This morning, Ebro Darden discussed HBO’s Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn, as well as one of Hot 97’s former employees, Paddy Duke, and his involvement in the tragic killing of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1989 as shown in the documentary. As reported yesterday, a statement was released over the weekend announcing that […]
Despite Adam 22 believing he has the answers to what happened, the details around the situation between Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion are still a bit sketchy. All we know for sure is HotGirlMeg was shot in the foot and a lot of people are corny for their jokes, more will be revealed later. […]
WQHT-FM HOT 97, #1 for Hip Hop and WBLS-FM 107.5, #1 for R&B surpass original goals of 97,000 and 107,000 meals, respectively, for Food Bank For New York City with a whopping grand total of more than 225,000 meals donated. Donations came from fellow New Yorkers able to help out as well as individuals across the […]
EBro Darden sat down with Lil Yachty and Yung Miami on his Beats 1 radio show to further promote Quality Control’s Control The Streets, Volume 2 album, which was released a month ago. Yachty, who wrote the City Girls’ hit single “Act Up” cleared up the air that he’s not the voice of the Miami […]
The New Year has brought a new job for Hot 97’s famed personality Ebro Darden. Billboard reveals Old Man Ebro will be the new Global Editorial Head of Hip-Hop and R&B for Apple Music. The position began for Ebro today (Jan 2.) and will not affect his roles as a host on both Hot 97 […]
“The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.” A 14th-century poet named John Lyly made this statement over 400 years ago. Never in his wildest dreams would he have expected these sage words to eclipse generations and culture, to finds themselves in the bedrock of rap music. When it comes down to […]
50 Cent is notorious for operating in uncomfortable situations. He works well with tension. Social media’s favorite troll uses the provocative content that entices people to tune in. Recently, Instagram took down a post of his that was deemed inappropriate. The Power television producer was not too pleased about the removal of his post. “Follw […]
The static between Ebro Darden and Tekashi 6ix9ine just turned up a notch when the Brooklyn rapper appeared to Summer Jam last weekend in makeup to allegedly “investigate” the artist entrance at the concert, although the radio personality made is crystal clear that he wasn’t invited to perform. “He showed up to the Summer Jam on […]
Since Kanye West returned to Twitter last month, he’s questioned “the culture” and sent the general public into a racial, social and political frenzy – and the hysteria isn’t going away. It all started one spring afternoon (Apr. 13) when Twitter founder Jack Dorsey welcomed Kanye back to his social media platform after a very, […]
DTP head honcho Ludacris is still on the hardest working men in Hip-Hop as he prepares for the premiere of “Fear Factor’s” season two on VH-1. While interviewing with Ebro Darden on Beats 1, Luda gave fans a preview of what fans can expect on the upcoming season which he dubbed “the season from hell.” […]
ATLiens Migos are have continued their stream of success and with heavily anticipated and widely received release of Culture II it looks as if the trio has no plans of slowing down. Last week during the first part of their interview with Ebro Darden on Beats 1, Migos revealed the significance of their release date. “January 26th is […]
Meek Mill has been hard at work on his upcoming mixtape DC 4.5, but that is not stopping the Philly MC from delivering a new track. In a collaborative project with underwear company Ethika for their RGB mixtape, Meek Mill spits fire on his new track “King.” The track appears on the underwear manufacturer’s RGB Mixtape […]
Since the now infamous interview with The Breakfast Club, which spawned a series of memes and talking points, Birdman has been one of the most talked about personalities in Hip Hop. With many unanswered questions, and tons of people waiting to hear his perspective, the Cash Money Records C.E.O. invited Ebro and Laura Stylez of […]
Yesterday was a big day for DJ Khaled, as he announced his new partnership with L.A. Reid and Epic Records, and a new album–his 9th–called Major Key likely set to drop this summer. In addition to Khaled’s announcements, producer Southside let loose in an interview that he had knowledge of a Jay Z and Future collaboration […]
Joey Bada$$ recently gave a speech at NYU, and he’s continuing his spreading of the good message with a new single, the Statik Selektah-produced “Ready,” which was unveiled by Beats1’s Ebro Darden earlier this week. Hopefully, this means a new album from Bada$$ is on the way, we last heard from him just over a […]
In a recent interview with Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning crew–Ebro Darden, Peter Rosenberg, Laura Stylez–members of Complex Magazine’s music took their place in the hot seat(s) to answer questions about their oft-debated year-end music lists, comprised of the 50 best songs and albums of the year. This year, Rae Sremmurd was ranked #3 […]
With the release of The Source Magazine’s annual Power 30 issue, which highlights the most impactful personalities and entities in and around Hip-Hop culture within the past year, once again there is much debate regarding who has been included, excluded as well as the ranking order. Categorizing each list in terms of business, radio and […]
Those West coast boys can really rap Vince Staples will be releasing his new album, Summertime ’06, on June 30, and in preparation, he released a new song, “Get Paid”–which you can listen to below–and stopped by Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg‘s Real Late show to chat and drop some serious bars. He would later be […]
