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Last week, Activision announced remakes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 set for release on July 11th. Now, the publisher has revealed the remasters will not only come with revamped graphics and gameplay, but an updated soundtrack featuring music new to the games.

Already available to stream on Spotify, the official Thps 3 + 4 soundtrack features classics from the original games like Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades,” Cky’s “96 Quite Bitter Beings,” and Gang Starr’s “Mass Appeal” alongside more current songs.

These include Turnstile’s “Real Thing,” ScHoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar’s “Collard Greens,” Run the Jewels’ “yankee and the brave,” Jeff Rosenstock’s “Head,” and Denzel Curry’s “Ultimate.”

Stream the official soundtrack and see the current list of songs below. Activision will be updating the playlist as we approach the release date.

Pre-orders for both the collector’s and standard editions of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 are ongoing for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch,...

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Birdman will fly again: Activision has officially announced the release date for the remakes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4.

The beloved skateboarding simulators will be available in one package, dubbed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4, for Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and the Nintendo Switch. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 will be released on July 11, but the Collectors Edition will be available three days earlier on July 8.

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DJ Premier and Roc Marciano joined forces for their first collaborative track, “Armani Section,” while also announcing an upcoming joint EP in the works. The joint venture will be released later this year but a date has yet to be announced.

According to a press release, the song is “a declaration that true luxury and authenticity in music never goes out of style, is never dated; and you can never have enough of it.”

In the opening verse, Roc drops, “Bagged the cashier wearing cashmere/That’s 20 racks for a...

‘Luke Cage’ was canceled by Netflix after its second season, leaving fans with a cliffhanger ending. The showrunner, Cheo Hodari Coker, revealed there were plans for a third season, which would have focused on Luke becoming Harlem’s crime boss. Although several episodes were written and ideas were mapped out, the season was never produced.

On social media, Cheo Hodari Coker has been sharing details about what the third season could have been. He revealed that a lot of work was done on the storyline, which would have focused on Luke’s new role as Harlem’s crime boss.

Coker mentioned that six episodes were written, eight were outlined, and 13 were planned, but he didn’t give any further details.

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Glad y'all are finally discovering it. And what we had planned for Season 3 was even better….all...

O.A.R. are geeking out over the fact that they got to work with producers Brady Watt and DJ Premier. On Friday, the rock band released their self-reflective “Gonna Be Me (the friendship song),” their first single of the year.

“The first time we played Madison Square Garden, we walked out to ‘Work’ by Gang Starr,” said vocalist and guitarist Marc Roberge in a press release, referring to the Premier-produced track. “DJ Premier is such a giant in music, but also in the world of O.A.R. To...

Mike Colter's last appearance as Luke Cage was in 2018. While fans are hopeful the character will reappear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Colter isn't so sure about his future as Power Man.

Speaking with ComicBook.com to promote the upcoming fourth and final season of Evil, Colter shared what it would take to return as Luke Cage, admitting that he "would totally entertain a good script and idea that made sense." However, while MCU fans would like to see all the Netflix/Marvel heroes revived under Marvel Studios, Colter revealed that he's perfectly fine never playing Luke Cage again. "I don't stay up at night thinking about it, nor do I recall it unless someone brings it up," Colter added. "But I enjoyed my time. I don't look in the past. If something comes up, great, we'll talk about it. But right now, I'm [past it]."

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Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker recently revealed that, had Netflix renewed the Marvel series for a third season, songs by the rap group Public Enemy would have been used for the episodes' titles.

Answering some fan questions on X (via ComicBook.com), Coker shared some new details as to where Luke Cage would have gone after Season 2, which ended with the title character becoming the new Godfather of Harlem. While not divulging too much, he dropped a list of 13 Public Enemy songs that fans quickly figured out would have been the episode titles for Season 3. Those familiar with Luke Cage will know that Coker used a different hip-hop group and their songs as inspiration for the episode titles in each season; Season 1 was based on songs by Gang Starr, while Season 2 pulled from Pete Rock & Cl Smooth.

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Singer Marlena Shaw, best known for her much-sampled hit, California Soul, has died at 81, according to a video posted to Facebook by her daughter, Marla. No details were given.

“Hello everyone, it is with a very heavy heart that for myself and my family, I announce that our beloved mother, your beloved icon and artist, Marlena Shaw, has passed away today at 12:03,” Marla said on the video. “She was peaceful, we were at peace.”

