Columbus Short Claims He ‘Hired’ Kerry Washington for ‘Scandal’ – Nick Cannon on Daddy Duty w/Daughter Monroe + More | PicsVIDEOs
*Webbies, it’s Fri-yay, and we’re giving you this Social Heat so we can stop at this pizza joint and then hit the gym right quick to unbig our backs! Our first story is wild, actor Columbus Short said with his entire chest on the “Club 520” podcast that he is the reason Kerry Washington got […]
How Herb Alpert’s ‘Rise’ Topped the Chart 41 Years Ago Today for All the Wrong Reasons (EUR Video Throwback)
*Some people of a certain age hear the 1979 instrumental “Rise” by Herb Alpert and think back no further than the 1997 image of Notorious B.I.G. and Puffy on a yacht. But there’s an entire generation of fans who, to this day, hear the song’s baseline strut and are instantly taken back to a critical […]
RADIOSCOPE REWIND: It’s January 1996 and Faith Evans’ Marriage to B.I.G. May Be On the Rocks (Listen)
“Faith’s career keeps rolling right along, but what about her marriage?” In January of 1996, RadioScope began the following report on Faith Evans with that question. At the time, she was promoting “As Soon As I Get Home,” the second single of her debut album, “Faith,” and follow up to her impactful “You Used to […]
Happy 28th Anniversary to Mary J. Blige’s ‘What’s the 411?” Masterpiece [EUR Video Throwback]
*On July 28, 1992, Mary J. Blige side-to-side-stomped and arm-chopped her way onto the music scene with her debut album, “What’s The 411?,” a Sean “Puffy” Combs-guided missile that lit up the music industry with its round-the-way-infused power vocals over sampled beats, earning her the nickname Queen of Hip Hop Soul. Mary’s Boogie-Down, Bronx voracity […]
Celebrating Mark DeBarge Turning 61 and His Role in One of Music’s Most Sampled Tracks [EUR Video Throwback]
*Happy 61st birthday to Mark DeBarge, the fifth eldest of the 10 DeBarge siblings and member of the family’s singing group, DeBarge. With El getting all the attention as the lead singer, James famous as Janet Jackson’s one-time husband, Bunny standing out as the band’s lone sister and Bobby having found pre-DeBarge fame along with […]
The Legacy Continues: The Sons of Notorious B.I.G. & Sean Combs Perform at the SOURCE360 Festival and Conference
4th ANNUAL SOURCE360 FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE REACHES NEW HEIGHTS Multi-Faceted 2017 Event Hosted Concerts, Block Party, Pivotal Sessions on Cannabis, Community Policing, Tech, Media, Music Marketing, and The State of Hip-Hop *(New York) – The 4th Annual SOURCE360 Festival & Conference was recently held in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. Once again, SOURCE360 brought together members of […]
‘Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.’ Gets Series Order at USA
*USA Network has picked up to series its hourlong pilot “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.,” reports Deadline Hollywood. The scripted drama chronicles the two major police investigations into the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Newcomer Wavyy Jonez stars as Wallace, and Marcc Rose plays Shakur. […]
Video: Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs Tells Bad Boy 20th Anniversary Story [WATCH]
*The Bad Boy 20th Anniversary Box Set Edition – available as of today, Friday, August 12 – both physically for a suggested retail price of $49.98 and digitally at iTunes and Amazon. Watch Sean “Diddy” Combs explain the motivation behind the box set and its inspiring story. Sean “Diddy” Combs AKA Puff Daddy takes fans through the 80-track box […]
