WTH Black History Fact: Jimi Hendrix Pretended To Be Gay…

WTH Black History Fact:  Jimi Hendrix Pretended To Be Gay…

According to the Hendrix biography Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross. Jimi himself claimed to have left the military in 1962 due to a parachute jumping injury. Cross, on the other hand, says there was another reason

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Is Nappy Roots Hip-Hop’s Last Group? [EXCLUSIVE]

Is Nappy Roots Hip-Hop’s Last Group? [EXCLUSIVE]

Nappy Roots, a kentucky-based hip-hop group comprised of Skinny Deville, Big V, Scales, Ron Clutch and B. Stille will release their fifth album, Nappy.Org on September 27th. The project is completely produced by the legendary Organized Noize production camp. The group’s first album Watermelon, Chicken And Gritz was released almost ten years ago and in this exclusive interview with TheUrbandaily, the members explain how they’ve survived the pitfalls of the music industry and remained a unit all

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The Only 9/11 Joke I Will Ever Laugh At…

The Only 9/11 Joke I Will Ever Laugh At…

I was in Junior High School, sitting on the floor of dance class when whispers began to overshadow the directions from my teacher. She didn’t seem to care much, her face showed that she was also skeptical of the conversations. A few minutes later she jogged out the classroom and into the hallway where several other instructors had congregated. When she walked back in, my friends and I could

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GT Mayne Is Your Favorite Artist’s DJ & Now He’s About To Be Your Favorite Rapper

GT Mayne Is Your Favorite Artist’s DJ & Now He’s About To Be Your Favorite Rapper

GT Mayne of Radio One’s Houston station 97.9 The Box is known for tearing the party down with his impressive Djing skills. You may know him as your local radio host but he is much more. GT has been rapping long before radio and plans on being one of Houston’s biggest acts! I spoke to the budding rapper who divulged his plans to make it in the industry,

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Top 10 Drake Lyrics

Top 10 Drake Lyrics

Drake is one of the hottest rappers in the game right now. His debut album hit number one on the Billboard charts and he even caused a riot in New York City at the South Street Seaport. I think its safe to say people are checking for Drake’s music.

You can find Drake’s lyrics on your Twitter time lines or your Facebook news feeds, posted by several of his fans

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Ski Beatz On Watch The Throne: “I’ve Heard Better From Jay-Z” [EXCLUSIVE]

Ski Beatz On Watch The Throne: “I’ve Heard Better From Jay-Z” [EXCLUSIVE]

In this exclusive interview with TheUrbandaily, producer Ski Beatz talks about his latest project 24 Hour Karate School 2, working with Dame Dash‘s son and what he thinks of Jay-Z and Kanye’s Watch The Throne album. Ski was one of Jigga Man’s first producers, providing the beats to “In My Life Time,” “Feelin It”, “Politics As Usual”, “22 2′s” and others.

“In my OPINION I’m not blown away because I’ve heard better music from both of them,” he

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Bow Wow Comments On Lil Wayne & Jay-Z Beef! [EXCLUSIVE]

Bow Wow Comments On Lil Wayne & Jay-Z Beef! [EXCLUSIVE]

Lil Wayne has divided the rap nation into #TeamJay and #TeamWeezy after releasing the diss record “It’s Good” featuring Drake and Jadakiss in response to Jay’s Birdman reference on “HAM.” While Kiss failed to woo audiences (or maybe just me) and Drizzy reflected on a eight month bid Wayne did, Weezy murdered the last verse with the disrespectful bar “Talkin’ bout Baby money, I got your Baby

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Shvona Lavette Dishes On Making The Transition From Actress To Recording Artist [EXCLUSIVE]

Shvona Lavette Dishes On Making The Transition From Actress To Recording Artist [EXCLUSIVE]

I guess you can call Shvona Lavette a true artist. She has excelled at acting and has now stepped into the music industry.

After studying the Arts for many years, Shvona  moved from Queens, NY to L.A. and landed roles on “NYPD Blue”, “Boston Public”, “Lincoln Heights” and the FOX sitcom “Brothers” with NFL Michael Strahan. She is now ready to take on the music business. Shvona Lavette released her debut album 3

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Kane Beatz Defends Lil Wayne, Working With Nas And Plies

Kane Beatz Defends Lil Wayne, Working With Nas And Plies

At a mere 23 years old Orlando-born Daniel Johson, aka Kane Beatz , has already  helped make hip-hop history. While he is proud of music he’s produced for Trey Songz (“Bottom’s Up”) and Trick Daddy (“Tuck Your Ice”)  his hit for Nicki Minaj, “Super Bass ” just helped her set a Billboard record. After ten weeks on the charts, the single bumped Missy Elliot’s “Work It” to become

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Verse Simmonds Explains Why He Killed His Gumby Cut [EXCLUSIVE]

Verse Simmonds Explains Why He Killed His Gumby Cut [EXCLUSIVE]

When singer/producer Verse Simmonds first debuted with his single “Buy You A Round”,  he made a bold statement adopting the “Gumby” haircut popularized by singers like Bobby Brown in the 1990s. “It was about trying new things. As an artist you’re always trying to recreate yourself.”
Find out why he finally said good-bye to the cut and what’s the story behind his unique body art.

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Will & Jada’s Best On Screen Moments Together

Will & Jada’s Best On Screen Moments Together

Rumor broke this morning that our favorite black married couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have separated! As we hope & pray that there is no truth to that news we look back at Will & Jada during happy times. Throughout the couple’s 13 year span they have graced our television screens plenty of times…Check out Will & Jada’s greatest TV moments!

Will &

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30 Years After “Diff’rent Strokes” Shavar Ross Reinvents Himself

30 Years After “Diff’rent Strokes” Shavar Ross Reinvents Himself

Most who were around at the time will probably remember Shavar Ross as young Dudley from Diff’rent Strokes in the 1980s. But the veteran actor has featured in several other TV shows and feature films since entering the business roughly 30 years ago; notably parts in popular series like Magnum PI, Designing Women, Amen, Growing Pains, The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, Chicago Hope, and

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Zoombezi Bay buy one get one free coupon!

Zoombezi Bay buy one get one free coupon!

Zoombezi Bay buy one get one free coupon!

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Why This Nivea For Men Ad Is “Uncivilized” [OPINION]

Why This Nivea For Men Ad Is “Uncivilized” [OPINION]

Nivea For Men has been running a campaign aimed at getting men to step their grooming game up called “Look Like You Give A Damn.” As Madison Avenue is well aware, men are pigs, and if they are making an attempt to brainwash us into buying something we don’t want, they feel the need to come down to our caveman levels. If you believe the ad execs, men as a group generally don’t care about anything that doesn’t go

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She Uses Me: 5 Celebrity Sex Toys

She Uses Me: 5 Celebrity Sex Toys

Kandi Burruss has recently launched a line of sex toys, “Bedroom Kandi” and Ne-Yo just released a song called “She Uses Me (Masturbation)” , so it seems that self-love is the order of the day. Since it’s only a matter of time before celebs start licensing their own battery operated stimulus packages, we imagined some celebrity sex toys that should get to market immediately.

Name: “The G-Thang”

Inspired by: Toccara

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