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'Me So Horny' Rapper Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew Running for Mayor
By Michael McLaughlin - AOL News"Politics" is the latest dirty word for rapper Luther Campbell to work into his vocabulary. Campbell, the raunchy rapper from 2 Live Crew, is running for Miami-Dade County mayor in Florida and thinks he could boost the economy with a tax on exotic dancers. "I'm mad frustrated," Campbell said about crime in his hometown in an interview in the Miami New Times. "Why aren't we getting it right in Miami-Dade? Why is our government only serving one set of people? That's what is pushing me to run." Retna / Corbis; Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Pictured is Luther Campbell today, ...
40 Glocc, Rapper Who Dissed Lil Wayne, Arrested on Gun Charges, Like Lil Wayne
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIn what may be the least-shocking news of the day, 40 Glocc, the rapper who nicknamed himself after a semiautomatic weapon, was arrested for allegedly carrying -- wait for it -- a semiautomatic weapon. San Bernardino, Calif., police arrested Glocc (birth name: Lawrence White) after finding a loaded 9-millimeter handgun in his Range Rover. Glocc, who's said to be a member of the Colton City Crips gang, was parked one block from an apartment complex from which he had been banned in 2008. Glocc has denied his alleged gang membership. He's even told reporters that he goes by the misspelling of ...
Can't Understand Rap? Experts Offer Free Translations
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsRap music raises plenty of questions, from "What's my name?" to "When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?" Thankfully, a number of analytic hip-hop experts are willing to share the answers. Online and in print, lyric lovers have crafted rap Rosetta stones that can help new listeners parse through some of the genre's most difficult-to-understand rhymes. "Most rap listeners, like most rock listeners, are more interested in a hot beat and a catchy hook than deep, meaningful lyrics," said Tom Lehman, one of the founders of the Internet rap interpretation site Rap Genius. "The difference ...
Gucci Mane Gets a Tattoo of an Ice Cream Cone on His Face [PHOTOS]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsRapper Gucci Mane, aka Radric Davis, is having an interesting couple of weeks. Recently, his attorney filed a "special plea of mental incompetency" during a probation hearing after yet another tangle with law enforcement. Then, last week, a Georgia judge ordered him to enter Anchor Hospital, a substance abuse and mental health treatment facility, to undergo evaluation. And now, he's sporting some interesting new ink: a three-scoop ice cream cone tattoo on his face, complete with lightning bolts and the word "Brrr." It's not his first demonstration of his love of ice cream cones. According to ...
Adam Yauch Cancer Prognosis Good; Beastie Boys Prep 'Hot Sauce'
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsNo more sleep for the Beastie Boys. Vocalist and drummer Mike D says that the veteran rap trio is on pace for a 2011 comeback following fellow band member Adam Yauch's improving prognosis in his battle with cancer. Mike D told BBC Radio that the group, which last performed together in 2009, will follow its original plan to release the second side of its new double album, "Hot Sauce Committee," in the spring. Part one was delayed and remains unfinished due to Yauch taking 2010 off to fight his illness. In July 2009, Yauch underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his salivary gland. ...
Uganda's Rapping President Gets Rapped for Song
By Ioannis Gatsiounis - AOL News
KAMPALA, Uganda (Dec. 11) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has "written" a rap song ahead of the February election that's become the most popular ring tone in this hip-hop-loving nation, and now he's looking to copyright his smash hit. There's just one problem: He didn't compose the rhyme; it's a Kinyankole children's song to which Museveni has added the single line, "You want another rap?" -- which is also the song's title. The song's lyrics ignore pressing electoral issues like corruption, high unemployment and rising tribal tensions in favor of a tale about a knife that's traded for ...
Pop Culture Historian Says Boombox Gets a Bad Rap
By David Moye - AOL News
(Oct. 18) -- The boombox was popular for only a short time, but its effects are still being heard nearly 25 years after the invention of the CD hastened its demise. That's how it sounds to Lyle Owerko, a New York-based photographer and filmmaker who has immortalized the portable sound device in a new book, "The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground." "These devices have not been in vogue for 20 years, yet not a day goes by where I don't see someone with a boombox silk-screened on a T-shirt," Owerko told AOL News. For those born after 1990: A "boombox" was a ...
Anti-Cougar Businesswoman Gets Catty
By David Moye - AOL News
(Sept. 22) -- Looks like a cougar backlash is brewing, and a businesswoman in Providence, R.I., is the cattiest critic of all. The woman, who calls herself "Connie A. Cougar," is so disgusted by the so-called cougar craze that she is starting an empowerment campaign to prove that women "of a certain age" who still look good shouldn't be labeled as cougars. Connie A. Cougar, ImNotaCougar.com Connie A. Cougar is spearheading an anti-cougar campaign but is appearing incognito because she fears reprisals from cougars. Cougar -- who is keeping her real name a secret, presumably because she ...
What's the 411 on 911? It all Started in Haleyville, Ala.
By David Moye - AOL News(June 10) -- The seminal rap group Public Enemy famously sang "911 Is a Joke," but they'd get an argument from the folks in Haleyville, Ala. The folks in Haleyville take their 911 calls very seriously, and they should: The very first 911 call was placed from this community of 4,500 people on Feb. 18, 1968. CREDIT Back in 1968, Haleyville, Ala., was the site of the first 911 call. Every year the town celebrates its moment in history with a big festival. Haleyville residents are so proud of its unique place in history that every year the town holds a festival honoring its unique claim to ...
Whoomp There It Is: Barack Obama in Tag Team Video?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFlashback to the early 1990s, a time before President Obama had ever held public office. Though he was getting by working as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, the Internet is abuzz with a new rumor that Obama may have also moonlighted in a second job: an extra in a rap video. Don't believe it? Well, have a look at "Whoomp There it Is," Tag Team's catchy number one hit from 1993. And when you get to the 1:01 mark in the video, hit pause. Is that the future president, sporting shades and a fat gold ring while talking on a Zack Morris cellphone? You decide. The editors at ...
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