SOHH.com is reporting that while on New York radio station Hot 97 recently, N.E.R.D. front man Pharrell Williams revealed to host Angie Martinez that the band is gearing for the release of their first film, directed by legendary hip-hop video director and filmmaker, Hype Williams.
Well, it looks like their has been a recent Will Smith sighting in New York City’s Time Square. This is because the filmmakers of this summers blockbuster Hancock needed to re-shoot scenes to tone down the subject matter for the film.
Hip-Hop legend DMC will hold a press conference on Monday (May 12) to announce a new partnership with Children’s Aid and Family Services, a Paramus, New Jersey based non-profit organization serving children in the state’s foster care/adoption system.
Highbridnation is reporting that The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) has announced the world premier of ‘Two Turntables and a Microphone’, a documentary about the life and death of Run DMC’s great DJ, Jam Master Jay.
Rapper/actor Common has been casted in the upcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (#4 in the series). He will play a fellow freedom fighter and member of John Connor’s inner circle. Terminator 4 is slated to released on May 22, 2009.
So Diddy is keeping the hollywood/hip hop legacy going strong. Sean Combs received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 2, during a ceremony that drew the largest crowd in the event’s history.
Ludacris is set to release his sixth album, “Theater of the Mind,” in September, a project he terms appropriately “theatrical.” He has been working on the Def Jam Records set while shooting Max Payne, the big screen adaptation of the popular Rockstar video game.
Lil’ Wayne and Bow Wow are slated to star in an upcoming basketball drama titled Patriots.
According to an interview on Blackfilm.com, there are big changes in store for rapper’s recurring character when FX show returns this summer. Andre “3000″ Benjamin will reprise his guest role on the FX drama The Shield when the show airs its seventh and final season this summer.
Flav is set to star in a new show. Can he be stopped or are we just seeing the peak of this man’s career?
