Fresh Hop Ale Festival organizers expected about 4,000 people last year and got more than 5,000; this year they're ready for as many as 7,500. "We are hop mecca," said Joe Nation, co-chairman of the ...

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Pictured, from left, are Juvenile and Mannie Fresh. (Photo credit: Chelsea Alexandra for rolling out) When legendary producer Mannie Fresh spoke about his hesitation to work with emerging artists, he ...

It’s impossible to overstate Mannie Fresh’s impact on hip-hop. As Cash Money Records’ in-house producer for more than a decade, his fingerprints were all over the sound coming out of New Orleans — ...

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Hip-hop icon and beatboxing pioneer Doug E. Fresh has teamed up with the McCormick® brand to release an original song and music video, marking the brand’s first bottle redesign in almost four decades ...

"I call it reality-based rap," Ice-T says of the gangster rap genre. His '92 hit "Cop Killer" was controversial; he later played a police detective in Law and Order: SVU. Originally broadcast in 1994.

André Benjamin spoke to Fresh Air in 2006 about his music and his Outkast persona: " André 3000 ... just goes there and has a ball; André Benjamin is the person that goes to Whole Foods." This is ...

MOSLEY: This month marks 50 years of hip-hop. To celebrate, all this week we'll be featuring interviews with some of the most influential rappers and DJs over the last 50 years. We'll start at the ...

After he was sentenced to four years in prison for his prostitution convictions just a few weeks ago (Oct. 3), Diddy once again dominated the headlines this weekend. With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims ...