HEADLINE ARCHIVE #4

JANUARY 22-MARCH 9, 2000

HEADLINES FOR MARCH 9, 2000

RUN DMC TOUR DATES

So Crown Royal has been pushed back indefinitely. At least we can still count on Run DMC for one thing- touring.

Here is the list of upcoming dates the last two thirds of which are all college dates.

Date	City	State	Venue
03/12/00	Old Bridge	NJ	Sting Rays Night Club
03/13/00	New Haven	CT	Toad's Place
03/14/00	Providence	RI	Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
03/15/00	Albany	NY	Valentine's
03/16/00	Rochester	NY	Water Street Music Hall
03/18/00	Newark	DE	Stone Balloon
03/19/00	Riviera Beach	MD	Daytona's
03/20/00	Virginia Beach	VA	Abyss
03/21/00	Scranton	PA	Tink's
03/23/00	Peoria	IL	Madison Theatre
03/25/00	Aurora	IL	Club Nu
03/26/00	Milwaukee	WI	Rave
03/30/00	Worcester	MA	Worcester State College
04/06/00	Miami	FL	Florida International University
04/08/00	Madison	NJ	Farleigh Dickinson Univ.
04/09/00	Waltham	MA	Brandeis University
04/12/00	Boston	MA	Boston College
04/13/00	Providence	RI	Rhode Island College
04/14/00	Fitchburg	MA	Fitchburg St. College
04/15/00	St. Mary's City	MD	St. Mary's College
04/16/00	Valparaiso	IN	Valparaiso University
04/27/00	Fairfax	VA	George Mason University
04/28/00	Lowell	MA	Univ. Of Massachusetts
04/29/00	Norton	MA	Wheaton College
05/05/00	Memphis	TN	Beale St. Music Festival

If you get chance to see them, send in a review of the show and it'll be featured on the site.

DOUG E. FRESH APPEARANCE

Mr. Beatbox himself, Doug E. Fresh popped up at a Ghostface performance a few weeks back.

He helped move the crowd with a few songs from his upcoming release which includes a collaboration with Big Daddy Kane.

This site is currently awaiting information from Doug's camp on the release.

HEADLINES FOR FEBRUARY 24, 2000

COLD CRUSH BROTHERS RETURN

Cold Crush is coming back.

As reported on this site a few months back, the legendary Cold Crush Brothers are about to return to the hip hop world.

Easy AD recently emailed this site with the following description of the new CD, "Cold Crush 2000":

"The CD is a variety of different songs produced, arranged,
and written by the members of the Cold Crush Brothers. This
CD brings back the essence of hip hop, which is the Rhyming,
DJing and the MCing..."

He goes on to say that the first single on the CD is called "Resurrected" which features Chuck D of Public Enemy.

In other Cold Crush news, the group's line up will be slightly different. Original member JDL will not be taking part in the reunion. He is being replaced by a new MC named Money Ray.

Also, the Cold Crush site should be online by March 1.

HEADLINES FOR FEBRUARY 16, 2000

ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME UPDATE

A few months back a feature was run on this site about the hip hop exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (still waiting for any pictures you all might have).

A recent visit to the Rock Hall site reveals that they have posted several pictures of items they have on display as well as some essays written by some different artists.

Hip-hop music journalist Kevin Powell has an essay entitles "A Hip Hop Story."
Grandmaster Caz has a very good essay called "The MC: Master of Ceremonies to Mic Controller" in which he gives an excellent overview of the meaning the title "MC."
DXT gets down to the history of the DJ in the essay "The Hip Hop DJ."
Jorge "Fabel" Pabon talks graffiti in the essay "Physical Graffiti."
TRUE 222 (Formerly known as Phase 2) follows that up with "Writing."

Click here to check out all the essays.

THE WEEKLY DOSE OF RUN DMC ANXIETY

Here's the latest.

Inquires to Arista were met with the following response: "Unfortunately there hasn't been any new information on the release for Crown Royal. As soon as there info comes in then we will post it
up on our site, and our weekly word."

Not exactly a wealth of info to be found there.

SOHH did post an article citing delays due to contractual problems with two of the many guest artists planned.

And finally, ICE Magazine has echoed what we've seen else where in showing the release for Crown Royal as March 7.

HEADLINES FOR JANUARY 22, 2000

LATEST RUN DMC RELEASE INFO

Anyone with good information on this latest Crown Royal saga?

The latest dates are as follows:
                    Amazon.Com has the latest date as February 22.
                    ICE has it listed as February 8.
                    Billboard also has February 8.
                    Wall of Sound is still holding strong with January 25.

At this point we may just want to cross our fingers that the album, which will feature Method Man, Slick Rick, Nas, Aerosmith among others, gets released sometime before 2001.

KOOL HERC GETS A DEAL

After years of being the unrecorded legend Kool Herc, the founder of hip hop, has a deal.

KRS-ONE has taken advantage of his position at Warners/Reprise. In addition to his signing of Kool Moe Dee, he has now signed the living legend Kool Herc.

With new stuff from Run DMC, Cold Crush and others, it looks like the old school isn't going anywhere.

RUN DMC COMMERCIALS

In case you haven't noticed Run DMC has been doing some publicity lately and it's not for the upcoming Crown Royal.

Some of you may have seen or heard the "Run D.O.C" ads that DOC Eyewear has been running. While the group itself has only a few words to say their presence is felt by the annoying announcer's awkward use of hip hop terms.

Also many of you NBA fans may have seen the group on TBS NBA Monday. They are helping to produce the music for the program. The opening track appeared a few weeks ago. In addition to the work on the actual show, they are also planning on doing some other promo spots throughout the season.

HIP HOP STAMP IS OFFICIAL

Could it be that hip hop is clawing its way higher into the annals of history?

The US Postal Service is off to a good start. Here is the official hip hop stamp:

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(C) USPS 1999