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In this exclusive video premiere on TheUrbanDaily, Dan Charnas, author of the epic new book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, bursts a few widely-held myths about hip-hop. Myth #1: Suge Knight sprung Tupac from jail Myth #2: The Source was the first hip-hop magazine Myth #3: Kool Herc “invented” hip-hop […]

Amber Rose made a guest appearance on Russell Simmons’ reality show Running With Russell Simmons last night (November 16) and did the following things: “act” like a diva, wear absolutely nothing but thongs and underwear and admit that she wants a dude to be a man and choke her slap her and spit in her […]

Ashanti, John Legend, Russell Simmons, Coco, Ice-T and Jessica White all attended Hedi Klum’s annual Halloween Party!

Plenty of other guests showed up including Pepa, Tyson Beckford, Selita Ebanks, Gayle King, and Veronica Webb.

Andre Harrell celebrated his 50th birthday over the weekend at The Derby in NYC.

Russell Simmons celebrated his 53rd birthday (which was October 4)  with model girlfriend Heidy Allende. He sent out a twitpic of the two of them enjoying dinner.

Russell Simmons has filed a $55 million lawsuit against....

Well now reports have surfaced stating that she was in fact fired by owner Kellwood. How scandalous is that, especially when Kimora made Baby Phat what it is today.

Doug E. Fresh, Russell and Rev Run all came out for the grand opening of Target in East Harlem!

Russell Simmons was honored with a Gold Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement in Music last night in New York City!

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It’s not a headline you read everyday: “Record Exec Launches Rap Career.” The typical order of events is for a rapper to get hired to run a label or at the least become an A&R after a few years of the mic hustle. But Kevin Liles’ cousin Tony Austin is not used to doing things […]

Russell Simmons bags young model chicks more than a little bit. He brought his newest conquest Heidi Allende to last night's SESAC Awards. The two got kissy-faced as songwriters accepted their awards.