CHICAGO (AP) -- When rapper K'Naan was recording songs peppered with tales about warfare, poverty and despair in his native Somalia, there were people who told him he should consider abandoning his socially conscious frame of mind for material that wasn't so somber. Most of those people were Somalis, K'Naan recalls.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Call her Mrs. Beatz. Alicia Keys has married producer Swizz Beatz (Swiss Beats), with whom she is expecting her first child.
A representative for Keys on Sunday confirmed the wedding.
Yes, you read that right. Wisconsinites are now on record as attracting more people than ever to dance Thriller
LONDON (AP) -- An online parody of a Jay-Z hit that swaps New York's metropolis for a modest Welsh port town has won hundreds of thousands of fans, the director of the spoof said Wednesday.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Sam Adam Jr. made his name with a fire-and-brimstone style at Chicago's grim, gritty Criminal Courts Building, where his decisive closing arguments once helped acquit R&B singer R. Kelly on child pornography charges.
PARIS — Grammy-award winning singer Al Jarreau is feeling better after being in intensive care in a French hospital Friday. The artist suffered breathing problems in the Alps, forcing him to cancel four concerts.
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On June 15, when local hip hop legend Cool Nutz released his newest album, "Incredible," the producer and rapper got another delivery – the birth of his son Maximillian. Nearly a month and half later, Cool Nutz will be holding an album release and POH-Hop 12 Awareness Party on Friday, Aug. 6 at Berbati's Pan, 10 SW 3rd St.
The nagging question left unanswered was whether what had transpired back in Cambridge was really an isolated incident unlikely to reoccur or merely a reflection of a longstanding, racist police pattern of profiling African-American males all across the country.