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http://allhiphop.comIrv Gotti snagged BMI’s Pop Songwriter of the Year award at BMI’s 51st Annual BMI Pop Awards. Gotti placed five titles on BMI’s Most Performed List of the 50, which garnered him the award. "Always On Time (Ja Rule featuring Ashanti), "I’m Real" (Ja Rule with Jennifer Lopez) "Livin it Up" (Ja Rule featuring Case) […]
According to reports, media conglomerates AOL Time Warner and Bertelsman are in preliminary talks to merge their recorded music divisions. Both companies have suffered losses during the first quarter this year and are considering a 50/50 merger to better compete with Universal Music Group, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal and the #1 leader in music […]
A new civil suit filed in a Brooklyn federal court claims that Murder Inc. wrote checks to Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff in exchange for money made from drug proceeds. Authorities are seeking to take all revenue generated from the film "Crime Partners," claiming the movie was financed by drug money. The movie was released straight to […]
Former Spice Girl Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham and Naomi Campbell have been tapped by Roc-A-Wear to model the clothing line for their latest multi-million dollar advertising campaign. According to sources, Beckham and Campbell were both paid upwards of $1 million dollars to appear in the campaign, which will launch in America and Britian this summer. […]
Afeni Shakur will be the keynote speaker at the The 1st Annual Hip-Hop Appreciation Week Awards Ceremony in Atlanta, Sunday May 18th. "Afeni Shakur has come on board because I am quite sure she shares the same feelings as many in hip-hop right now; that there must be a greater sense of responsibility in our […]
A study by Nielsen/NetRatings revealed that rap music is the top genre downloaded on retail and e-commerce Web sites. The study also shows that downloaders are 111% more likely to purchase the titles than the rap fans that don’t download. The study surveyed 36,000 Internet users aged 18 and older and concluded 22% of the […]
A federal appeals court reopened a lawsuit filed by Rosa Parks against Outkast today, over their hit song that uses her name in the title. Parks’ initial lawsuit had been dismissed in 1999. Parks claimed that the group was using her name for profit and not compensating her. Parks was also offended at the racial […]
Another relaunch. You go ahead and browse around and see the new features. You are going to find that everything has changed and nothing has changed all at the same time. A lot of time and energy was invested in this new AllHipHop.com so I’ll just take a minute to say some thanks. The entire […]
Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck will release his long awaited second solo album, The Movement, in June. With production from QB beatsmith Ayatollah, former UMC member Hassan a.ka. "Phantom Of The Beats," Deck said the new album is going to "blow everybody away." "This is where y’all gonna see me take a stand," Deck said. […]
Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and the Mothers of the NY Disappeared are putting pressure on the city of New York, setting a June 4th deadline demanding the repeal of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. The coalition hopes to set a precedent for the repeal of similar laws that have been established in other states […]
Artist: Rob SwiftTitle: Under the InfluenceRating: 4 StarsReviewed by: aqua boogie While a chunk of turntablist get so caught up in the technical aspect of their craft that they forsake the listeners ability to nod their head, Rob Swift comes with just the right blend of precision and listen-ability (new word) on Under the Influence. […]
Kindred The Family Soul – Feature and Q&A Seandra Sims – AllHipHop.com Alternatives (March/April 2003) [An overzealous lighting technician has raised the house lights too soon.] "Why are the lights up? Are we done?!" "No!" yells back many of the more than 500 members of DC’s grown folk and bohemian set. The lights drop, and […]
Three Years. A hiatus of such length is considered career suicide for most rappers, but not Roc-A-Fella’s first signee Memphis Bleek. Bleek was taking care of some real business – the business of family. He witnessed the birth of his firstborn son and almost saw his older brother return to the essence. Now, he is […]
Rapper Cormega is working on two projects simultaneously, an EP and an LP. "I’m working on the Ayatollah-Comega EP & I’m working on the Urban Legend album," Cormega told AllHipHop.com. "It’s not gonna be a shoot um up, f**k you album. There’s gonna be no dis records," Mega said. The Ayatollah-Cormega EP features production from […]
Ice-T has reformed his controversial heavy metal band Body Count and is finishing up a new album tentatively titled Violent Demise – The Last Days. “It’s about street sh*t. It’s about b*tches,” Ice-T told AllHipHop.com. “I’m just trying to bring back that sinister, evil, violent sounding metal. I listen to the other rock-rap groups, but […]
Queen Latifah is in talks to star in a Miramax Films remake of a south Korean action-comedy. Latifah’s version of "My Wife Is A Gangster," is slated to start production next year and centers around a female mob boss (Queen Latifah) who marries a man oblivious to her trade, in hopes that he will not […]
Pharaohe Monch and Jurassic 5 will represent hip-hop on this year’s Lollapalooza tour. The tour, which is being labeled as "a fully interactive extravaganza with a wealth of new sights, sounds and experiences," will also feature such rock acts as Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, The Donnas, Queens Of The Stone Age, Incubus and A Perfect Circle. […]
I’ve never been alive and there wasn’t hip-hop. That is why I feel like I’m fortunate to have this in my life. I’m blessed. –Flo Brown The relationship between an individual MC and hiphop is one that can be observed through the artist’s musical execution. Some emcees have a relationship with hiphop that is strictly […]
Professional parody king "Weird Al" Yankovic’s hopes of filming a video for his version of "Lose Yourself," were shot down by Eminem, who agreed to have his song spoofed, but nixed the notion of a video. Yankovic, who has filmed videos for his takes on Michael Jackson’s "I’m Bad" and Coolio’s "Gansta’s Paradise," said the […]
Lawyers for Trina issued a cease and desist order to a website that claimed to have a videotape of the rapper engaged in sex acts. The website is hawking the tapes, which allegedly has a younger Trina in the video for $9.95. "We do not know whether the photographs or video footage contained in this […]
