Rapper Craig Mack has died at his home in South Carolina, at the age of 47. The hip-hop star rose to fame in 1994 with the hit single Flava In Ya Ear, and was the first artist to release an album on P Diddy’s Bad Boy Records. After splitting with Diddy, he released a second […]
Legendary Kevin Smith, a.k.a. Lovebug Starski the Bronx DJ and rapper who is often credited with coining the term “hip-hop,” past away at 57 in Las Vegas. Starski was among a core group of DJ pioneers, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash and Grand Wizard Theodore, who shaped hip-hop’s parameters in the days […]
Very sad day for the Hip Hop culture! One and only Albert Johnson pas away 20th of June 2017 better known by Prodigy, one half of the legendary duo Mobb Deep with Havoc. More information about P here. Rest in Peace Prodigy (we lost a Real legend today!)
We lost anicon of the Hip Hop Movement today. Malik Isaac Taylor a.k.a. Phife Dawg Co-Founder of the legendary Group A Tribe Called Quest. Phife died Tuesday (22 March 2016) at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes. Rolling Stone has confirmed the rapper’s death. via Rolling Stone official website. R.I.P. Phife Dawg.
Sad NEWS!! Legendary UK Hip Hop Producer Mark B from Kingston (South West London) has died. Mark released numerious series of instrumental records in the 90’s and early 2000. He worked with some many artists (MC’s and DJ’s) from the UK Hip Hop movemnet collaborated with the Task Force (Chester P and Farma G) most […]
R.I.P. Sean Du-Val Price (March 17, 1972 – August 8, 2015) was an American rapper and member of the Hip Hop collective Heltah Skeltah/Boot Camp Clik performing under the name Ruckus, or in short Ruck.. Heltah Skeltah alongside fellow Brownsville, Brooklyn rapper Rock. The pair were members of a hip-hop collective known as the Boot Camp Clik, which also featured Black […]
On 17th September we had a really bad news… A gentlemen, proud father, blogger, a great MC and a real Hip Hop activist who always give so much respect for 210presents.co.uk Patrick McNease a.k.a. Praverb passed away. His wife Vanessa announced the news via Facebook this afternoon, but there’s no word of the cause of death at this time.We never […]
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock released their first single, “DJ Interview,” in 1986, but the 46-year-old Bryce cemented himself into the hip-hop canon with 1988’s iconic track “It Takes Two.” Produced by Teddy Riley and built around a vocal sample from Lyn Collins’ 1972 hit “Think (About It),” the song blended hip-hop with house music and became […]
“Legend and Rhymesayers recording artist Eyedea. To others, he was Micheal Larsen, the frontman of genre-bending experimental groups like Carbon Carousel and Face Candy. For others still, he was known by his alter-ego Oliver Hart. But to most of the performers who filed on and off the Mainroom stage at last night’s four-hour celebration of […]
Chris Kelly, known as one half of the 1990s US rap duo Kris Kross, has died at the age of 34 in what police say may have been a drug overdose.Police were called to Kelly’s home in south Atlanta at around 4:30pm (local time) on Wednesday.He was taken to the south campus of the Atlanta […]
Tim Dog (Timothy Blair) (born 1 January 1967 – 14 February 2013) was an American rapper from the Bronx, New York who rose to prominence during the early ’90s with his debut LP Penicillin on Wax and the celebrated dissrecord “Fuck Compton“. Tim had already appeared on songs with the Ultramagnetic MCs and went on to form a duo, Ultra, with member Kool Keith. “Fuck Compton” appeared in XXL Magazine‘s […]
Dwight Arrington Myers (May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011),better known as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-born American rapper, record producer, singer, actor, and former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a hip hop group which included G-Whiz (Glen Parrish), “Trouble” T. Roy (Troy Dixon), and Eddie F (born Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizable […]
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