Police have a new lead in the death of BET and HOT 97 personality DJ Megatron. DJ Megatron, born Corey McGriff, was shot and killed in Staten Island, NY early Sunday morning.
According to the New York Daily News, BET host and Hot 97 DJ Megatron was shot and killed in Staten Island. Witnesses heard a single shot at about 2 a.m. in the Clifton section of Staten Island. Megatron was pronounced dead on the scene a short time later from a gun shot to his stomach. […]
Legendary DJ and producer Kid Capri (real name David Love) just announced via twitter that he lost his mother. “I just watch my moms take her last breath, I am beyond hurt,.'” he wrote. “I will always always have you in my mind and heart, I love you Ma!” Capri is a pioneer in the […]
Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress, has died at age 79. The news was reported by ABC’s Good Morning America.
Troy “Escalade” Jackson, the And-1 Street Ball legend and younger brother of former NBA player Mark Jackson, died in his sleep early Sunday Morning. The 6-foot-10, 400-pound Jackson, 35, was in Los Angeles for NBA All-Star Weekend. He was Tweeting about the festivities from his account @Escalade53 and appeared to be having a great time. […]
In 1946 Bobby Robinson opened his record store Bobby’s Happy House on 125th street in Harlem becoming the first black owned business on the famous Harlem street. The music business legend died yesterday at the age of 93. Five years after opening the shop he expanded into the music recording business working with hundreds of […]
Rammellzee, the pioneering hip hop artist and "Wild Style" star whose ten-minute-plus 1983 record "Beat Bop" is still fresher than just about anything on the radio, has apparently died. His death was first announced on the Twitter page of hip-hop legend Fab Five Freddy, who would know.
