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More sad news out of the Hip Hop community. Tame One, tenured graffiti artist and MC, passed away earlier this week. Initially, no cause of death was known, but his mother Darlene Brown Harris eventually broke her silence in a Facebook post and revealed the 52-year-old died of drug toxicity. 

"I can‘t express this any other way,” Brown Harris said in the post. “My son, Rahem Brown, Tamer Dizzle, is dead. The medical examiner says the six pharmaceutical drugs that Trinitas hospital prescribed to him last Friday, combined with the weed he smoked over this weekend...his heart simply gave out. I will not be responding to all the posts for a bit, but the hardest words I will ever post or say is, my son, my heart, is dead.”

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Dr. Dre was among the sea of famous faces at the 2022 Rock + Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday night (November 5). Held at The Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Eminem, Duran Duran, Jimmy Iovine, Lionel Richie, Eurythmics, Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam, Dolly Parton, Elizabeth Cotten, Judas Priest, Harry Belafonte, Sylvia Robinson, Carly Simon, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo and attorney Allen Grubman were all ushered into the famed Rock Hall during the nearly five-hour affair. 

Shortly after U2's The Edge welcomed Annie Lennox and Dave Steward into the esteemed class, Dr. Dre took the podium to induct his longtime friend and protégé Slim Shady. He shared the story of how they were first introduced and admitted he was "fucked up" after he realized Eminem was a white rap

Migos member Takeoff was shot and killed at a Houston bowling alley on November 2, adding yet another name to the ever-expanding list of rappers lost to gun violence. As the rap community continues to grieve, Quality Control and Motown Records has announced his celebration of life will take place at The State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Friday (November 11) at 12 p.m. ET. 

Fans can secure a maximum of two free tickets via Ticketmaster but only Georgia residents are eligible. Tickets are non-transferrable and parties must enter the venue together. Takeoff's family asks that in lieu of flowers or gifts, donations should be made to the recently established Rocket Foundation, which aims to support community-based initiatives attempting to prevent gun violence. 

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50 Cent and Mona Scott-Young's new series "Hip Hop Homicides" premiered via WEtv on Thursday (November 3). As the title suggests, the show—hosted by Van Lathan—explores the recent string of senseless murders in the rap community. The inaugural episode begins with Brooklyn drill rapper Pop Smoke, who was shot and killed in 2019 during a botched robbery at a Hollywood Hills home. 

The deaths of King Von and Magnolia Shorty will be the focus of episodes two and three, respectively, and XXXTENTACION, Soulja Slim and others will follow. In an interview with Scott-Young, she revealed the show was 50 Cent's idea. 

"He said, 'We should really do a show about dead rappers,'" she said. "'We need to figure out how to tell their stories. We need to go out there. If nobody els

Public Enemy producer/co-founder Hank Shocklee has crafted the score for "YE! A Jagun Story," the new film from Nigerian-American director John Oluwole Adekoje. Using cutting-edge spatial, surround sound technology from Dolby Atmos, Shocklee provides an immersive experience from the film's start to end. In additional to the score, he also curated the film’s soundtrack, which features emerging Pan-African artists from the U.S, Nigeria and South Africa. 

Starring Dakore Akande and longtime DJ for "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Tony Okungbowa, "YE!" is the origin story of Stellar, the future leader of the Ajumose, a covert, celestial league of brilliant women who use ancestral memory to reconstruct the colonized minds of Black people throughout the diaspora. 

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Houston Police Department Chief Troy Finner is calling on the Hip Hop community to "step up" in the wake of Takeoff's senseless murder. The Migos rapper was fatally shot at 810 Billiards & Bowling in downtown Houston on Tuesday (November 1) around 2:34 a.m. local time following some kind of argument. Finner held a press conference later that afternoon and said he'd spoken to Takeoff's mother who'd flown in from Atlanta. 

"Every brother and sister in the neighborhoods, I’m calling you to action to step up,” Finner said. “There was 40 people at least at this event and people left possibly out of fear. I ask you one thing and want this to resonate with everybody, what if it was your brother or your son? You would want somebody to step up, so please step up and get the in