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A man whose conviction was recently thrown out in the killing of hip-hop luminary Jam Master Jay is asking to go free on a $1 million bond while prosecutors appeal, and he continues facing unrelated ...

Most shocking, controversial and memorable moments in the Grammys history: Eminem and Elton John, Milli Vanilli, Bob Dylan, ...

Nicki Minaj was born in Trinidad to dad Robert and mom Carol Maraj ...

Without hesitation, Sorensen handed me his camera and dropped to the floor for 30 pushups. Watching him grind through the set while I tried to recover, I finally understood why this gym earned the ...

Independent rap artist Sole spoke to the WSWS about the issues confronting hip-hop artists in the present situation, as well as his opposition to the Trump administration’s assault on the population.

Long before Zach Top’s boots first hit a prime-time awards show stage, Will McSeveney and Norm Olsen knew something the rest ...

A fortune-telling, future-seeing animatronic Chewbacca, a Big Buck Hunter arcade game with orange toy rifles, and a line of metal shelves (taller than the famous wookie from Star Wars) filled with ...

Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries. ICE agents said Alberto Castañeda Mondragón ran headfirst into a wall ...

While being a Grammy Award-nominated artist is an honor on its own, for some, winning the Best New Artist trophy has helped ...

Brighu is getting older. Badminton has replaced judo, irritation has replaced anger, metabolism has slowed down. Yet, some things remain: the inability to take a cab, anxieties about the digital ...

THE roadblocks are gone. They seem like another world to Squinter now, memory-holed in a flickering sepia-toned newsreel that seems to be from another century and not another decade.