Hip-hop pays homage to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Krayzie Bone as reports of hospitalization spread

It’s been a half-century since DJ Kool Herc energized a West Bronx rec room and invented the most popular musical genre on the planet. Now the celebration is going primetime.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Hip-hop’s 50th anniversary got off to a rousing start at the Grammy Awards in February with a massive 15-minute medley orchestrated by Roots drummer and rap scholar Questlove and featuring LL Cool J, Ice-T, Public Enemy, Rakim, Queen Latifah, Method Man and many more — and the organizers promised that a much bigger show would be coming later in the year. However, the Hollywood strikes put the entire project on pause, and Quest declined to discuss it during an interview with Variety in August.

Aramide Tinubu The American buffalo, or bison, is a massive animal. It can weigh more than a ton and span over 10 feet wide, excluding its tail. As fascinating as the mammal is, a four-hour series centering on its origins, decline and revitalization wouldn’t exactly be riveting for a general audience.

Lourdes Leon is paying homage to her Queen of Pop mother Madonna!

The 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards were broadcast on TV last night after being held in Atlanta on October 3. The show featured a number of impressive performances, including a tribute to a local Atlanta favorite, Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings.

Jaden Thompson The Spirit of Life Gala, hosted by the cancer research and treatment organization City of Hope, will honor hip-hop mogul and entrepreneur Lyor Cohen with a one-time-only version of DJ Cassidy‘s “Pass the Mic Live!” at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 18.

Steven J. Horowitz Ahead of its grand debut to the public on Oct. 7, the Grammy Museum previewed Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit in Los Angeles, giving a sneak peek of its curated celebration of hip-hop culture.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Yanet, lateish twenties, opens her eyes, looks in the mirror, takes in air, straightens two braids of hair, hold her head in her hands, purses her lips, is called for her stage test. She begins to sing. “People say I have to change, but I don’t care at all.

The Anchoress, aka Catherine Anne Davies, has paid homage to Depeche Mode in her stripped-back new cover of ‘Enjoy The Silence’ – watch the video on NME first below.The cover is the latest from Davies’ new album, ‘Versions’, released today (October 6) – a project that has seen her re-imagine ten songs by artists including Manic Street Preachers, The Cure, Nirvana, Nico and Halsey.The latest cover is accompanied by a video directed by JJ Eringa and is a scene-by-scene recreation of the original video released by Depeche Mode in 1990 and created by Anton Corbijn.Speaking to NME about the new song and video, Davies said: “The concept behind the album was for me to flex my production and arrangement skills and revisit classic songs to challenge the listener to think about them in a new way, so when JJ suggested to me that we attempted a loving frame by frame recreation of the original video for Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’ it seemed like the perfect fit for the intentions of the project.“The original video had a much more impressive travel budget than we had but with the ingenuity of director JJ Eringa…we were able to pretty much approximate every shot from Anton Corbijn’s original video. Half was shot on a DIY green screen in my manager’s living room while the other half was shot guerilla style around the local countryside.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Prominent Egyptian director Marwan Hamed, whose epic “Kira and El Gen” about local resistance to British occupation recently scored at the local box office, is being feted with a career award by the El Gouna Film Festival. The Egyptian fest, running Oct.

Krayzie Bone pulled through!

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member Krayzie Bone is on the road to recovery. A couple of weeks ago (September 22), he was hospitalized after reportedly coughing up significant amounts of blood.

Krayzie Bone has shared an update on his health following his recent hospitalisation.Last month, Krayzie Bone – real name Anthony Henderson – admitted himself into a hospital after coughing up blood, a result of a bleeding artery found in his lung. Henderson immediately received surgery and was put on a ventilator.Now, the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper has posted a photo of him in his hospital bed, throwing up a peace sign.

The artist shared a health update to Instagram on Tuesday.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Record Store Day has announced a lineup of more than 170 exclusive titles for its annual Black Friday event this fall, with the “black” almost being a misnomer for this particular Nov. 24, 2023 rollout — given the amount of purple, gold, red, blue, green, marble, clear and splatter-colored vinyl variants on the list.

Paramount+ has released two key art images for the upcoming sequel to the Emmy-winning comedy series Frasier, which debuts Oct. 12. Both posters feature the title character front and center. In fact, the sequel’s star and executive producer Kelsey Grammer, who is reprising his signature character as Frasier Crane, is the only cast member from the sequel pictured.

On Monday, TMZ shared that Krayzie Bone was placed in an induced coma to “help [with] the healing process,” as the artery is still bleeding. The publication revealed that there are plans for the Grammy Award-winning rapper to go into surgery again to repair his blood vessel.“In this challenging moment, as the immediate and Bone thugs family rallies behind my brother, we humbly ask for a moment of privacy,” Layzie Bone wrote under a photo of him, Wish Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, and Krayzie Bone on Instagram.

Steven J. Horowitz Offset, Sexyy Red and Ludacris are just a few of the artists on tap for performances at the upcoming BET Hip Hop Awards 2023. The network has announced a robust slate for its show, with Fat Joe set to host.

Will Smith has announced that he will be hosting a new podcast called Class Of ’88, exploring hip-hop music that was released in that year.The rapper-turned-actor will celebrate the year in rap alongside other hip-hop superstars of that era, including Queen Latifah, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels, Salt-N-Pepa, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Fab Five Freddy, Rakim, and DJ Red Alert.Per Billboard, Smith said: “Hip-hop has been a central part of my life for over four decades. I’m hyped to share my first-hand experiences and those of some of hip-hop’s greatest legends as we delve into the origins of one of the most influential genres of music in history.”Last Thursday (September 21), the trailer for Class Of ’88 was released, with Smith saying: “Today, hip-hop dominates pop culture, but it wasn’t always like that.

Curated livestream shopping platform NTWRK teamed up with visual artist Paper Frank and retail giant Walmart on a one-of-a-kind art piece that pays homage to not only his Atlanta roots, but also Diddy's REVOLT WORLD festival that took place over the weekend. As part of a larger initiative to amplify Black creatives, Walmart commissioned Frank, a self-taught artist known for creating album art for rappers like Gunna, Juice WRLD, and Future, to craft the acrylic and aerosol on canvas piece "Journey." Read Next: NTWRK, Audible, and Amazon Music celebrate 50 years of Hip-Hop with immersive multimedia experience Featuring a trio of bold, bright-eyed, and blue-haired characters, Frank says the pop-art-inspired piece was inspired by creativity, passion, and the spirit of ambition.