Giants fans are turning out to be weirder than we ever could have imagined: some of them shave the Giants logo into their heads, some of them get tattoos of Eli Manning on their asses, and some of them worship garden gnomes. But then there are the fans like the ones in the video below, residents at Cedar Crest Retirement Community who want to show their support for the Giants the way they did back in the 1920s: by lip-syncing to rap songs and wearing backwards Giants caps.
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Video: Cute Old People Make Viral Rap Video For The Giants
Listen: Newt Gingrich Rap Song "Got All Pro-Life Up In This Thang"
Newt Gingrich may be trailing Mitt Romney by 11 percentage points in Florida, but don't tell whoever wrote this fresh, fly, rap song about the former Speaker of the House.
Buggin' NY Times Reader Blasts Crossword For Use Of Word "Illin'"
On Saturday freelance writer Julieanne Smolinski was diligently doing the NY Times crossword when she started trippin' on the clue for 28 down, which read "Wack, in hip-hop." According to the Paper of Record, the answer is "ILLIN," but Smolinksi, who identifies herself as "Not Even a Hip-Hop Expert," thought this was a misinterpretation of the word, so she fired off a letter to the Times crossword editor, Will Shortz, insisting that "illin'" is not "wack." Gawker obtained the correspondence, in which Shortz stands his ground:
Vinny's Bad Rap: Jersey Shore Star's New Song Is About Raping Strippers
Vinny Guadagnino seems to be struggling to find himself in a post-Jersey Shore world: first he tried out his political side,speaking out in support of Occupy Wall Street, then he gave an impromptu anti-bullying guest lecture at Columbia University. But now, Vinny's making headlines for a significantly more pathetic stunt: rapping about raping b*tches.
Rap Legend Heavy D, Dead At 44
Influential '90s rapper Heavy D, born Dwight Arrington Myers in Jamaica (and raised in Mount Vernon, NY), has died at the age of 44 years old. According to TMZ, a 911 call was placed from his home in Beverly Hills at 11:25 a.m., he was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles around noon, and pronounced dead around 1 p.m. Pacific time. The site reports that the 911 call was to "report an unconscious male on the walkway," but he was "conscious and speaking" when paramedics arrived. Cops are investigating the death, though there are no obvious signs of foul play. His last Tweet was from just 16 hours ago, and read: "Be Inspired!"
Rapper Rick Ross Unconscious After Seizure On Plane
Rapper Rick Ross has reportedly suffered a seizure on a plane, forcing it to land. According to TMZ, Ross was on a flight going from Ft. Lauderdale to Memphis earlier today when he lost consciousness. A doctor on board administered CPR on the rapper, and paramedics frantically tried to revive him after the plane made an emergency landing. They say that as Ross was being wheeled off the aircraft, he appeared to show signs of life.
Video: Talib Kweli Performs For "Inspiring" Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Rapper Talib Kweli did indeed head down to Zuccotti Park last night to show solidarity with and perform songs for Occupy Wall Street protesters. To the delight of weary protesters, Kweli performed a capella version of new song "Distractions" as well as Black Star classic "Thieves In The Night." Below, you can see video of both performances, as well as a call-and-response with the crowd during which Kweli commends protesters: "For the people who are sleeping here, you inspire us. If you are inspired by them, make it grow."
Rapper Jim Jones Pays Up For Driving With A Suspended License
Back in March rapper Jim Jones was arrested for driving his Bentley in a SoHo bus lane with a suspended license. Today he appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court (late) and copped to a misdemeanor traffic violation that cost him $200 plus an $80 surcharge. According to his lawyer he didn't know his license was suspended and "must have missed the notices that he owed a fine."
Talib Kweli Headed To Occupy Wall Street Tonight At 8 P.M.
Rapper Talib Kweli tweeted this afternoon, "NYC to #occupywallstreet 8pm tonight. Who's in?" Jamie Kilstein of Citizen Radio confirmed it: "So I will be at #occupywallstreet tonight with one of my heroes @TalibKweli." OWS spokesman Patrick Bruner told us details were stilll being worked out, but "it appears as though he is planning on coming."
Al Pacino Didn't Understand Scarface Until Rap Came Around
This week, actor Sean Penn confessed that he didn't entirely get the Terrance Malick-helmed movie he starred in, Tree of Life... but may he just needs to look at the movie through other people's eyes! It seems that's just what Al Pacino needed to appreciate his 1983 blockbuster Scarface: "The hip-hop people and the rappers got together and they made a video and they talked about the movie. I don't think anybody's ever talked about it as articulately and clearly. I understood it better having heard them talk about it," Pacino told MTV News at a "Scarface" Blu-ray release party on Tuesday night.
