Pioneering Hip-Hop executive Kevin Liles will leave Warner Music Group it was announced today (September 3).   Liles recently appeared at a press conference in New York promoting Jay-Z’s upcoming album Blueprint 3, which is being distributed by Atlantic, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.   Today, Liles announced he was steppding down from his role […]

An article on Hip-Hop pioneer Roxanne Shante in The New York Daily News has come into question by Slate Magazine.   For years it was reported that Roxanne Shante earned her Ph.D. in Psychology, around 2001.   The New York Daily News recently ran an article on Roxanne Shante, a pioneering female emcee and original […]

Hip-Hop culture and the Republican Party may appear to be polar opposites on the surface, but the group’s national chairman Michael Steele sought to reach common ground at a recent Howard University speaking engagement.   In an effort to establish common ground, Steele told a small group of students that Hip-Hop as a billion dollar […]

The battle between Afeni Shakur’s Amaru Entertainment and film company Morgan Creek Productions rages on over the making of a bio-pic about rapper Tupac Shakur.   The two companies are locked in litigation over a movie on the life of Tupac Shakur. In a lawsuit filed last February, Morgan Creek accused Amaru of breaching a […]

Just one day after his lawsuit against Clear Channel Radio controversial radio personality Troi “Star” Torain has announced his return to syndicated radio.   Superadio Networks will distribute “The Star Chamber,” a new syndicated daily commentary segment addressing current topics in music, entertainment and popular culture.   “I believe content is king,” Star said in […]

DJ AM was laid to rest today (September 2) in Los Angeles during a private ceremony for turntables close friends and family.   A funeral for DJ AM, born Adam Goldstein, started at 3:00 PM at the Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, a prominent Jewish cemetery in West Los Angeles.   DJ AM, 36, was […]