And now it's been revealed that the group's DJ/producer, Maseo, has his own side-gig in the works. According to HipHopDX, he's releasing a new solo album called DJ Conductor that finds him producing new artists and my friends that I've been wanting to...

But the Boston Police Department, one of the latest targets of the vengeful ‘hacktivists’ decided to retaliate – with sarcasm. The Boston Police Department website, BPDNews.com, was down for a week after hackers replaced its home page with a video of...

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Seriously. All I can think of when I hear about him is that Daily Show interview I'm so stoked someone brought this up. He always struck me as a fan of...

Mike announced via their respective Twitter accounts that we would finally be hearing the first track from their upcoming R.A.P. Music project on Monday. Well, it's Monday, and here we are, shaking the crust out of our eyes and getting hit by a flurry...

The BPDnews.com satirical video not only plays on music used by Anonymous from the artist KRS-One, but it also features local law enforcement detailing, with feigned drama, where they were when they heard of the attack and what they thought of it. ...

With stone faces sure to make Buster Keaton fans smirk, police officers featured in the short clip address the website defacement , which left the department befuddled and "dismayed." Why would anyone want to destroy a perfectly good KRS-One song?" ...

Anonymous broke into BPDNews.com on Feb. 3 and substituted its usual police and crime news with a video of rapper KRS-One performing his song, "Sound of Da Police." So Boston cops made a video of officers reacting in a comically straight-faced manner. ...

For example: "Normally, I sleep pretty well. But since the site went down, I haven't slept a wink," says (a somewhat facetious) Colm Lydon, deputy superintendent. "My reaction was, 'Why would anybody want to destroy a perfectly good KRS-One song',"...

BPDNews.com." (South End Patch) The Boston Police Department's website remained offline for the second day after members of the hacking collective Anonymous defaced it. People trying to access it yesterday were redirected to the department's Facebook...

KRS-One once said, “You must learn.” That’s why for the third consecutive year* now, we’re using up valuable page space to break some bad news to a few rappers with counter-productive rap name-tags. Although we’d much rather talk about how moving their...

The site, bpdnews.com, disappeared Feb. 3 and was replaced by an alternative site that included a message criticizing police and a video of hip-hop artist KRS-One rapping about police brutality over images of violent confrontations between officers and...

The celebrated Bronx, N.Y. , MC evolved from giving birth to the controversial rap genre known as gangsta rap to dropping a politically conscious classic. He was leader of the influential hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, who crafted their...

FTC drops a new three-and-a-half-minute promo video. In it you’ll find the likes of Marcus McBride, Jack Curtin, Jabari Pendleton, Joey Johnson, Nate Keegan, Dave Abair, Karl Watson and more. Set to KRS One’s “MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know,” the old...

People trying to access the website were redirected to the department's Facebook page Saturday, a day after the hackers posted rapper KRS-One "Sound of Da Police" music video that criticizes police brutality. A message posted on the website Friday...

KRS-One is one cocky bastard. The Bronx, New York rap giant, who once claimed that he was so far connected with the culture and artform of hip-hop that it was his dog, has never been one to shy away from grandiose, what-the-fuck statements. And at the...

A message posted on the website Friday said, "Anonymous hacks Boston Police website in retaliation for police brutality at OWS," apparently a reference to the Occupy Wall Street movement. A police spokesman would not confirm Anonymous was responsible. ...

However, a deeper inspection of hip-hop in 2012 will show that rap isn't only about Maybachs, money and weed. Hip-Hop was born from the hearts and minds of people like Gil Scott Heron, Heavy D, KRS-One, NWA and Public Enemy. These MCs rapped hard and...

That song became the basis of a song by the Animals -- who didn't use the actual recording. Grand Funk Railroad then covered the song (again, not using the actual recording, but starting from scratch). However, Lomax was still credited as a songwriter,...

Hip-hop is something that is being lived." No matter how one splits the rap/hip-hop atom, its fallout has dominated the black musical landscape for over 30 years. Sony's new two-disc Giant Single: The Profile Records Rap Anthology puts it under a...