The Hope For Haiti Telethon featuring Jay-Z, Wyclef Jean, Rihanna and others aired on January 22nd on most major broadcast networks. The totals are in and the event is said to have raised over $61 million in relief efforts. Check out the clip below.

Big things happening in L.A. tonight. Famous Stars and Straps and Snoop Dogg are celebrating the number 10.

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10 Years of FSAS and The Big Snoop Dogg’s 10th solo album. It’s all going down quite officially as the Famous Stars and Straps x Snoop Dogg Decade Event. The flier boasts performances by Travis Barker and The D-O-double-G himself, sets by Diplo and DJ Spider, art exhibit and classic car show. To top it off my favorite photographer, the legendary Estevan Oriol will be there snapping flicks and representing the very exclusive t-shirt design made especially for tonight’s event. …read more

Last night Hip Hop Roll was at the Reebok Pump 20th Anniversary Party in Toronto. A slew of the cities finest packed into the Red Bull Gallery on Queen Street to celebrate The Pump. Reebok pulled out all stops staging the turntable stylings of Kid Koala and the Chocolate Boy Wonder himself Pete Rock.

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In ‘97 I was 12. I remember getting a drive home after basketball practice by a friends older bro. He was listening to Wu-Tang Forever and like magic my music training wheels fell off and I was the fastest transformed Wu-Tang fan. My brother didn’t want me to listen to it because of the errr ‘rough’ content and my parents were no different.
Despite all that I went out and bought Wu-Tang Forever which is hands down my all time fave Wu-Tang album! Even though I was young and didn’t know much about hip-hop I recognized that these homies were gurus, …read more

I’m going to take you down memory lane, to some classic tracks and one classic babe: Mya. Although she’s still kickin’ it I first got up on her steez in the late ’90s when Ghetto Superstar featuring ODB and Pras came out. This track was everywhere and it was hard to find someone who didn’t know the song inside out.
Mya killed it and thus began my love for babes in Hip-Hop.

No one can deny that she adds sexiness to some of the best rap stars out there, like Jay-Z.  In his 2000 “Best of Me” track Mya turns it into …read more