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Grouchy Greg

Follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/grouchy.tv - I am Grouchy Greg. I founded AllHipHop in 1996. In addition to running the site, I enjoy breaking news stories. My stories have been cited in The LA Times, NY Times, NY Post, TMZ, Yahoo, Billboard, The Associated Press, CNN, and more.

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Hip-Hop Gets The Blues

Fat Possum/Epitaph are putting a new twist on Hip-Hop. On October 24th, the label will release an album titled: New Beats From The Delta. The Mississippi based label will take songs from legendary blues artists Junior Kimbrough, CeDell Davis, T-Model Ford and Johnny Farmer to name a few on the album, and remix the songs […]

Lynne Cheney Attacks Eminem

Lynne Cheney, wife of War Monger, Halliburton (an Oil Company) CEO, George Bush Vice President wannabe Dick Cheney, has attacked Eminem, calling him a violent misogynist, and demanded that Seagrams, the corporation that distributes Eminem’s label, Aftermath/Interscope, to take responsibility for putting the records out. She was testifying at a Senate held hearing on violence […]

Beasties Go Digital

The Beastie Boy owned label, Grand Royal will make all of it’s releases available for digital download the same day the actual CD is released. The first release is Texas rock group, At The Drive In, and their release "Relationship of Command." The album is being released digitally through the unsuccessful EMI Music Distribution digital-distribution […]

RIAA Shuts Down FTP Site

The RIAA continues its witch hunt against music on the internet. The RIAA recently notified Oklahoma State University that an unidentified student had posted 40 Gigabytes of copyrighted songs on his Internet FTP site. The campus police confiscated the personal computer owned by the 19 year old. The confiscation was part of the RIAA cracking […]

Major Corporations Threaten Napster

Steve Heckler, VP of Information Technology has issued a chilling threat against Napster, and the development of any sort of technology outside of the major entertainment conglomerate’s grasp. After giving a speech at California State University, Heckler told the Summer Forty-Niner (the student newspaper) that " The music industry will take whatever steps it needs […]