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HONOLULU — President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaida affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist attack that has prompted a top-to-bottom review of how the nation’s intelligence agencies failed to prevent the botched bombing aboard a Detroit-bound airliner. In his most direct public language to date, the president described the path through Yemen […]
VIA: THEURBANDAILY.COM From HipHopIsRead.com Here’s an interesting concept for a mixtape: take The Black Album acapellas and lay them over Blueprint 3 (unofficial) instrumentals. I guess folks are adamant about wanting your old shit, Hov… DOWNLOAD HERE 1. Jay-Z – Jay-Z DJ Kut Intro (0:25) 2. Jay-Z – Thank You Mom (3:50) 3. Jay-Z – Do I Entertain […]
Charlotte Police have got to get this in check! A 17 year old girl…REALLY?
With the first calendar year of the Obama presidency at a close, the White House should reflect on its successes and failures over the past year – and gear up for 2010. There’s nothing like a new year to set things right; an opportunity to double your efforts in some areas, or to refocus and […]
VIA: THEURBANDAILY.COM Hip-Hop producer Shawty Redd has turned himself into authorities after killing a man on New Years day in Henry County, Georgia. According to reports, Shawty Redd got into an argument with another man at his residence and feared for his life when the victim was shot and killed. Currently no bond has been […]
VIA: THEWASHINGTONPOST.COM According to the Wizards Insider in the Washington Post, Gilbert Arenas brought guns to the Verizon Center because of a dispute with his team mate Jarvaris Crittenton. The New York Post reports that the incident was over an unpaid gambling debt and that Crittenton also had a weapon. Yahoo! Sports is reporting that […]
VIA: BILLBOARD.COM The past decade has shown us a lot, from the death of Michael Jackson to the birth of Auto-tune. It has also brought us some of the most horrific scandals and probably one of the worst economic crisis this country has seen in a long time. Of all of these things, which will […]
VIA: SOHH.COM As we close out an old decade and look forward to a new one, we have to think about some of the biggest trends in Hip-Hop and get some insight from some of the veterans of the game. For rapper Rakim Auto-Tune took over the past decade. “In hip-hop, as far as music and […]
As we bring in the New Year and look forward to a new decade, I thought it might be fun to review the top 10 most racially-charged incidents of 2009. As an obvious reflection of our lack of racial progress in America, the top 10 list actually has 14 things on it. It appears that […]
VIA: THEURBANDAILY.COM Some of the real headlines for 2009 (“Lil Wayne Can’t Sell House Because Of Weed Smell”) and “ Cop Pulls Out Gun At Snowball Fight”) were pretty outrageous. We can only imagine what 2010 has in store. Check our predictions: 10. “Dr. Dre Goes To Med School” After years of delaying the release […]
Via: CNN.Com African-Americans are extremely supportive of President Obama, but their enthusiasm appears to have dramatically dropped from earlier this year, according to a new national poll. RELATED: Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Falls Below 50 Percent The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, released Tuesday, also indicates that Obama’s presidency appears to have made blacks more optimistic […]
The Dutch government is releasing results of its investigation into the failed Christmas Day terror attack on a U.S.-bound airliner that took off from Amsterdam. Interior Minister Guusje Ter Horst is holding a press conference Wednesday to outline a probe into how 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab managed to board the Northwest Airlines flightto Detroit […]