Shaw’s California Soul was an track on her 1969 album, The Spice of Life, but later became a highly sought-after record for early hip-hop samplers. The song has been sampled by Gang Starr, DJ Shadow, Diplo and Nightmares on Wax.

The track was written by Ashford & Simpson and first recorded by The Messengers, and also became part of many television ads too. It currently has more than 100 million streams on Spotify.

Shaw was born in New Rochelle,...

Paul Wall and Termanology are back where they first met, at Brooklyn’s Hub Studios. Before our hourlong conversation starts, various people in their circle shuffle by Termanology’s studio room to greet Wall, the amiable Texan who’s visiting the city to promote the deluxe edition of Start Finish Repeat, their second collaborative project.

Wall is clad in all-black attire, including a Houston Texans hoodie. Lounging on a couch before the interview starts, his demeanor is as chill as his beaming platinum grill looks. Lawrence, Massachusetts, native Termanology is similarly showing hometown pride,...

Mark Howard James, the producer known as “DJ Mark The 45 King” who worked with such rap hitmakers as Queen Latifah, Jay-Z and Eminem among many others, has died at 62.

His manager confirmed the death, but provided no further details.

Born in the Bronx, N.Y., James started producing in the mid-1980s as hip-hop became a cultural force He produced Queen Latifah’s debut album All Hail the Queen in the late ’80s, then was behind the board for such rap classics such as Jay-Z’s Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) and Stan by Eminem .

He earned his professional name by culling bits from obscure 45 singles His breakout track, The 900 Number, was released in 1987, and featured a prominent saxophone snippet from Marva Whitney’s 1968 song, Unwind Yourself. The song has been sampled and remixed by artists including DJ Kool, Public Enemy, Breakestra, and Ced Gee.

James was part of the...

Mark Howard James, better known as the celebrated hip-hop DJ and producer the 45 King, who helped craft hits for Jay-Z, Eminem, and many more, died on Thursday. He was 62.

DJ Premier first announced James’ death on Instagram, noting his death came three days after his 62nd birthday. Paul Martinez, a spokesperson for the producer, confirmed James’ death to Rolling Stone but did not specify a cause.

“His sound was unlike any other from his heavy drums and his horns were so distinct on every production,” Premier wrote. “His vinyl releases...

Ahmad Jamal, the influential jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader, has died at the age of 92 following complications from prostate cancer.

Jamal was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and began playing piano at the age of three. As a teenager, he attended the prestigious Westinghouse High School, where he honed his skills as a pianist and composer. In 1949, Jamal moved to Chicago, where he linked up with musicians like Von Freeman and Claude McLin. It was during this time that he converted to Islam and changed his name from Frederick Russell Jones to Ahmad Jamal. He began performing as a solo pianist at clubs in Chicago and eventually formed his own trio in 1951, featuring guitarist Ray Crawford and bassist Eddie Calhoun.

The Ahmad Jamal Trio — which later featured drummer Vernel Fournier and bassist Israel Crosby — gained notoriety following the release of their 1958 live album, At the Pershing: But Not for Me. Recorded...

Ahmad Jamal, the influential jazz pianist whose style influenced generations of musicians for seven decades, died on Sunday, The Washington Post reports. He was 92. His wife, Laura Hess-Hey, confirmed the news to the newspaper. No further details were disclosed.

Jamal began his professional career while still in high school in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and continued to create and influence multiple music genres through his seven-decade career. Originally performing under the name Fritz Jones, he was among the first African American artists who publicly adopted the Muslim faith and...

It’s by chance that Boldy James started working with Alchemist. Long before 2020’s Price of Tea in China came out, Boldy was hanging out in his car when a guy who was chilling with his friends got too fresh with him. Boldy proceeded to knock the guy’s five front teeth out so hard that you could probably see objects circle his head like Elmer Fudd. When someone appeared to hand the laid out dude something that looked like a gun, Boldy rightfully skated off. The guy got in...

Method Man has hopped on a new track with Massachusetts rap duo Jones Ink titled “Day Ones.”

The track is a punchy, at times poignant ode to the power of life-long friendships: “I gotta know who’s gonna ride with me?” goes the hook, “I’m taking off, who’s tryna fly with me?/No time for fake ones, I roll with my day ones.”

