Kanye West tapes vh1’s Storytellers

Kanye West gave the best performance i think to date on VH1's Storytellers click here to view his performance.

50 New Reality Show “The Money and The Power” Premiering Soon

If you have seen the commercials all over MTV and Vh1 you know that 50 has a reality show “The Money and The Power” premiering really soon. The show will be looking for the next business mogul. The show will challenge 16 contestants to master the business savvy that took 50 from a street existence to his present status. Each week one of the contestants will be eliminated and the last one standing will receive a full scholarship to an undergraduate or graduate business program. I think I like the idea of sending them to college.

Your Black World: VH1 Hip-Hop Honors: A Farce & A Scam

By: Tolu Olorunda

Staff Writer - YourBlackWorld.com

The corporate hacks at Vh1 are at it again. Yesterday, as I'm told, Vh1 aired its annual Hip-Hop ceremony, Vh1 Hip-Hop Honors. For those unaware, "Hip-Honors" is described as a yearly celebration of Hip-Hop pioneers and its many Godfathers/Godmothers. If Vh1 had its way - as it seem to do - Snoop Dogg, Eazy E, Ice Cube, Missy Elliot, Russell Simmons and the Wu Tang clan would fit that mold. It would come as a shock if Lil' Wayne is not honored next year. This annual exercise of miseducation is a farce at best. The categorization of “New Schoolers” as Hip-Hop pioneers notwithstanding, more insulting is the level of mistreatment rendered to actual Hip-Hop pioneers, at such events. In 2006, following that year’s "Honors," a group of venerated Hip-Hop scholars and historians broke their silence in calling out the bosses at Vh1 who, through the help of their subsidiaries, have conducted a whitewash of Hip-Hop history and denigrated its true inventors.

In a report published on the Hip-Hop online magazine, HipHopGame.com, DJs Jazzy Jay, Tony Tone and Disco Wiz described inexplicable instances where Vh1, in favor of granting VIP passes to the most prominent rappers at the time, treated Hip-Hop heavy weights such as Kurtis Blow and Tracy 168 like "bums and party crashers." The report furthermore noted that Vh1 had the unimpeachable gull to limit the number of guests Afrika Bambaataa (Hip-Hop's Grandfather) could invite. If this is true, as I believe it to be, it should come as no surprise that Vh1 executives have attempted to attribute the '90s to be the "Golden Age" of Hip-Hop, and ultimately, the age of its inception.

This year, the irony couldn't be starker. Whilst Vh1 was busy expressing great delight in "honoring" their distorted version of Hip-Hop's pioneers, the landmark of Hip-Hop creation, 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, was being auctioned to a real estate developer for $ 7 million. Neither Vh1 nor its uncertified group of Hip-Hop advisors displayed the most minuscule amount of regret over it.

As a true Hip-Hop pioneer once noted, "The moral of the story is that these people don't know shit."

VH1 Hip Hop Honors Red Carpet

VH1 Hip Hop Honors

Oct. 2 is the date for VH1's, "VH1 Hip Hop Honors". The show will tape at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday, Oct. 2 and premiere on VH1 Tuesday, Oct. 7. Honorees have not been named yet.

Rodney King Will Appear On Celebrity Rehad

Rodney King will become one of the participants trying kick their drug habit on VH1's second season of "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew." I didn't know Rodney King was considered a celebrity but the new episodes will begin in October.

Madonna On 106 and Park

Madonna's new album has a Hip Hop twist to it and that twist will allow Madonna to have her first appearance ever on 106 and Park Friday (May 2) to introduce her video "4 Minutes," with Justin Timberlake which has already been getting a lot of play over on MTV and VH1., Madonna's album as "Hard Candy" features production from Pharrell Williams, Danjahandz and Kanye West.