Rapper J-Kwon has gone missing, according to a press release from the St. Louis native’s label.

According to the release, the 24-year-old’s label, Gracie Productions, has been unable to reach him for over a month.

Anyone with information on the matter is urged to send in tips. A Twitter account, @WhereIsJkwon, has been set up to provide updates.

“J-Kwon is a big part of the Gracie family, and we are obviously increasingly worried and want to make sure he is ok,” says Gracie Productions CEO/President Tony Bucher. “We’ve already received thousands of emails from fans and supporters who are worried about J-Kwon, and we want everyone to know how much we appreciate the love and support. If anyone has seen J-Kwon or has access to him, please let him know we are worried about him, and to please let us know everything is ok.”

After his 2004 album, Hood Hop, which featured the smash hit “Tipsy,” J-Kwon released two projects in 2009 on Gracie Productions: Hood Hop 2 and Hood Hop 2.5. His self-titled album is set to hit stores on March 23, 2010 via One Records.

For more information, go to www.myspace.com/jkwon and www.gracieprod.com.

UPDATE: People close to J-Kwon revealed to DX Wednesday afternoon that recently, the rapper had been reclusive, isolating himself from friends, family and business partners. Sources hint that the former So So Def artist may have been struggling with emotional issues

Monday (March 1), Legendary rapper Guru had suffered a heart attack over the weekend, leaving him in a coma.

 Here’s an update…

The Brooklyn rapper underwent surgery Monday afternoon, His Gangstarr partner-in-crime, DJ Premier, revealed that the surgery was a success, and Guru is currently in stable condition.

“Good news,” Premier wrote on his Twitter page (@DJPremierBlog). “Guru surgery was successful, keep sending him love.”

The DJ also added, hours later, that Guru remains in a coma.

“Guru still in a med induced coma, he’s breathing with machine help,” he wrote.

After the news broke Sunday evening. Guru’s business partner and collaborator, Solar, issued a statement asking for fans’ prayers.

“Guru is struggling with a serious health issue. We, the whole 7 Grand Records family, appreciate all your love and well wishes. We continue to hold out hope that Guru will make a full recovery from this,” he said. “We ask that his privacy on this matter will be respected. Again, thank you for all your support through this trying time.”

Feb 24, Wednesday

Alderney Landing Convention Center, Halifax

Feb 25th Thursday

The BREEZEWAY, St John’s

Feb 26th, Friday

The Flyer Club, Gander

Feb 27th, Saturday

The Pepsi Centre, Corner Brook

CP Records *Maritime Tour* goes this weekend Feb 24-27

iLL Kidz x CP Records x Core Dj’s

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With a new album and a video on MuchMusic, hip-hop artist Joey Stylez thinks that the reason that his freewheeling style appeals to so many is that it comes out of the tension and challenges of the hardscrabble native communities that he and his peers grew up in.

Long a powerful voice for activist First Nations youth, native hip-hop is poised to blow up outside of the underground and grab all ears.

The artist leading the way is Saskatchewan-born, Vancouver-based Moosmin First Nation MC Joey Stylez. His track “Sugar Cane” is in rotation on MuchMusic’s Rap City and won an Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Award for best music video.

The single is just one killer cut on Stylez’s debut album, The Black Star, which was named after his traditional Plains Cree grandmother’s last name. The disc veers from the geeky punk testimonial “Jail Byrd” and Weezer-y taunt “Mr. Milkman” to the Dirty South vibin’ “Living Proof” or bent rap “She Luvs Me.”

Just like his chameleonic fashion sense, Stylez’s music is able to stand up in any genre. It didn’t happen overnight.

“I’ve been going strong the last 10 years full-on,” says Stylez. “But winning that People’s Choice Award up against the likes of Buffy Ste. Marie and Crystal Shawanda was pretty surprising. I didn’t have a speech prepared because I didn’t think there was any chance of it happening.”

Obviously, his music speaks to the listeners. But he thinks that the reason that his freewheeling style appeals to so many is that it comes out of the tension and challenges of the hardscrabble native communities that he and his peers grew up in. He says that the plains areas are still a bit more old-fashioned and “cowboys ‘n’ Indians” in much of the social structure and it leads to native youth finding an outlet in the street level truths of rap.

Through family and friends, he himself is no stranger to what he calls “the jail culture,” but didn’t want to let his music dwell there.

Still, Stylez can’t go far from the urban music he came up with, but now can talk about other things relevant to his community, too. Like travelling to the Louvre or the MOMA to see great art, or about the wild cities in Japan.

“I’ve been very fortunate, very blessed to see a lot of the world and that has really given me a much more worldly sound,” he says.

“It’s true about my fashion sense, too. I make sure to focus on my look and give up a look that can attract a lot of people to my music. It’s a very cosmetic world, sadly, and you’ve got to pay attention to this.”

The other thing he insists must be followed to the letter is to keep on making music that matters to him.

“I went through a lot of ups and down and grew up in tune with the prison life and I wanted to show the world what goes down in the tiny little speck of the planet I grew up in,” Stylez says.

“If it wasn’t for music, I’d be just another statistic from there. I think a lot of people would be interested in that modern native experience.”

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Weight- 140lbs

Shoe size – 8

Hair Colour – Changes all the time currently Dark Chocolate Brown

Eye colour- Brown

Skin Colour- Tanned

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