“Day Ones” arrives with an accompanying video, directed by Viso of Secret Society Films, that pairs footage of Method Man and Jones Ink performing the...

Gang Starr have dropped the video for the “Founders Remix” of their track “Glowing Mics,” which previously appeared on the instrumental version of the legendary rap group’s 2020 LP One of the Best Yet.

That album — Gang Starr’s first since 2003’s The Ownerz — served as DJ Premier’s tribute to his late duo partner Guru, who died in 2010. For the “Founders Remix,” Premier reenlisted rapper Big Shug, one of the MCs who frequently collaborated with the duo as part of their Gang Starr Foundation.

“Simply hearing Guru doing the ‘Mr.

DJ Premier has offered up a new Gang Starr track, “Glowing Mic,” a bonus cut on the instrumental version of last year’s One of the Best Yet, which is set to arrive at midnight, December 11th.

“Glowing Mic” boasts a laidback groove, with DJ Premier topping a steady drum and bass sway with a languid guitar line, cool horns and some deft orchestral touches throughout. The previously unheard verses from late Mc Guru (who died in 2010) fit perfectly with the tune, casually boastful and clever with lines like, “Controversial...

Gang Starr have dropped the new video for “Bad Name,” with Guru’s son filling in for his late father alongside DJ Premier in the visual. The video is the second from Gang Starr’s stellar new album One of the Best Yet, the rap duo’s first LP in 16 years.

Like the video for “Family and Loyalty,” “Bad Name” pays homage to Gang Starr’s legacy and the late Guru; in the clip, Guru’s son Keith Casim — who cut his hair to better resemble his father — delivers the rapper’s verses,...

Effortlessly cool Mc Guru died more than nine years ago, but parts of the just-released seventh Gang Starr album could move a true-school rap fan today. “Word to God, if Big and ‘Pac were still here/Some of these weirdos wouldn’t act so cavalier,” he raps on “Bad Name,” “You used to support your fam off of this/Now you can’t even buy Spam off of this.”

Thus is the magic of the first Gang Starr album in 16 years, constructed from 30 unreleased Guru recordings. The stripped-down, elemental timelessness...

The 2010 death of Guru, the rapper who created indelible tracks like “Dwyck” and “Mass Appeal” as half of pioneering 1990s hip-hop group Gang Starr, seemed to both cement and finalize the group’s legacy. The group hadn’t released an album since 2003’s The Ownerz and, in subsequent years, saw a falling out between Guru and his producer, the long-revered DJ Premier, over everything from ego to the rapper’s problems with alcohol.

Still, Guru remained prolific in the years following The Ownerz. “He was always known to record all the time,...

Storied hip-hop duo Gang Starr unveiled another new song, “Bad Name,” featuring posthumous vocals from late Mc Guru. The track will appear on Gang Starr’s first album in 16 years, One of the Best Yet, out November 1st.

“Bad Name” clocks in at just over two minutes and Guru wastes no time getting to the heart of the matter as he laments the then-current state of hip-hop. Over a vintage DJ Premier beat that swings between chopped-up horns and vocal loops, Guru spits, “Word to God, if Big and Pac...

Fresh off releasing their first song in 16 years, Gang Starr – the rap duo of DJ Premier and the late Guru – have shared their new video for “Family and Loyalty,” their J. Cole-assisted single. The visual was directed by another hip-hop legend, Fab 5 Freddy.

The video celebrates Guru and Gang Starr’s legacy by employing archival footage as well as a cameo by Guru’s son Keith Casim.

“Keith was nine when his father passed away [in 2010] and he is now 19. I used to babysit him. [Keith] made me feel like Guru was there with me,...

Seminal hip-hop duo Gang Starr return with new song “Family and Loyalty” featuring J. Cole. The track is the group’s first new music in 16 years and features the late Guru, who died in 2010.

“This record means so much to me,” DJ Premier said in a statement. ” It’s a continuation of what I never wanted to end. It’s a very foreign place for me and very emotional. I get happy, sad, excited; my feelings are kind of all over the place. But predominantly, just very happy to be making music with Guru again.

Colombia’s viral chart is generally awash in tuneful reggaeton — the dominant sound of commercial pop in that country, with its tightly programmed beats and curt rumbles of bass. But in June 2018, an unusual song rocketed to the top of the Spotify ranking: “La Mitad De La Mitad” by Crudo Means Raw. The looping rhythm section evokes old funk records, rather than laptop wizardry, and instead of sketching tales of love (or at least lust), the lyrics rallied against new anti-drug laws in the country.

