Atlanta artists Canon and Derek Minor put a twist on Richard Pryor’s 1985 comedy, “Brewster’s Million” for the music video for, “Over Do It,” a song off of Canon’s “Loose Canon Vol. 3″ album. The hype hip-hop song wastes no time turning up for the listener, and not only because of the beat. Canon and […]

Some big things are going down for Big Baby D.R.A.M this year.  Not only is he performing at this year’s Santa Slam right here in Indy, but he’s going on his own tour shortly after.  The tour is to support his new album release “Big Baby D.R.A.M” coming out October 21.  The “Broccoli” artist made […]

Headkrack has been saying for ages that Drake is “the panda,” because pandas look cute and harmless but are still bears, and bears can be vicious. Case in point: when Lil Wayne was in prison in 2011, his girlfriend, Tammy Torres cheated on him- with Drake. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Despite this awkward betrayal, […]

Tory Lanez, chats with the morning show cast about his love for Tim Horton’s, and what makes it so special compared to American breakfast spots. As the son of a missionary preacher, he talks about why going into rap as a profession (as opposed to gospel) wasn’t an issue. And he reveals his goals in […]

For a rapper, Ty Dolla $ign keeps a pretty low profile, and while his most well-known song might be “Paranoid,” which features B.O.B., Ty is out here making much bigger moves than that. He dropped a brand new project called, “Campaign.”  And if you didn’t notice because he’s just not quite on your radar, you […]

Special K breaks down the meaning behind the lyrics of Madeintyo’s hit song “Uber Everywhere.” Listen and laugh to Special K’s hilarious Hip-Hop Translation in the audio player up top! Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Get more funny from “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” live weekdays 6-10 am EST, and get more Hip-Hop Translations by Special […]

It’s been about a year since Tory Lanez, rapper behind the number one hit “Say It,” first came to the studio to visit “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show!” He talks about the cinematic quality of his album, and talks about his city of Toronto in comparison to life in the United States. He remarks on the […]

Meek Mill and Game are in the midst of an intense beef. It all started when Meek told Sean Kingston that Game was the man responsible for robbing him of his chain, worth $300,000. After some intense questioning and a Mean Girls-esque three-way phone conversation, Game determined that Meek Mill was a snitch, and a […]

National

Angela Rye shared why Black America should focus on our "what's now" problem manifested in GOP presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

Marvel has already announced it first set of Hip-Hop inspired Variant Covers for their new series coming out this year.   The first round of announced covers took inspiration from the likes of Salt’N Pepa, Big Daddy Kane, Wu-Tang Clan, Kevin Gates, L.L. Cool J, & Chance The Rapper. Now, Marvel comics has released four […]

Marvel continuously honors Hip-Hop with its Variant Covers for first issues for new comic series. They continue to release new covers for their upcoming new series releases for this year.

Last year Marvel Comics announced its “Hip-Hop Variant” series of covers, featuring some of the best illustrators to re-imagine famous Hip-Hop album covers with Marvel characters to cover issues of new series’.  Last year they released over 70 different Hip-Hop inspired covers, which you can see here. The album covers used ranged from the likes of De […]