Author hiphopdemocrat

An interesting piece of "Protest Art" was erected in the Occupy Wall Street camp yesterday. It is a sculpture in Totem form depicting some of pop cultures' most notorious wealthy and greed stricken ic...

Winding down a very successful inagural season for the Chicago division of the s Snoop Youth Football League (SYFL), the league hosted a Chicago benefit skate party, in which Hip Hop celebrity Diggy Simmons ma...

Hip Hop Democrat was fortunate enough along with the Music Blogger's Association of America to become Community Partners for the 1st EVER Chicago Ideas Week. As community partners we put together a social med...

So if there EVER was an argument surrounding the impact of Hip Hop on education I guess this kind of kills that. Georgetown University recently launched a course called ‘Sociology of Hip Hop: Jay-Z’ ta...

If you have missed the “Life and Times of Little Nigger Jim” by @jimflamez please be aware that the little nigger is working on some things in the laboratory and should be back on your screen in the near fu...

Jay-Z & Kanye West perform “Otis” at the 2011 MTV Music Video Awards. Great performance even with the unruly STAN that came out on stage.. The spirit of Lil Mama was invoked ...

The moment you've been waiting for!!! The VMA's are tonight!!! Wanna watch online? You're in luck! We'll have the full Live feed of the VMA's actually starting NOW..... VMA 2011 | Pick Your Own Camera V...

Kanye West & Jay-Z: Watch The Throne Documentary from introspective on Vimeo....

DJBooth.net and Converse have joined forces to bring listeners 2011 Remixed (Volume 1), a compilation featuring fresh remixes from some of the hottest underground and up-and-coming artists in the game.  Rel...

Today marks a historic event in the history of our space program. Atlantis makes it's final launch bringing an end to this 30 year space program.  Watch the live launch here... V...