Legendary hip-hop music executive Sylvia Robinson, co-founder of Sugar Hill Records, has died. In addition to her work on the business side of music, she…

Legendary hip-hop music executive Sylvia Robinson, co-founder of Sugar Hill Records, has died. In addition to her work on the business side of music, she was also a singer, musician, music producer. Sugar Hill Records was the label home to many of early hip-hop’s most successful artists, like the Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash […]

Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, has died at age 70. His former publicist told the Associated Press that the singer and songwriter died in a New York City hospital on Monday. He had undergone radiation treatment for throat cancer. Ashford & Simpson were known for their hit “Solid” […]

London Police say Amy Winehouse, the troubled songstress who struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, has been found dead in her London apartment.  Officials confirm…

Randy “Macho Man” Savage died in a car accident after suffering a heart attack this morning. The former wrestler and Slim Jim spokesman veered off…

Montae “M Bone” Talbert from group Cali Swag died last night after he was allegedly shot by gang members. TMZ.com reports that there are no…

Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress, has died at age 79. The news was reported by ABC’s Good Morning America. Taylor was hospitalized in February for…

Fifteen years ago on March 26th, 1995 Eric “Eazy-E” Wright died at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The founder of NWA and pioneer of West Coast Hip-Hop succumbed to complications due to AIDS. He was 31 years old.

The official artwork has now been unveiled for  Michael Jackson’s posthumous simply entitled Michael.

According to ESPN.com Manute Bol, a 7-foot-7 shot-blocker from Sudan who spent 10 seasons in the NBA and was dedicated to humanitarian work in Africa, died Saturday. He was 47.

Manute Bol, who became a basketball sensation in the 1980s as a skeletally thin shot-blocking giant with the Washington Bullets and other professional teams, and who devoted his post-basketball life to improving the lot of his fellow natives of Sudan, died June 19 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 47. […]

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