As of 1988, the top-selling hip hop albums of all time were Run D.M.C.’s Raising Hell and the Beastie Boys’ License to Ill, both released in 1987. But the music scene was about to get a shake up with the introduction of gangsta rap. And it would happen on this day in 1988 with the release of NWA's Straight Outta Compton.
Till then, rap hadn't strayed far from being party music. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five had established hip hop’s potential for social commentary with ...
As of 1988, the top-selling hip hop albums of all time were Run D.M.C.’s Raising Hell and the Beastie Boys’ License to Ill, both released in 1987. But the music scene was about to get a shake up with the introduction of gangsta rap. And it would happen on this day in 1988 with the release of NWA's Straight Outta Compton.
As of 1988, the top-selling hip hop albums of all time were Run D.M.C.’s Raising Hell and the Beastie Boys’ License to Ill, both released in 1987. But the music scene was about to get a shake up with the introduction of gangsta rap. And it would happen on this day in 1988 with the release of NWA's Straight Outta Compton.
Till then, rap hadn't strayed far from being party music. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five had established hip hop’s potential for social commentary with ...
As of 1988, the top-selling hip hop albums of all time were Run D.M.C.’s Raising Hell and the Beastie Boys’ License to Ill, both released in 1987. But the music scene was about to get a shake up with the introduction of gangsta rap. And it would happen on this day in 1988 with the release of NWA's Straight Outta Compton.
Till then, rap hadn't strayed far from being party music. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five had established hip hop’s potential for social commentary with ...
Martin Short and Nathan Fillion will both have story arcs in the upcoming 8th season of Modern Family. Both actors are coming off of cancelled series', although Fillion's "Castle" was far more successful than that of Short's partial season of "Mulroney".
Shorts role is yet to be known, but Fillion will play a weatherman aptly Rainer Shine who finds himself sucked into the shenanigans of the Dunphy family that we all love so well.
Short also has a project coming up in which he'll star in NB...
The King of Queens star has unloaded his Florida home for a whopping $26.38 million! Kevin James and his wife, Steffiana, put the home on the market in February for $28 mil, but settled for a slight million and half price cut.
James’ home is an elaborate Mediterranean-style estate with 8 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and 26,000 square feet of living space on more than an acre of beach view land.
Photos via Zillow
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Rebel Wilson will star in a remake of the 1988 hit Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Steve Martin and Michael Caine teamed up in the original “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” which follows two con men trying to swindle a heiress out of her money.
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ABC has picked up all four of its retro game show revivals for another season: “Match Game,” “$100,000 Pyramid,” “Celebrity Family Feud,” and “To Tell the Truth,” entertainment president Channing Dungey announced at the network’s TCA ...
Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.
On this day in history, August 4th, 1892, to be exact, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in their home. The chief suspect, Andrews daughter (Abby's step daughter) Lizzie. Though a jury of her peers could not see fit to convict a good Christian girl of murder, it is well believed to this day that she was the culprit.
Motives vary, but it's believed hostility in t...
Actually, yachts an understatement. It's a cruise ship, to be specific.
While the rest of the US athletes are left navigating the yet completed Olympic Village, the millionaire filled US Men's basketball team is enjoying a luxury cruise ship, moored on the Port of Rio. None of which should shock anyone familiar with US pro sports players.
The DailyMail.com provided photos of the 196' ship, which became a temporary home to players like Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Kyrie Irving. Meanwhile, bac...
[caption id="attachment_163603" align="aligncenter" width="668"] Patton Oswalt with wife Michelle McNamara[/caption]
Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt posted a very personal and emotional letter on his facebook, three months after his wife, crime writer Michelle McNamara, died in her sleep on April 21.
Patton, who has openly suffered from depression for decades, opened the letter by noting how his grief made his depression seem so small. And how for the last 102 days he's been able to focus only...
Earlier this year Kanye West visited the Ikea headquarters in Sweden, but don't expect a Yeezy book shelf anytime soon. The assemble yourself furniture maker says it has no intentions of collaborating with K on any future projects.
The statement came in response to a series of tweets Kanye made expressing his interest in designing for the company, and then speaking to BBC Radio One, the rapper said “I have to work with IKEA – make furniture for interior design, for architectu...
TMZ is reporting the massive real estate holdings of musician Prince are going to be auctioned off at a minimum of 90% of their fair market value. Prince left behind a number of smaller homes around his home state of Minnesota, as well as a bevy of luxury pads, including the massive Paisley Park estate, where the singer died in April of this year.
Among the properties hitting the auction block is this expansive property in the gorgeous Turks and Caicos. Last listed at $12,000,000, the 10,000...
Hollywood hottie, Channing Tatum, will be starring in the remake of the 1984 hit Splash In this version Tatum will be playing the merman that finds love up in the surface world. The roll original played by Daryl Hannah. The Tom Hanks roll will be played by Jillian Bell, who you may know from "Workaholics" or "22 Jump Street".
The original story revolves around a mermaid that morphs her fin into legs when on land as she goes in search of her love, a boy she saved in the ocean years ago. Incidentally,...
D-listers Rose McGowan and Scott Baio are going ballistic on one another via Twitter. It all started a few weeks ago when McGowan posted a tweet expressing her exhaustion writing "It's a tough week for having a soul" following the Republican convention in Cleveland. Baio pounced on her with a unproportionately scathing rebuttal.
This was harsh, but that doesn't mean McGowan can't give it as good as she gets. Initially it seemed all McGowan replied was that "I can't get into a twitter fight with you, it hurts my soul". But when Page Six picked up the story, Baio mad...
I am always amazed when artists find a completely new and genuinely interesting way to capture life. Even more impressive when it's done in a way that is commercially appealing, which this is quickly proving to be.
In 2013 The Berlin based art collective known as Raubdruckerin, or "Pirate Printer", began making printed T-shirts
[caption id="attachment_163536" align="alignright" width="400"] Artist from Raubdruckerin, a berlin based art collective, creates a printed Tee using a city manhole cover[/caption]
from manhole covers, drains or any number of u...