“La Mitad De La Mitad...

As the director of publicity and marketing at Payday Records in the early 1990s, Vikki Tobak worked with acts like Jay-z and Gang Starr as they were beginning their careers. “There was this inflection point where hip-hop started to realize its power,” Tobak says. “[Artists] realized that images — what they wore, how they looked — worked together with the music.”

Her 2018 book, Contact High, documents that era through contact sheets with never-before-seen outtakes from some of hip-hop’s most iconic photo shoots. Originally shot for use on album covers or in magazines,...

Edwin Birdsong, the jazz and funk keyboardist whose music has been sampled by artists like Daft Punk and Gang Starr, died Monday. He was 77. The musician’s son, Singh Birdsong, and his ex-wife, Angela Birdsong, confirmed his death on Instagram and Facebook, respectively.

Birdsong was an accomplished solo artist, as well as a prolific session musician and producer who worked with like Stevie Wonder and Roy Ayers. Years later, his music would be sampled by an array of artists, most notably Daft Punk, who tweaked Birdsong’s 1979 cut “Cola Bottle Baby” for their 2001 song,...

Galt MacDermot, who composed the hit Broadway musicals Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona, died Monday, a day before his 90th birthday. His death was confirmed to Playbill by his granddaughter, though a cause of death was not revealed.

After cutting records in the early part of the Sixties, including the Grammy-winning “African Waltz” for saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, the Montreal-born composer moved to New York. Upon meeting lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado, he began setting their writings to music and the trio eventually created Hair, which opened off-Broadway in...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “Luke Cage” Season 2, including the finale.]

“Luke Cage” series creator Cheo Hodari Coker is a longtime comic book fan, and it shows with the number of fun Easter eggs he includes in the show’s first outing. Since then, Netflix’s Marvel world has expanded, and therefore in Season 2, the show doesn’t hold back when it comes to pop culture references and full-blown crossovers. Many are obvious, but some are for diehards or eagle-eyed, pause-button-happy fans.

“Luke Cage” is the type of show that references the Avengers but never names them. It also exists in the present but feels retro thanks to the heavy ‘90s hip-hop influence and nods to the original comics when Luke Cage (Mike Colter) was drafting off the blaxploitation craze. Check out all the Easter eggs and pop-culture references we could find below, and let us know what we’re missing in the comments.

Episode...

Mike Posner may not be the first person you'd expect to have a podcast. After all, he had a hit song in 2009 -- the earworm known as "Cooler Than Me" -- and made an impressive comeback in 2016 after a few years away from the spotlight, namely with his banger, "I Took a Pill in Ibiza."

But if you know Posner, the opportunity for introspection isn't strange at all. In fact, his new podcast, What Does This All Mean?, is a natural extension for the inquisitive Duke University grad. The new series explores what it means to be human, with a recent episode diving deep into his life-changing, chance meeting with Kanye West that ultimately led to a lesson in how to turn failure into success. Posner knows what it's like to reach the heights of fame and also how to find himself again, which makes the difficult journeys he's taking us on with his 10-episode podcast all the more...

Many of the actors on VH1’s new scripted series The Breaks (premiering Monday, Feb. 20) were just kids during the early ’90s era of hip-hop captured in loving detail on the show. Yet, they’re still able to channel the spirit of that moment in the culture’s history because of how far they’ve gone to prepare for their roles.

For Mack Wilds, who also stars on Fox’s racially charged drama Shots Fired, premiering March 22, that meant actually learning how to spin records in order to add to hip-hop producer DeeVee’s skill set. When DeeVee takes part in a DJ battle at NYC’s New Music Seminar on the show, Wilds was prepared to go through the motions.

“I’m the type of guy who, if you put me up against anything that I don’t understand, I’m gonna go try to find out,” says the actor, who also has...

Meet the latest Marvel superhero to hit Netflix: Luke Cage, a mysterious and indestructible avenger raising hell up in Harlem, the bulletproof man who twists thugs' guns into pretzels. As one of his enemies says, he's "half Houdini, half Ali." And the man has got a lot of enemies, because he's had it up to here with the unrighteous fools trying to run this neighborhood. So he walks the streets in broad daylight, looking for the next ruckus to bring. Netflix's excellent Luke Cage is its latest addition to the Marvel universe,...

