Chingy/photo by Katherine Bish

Rapper Chingy takes the wrapping off his new music at his Celebrity Mixtape Release Party tonight at the City nightclub.

He’s celebrating the release of “Starz & Straps.”

Comedian Kevin Hart, who performs at the Ambassador Wednesday night, will…

Music producer Jermaine Dupri

Jermaine Dupri is the celebrity guest DJ at the Star Power Marketing official launch event at 10 p.m. Friday at Home nightclub.

DJ Trife will also spin.

The event launches Abe Givens, Tony Davis, Jamal Clark, and Jamaal Jackson’s…

Lush nightclub, 3037 Olive St., looks like a wrap.

A couple of sources say the club recently and quietly closed, and it sure was dark over there all weekend.

Neither the club’s web site or MySpace pages are updated with that information,…

Joka and Ludacris (center)

The minute St. Louis rapper Joka lost to rapper Nite Owl at the Koch Madness competition last year, he knew he’d try again this year.

“I knew I was never going to stop,” he says.

Joka won a deal…

Warning: Chingy’s You Tube clip includes frequent profanity. View this NSFW (not safe for work) clip with discretion.

I decided I wasn’t going to comment on this whole Chingy and the transsexual thing, finding it too sordid…

DTP Madness, the competition in which local rappers are vying for a contract with DTP Records, wraps Saturday night with the finale at the Loft.

Performing at the competition, vying to be the next Chingy or Bobby Valentino, are preliminary…

R&B singer Bobby Valentino

It seems Lush is just full of ex-Disturbing Tha Peace artists this weekend.

First, former DTP hotshot Chingy celebrated his birthday Friday night at Lush (and is scheduled to party again at  Home tonight).

And come Sunday night, another former…

Rapper Chingy

Chingy’s got a lot of partying to do this weekend — he’s front and center at two birthday parties in his honor.

First up is his birthday party at Lush Friday night. Everyone is free all evening, and women drink…

Several years ago, the Platinum Hood Awards celebrated all that was good in the “hood,” doling out various urban-based trophies.

They’ve long since fallen by the wayside, but now there’s the Traffic Music Awards. ”I would say it’s the Hood Awards without…

Sylk Smoov cover art

Hot 104.1 (WHHL-FM) has revealed the results of its #1 St. Louis Song of All Time, as determined by listener votes, and the winner is Sylk Smoov’s “Trick Wit a Good Rap.”

The list is nuts, to say…