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Ice-t Plans To Create Retirement Fund For Rappers
Ice-T wants to create a retirement fund for ageing rappers.The 62-year-old star has floated the idea of creating a fund after Swizz Beats brought up the concept earlier this month, when he suggested developing a...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 31 May 2020
Busta Rhymes Settles Copyright Infringement Lawsuit With The Sugarhill Gang
The Touch It star was sued by the group in 2012 for allegedly sampling their 1980s song 8th Wonder for his track Woo Hah! Got You All in Check. In the lawsuit, the...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 12 October 2015
Sugarhill Gang Star Joseph Robinson Dies At 53
The rapper and Sugar Hill Records executive had been hospitalised at a Teaneck, New Jersey medical centre since May (15), but on Friday (10Jul15), he was released and taken home to Tenafly, where...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 14 July 2015
Big Bank Hank, Pioneering Sugarhill Gang Rapper, Dies Aged 58
Big Bank Hank, a founding member of the pioneering rap outfit Sugarhill Gang, has died from cancer aged 58. The group's manager David Mallie and other members Wonder Mike and Master Gee confirmed the rapper's...
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12 November 2014
Sugarhill Gang's Big Bank Hank Dies At 57
Legendary Sugarhill Gang rapper Big Bank Hank has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 57.The hip-hop veteran died in his native New York in the early hours of Tuesday (11Nov14). Born...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 November 2014
Sandra Bullock Knows All The Words To Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight', And We’Ve Got Proof!
Is there anything Sandra Bullock can’t do? As Dr. Ryan Stone, she didn’t actually go into space, but if her and George Clooney’s filming testimonies are anything to go by, it was of the most...
By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15 October 2013
Sugarhill Gang Among Stars Suing Over Royalties
Veteran hip-hop stars The Sugarhill Gang, R&B group The Moments and the executors of Sylvia Robinson's estate have filed suit against a record label over allegedly unpaid royalties.Members of both bands are among a group...
By WENN on 04 January 2012
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