"We called it 'smack fu,'" Mike Colter says, before breaking into a wide grin. The smile on the face of the Luke Cage star is startling enough, given that the superhero at the center of the latest Marvel/Netflix collaboration spends most of the show's 13 episodes with a somber look on his face since, carrying the world on your ballistics-impervious broad shoulders is serious work. Listening to him discuss his character's brute-strength combat style while nimbly digging through a bowl of sugar cubes for his coffee only adds to the oddness.

“Marvel’s Luke Cage” is a vibrant homage to Harlem in all of its cultural, political and yes, even unlawful glory. Thanks to showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker’s background as a music journalist turned TV producer, the famed New York neighborhood is reimagined with the energy of a hip-hop beat and power plays worthy of “Game of Thrones.”

It’s a kingdom based on everyday haunts like Genghis Connie’s Asian restaurant or Pop’s Barber Shop, where Luke Cage (Mike Colter) finds sanctuary after fleeing Hell’s Kitchen. While these establishments appeal to the hoi polloi, the glitterati prefer Harlem’s Paradise. The swank nightclub promises luxury, celebrity entertainment and even scandal thanks to the somewhat crooked ownership by Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes (Mahershala Ali), who learned his ruthless ways from his grandmother, who ran illicit businesses back in the day.

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Yeah, Marvel Studios is doing some pretty great stuff on the big screen. Their most recent film, Captain America: Civil War was a megahit, both critically and financially, and a lot of folks are really looking forward to where they take this world in their next movie, Doctor Strange. But while their movies are absolutely dominating the box office, Marvel's content on Netflix may very well be an even bigger hit for the hardcore comic book fans. Thus far, we've had two seasons of Daredevil, and one season of Jessica Jones, series that follow two street-level heroes with a more mature tone than your average Marvel Studios film. Their next big release is less than a month away, and comes in the form of Luke Cage, a series that follows the continuing adventures of the Jessica Jones character as he tries to defend Harlem.

The recent trailers for the film...

Having inked a deal to reprise the role of Matt Murdock for a third season of Daredevil, coupled with the advent of next year’s Defenders series, Charlie Cox’s future in Marvel’s TV universe is looking bright.

Bringing a compelling sense of gravity to the Man Without Fear, Cox has certainly impressed in the title role, but beyond his friendship (relationship?) with Rosario Dawson’s Claire Temple, we haven’t really seen Murdock’s stoic lead interact with any Marvel characters outside of Daredevil. Unlike, say, Jessica Jones, who holds an on-again, off-again relationship with Mike Colter’s Luke Cage.

That is, of course, about to change very soon indeed. But the one relationship that has Charlie Cox most excited lies between Daredevil and Danny Rand himself, Iron Fist. While appearing at the Toronto Fan Expo (via Cbm), the British actor was joined by Marvel COO Joe Quesada...

Sticking to his promise of naming each installment after a Gang Starr song, showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker has confirmed all 13 episode titles for Luke Cage ahead of the show’s premiere later this month.

Kicking things off with “Moment of Truth” on September 30, you can have a gander at all 13 episode titles below. Whether Coker has gone one step further to arrange the show’s soundtrack in such a way that each tune amplifies the tone of its respective episode is up for question, but thanks to a recent and really rather insightful featurette, we know that music will play a major role in shaping the identity of Netflix’s Luke Cage.

Shifting the superhero action from Hell’s Kitchen to Harlem following Daredevil and Jessica Jones – where Mike Colter introduced Netflix subscribers to Marvel’s Hero for Hire – Coker and his creative team have consistently championed Luke Cage as...

You can check out all 13 episode titles for Marvel's Luke Cage Netflix series below. As previously disclosed, every episode title is derived from a Gang Starr song. We've also included links to each song as its likely that the tone and subject matter could be an indication of the episode's subject matter. "Moment of Truth" "Code of the Streets" "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?" "Step in the Arena" "Just to Get a Rep" "Suckas Need Bodyguards" "Manifest" "Blowin' Up the Spot" "Dwyck" "Take it Personal" "Now You're Mine" "Soliloquy of Chaos" "You Know My Steez" We also have a new behind-the-scenes shot of Luke Cage lead Mike Colter courtesy of Hoker. The series will premiere all 13 episodes on Netflix at Midnight on September 30. Twenty Four more days...you ain't ready. pic.twitter.com/KccGT32bUZ — Cheo Hodari Coker (@cheo_coker) September 6, 2016 After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin,...

Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker has confirmed that there will be multiple musical performances on the show and that some of the artists who will appear include Faith Evans, Method Man, Charles Bradley, The Delfonics, and Raphael Saadiq.  This comes on the heels of the teaser attached to the Daredevil season 2 finale being set to Nas' Made You Look and the official Sdcc teaser trailer being set to Ol' Dirty Bastard's Shimmy Shimmy Ya.  Add that to the fact that every episode title is a Gang Starr song and it's very clear that hip-hop permeates all throughout the upcoming Netflix and Marvel collaboration.  That fact alone sets  it apart from the likes of Daredevil and Jessica Jones.    "Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad in terms of the score.  We had a 30-piece orchestra - we live scored the entire series.  People don't really do that anymore.  It give...

Marvel’s Power Man is little over two months out from his grand premiere on Netflix, and in a bid to piggyback on the excitement pouring out of San Diego Comic-Con, Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker has revealed the show’s first three episode titles, with new announcements expected to be relayed via Coker’s Twitter feed every Friday up until Cage’s premiere on September 30. Sweet Christmas, indeed.

Yes, the streets of Harlem beckon, and Mike Colter’s musclebound superhero is making his final preparations for that September bow. We’ve included Coker’s Tweets after the jump incase you’re wanting to go into the pilot episode with a blank slate.

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Still with us? Maintaining his promise to name each episode after a Gang Starr song, the first three installments of Luke Cage are officially titled “Moment of Truth,” “Code of the...

Showrunner and Executive Producer Cheo Hodari Coker took to Twitter to unveil the titles of the first three episodes from Marvel’s Luke Cage. Each episode title features the name from a song by hip-hop duo Gang Starr.

Coke also mentions that three more titles would be revealed every Friday until the show’s September 30 premiere.

#LukeCage . One "Moment of Truth." Two: "Code of The Streets". Three: "Who's Gonna Take The Weight?

— Cheo Hodari Coker (@cheo_coker) July 29, 2016

Look for new titles every Friday until Sweet September 30th.

— Cheo Hodari Coker (@cheo_coker) July 29, 2016

After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City. But he is soon pulled out of the shadows and must fight a battle for the heart of his city--forcing him to confront a past he had tried to bury.

If you're a fan of hip-hop duo Gang Starr, you'll be pleased to hear that the next Marvel TV show from Netflix, Luke Cage, will use their song titles for every episode of the series. Showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker took to Twitter to unveil the first three, and has promised to do so each Friday until the September 30 premiere. Without context it's difficult to glean anything from them of course, but this is still a pretty cool way to build hype for the show. #LukeCage . One "Moment of Truth." Two: "Code of The Streets". Three: "Who's Gonna Take The Weight? — Cheo Hodari Coker (@cheo_coker) July 29, 2016 After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City. But he is soon pulled out of the shadows and must fight a battle for...

“The Defenders” is so close that Comic-Con audiences could almost taste the superhero goodness.

Netflix inundated the crowd gathered in Ballroom 20 of San Diego’s Convention Center Thursday with multiple never-before-seen clips and a teaser trailer for the new series “Marvel’s Luke Cage.” The series follows super-strong and unbreakable Luke Cage (Mike Colter) in a modern-day Harlem. Alas, the clips have not been released (yet), but check out the teaser:

Cheo Hodari Coker, who directed the series, noted that in this day and age, “The world is ready for a bulletproof black man.” He also pointed out that hip-hop had a huge influence on the show — in the soundtrack, with musical guest stars and with its episode titles, all taken from Gang Starr song titles. Coker noted that “Luke Cage” was the “Wu-Tang-ification of the Marvel Universe.”

Another video the panel showed also incorporated footage from “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones...

Nearly a month after Beyoncé dropped her groundbreaking visual album, Lemonade, that all but confirmed Jay Z had cheated on her with "Becky with the good hair," the rapper has made a statement of his own. Jay collaborated with Fat Joe, Infared, Rema Ma, and French Montana on the "All the Way Up" remix, where he raps, "You know you made it when the fact / Your marriage made it is worth millions / Lemonade is a popular drink and it still is / Survival of the littlest." What does it all mean, Jay?! Although it might be easy to assume this is the beginning of that rumored comeback album he reportedly has in the works, the latter half of the lyric is a direct reference to a verse from the 1992 song "Dwyck" by Gang Starr ("Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is / I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis"). On top of that,...