Video: Meet "Notorious PhD", The Professor Who Raps About Gentrification
We already know that the onslaught of gentrification has swept through Manhattan and pillaged Brooklyn of its soul, from Bed-Stuy to ProCro. But one "funky fresh" rapping Professor is warning that the Bronx may be next. "The Bronx is the last refuge for working-class, immigrant New York. I don't want to walk through the Bronx and see Park Slope," said Professor Mark Naison, who has lived in Park Slope since 1976.
Video: Beyonce And Jay-Z Throw A Party At SoHo Pop-Up
Yesterday, Jay-Z and Kanye West opened a pop-up store on Mulberry Street to celebrate/promote the release of their joint album Watch The Throne. There were CDs to buy, music videos to endlessly re-watch, Maybach's to admire, and a no photo/no video policy that seems to have been ignored by some. Jay-Z (and Swizz Beatz) showed up around 8 p.m., and then around 9 p.m., Beyonce appeared, and a private party busted out inside. Watch her bodyguard-assisted arrival below:
Wica Wica Wow: Teachers Use Rap To Help Kids With Regents Tests
Move over, Schoolhouse Rock. Today the NY Times has an interesting piece today on how using rap to teach Regents History classes to New York's high schoolers has led to significant leaps in performance. Fresh Prep, a program run by the Urban Arts Partnership, is putting their instructors in the classrooms of seven high-poverty high schools in hopes that students will help them fill in the blanks in their otherwise prodigious flow. "The way land is shaped is topography / Mountains isolate, a harbor is by the sea / Geography affects the economy / Along with the climate environmentally," goes one song. Hey, maybe we don't blame them for deliberately skipping words.
Is This The Greatest Music Video Ever Featuring An Old, Rich, White Rapper?
Oh, the Internet. You provide so many people with so many wonderful outlets to showcase their, uh, hidden talents. Which is to say, we'd like you to meet Allen Samuels, a 55-year-old Atlantic City casino executive who really just wants to rap. So badly he went and hooked up with a video production company to make a video under the name A. Samuels and here is his first single: "Livin De Life." You'll want to watch this before we continue:
Bob Dylan's Grandson: "I Consider Him the Jay-Z Of His Time"
Many people consider Bob Dylan's classic "Subterranean Homesick Blues" one of the major precursors to rap music, an electric fusing of "labyrinthine rhyme schemes, anti-authority philosophy, pop-culture obsessions and street-level turns-of-slang." That connection certainly seems to be important to his grandson, hip hop artist Pablo Dylan: “I mean, really, my grandfather, I consider him the Jay-Z of his time," Pablo Dylan told AllHipHop.com.
Man Confesses To Shooting Tupac, Igniting East Coast/West Coast War
On the eve of what would have been rapper Tupac Shakur's 40th birthday, a man has confessed to shooting the legendary rapper in 1994, inadvertently setting off the feud which would eventually claim both Tupac and Biggie Smalls's lives. Dexter Isaac, who is currently serving a life sentence at MDC Brooklyn for separate charges, confessed that he was paid $2,500 dollars by James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond to rob Tupac inside Manhattan's Quad Studios on November 30, 1994. Check out his full confession, which he gave to AllHipHop.com, here.
Kanye West Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron At Memorial Service
Kanye West performed at an intimate memorial service for pioneer musician Gil Scott-Heron at Riverside Church earlier today. "Gia Scott-Heron and family, Kanye West and GSH's band offered wonderful words and music in tribute today at Riverside Church. A blessing," tweeted Malaika Adero.
Gil Scott-Heron Memorial Service, Public Viewing Tomorrow
Legendary spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron died over the weekend at the age of 62. A memorial service has been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Riverside Church; there will also be a public viewing from 6-9 p.m. at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home at 81st Street and Madison Avenue.
Pioneer Spoken-Word Musician Gil Scott-Heron Dead
Musician Gil Scott-Heron, whose politically-charged spoken-word music paved the way for modern rap, died yesterday. The writer of the seminal "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was 62 years old. Listen to a clip below.
Video: Kanye West Under All Of The Lights At MoMA's Garden Party
Last night the line outside the door of the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street stretched around 5th Avenue all the way to 54th Street, where a group of high-heeled, impatient Europeans tried to bribe a guard into letting them into the MoMA's annual Garden Party, one of their fanciest, shmanciest nights of the year. The well-dressed men and better-dressed women didn't put up with the delays in order to pack into the beautiful Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden just for the open bar: they were there to see Kanye West.
