Lawyers for rapper A$AP Rocky will make the defense case Friday at his Los Angeles trial, where he's charged with two felony ...

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County prosecutors rested their case Thursday at the trial of rapper and fashion mogul A$AP Rocky, ...

And now that we’re officially old, with the first wave of Xers turning 60 (we’re usually defined as people born between 1965 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for his work on 'New Jack City' and 'Sugar Hill,' has died. He was 66.

Adapted from a story by Benny Medina, Above the Rim was directed by Jeff Pollack and notably starred rapper Tupac Shakur as well as Duane Martin, Marlon Wayans, and Leon. The film, about a rising ...

While at The Village Voice, he wrote a piece titled “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius” in 1987 that coined the name of a new hybrid of R&B and rap. He moved to ...

Among his many projects, Cooper wrote New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock. In 1994, he also wrote Sugar Hill and Above the Rim, starring Tupac Shakur. Cooper work ...

Cooper was more than a screenwriter. He was a storyteller whose pen immortalized Harlem’s struggles and triumphs. With New ...

Detroit producer J Dilla died at 32 years old in February of 2006 due to health complications stemming from lupus.

I was embarrassed, and I felt some type of way about it,” the 29-year-old said of the ordeal. “I haven’t really left my house ...