Los Angeles: Hip-hop may need a checkup. The culture that in the 1990s lost its brightest stars to gun violence has in recent years seen a series of notable rappers die of drug- and health-related causes.
Since 2011, hip-pop pioneer Heavy D, singer and rap chorus specialist Nate Dogg and New York rapper Tim Dog all died of ailments in their 40s. Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly was found dead last week in Atlanta of a suspected drug overdose at 34.
Some of the genre's elder statesmen say they're worried about the culture's focus on youth, current emphasis on freewheeling partying and "you only live once" ethos, as popularized by Drake's 2011 hit "The Motto."
"Hip-hop being a lifestyle culture ... a part of American culture, you have to be mindful that somebody is going to grow old, age," said rap pioneer Melle Mel. "At some point somebody has to realize that hip-hop has to learn how to grow up. It's way too juvenile and it's been that way for too long."...
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11:08 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The national capital on Sunday witnessed a rare event as artists and civil society members came together to protest against rising insidents of rapes and to register opposition to death penalty through poetry, discussion and songs. Those present at the event 'Violence no more' included personalities like Shabana Azmi, Usha Uthup, Syeda Hameed and Binayak Sen. The participants pitched for a case against the death penalty and paid...
05:11 AM, Apr 29, 2013
2013 is the birth anniversary of Amrita Sher-Gil. This astonishing creature, no less astonishing as a painter than as a woman, was born in Budapest ...
02:12 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Purbayan has performed all over the world and his music has been appreciated by jazz artists Chick Corea, Bela Fleck, and Pat Metheny. He has performed several times with Ustad Zakir Hussain. A disciple of the Maihar Gharana, the school that Pandit Ravi Shankar also came from, he interacted with IBNLive readers on the sitar maestro's role in taking Indian classical music to a global audience. Q. The strings of...
03:36 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Kochi: The curtains will go up on the three month long extravaganza of international contemporary visual Art -- Kochi-Muzeris Biennale -- here on Wednesday when Chief Minister Ooomen Chandy will formally inaugurate the festival, organised in the country for the first time. Over 80 artists from India and abroad, including Ariel Hassan (Argentina), Amanullah Mojadidi (Afghanistan), Rigo23 (Portugal), Joseph Semah (Israeli based in Amsterdam), Ernesto Neto (Brazil) Jonas Staal (Netherlands),...
10:01 AM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Site-specific art, which can hardly hope to find buyers among private collectors, is largely dependent for survival on its ability to be socially engaging. It helps, of course, if it could also get funds from corporate houses or governments. Site-specific art had a spell of popularity in India in the mid-1990s, in large open venues like public spaces, or outside museums. Since then, it has been shrinking to...
11:26 AM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: The trade space for quality young Indian art is opening up to find new buyers in the mainstream market through direct interface with collectors without transactions by galleries, indicates a trend thrown up by a three-day independent art fair in the capital. The United Art Fair, which showcased 2,700 works by 525 young artists from all over the country, saw the sale of 42 percent of the art...
12:57 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Mumbai: Raj Thackeray-led MNS has issued a diktat to the Colors TV channel not to broadcast a show on September 8 when noted singer Asha Bhosle will sing with Pakistani vocalists and threatened to disrupt the shoots of the channel if it airs the programme. The film wing of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has also requested Bhosle not to join the Pakistani singers at the show. "We will not allow...
10:08 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Actress Kangna Ranaut rues the fact that artists are not valued and stardom often overshadows the real actors. "I must admit that artists are not valued in this country and it's not just actors, it also includes painters, dancers, classical singers. They are not even paid well," Kangna said during the India Today Conclave 2012 here Saturday. "I started my career with theatre and my Guru kept telling...
12:53 PM, Mar 18, 2012
The 4th edition of India Art Fair is not just about brushing up on the Picassos and Husains, it is also about looking beyond the canvas. ...
06:17 PM, Jan 27, 2012
London: China doesn't want Lady Gaga. The government has banned websites from featuring 100 songs by artists including Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys and Katy Perry. The ministry said it aimed to regulate the "order" of the Internet music market, adding, songs that "harm the security of state culture must be cleaned up and regulated under the law", reported Guardian. The notice issued a ban on Gaga's 'The Edge of Glory',...
08:14 PM, Aug 25, 2011
London: Move over Leonardo da Vince. Now, scientists have developed a new robot which they say can draw as good as a professional artist. Developed by a team at the Goldsmiths, University of London, the robot can draw whatever it's trained to. The little device has 'eyes' linked to an artificial mind which imperfectly simulates a small part of the trainer's abilities, the Daily Mail reported. During a demonstration, artist...
10:56 AM, Jun 21, 2011
It was a tearful moment for actress Shabana Azmi, as she walked across the Wagah border into Pakistan and had an emotional reunion with famed Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's two daughters. Shabana and husband Javed Akhtar went across the border this week along with 10 theatre artists including MS Sathyu, Shama Zaidi, Atul Tiwari, Rajendra Gupta and Lubna Arif on an invitation from the Faiz Foundation for the Faiz...
11:30 AM, Feb 27, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani artists and students would now need to have a no-objection certificate from the interior ministry, a decision that was "supposedly taken after the embarrassing episode in which singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was detained by Indian authorities", said a leading Pakistani daily. Calling it an "ominous development", the editorial in the Dawn on Friday said Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the National Assembly that students wanting to go...
12:57 PM, Feb 25, 2011
Mumbai: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is not the first Pakistani artiste to have been embroiled in a controversy with the Indian authorities. The singer who has voiced some of Bollywood's biggest chartbusters finds his name added to the list of controversial artistes from across the border. Here's a look at a few other instances were the Indo-Pak cultural ties have made headlines for all the wrong reasons. In December last...
11:21 PM, Feb 14, 2011
New Delhi: Paintings of MF Husain were taken down at the India Art Summit by the art gallery displaying them on Thursday, after the gallery owner allegedly received threatening messages. Husain has been living in exile abroad for the last five years following alleged threats by saffron groups. Those behind the messages said Husain's works shouldn't be showcased as he had offended Hindu sentiments. Saffron groups had in the past...
06:56 AM, Jan 21, 2011
Curator Kiran Nadar unveiled the world's most expensive Indian painting valued at Rs 16.4 crore. ...
10:26 AM, Jan 20, 2011
Curator Kiran Nadar unveiled the world's most expensive Indian painting valued at Rs 16.4 crore. ...
10:26 AM, Jan 20, 2011
People from different walks of life are trying to go green. ...
10:37 PM, Dec 05, 2009
The 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai has affected the art world intensely. ...
12:57 PM, Nov 23, 2009
