AllHipHop.com has always been a website for news, music, entertinment and education, this ongoing series called IN-HOUSE COUNSEL will attempted to provide vital information to help up-and-coming artist s/producers to succeed in toda’s difficult music business world. To start this series, heres a scenario: Youre an artist who feels he (or she) has some hot… Read more »
Breeding Ground
Hip-Hop is missing something. According to Sic Osyrus, he is that missing element. Not because he is new with catchy rhymes but, because he represents the missing links in Hip-Hop. Claiming to make love to a track, the MC is not worried about competition, or even gaining popularity from having Hip-Hops most notarized producers. The… Read more »
It aint where youre from, its where ya at, The old adage speaks well of the Coney Island MC, Torae Da Young Vet not to be mistaken for the music writer Torae but a writer none the less, he spends hours in the studio while most sleep, hes perfecting his lyrical sword game. Torae has… Read more »
The term record label stands for many different types of companies that put out music. It can signify a conglomerate like Sony or Universal which are huge well-established multi-national corporations with offices in many countries around the world, or it can indicate a small artist-owned company with a staff of one or two, putting out… Read more »
No other genre of music is as fixated on an artists home as Hip-Hop. Whether its the North, South, East or West, its up to a rap artist to represent where theyre from and show the world how it goes down in their region. Killeen, Texas emcee, Yung Texxus, clearly understands this notion. And after… Read more »
There are a multitude of different deals out there for any recording artist. It depends solely on what you agree to contractually. There is no such thing as a standard contract– a contract is just an agreement between two people that says who will do what by when, what happens if they do not do… Read more »
Lifes short. Some people go through there whole life not knowing what it is that they would want to do with their lives. Not the story for Oxnard, CA native, Joe Clark, he has been in the grind since the age of eight and a half, and doing mixtapes at ten, and he has no… Read more »
With the wide variety of emcees that have emerged from the Houston, TX Hip-Hop music scene, few have been female and even fewer have been endorsed by the late Pimp C of UGK. Born Tiffany McNeil, RawLT prides herself on a strong work ethic bred out of her independent childhood and relationships with a variety… Read more »
Theres a new trend with unsigned artists. Well, its not really new, its about ten years old, but it hasnt really worked successfully, so it seems new. It appears that some folks who have money to spend, or relationships with independent radio promoters, are trying to increase their spins at urban radio in the… Read more »
AllHipHop interviewed Wes Fif before he recently got signed to Slip-N-Slide Records. Wed like to congratulate Wes Fif and wish him continued success. Arguably the brightest star in Orlando, Florida is Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse. But if Wes Fif has anything to do with it, the O-Town emcee will soon dethrone the Walt Disney… Read more »
The choice is yours, just like the old chorus from the classic Black Sheep single, many people have the choice to start something new or just follow the norm. By way of Togo, West Africa , Tabi Bonney, now native to Washington, D.C, is not one to follow a trend, but more so to do… Read more »
It seems to many that the Texas trio known as TMI Boyz jumped onto the scene from out of the blue. In very little time they managed to top the Billboard Rap Singles Sales Chart with thers song “Swervin’,” and they were #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales Chart with their song featuring… Read more »
This is the question I am asked most frequently– obviously by people who don’t know me, because those who do know me ask me how they can sell more records on their own, not how can they get into a slave contract and become a sharecropper. But once again, for those who don’t want to… Read more »
With a distinct name like Upper Echelon, the duo from New Jersey, better known as UE , offers a unique and eclectic sound of instruments and melody, influenced by the musics Motown Era. Winning, among many awards, the Underground Music Award for Best Duo of 2007, UE members Caliph and Tunde, strive to be… Read more »
Coffee, grunge and Bill Gates might be things that come to mind when and if you choose to ponder on Washington States largest city. Famed for its skimmed lattes than it is for prolific MCs, things might just be changing in Seattle. Producers such as Jake One and Vitamin D are already repping in the… Read more »