Before his "Uptown Funk" gave it to us for 14 weeks straight, and before he helped Amy Winehouse go "Back to Black," Mark Ronson worked as a humble club DJ in downtown Manhattan. In conversation with John Seabrook at the New Yorker Festival on Saturday at the Gramercy Theater — where Ronson performed six songs from his latest LP Uptown Special, with fellow producer Jeff Bhasker — the music producer described how Diddy, or Puffy, as he was called back then, helped bring him into the mainstream rap scene with encouragement in the form of a $100 tip.Ronson explained that he cut his teeth spinning at underground venues for such groups as Gang Starr and Brand Nubian; however, the range of celebrity surprisingly changed one night at a club formerly known as El Flamingo, on 21st Street: Then, all the sudden, people like Puffy and Biggie and Jay Z would be coming...

Whether or not this actually comes to fruition, it's not-so crazy an idea to consider, when, as I've argued previously, that the massive success of "Straight Outta Compton" would likely inspire other "hip-hop biopics." Recently announced, DJ Premier said he was working on a Gang Starr film; and also Chuck D suggested that he would entertain the idea of a Public Enemy bio; and the long-in-development Tupac Shakur project looks like it's alive again, given a recent casting notice I shared on this blog, which indicated Carl Franklin was attached to direct, and an actor to play the lead role is being sought.  And I'm sure there are (or will be) others. In an interview...

The overwhelming success of N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton may cause Hollywood execs to start digging around for more hip-hop backstories to plunder. If veteran producer DJ Premier, who worked with Dr. Dre on the latter's "Animals" track for new album Compton, has his way, his former group Gang Starr will be next on the slate for a biopic.

The producer has begun working with the sister of Keith "Guru" Elam, the rapper who worked with Premier on six albums before passing away in 2010, to turn his vision into reality,...

Grab your Kangol and head over to Jeans West for some new threads. VH1 has announced production of The Breaks, an original movie about the Hip Hop business set in New York City during the early 90s, that will serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential series. DJ Premier, multiple Grammy-award winning member of the seminal rap group Gang Starr, will serve as executive music producer and compose the score. The Breaks is based on Dan Charnas’ nonfiction book The Big Payback: T…...

Grab your Kangol and head over to Jeans West for some new threads. VH1 has announced production of The Breaks, an original movie about the Hip Hop business set in New York City during the early 90s, that will serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential series. DJ Premier, multiple Grammy-award winning member of the seminal rap group Gang Starr, will serve as executive music producer and compose the score. The Breaks is based on Dan Charnas’ nonfiction book The Big Payback: T…...

Over the past decade, as the Grand Theft Auto Series grew into the juggernaut that it is today, it captivated and caught the attention of not only fans, but some of the worlds leading actors, comedians and musicians who were all only too willing to lend their famous vocal chords to some of the games reoccurring characters.

Long gone are the formative days in the series where character voice overs weren’t even featured until 2001′s GTA III. Since then we have had a whole plethora of speaking, animated characters taking us through monologues and giving us direction via mission-based cut scenes.

Some of these celebrity voice overs you might already know of, others you might even have been unaware of until now. Here, WhatCulture examines the 10 Best Celebrity Voice Overs from the series so far.

10. Keith “Guru” Elam – 8-Ball

Keith “Guru” Elam is probably best known as being one...

To misquote Gang Starr, the rep is growing bigger for Ben Affleck, a one-time Hollywood golden boy who's showing all the signs of maturing into a filmmaker of genuine quality and consistency. His latest, Argo, has a new poster that looks pretty nifty too. Love the frazzled looks and outlandish '70s moustaches.A drama-stroke-satire-stroke-thriller, Argo is set in the days of the Iranian revolution. Students and assorted radicals stormed the Us embassy - like that could ever happen again! - and took six Us staffers hostage. A cunning plan is needed and CIA wonk Tony Mendez (Affleck) thinks he might have one. It's a fake sci-fi flick called 'Argo' that's to be filmed in Tehran to form a clever front to smuggle the hostages out of the country. brightcove.createExperiences(); Argo is out in the UK on November 7 but if you can score a ticket, it's showing...