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CHUCK BROWN, Godfather of Go-Go, Has Passed

Chuck Brown, godfather of go-go, the genre of music that has soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades, died May 16 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 75.
Mr. Brown had been hospitalized for pneumonia and died of complications from sepsis.
Brown's musical career began in the 1960s playing guitar with Jerry Butler and The Earls of Rhythm, Brown's early hits include "I Need Some Money" and "Bustin' Loose". "Bustin' Loose" is the Washington Nationals baseball team home run celebration song and Nelly created a rendition of it for his 2002 number one hit "Hot in Herre."
Brown resided in Brandywine, Maryland. He had 2 sons, Wiley, a musician and football player at Virginia Tech and Nekos Brown, who played a defensive end/linebacker for the Virginia Tech football team. While his son was in college, Brown scheduled concerts and other appearances around the Hokies home schedule to ensure that he would never miss a game, and became a fixtu ...READ MORE


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President Obama support for same-sex marriage got many Americans thinking its about politics more than policy. But, what happens, when hip-hop's biggest star states he is in support? Will Jay-Z's stance hurt his image in the hip-hop community?

"I think it's the right thing to do … whether it costs him votes or not. I've always thought it as something that was still, um, holding the country back."

Jay-Z continued:
"What people do in their own homes is their business and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their busi ...READ MORE


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RICK ROSS - Touch N' You feat. Usher

    
Rick Ross and DJ Khaled attend the 'Hennessy Takeover' New Year's Eve event at Cameo in Miami
Rick Ross and DJ Khaled attend the 'Hennessy Takeover' New Year's Eve event at Cameo in Miami



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Robert Johnson, the nation's first African-American billionaire, has invested in professional basketball teams, real estate, mortgage-backed securities and midsize hotels. Now he is returning to his old stamping grounds: media.

The founder of BET, the first cable television network specifically targeted to African-Americans, is rolling up a pair of small video firms to form a new publicly traded venture, RLJ Entertainment. The 66-year-old entrepreneur plans to create an online distribution company that syndicates programming, including titles made by producers and directors who have been unable to penetrate the barriers of Hollywood.

"The Internet changes that paradigm," Johnson said in an interview last week. "The gatekeepers have been, for practical purposes, disassembled. If you can...READ MORE


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