Hip hop

Gritty U.S. rapper DMX was hospitalized and on life support on April 3 after a heart attack, his lawyer Murray Richman told AFP.

"He was hospitalized at 11 o'clock last night at the hospital in White Plains," the New York suburb where he lives, after suffering "a heart attack," Richman, who has represented the rapper for 25 years, told AFP.

Prime Minister Florin Citu declared on Monday in Parliament that this year, "for the first time", all the ways in which money is stolen from the state budget will be cut, transmitting that the Social Democratic Party (PSD) "is crying out" because it can no longer steal from the budget.

Dr. Dre was back at home on Jan. 16 after being treated at a Los Angeles hospital for a reported brain aneurysm.

Peter Paterno, an attorney for the music mogul, said Dre was home but offered no other details in an email exchange Saturday. The rapper and producer reportedly was released on Jan. 15 from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Greek hip-hop veteran Ilias Papanikolos, aka Eisvoleas, returns to the Gagarin 205 to present his latest album, "Liakos vs Eisvoleas," and a selection of his earlier works. Eisvoleas will be accompanied by a band in this concert that will also feature a number of surprise guests.

It was the voice of the marginalised, pure and simple: "Behind the gray blocks / There we are - the majority / They're higher closer to the street / So the hunger is not visible."

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) will not leave the governance, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Saturday, in the beginning of the PSD National Executive Committee (CExN) meeting. The PSD leader announced that one of the main points on the CExN meeting agenda is concerned with the governance. "You very well know the current situation.

In its 16th outing, the Ireon Music Festival will delight rock and hip-hop fans with a lineup that includes Social Waste, Planet of Zeus, Rena Morfi, Locomondo, Zvoures and Giannis Haroulis. Since its inception, the festival has continued to grow, bringing together local musicians and international artists for three days in the southern Samos village of Ireon. The concerts begin at 9 p.m.

London-based duo The Herbaliser are bringing their special blend of funk-inspired jazz and hip-hop to the Gazarte Roof Stage in Athens on Saturday, July 27. Since joining forces in the mid-90s, Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba have released eight albums, ranging from 1995's "Remedies" to "There Were Seven" in 2012 and last year's "Bring Out The Sound." The show begins at 10 p.m.

Grandmaster Flash, a pioneer of what are now staple DJ techniques, is bringing his legendary backspins and record scratch sounds to Athens for a memorable concert at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Born Joseph Sadler, the artist burst onto the scene in the 70s, blazing a trail for all those who followed.

Gathering Greece's best breakthrough hip-hop artists, the first-ever Drop Festival will feature a lineup aimed at underground music aficionados. Lyrical creativity and satisfying rhymes are sure to pump up audiences as rappers like Phi Beta Sigma and PaiFan take to the stage. The Drop Festival is the latest in many new rap festivals, celebrating Greece's young creatives.