Happy Birthday Ms Jackson!!!!

She's a legend and a fixture on the Blvd!! Happy Birthday to Janet Jackson!!

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Michael Jackson & Africa

The Extinction of the Ninja????

In truth while we may think of heroic ninja like Snake Eyes of the classic G.I Joe series or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the fact is that Ninja were/are anything but heroic majority of the time. Assassins for hire that worked in the shadow may have faded in the shadowy abyss with no chance of return...

 "Ninjas just don't fit in the modern day," 

 A 63-year-old former engineer may not fit the typical image of a dark-clad assassin with deadly weapons who can disappear into a cloud of smoke. But Jinichi Kawakami is reputedly Japan's last ninja. As the 21st head of the Ban clan, a line of ninjas that can trace its history back some 500 years, Kawakami is considered by some to be the last living guardian of Japan's secret spies.

 "I think I'm called (the last ninja) as there is probably no other person who learned all the skills that were directly" handed down from ninja masters over the last five centuries, he said.

 "Ninjas proper no longer exist," he said as he demonstrated the tools and techniques used in espionage and sabotage by men fighting for their samurai lords in the feudal Japan of yesteryear. Nowadays they are confined to fiction or used to promote Iga, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) southwest of Tokyo, a mountain-shrouded city near the ancient imperial capital of Kyoto that was once home to many ninjas.

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In Memory of a King

Michael Jackson Tribute Mix by Dj Premier Blog Radio on Mixcloud

THIS DATE IN KNICKS HISTORY....

June 18 (1985) With the first pick in the 1985 NBA Draft the New York Knicks select...

                  

Nerd Moment: Wrestling Greats

Goldberg, The Rock & Stone Cold via Dollface

The Wrestling Fan in me loves this pic

RIP Whitney Houston....

Image Via MsMixedMedia

Heard this sad news while out last night......we're in a time were legends are passing and very few remain to fill their shoes.....RIP



Celeb Community Reacts After The Jump........ Via MissInfo

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Oh So Raven!!!!!

If there's one thing I can say about my girl Raven is that she is consistent with for grind. This past Saturday she debuted her new online show via XXL Mag "Rappin' With Raven"!!!! Her debut interview for this program is Hip Hop Pioneer Uncle Ralph McDaniels. Check her out and please hop over to the site and leave comments to show your approval of the new platform.



Also If your in Manhattan tonight looking for something to do hit up 49 Groove as Raven Hosts w/ her Da Listening Session Fam Dj Blak Ghost and Studio Bug

Happy BIrthday BIG PUN!!!!!

The End of an Era.......The Best Punchline

This week the comic and cartoon world received confirmation of horrible news. Mark Hamill, originally of Star Wars fame, and the legendary voice behind the animated Jack Napier aka the Clown Prince of Crime aka The Joker, tweet that his time in the vocal booth was over. It was a moment that many knew was coming but it still is bitter sweet. The voice of the greatest in history. More violent then Scarface, Smarter than Hannibal, with a body count that would impress Darth Vader.

Nerd Nod of Respect

RIP

DMX "Last Hope"

Always good to hear the dog do his thing. Can he ever get it all the way back again?

The REAL Creator

"Nuff Said"

Evie with Flavor Flav/Chuck D of Public Enemy... International Hip-Hop

Evita is currently in Germany working on the next phase of the Nomadness Evolution. I"m not going to say much but know she has big things coming. Here's a snippet of Evie with Public Enemy

Rest in Peace to the Greastest Entertainer Ever!!!!

There are very few people I know that don't get moved in some way listening to MJ's work. Again, we don't appreciate what we have till it's gone......

Click here for my previous MJ posts....

RIP Randy Macho Man Savage

"Oooooooooooooooh Yeeeeeeaaaahhhhh!!!!!! It's the Macho Man!!!!!!!!"

The Legends of Shaolin

Jay-Z Vs Dmx.......The Legend of "The Battle"

Ski Beatz, Sauce Money, and the Ruff Ryders' co-founder Waah Dean tell some lesser known facts about the Bronx battle on a pooltable between the Roc-A-Fella honcho and Darkman X.

At some point in the mid-early '90s, at a small, smoke-filled pool hall in the Bronx, a Brooklyn-based emcee named Jay-Z battled an up-and-comer from Yonkers known as DMX. X, who cabbed in to town from Baltimore just for the event, stated in his 2003 autobiography that he had no original intentions of getting involved that night. He was there as a witness, who’d only enter the fray if absolutely necessary. And, soon enough, it was. “The people knew that were the top dogs of our crews,” he wrote, “and they wanted us to go at it and after a few more rounds, I just couldn’t stand to the side anymore. It was time to hold down the fam.”

To this day, details of the battle between Jay (who was an affiliate repping Original Flavor at the time) and DMX (who stood alongside an Uptown-based group called the Harlem Knights) remain murky. So HipHopDX caught up with three people who were in attendance—Original Flavor member Ski (n/k/a Ski Beatz), Jay-Z/Original Flavor associate Sauce Money, and Ruff Ryders co-founder Waah Dean—to learn more about what went down that night. Each of the three admitted that many of the specifics have faded from memory, but that they’d recall what they could.

Waah Dean: We did [the battle] on neutral grounds. Instead of doing it in Brooklyn or Yonkers, we did it in the Bronx.

Ski Beatz: When I rolled up, I was with Dame Dash, Tone Hooker, Jay-Z, and I think some of Dame’s people from Harlem—his crew called The Best Out. That was the name of his crew, from Harlem. I think Dame set [the battle] up. It was like a Brooklyn-Uptown/Harlem kind of thing. So we all met at the pool hall, in the Bronx.

Waah Dean: We heard some things about Jay-Z from Brooklyn, and from Dame, and we’d bump heads with their people every now and again. The word was out that we had these guys that was doing similar things—traveling to different areas and [battling]—so we knew in a matter of time we was gonna be in a place where somebody was gonna make the phone call, and say, ‘Yeah, we got this guy standing here, and they all wanna be here…’ and that happened. So we knew what was up. We didn’t really look for anybody, we just dealt with the situation as it was there. We knew [DMX] was one of the best, one of the greatest, so we wasn’t worried about no artist coming after him.

Sauce Money: Everybody who battled, I think it was myself, there might’ve been a girl—we had a girl, her name was Roughness—and T-Strong, and Jay. We had to get on top of the pool tables, so whoever’s battling, they’re standing on the pool table, going at it.

Waah Dean: There was no room in the building to stand at, so the only way to do it was to stand on the pool tables so everybody could see.

Sauce Money: The pool table was like a boxing ring. We were standing on opposite sides of the pool table going back-and-forth. While we were rapping, niggas were pulling out guns—all kinds of crazy shit.

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Salute to one of the Greatest

Nesta Robert "Bob" Marley

Born 6 February 1945

Hip Hop Founder Kool Herc In Bad Medical Condition

Hip Hop Father Kool Herc has been hospitalized with an unspecified illness and as surprising as it may sound, does not have medical insurance.

**UPDATE**
AHH has reported that DJ Kool Herc has been released from the hospital after being admitted, due to an unknown illness. While no further details have been released on his ailments,

Statement Via Dj Premier

"Kool Herc is very sick. For those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing well. It's funny how we have a father of a culture that still lives, where as in some cultures they are dead and gone even though they may still be worshipped or reflected on in some kind of way [sic]."

Donations for Kool Herc can be sent to: Kool Herc Production, P.O. Box 20472, Huntington Station, NY 11746.