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Lil Duval is smiling! He will host the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards airing October 9th from Atlanta. Carbi B leads the nominations with 10.  This year marks the first year for the Best International Flow highlight artists from various countries including South Africa, Canada, Ghana UK, Nigeria, and France. Here is a classic Heavy […]

There’s no way that we can say that we’ll be disappointed by the upcoming Janet Jackson tribute on the BET Awards this Sunday because it didn’t…

This weekend on 106.7 WTLC is a “New Jack Swing Weekend” showing love to artists that made this musical move a staple in the mid 80’s to the mid 90’s. For the beginning of the New Jack Swing, we have a list of ten artists who songs were the hottest of the hot of it’s […]

UnSung returns Wednesday, October 30th at 8pm with the spotlight on “Heavy D & The Boys.” Unsung” new season episodes include: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 8PM/ET – Heavy D & the Boyz WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 8PM/ET – Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 8PM/ET – Geto Boys WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 8PM/ET – The Delfonics WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 8PM/ET – CeCe […]

Gone…but not forgotten

“Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D” will feature interviews with the Jamaican-born rapper’s family and artists such as Will Smith, Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah, according to Centric TV, the 24-hour channel that is part of the BET Network. Heavy D, whose given name was Dwight Myers, is considered one of the most […]

It’s hard to believe that rap legend Heavy D is gone. Many of us have been waiting to find out exactly what happen to our “Overweight Lover HeavyD.” (story courtesy of HelloBeautiful) Heavy D died from a pulmonary embolism caused by deep leg vein thrombosis according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. TMZ is […]

African-Americans frequently look towards race and economic factors as our biggest challenges, but there are self-inflicted problems that are literally killing us. The recent and untimely deaths of Heavy D and Patrice O’Neal has made the health issues that arise from being overweight very hard to ignore. According to HuffPost, obesity is a “full-blown crisis […]