http://urbankulture.com Where Urban Kulture and Music Meet. Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:02:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Exclusive interview with multi-platinum rapper Chamillionaire. Cham talks about he got into the Rap game, and the success of his song Riding Dirty. The interview also features Play n Skillz, the producers of the grammy-winning song. http://urbankulture.com/2008/03/16/exclusive-interview-with-multi-platinum-rapper-chamillionaire/ http://urbankulture.com/2008/02/21/ugk-tribute-part-1/ Texas rapper and UGK front man, Chad "Pimp C" Butler, was laid to rest December 13, 2007 in his home town of Port Arthur, Texas. Family and friends left the Civic Center around 1 p.m. to attend a private burial at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Port Arthur. http://urbankulture.com/2007/12/17/pimp-c-laid-to-rest-in-port-arthur-tx/ HipHopSodaShop and Hip Hop Grub Spot, two separately owned unaffiliated ventures open for business; each aim to provide food, in-store video gaming, entertainment and merchandise with a hip hop twist. HipHopSodaShop is led by Dr. Benjamin Chavis. Hip Hop Grub Spot is backed by Frank Gore and Rick Ross. read ... http://urbankulture.com/2007/12/16/hip-hop-down-your-throat-food-franchises-open-for-business/ Its a sad day in the world that half of UGK is not gone. No more official UGK music though we havn't had a huge amount or a major released cd since PiMP C was released from prison. Now he is in a better place so lets take a moment ... http://urbankulture.com/2007/12/08/rip-to-pimp-c-of-ugk-3/ Indie Hip-Hop site HoodHype.com was featured in the latest edition of the IndieBible. Another spot for underground hip-hop!read more | digg story http://urbankulture.com/2007/12/07/catch-hoodhype-in-the-indiebible/ Cosmo loves Hip Hop.read more | digg story http://urbankulture.com/2007/12/07/who-said-cosmopolitan-wasn%e2%80%99t-into-hip-hop-beyoncepictures/ If this wasn't the worst ever year for popular music, then there's some other year that I probably lived through and feel painfully sorry for in retrospect. Here, though, we present ten separate case studies as evidence that our mass culture music is sinking deeper and deeper into a ... http://urbankulture.com/2007/12/07/10-worst-hit-songs-of-2007/ Sources are telling Billboard that Amazon and Pepsi will team up to give away 1 billion MP3s for free in 2008, starting with a Superbowl kick off in Februaryread more | digg story http://urbankulture.com/2007/12/07/amazon-to-give-away-1-billion-free-mp3s-in-superbowl-promotion/ Pimp C, who was found on dead Tuesday (December 4), and his loyal UGK partner Bun B reached their highest peak in 2007 as far as mainstream love was concerned. The Port Arthur, Texas, natives' latest album, Underground Kingz, debuted at #1 on the Billboard albums chart, they were voted ... http://urbankulture.com/2007/12/07/ugks-pimp-c-died-this-week/