Marley Marl

It got us to thinking about the radio stations we've loved and lost — because as much as most of us tend to subsist on a self-administered musical diet these days, we grew up on the dial, and we miss the good old days when the voice coming out of the speaker during between-song breaks was one you could trust. Read More

Scarface looks back at "The Fix" 10 years later, as he discusses Platinum League trading cards and what Ying Yang Twins' "Whisper Song" taught him about the state of Hip Hop. William Green thinks Tupac, The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg , and Scarface - as a team - would trounce any other four rapper squad in Hip Hop history. Read More

On Friday night, Tao at the Venetian hosted Drake's official concert after-party and the Grammy-nominated rapper even shouted out Tao a few times during his concert. Read More

The good thing about family is you don't have to see them all the time to still feel the love when you do reconnect. Read More

If you aren't a New Yorker of a certain age, as I am, it might be difficult to understand our dumbfounded reaction to the announcement last week that two legendary archrival Black radio stations — WBLS and 98.7 Kiss FM — would be "merging" into one; or, more accurately, 98.7 Kiss FM would be "celebrated" and then folded into WBLS. Read More

If you aren't a New Yorker of a certain age, as I am, it might be difficult to understand our dumbfounded reaction to the announcement last week that two legendary archrival Black radio stations — WBLS and 98.7 Kiss FM — would be "merging" into one; or, more accurately, 98.7 Kiss FM would be "celebrated" and then folded into WBLS. Read More