By Thomas Golianopoulos 9/20/11 6:51pm

Comebacks

David Mays

How Dave Mays and Benzino Got Back in the Game with Hip Hop Weekly

In late 1997, The Source magazine celebrated the release of its 100th issue with an enormous bash at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Hip hop’s era of excess was at its blinged-out height. Everybody was getting money and flaunting it. Even the journalists. Before the party, Dave Mays, the co-founder and co-owner of The Source, distributed diamond-encrusted medallions emblazoned with the company logo to about 10 members of the staff. They were later appraised at $7,000. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 1/31/11 4:11pm

Ambitions

Can Nicki Minaj Become a Lady?

Nicki Minaj was that rare thing on this week’s Saturday Night Live – a musical guest who overwhelmed the show’s host. With the milquetoast Jesse Eisenberg hosting, Minaj not only rapped/sang/posed to “Right Thru Me” and “Moment 4 Life,” two treacly singles, but also appeared in a sketch and a digital short.

While musical guests Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/10/10 10:16pm

Hova

Jay-Z to Get Full Charlie Rose Treatment at Brooklyn Museum

“Multi-platinum.” “10-time Grammy Award-winning artist.” “World-famous performer.” “Songwriter.” “Entrepreneur.” “Philanthropist.” “One of the best known hip-hop artists of his time.” “Himself in the midst of extraordinary fame.”

“Icon.”

According to the press release for his Nov. 18 conversation with Charlie Rose — to be filmed for Rose’s show before a live audience at the Brooklyn Read More