For all you video game fans out there

It has just been announced that in 2007, the popular game Halo will be coming to the big screen.
Author Alex Garland (of The Beach fame) has written the script for the film. A director will be chosen most likely in the next few months. As of yet, there is no cast.
The film will [...]

Kanye's got Time

Kanye West is on the cover of the current Time Magazine. The article, which was written by Josh Tyrangiel, talks about College Dropout as well as Late Registration. But what it focuses on mostly are the concepts of Kanye's album. How he deals with race and class as subject matter while still retaining a [...]

News Update: August 23

It's a slow day over here at News Update. Not a whole lot going on out there, but we still bring you what we can.
Clothing mogul, Marc Ecko has won his battle with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Last week, Bloomberg revoked a permit issued to Ecko for his Getting Up Block Party at [...]

Dionne Farris Returns

Remember Dionne Farris? We were first introduced to her by way of her vocals on Arrested Development's 1992 breakthrough single “Tennessee,” and, as a result, she helped put them on the map. In 1995, she dropped her solo album Wild Seed — Wild Flower which spawned the alternative hit “I Know,” besides being a solid [...]

Lady Soverign = The Next M.I.A.

I'm gonna let you guys know right now: the New York Hipster Press (NYHP) will declare Lady Soverign the next MIA. (Or as Trent would say, the NYHP will be ridin' Lady Sov's booty.)
So I'm still on the fence about this girl. Although the NYHP says that she is the only viable grime act to [...]

Hip Hop Experts are now Key Witnesses

In March, school officials in a school outside Pittsburgh alerted officials of a student who was writing violent rap lyrics. Soon after, 14-year old Anthony Latour was charged with terroristic threats and harrassment for the lyrics which he wrote outside of school. He was later expelled.
Now the ACLU is trying to get [...]

News Update: August 19

Well, this week has been a very interesting and crazy week. Not only did I move back up to mASSachusetts, but a lot of things happend in the entertainment world as well! So let's get on it folks!
Sean Combs, alsk known as Puffy, Puff Daddy and most recently P. Diddy has changed his name once [...]

New Music: El Pus

There is a misconception among many white people people that if you are black and into music, you are a rapper. And there are many black musicians who have fought back against these stereotypes: Bad Brains, Bodycount, Skindred, Cipher…hell the whole Afropunk movement is based on this fight.
And then there are those who join [...]

New Music: Maj Toure

Instead of trying to go to a major label route, or even sell CD's out of the trunk of his car, Philadelphia rapper Maj Toure decided to go to the most untapped market in the city: The Philadelphia subway.
Philly commuters can see Mr. Toure on SEPTA's Orange line, hocking his new album, Solutionary, between 7:30am [...]

Bol, Hashim and Exo “Hug It Out”

Suddenly, Krispexgate, aka “The Gulliest Move of 2005″ is over. Hasim and Kris ex settled their beef yesterday, and the “Kris Ex is a Douche” page has been changed to an Ad for Exo's 50 cent biography.
Bol's explanation: “krispex is not really in any position to strike back right now and for us to [...]

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