Author: DJ Special Blend from Chicago
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Follow Us on Twitter @BMSRadioChicago Originally posted July 4, 2006. Music from Royal 9, Hoodlumz, Bishop, Billa, and an interview with my boy Beadz from South Chicagoland.
We do indeed realize that it is actually March 1st and February is officially over, but we’re gonna big-up this man anyway because, he is the Greatest!
6-ft, 3-inches of swiftness that floats like a butterfly, and stings like a bee.
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. won an Olympic gold medal in boxing, then turned pro and completely changed sports and entertainment forever.
Not to mention the courage he displayed in taking a standing for his beliefs.
Not to mention being stripped of his heavyweight title, only to regain it back not once… but twice.
He “shook up the world” yo!
This time in mentioning Muhammad Ali, we wanna big him up for the relationship he developed with Howard Cosell in front of the camera. The world had seen nothing like it prior.
Gone were the days of standing in one place with one’s arms at their side in front of the camera. It was time to get clever with it.
Muhammad Ali was clever with it, and he bagged it all up… and he don’t stop!
CHICAGO, IL – John G. “Red” Kerr passed away on the same day as Norm Van Lier. Mr. Kerr died after a long battle with prostate cancer. Born a Chicagoan, his career started with a Public League championship in 1950 with Tilden, and it ended as the Bulls color commentator. We all got to witness […]
CHICACO, IL – “Stormin” Norman Van Lier was found dead today in his Chicago apartment per ChicagoBreakingNews.com, and a text message from the go-to-man Mattie T. I recall a few years ago seeing him walking up the street when I was leaving GramaPhone Music on the North side. My crew and I said what’s up, […]
The Hood superstar Hip-Hip group will be hooking up with one of the original Hip-Hop producers. The Clipse are signed to Columbia Records where Rick Rubin is the cochairman. The Virginia based Hip-Hop group is working on their third album, in which they have completed one of an anticipated three songs that will be produced […]
Four Grammys will not be enough to keep Hip-Hop Rock Star Lil’ Wayne outta court. A New York judge has set his court date for April 20th, and the judge also admitted a gun found on Lil’ Wayne’s tour bus as evidence per AP: A New York City judge says a handgun found on rapper […]
T.I. is making the best outta his situation. He is set to serve one year in prison as part of a deal for felony charges. He’s currently on house arrest and has to do community service. Meanwhile, his reality show has kicked off on MTV and getting as decent of reviews as can be expected. […]
Right or wrong, we are talking about Larry Hoover today for Black History Month.
American Gangster is a series on the BET Network that focuses on famous criminals, and the week of October 17, 2007, they centered on Chicago’s own Larry Hoover, who is currently serving six life sentences at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado.
That episode gave a good outside history of Hoover and the Black Gangster Disciple Nation.
I got to see a lot of what the program talks about first hand as I grew up on the South Side as a Neutron. I did a little false flagging from time to time as a youngster as I tried to find myself. I also got to see a couple peeps get put away, and a few placed six feet under for being deep off in the gang[…]
GARY, IN – Kendall Alford, 17, and Nathaniel Williams, 18, were killed when the car they were riding in hit a pothole around 2pm Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses say the car was drag racing along the Gary streets when it hit a pothole, then split into two after crashing into a utility pole per Chicagobreakingnews: Police […]
CHICAGO – Carnice Morgan, 21, was fatally shot on the 110 block of North Central Avenue and was dead on the scene, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said. Police responded to a shots fired call and found Morgan dead in the alley at 1:18 p.m., police said. Authorities said Morgan suffered a gunshot wound […]