Donald Trump: Inspiration To Rappers (And Country Stars) Everywhere!
Among the many hilarious, absurd things Donald Trump has said this week, one quote has stood out like a strippers convention at Chuck E. Cheese's: during an interview with Post editor Fred Dicker, he declared proudly, "I have always had a great relationship with the blacks." The Observer had the good sense to ask political guru/gay enthusiast Roger Stone what he could make of the quote; he replied, "Trivia question—how many hit rap songs mention Trump?" It sounded like a challenge to us, so we did some searching, and found at least 36 songs, most of them rap (and one country), which namedrop The Donald. Click through to see some of our favorites from artists such as Lil Wayne, Nas, and...Brad Paisley.
Park Slope And Prime 6 Compromise Over Hours, Not Music
Last month the Park Slope set got all in a tizzy over a new venue, Prime 6, which was hoping to play hip-hop music. Petitions were written (and questioned) and lots of people made a scene at a community board meeting. But now that is all over—Prime 6 and its angry neighbors have come to a compromise.
New FBI Files Reveal That Biggie Was Killed...By Someone
Back in January, the LAPD announced that they were actively pursuing leads into the slaying of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls/The Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in a drive-by shooting in LA in 1997. Although we still don't know what any of those new leads might be, the FBI released a 359-page file today (released under the Freedom of Information Act!) consisting of all their info on the case between 1997 and 2005, when it was first closed. And it turns out that everything we thought may be true about the murder may actually really be true!
Rapper Jim Jones Busted For SoHo Joyride With Suspended License
Earlier today, rapper Jim Jones was arrested by police for driving his 2011 Bentley around SoHo in a bus lane with a suspended license. We guess that NYC really meant it when they said they would be cracking down on suspended licenses after the tragic bus accident earlier this month.
The Fourteenth Anniversary Of The Death Of Biggie Smalls
Today is the 14th anniversary of the death of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, aka The Notorious B.I.G. Biggie was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, in an unsolved case which was "reinvigorated" recently. While conspiracy theories abound as to who was behind the murder (was it the result of an East Coast/West Coast hip-hop rivalry? did Suge Knight call the hit?), friends, relatives and fans have taken to Twitter and other outlets to praise and remember the king of Bed-Stuy (revisit his first public rap duel here).
Park Slope Petitions New Bar to Play "Indie" Instead of Rap
A group of Park Slope residents have a petition going around demanding that a big new restaurant and bar on the corner of Flatbush and Sixth Avenue change its programming from hip-hop to "indie local artists." The petition's author fears the club, called Prime 6, will drive up crime with its hippity-hop music. And this has nothing to do with race! As the petitioner explains:
Watch This: Rap Group Odd Future Invade Fallon
Last night, up-and-coming L.A. rap group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA)—who yesterday Spin called an "obscenely talented gang of skateboarding Wolves rapping about unspeakable things"—made their TV debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon... in what was undoubtedly one of the weirdest, most high-energy television performances we've ever seen. During their on-air rendition of "Sandwitches," they draped the stage with creepy lawn gnomes while wearing bank robber masks; leader Tyler the Creator tries to ride Jimmy Fallon like a pony at one point, and Mos Def pops up out of nowhere at the very end to yell into the camera. Watch it below.
Biggie vs. Tupac, Tip Jar Edition
Like the Beatles vs. the Stones, Lindsay Lohan vs. sobriety, and 99 Cent Fresh Pizza vs. Ray's Pizza, some rivalries are truly timeless. And with the investigation into the murder of Bed-Stuy rapper Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls/The Notorious B.I.G., having been recently reopened, the Biggie vs. Tupac debate is just as relevant as ever. Even Babycakes is getting in on the action.
The LAPD Is Back On The Hunt For Biggie's Killer
According to CNN, the LAPD is once again actively pursuing leads into the 1997 slaying of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls/The Notorious B.I.G. One law enforcement source told them that the unsolved case was "reinvigorated" months ago due to new information, although they didn't reveal any other details about said info. But in addition to the LAPD and the L.A. County District Attorney's Office, it seems that the FBI is now involved with the case. Might that imply there's some sort of conspiracy afoot?
Rapper's Pal In Embarrassing Midtown Robbery
Pot-friendly rapper Wiz Khalifa has a very bright future ahead according to some outlets, but he may want to think about upgrading his entourage. One of the member's of his crew was conned out of $750, his cell phone, and his bling in Times Square yesterday. Because what else would happen at 5 a.m. in Times Square?
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