After his stepson's tragic jet ski accident, Usher has reported moved to settle his longstanding custody battle with ex Tameka Foster...
Hip-hop's biggest music festival, Rock the Bells, held a press conference in New York Wednesday night (June 13), where organizers announced several big-name additions to the Holmdel, N.J., and San Bernadino, Calif., lineups, including Big Sean, Curren$y, M...
As the music portion of SXSW threatens to rear its crowded "it was better before Kanye" head again next week, The BoomBox has collected a selection of our favorite hip-hop events to ease your troubled mind while attending the event in Austin, Texas...
The prevailing voice for young readers during hip-hop's early years, several of Dr. Seuss' books sell enough copies to go gold annually, and while works like 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs and Ham' are generally referenced due to their simplicity, his impression on rap music, thanks to his employment of the repetitive, sing-song anapestic tetrameter, is undeniable...
As pop music continues to welcome tattooed and earlobe-stretched rappers and rock-influenced soul singers of all ages and backgrounds into its moneyed ranks, the criteria used to predict artists' viability has also shifted and changed, supplanting prior indicators like street visibility and mixtape buzz with Facebook "likes" and Twitter follower counts...
Trading a career in the kitchen for the recording booth, Queens rapper Action Bronson has quickly become one of the media's favorite hip-hop success stories. Picking up rapping as a hobby just recently, while working as a chef for the N...