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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://allhiphop.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx</link><description>
Rap music industry veteran Neil Levine will
head up BMG Label Group's Battery Records, a new Hip-Hop incubator imprint.

According to The New York Post, Battery Records will sign and develop upcoming
rap artists, grooming them for mainstream success.</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60217.2664)</generator><item><title>Eight Mile Road Music News   &amp;amp;raquo; BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150164</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:12:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150164</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://eightmileroad.com/?p=3996"&gt;http://eightmileroad.com/?p=3996&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150181</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:15:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150181</guid><dc:creator>Brick_City_Zoe</dc:creator><description>Another shitty label...</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150185</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:15:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150185</guid><dc:creator>T-ROC</dc:creator><description>GREAT!!! now they can continue to rape artist.&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150235</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:20:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150235</guid><dc:creator>North Star</dc:creator><description>Successful? How many albums did Fat Joe sell?</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150428</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:41:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150428</guid><dc:creator>Young BRINK!</dc:creator><description>Ummm &amp;amp; Is This News Or A Warning Not 2 Sign With Them???&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150447</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:43:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150447</guid><dc:creator>Real_Muzik</dc:creator><description>Rape-n-You Records&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am sofa king we Todd did. </description></item><item><title>
 &amp;amp;raquo; BMG Launches New Record Label Called Battery Records + GOODLIFE - The Godfather of Urban Blogs</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150495</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:51:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150495</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.liveagl.com/blog/?p=475"&gt;http://www.liveagl.com/blog/?p=475&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150553</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:58:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150553</guid><dc:creator>the REAL Real Talk</dc:creator><description>Alrighty then. &amp;nbsp;Can you say mainstream hip hop farm system. &amp;nbsp;Except, THIS AINT BASEBALL!!! &amp;nbsp;Someone PLEASE get these *trying not to be racist* &amp;quot;EXECS&amp;quot; out of the rap game.</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150570</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:00:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150570</guid><dc:creator>Queens4LIFE</dc:creator><description>me myself and i sold about &lt;br&gt;380k or so..... </description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150591</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:02:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150591</guid><dc:creator>Federali3000</dc:creator><description>Who needs a big label these days when there is myspace, itunes and all the rest... you can make it happen yourself... fuck these big corporate rape machines.</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150616</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:05:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150616</guid><dc:creator>Boss Up</dc:creator><description>wut kind of name is battery records?</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20150880</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:33:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20150880</guid><dc:creator>sneakerhead210</dc:creator><description>lol i wuz thinkn da sam thing wtf battery records...sounds like they actually tryin to develop artists i bet they gonna give up soon</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20151114</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:01:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20151114</guid><dc:creator>muhammed ali</dc:creator><description>these labels are hurtin since the internet has made it possible for artist to expose their own music,videos,merchandise etc.the only reason for any artist to sign with any label today would be for a great advance other than that i think artist should and can reep all the rewards of their hard &amp;nbsp;work.besides seems like the majority of major artist are trying to be released so they can go indie.God has blessed us all with oppurtunity now no matter age,race,color,height,weight and some of the other requirements the industry had on artist.the future of the major label is total disaster.eventually they will try and merge with the indie internet labels in order to suvive but for now its a wrap.artist are becoming business minded which means if we can sale less but make more money were satisfied.&lt;br&gt;if we gonna be hos for the music we might as well be our own pimp.</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20151262</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:20:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20151262</guid><dc:creator>ipoppedoff</dc:creator><description>BATTERY Records? Wow what a mess of a name. LOL. </description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20151489</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:48:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20151489</guid><dc:creator>Exec-Producer</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;Battery&amp;quot; Records??? Why Battery??? hmmm...</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20151965</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:37:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20151965</guid><dc:creator>De-U.c.e.</dc:creator><description>F*ck a record dealer!!! De-U Records sold over 150k CD's outta da trunk in da mean streets of DC alone...wit nobody else...just us...7 niggaz wit a dream ya digg. I'm a &amp;quot;Go Get It Boy&amp;quot; I don't need no help!!! &amp;quot;We gone grind all day till execs give up!!!&amp;quot; DC we got next!!!</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20152218</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:09:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20152218</guid><dc:creator>SPATE Magazine All Day</dc:creator><description>They need to sign MadMan&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;SPATE MAGAZINE ALL DAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.spatemag.com"&gt;http://www.spatemag.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Join the community&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://join.spatemag.com"&gt;http://join.spatemag.com&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20152377</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:24:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20152377</guid><dc:creator>Reem-RAw</dc:creator><description>Neil Stand up Homey!!! See for ya self whay they callin me THE KING OF JERZY hit that page myspace.com/njsraw</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20153077</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:40:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20153077</guid><dc:creator>MissDallasTx214</dc:creator><description> &amp;nbsp; ipoppedoff said:&lt;br&gt;BATTERY Records? Wow what a mess of a name. LOL. &lt;br&gt;June 18, 2008 3:20 PM &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;================================================&lt;br&gt;co-sign, lmao.....</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20157510</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:46:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20157510</guid><dc:creator>King Eljay</dc:creator><description>....if the standard of greatness is Fat Joe's &amp;quot;Me Myself And I&amp;quot; album....then something is seriously wrong... that label is gonna suck if that's what they workin with...</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20158202</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:42:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20158202</guid><dc:creator>richie sick</dc:creator><description>fuck the corporations and fuck the execs. &amp;nbsp;ya'll niggas better stay independent and keep your money, your masters, everything. &amp;nbsp;only fuck with a corporation if they're giving you a good distribution deal. &amp;nbsp;all you rich hip-hop niggas, ya'll need to start figuring out a way to set up our own worldwide distribution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;this is one way the revolution can start...</description></item><item><title>re: BMG Launches New Hip-Hop Label</title><link>http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/06/18/20150012.aspx#20158708</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:42:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab0b95d-286f-42d5-ba9b-6086957539ea:20158708</guid><dc:creator>Stuart Hallick</dc:creator><description>There are far to many labels out there, and most of them arent supporting the artist correctly.</description></item></channel></rss>