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.”

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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Hip-Hop artist Jay-Z has revealed that US President Barack Obama enjoys listening to expletive-laden songs while exercising in the gym. Buzz up!In fact, Obama had his Blueprint 3 album playing during a recent telephonic conversation, Jay-Z said. He said: “Barack loves hip hop, when I called him he was playing Blueprint in the gym.” The Telegraph reported, it was during an interview for Jonathan Ross’s Friday night show on BBC One that Jay-Z made the claims, according to The Mirror. He added: “I’ve been invited to the White House a couple of times. “Hopefully we’ll keep him in for eight years so I’ll have time to get there.”

The ’99 Problems’ rapper has revealed the political leader is a big hip-hop fan and uses his expletive-riddled tracks to inspire him during his work-outs.

“I’ve been invited to the White House a couple of times. Hopefully, we’ll keep him for eight years so I’ll have time to get there.”

Jay-Z – who is married to Beyonce Knowles – recently threw a lavish 40th birthday party in the Dominican Republic and admits the best thing about the bash was outdoing his friend P. Diddy, who is famed for his extravagant celebrations.

He added to UK TV talk show host Jonathan Ross: “Puff throws the best parties ever but I got him this time. He practically MC’d my party.”

The music mogul – who has his own Roc Nation music company and was previously president of Def Jam records – recently advised record companies to become “smarter” in order to survive.

He said: “People have to be smarter about how they A+R, and what they put out, record companies need to catch up to that, someone needs to send them the memo.

“I remember the first year I was at Def Jam we put out 56 artists. There isn’t 56 great artists in the world, and this is one company. One company operating for around 80 artists in a year. That’s just too many.”

In the weeks following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, massive amounts of donations have been pouring into the island country, in the forms of food, money, and medical aid. However, many are speculating on whether or not their donations are actually reaching their intended destinations. Wyclef Jean’s Yele foundation recently came under fire for its alleged mismanagement of finances, but the organization is not the only one being called into question. Russell Simmons has called out the American Red Cross for what he claims is a small percentage of donations entering Haiti. “I’m worried about the Red Cross’ overhead,” he told the NY Daily News. According to CharityNavigator.com, the Red Cross’ 2008 overhead was less than 10%. A philanthropist himself, Simmons expressed his opinion that all donations must reach Haiti

Supra has done it time and time again and by the look of these three new colorways there not going to slowing down anytime soon. You can take your pick at which colorway fits you best if your not collecting all three, which might just be a must amongst sneaker heads every where. Dropping in Navy and Gold, Black & Red and all white to point out a favorite might just be a very hard choice. I’m not sure just yet if the Skytop II and TK Society will make buyers have to choose between the two or just help “Supra” as a company go to a level of a Nike as that next go to brand sneaker addicts trust and buy into with every line year after year.

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