The world’s third largest music company, EMI, is cutting 1,500 jobs, will drop 1 in 5 of its artists signed and will begin outsourcing its CD and DVD manufacturing to reduce costs, the company announced today (March 31). EMI owns such labels as Capitol, Virgin, Caroline and Bluenote, is home to almost 300 artists including […]

Presidential hopeful John Kerry said that he was “fascinated by rap and Hip-Hop” and said that he was a big fan of the genre.”I think there’s a lot of poetry in it,” Kerry told MTV’s Choose or Lose. “There’s a lot of anger – a lot of social energy.”Kerry warned America leaders of the importance […]

Westside Connection is preparing to release "So Many Rappers In Love," their second single from the already platinum second album Terrorist Threats. The single, "So Many Rappers In Love" features group members Ice Cube, Mack 10 and WC poking fun at rappers who make love songs. The group will shoot a video for the single […]

Powered by his Hip-Hop tinged single "Yeah" featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, R&B sensation Usher moved 1.1 million units of his fifth album, Confessions the first week in stores. The album tallied the highest first week numbers ever scanned by a male R&B artist, breaking R. Kelly’s record of 540,000 for TP2 in 2000. The […]

All Mighty Kay Gee of the Cold Crush Brothers is launching his website, www.HipOrHop.com, that will offer digital downloads of hard to find Hip-Hop battles and performances.Consumers will be able to purchase and download legendary and historic performances which are the foundational blue prints for today’s Hip-Hop acts.In the past, fans could only get their […]

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs will make his Broadway stage debut tonight (March 29) to the public, as "Raisin in the Sun" kicks off at the Royale Theatre in New York. Combs and cast did their first official run through of the entire play last night. The previews, which start tonight, are open to the public. […]

Missy Elliott’s video "Pass That Dutch" garnered six nominations for the 2004 Music Video Production Association (MVPA) Awards. Elliott will go head-to-head with Christina Aguilera’s "Fighter," which was also nominated six times. Elliott’s video is up for best choreography, best cinematography, best styling, best direction of a female artist, best art direction, best coloring and […]

Rapper turned pastor Mason "Ma$e" Betha is planning to return to his roots as a rapper. The Harlem World member, who experienced life changing success as a rapper left the business in 1999 to preach. Ma$e is in talks to reunite with his former manager Cudda Love, who also founded Fo’Reel Entertainment, the label that […]

Dr. Cornel West, the Princeton professor that released the critically acclaimed Hip-Hop album Sketches Of My Culture, is finishing up production on his follow-up, titled Street Knowledge. The double CD will drop on the RocDiamond/DOA Soul label and is comprised of 20 tracks that chronicle the black experience in America from the days of slavery’s […]

Jay-Z’s involvement with a group of investors that purchased the New Jersey Nets won him accolades as a business man, but some residents in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn are singing a different tune. Yesterday (March 28) almost 400 people turned out to protest a planned 19,000 seat arena that developer Bruce Ratner, who […]

Eminem and Obie Trice were among the nominees for the annual Detroit Music Awards, which are slated to take place Friday, April 23 at the State Theater in Detroit. Eminem is nominated twice in the Best National Single category for his songs "Sing For The Moment" and "Superman," while Obie Trice’s album Cheers landed him […]

The Chicago Hip-Hop Summit took place Saturday (March 27) at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion.Kanye West and Common hosted the event and Twista, Shawnna, Layzie Bone, Crooked I and others took part in a variety of discussions, ranging from police brutality, the surveillance of rap artists, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and other issues.”This was […]

What was speculated for months in AllHipHop’s rumor section has now become confirmed reality – Dr. Dre has abandoned his highly anticipated album Detox. Instead of rhyming on the mic, the pioneering artist will stay behind the boards and produce for his stable of artists. And, he explained his relief and reasoning in the new […]

On Friday, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer had a candid interview with Sean “P.Diddy” Combs where the rap entrepreneur suggested that his recent wave of philanthropic work might lead him to being a revolutionary for African American/Civil Rights causes.  After being queried if he wanted to enter the world of politics, Diddy said, “There’s a lot […]

Darryl "Lil Scrappy" Richardson has filed a $250 million dollar lawsuit against the Orlando, Florida police department, manager Tommy "Serious" Phillips confirmed with AllHipHop.com. The lawsuit stems from the treatment that Scrappy and Phillips received after a concert at a local high school turned into chaos. The lawsuit names the Orlando Police Department and the […]

Raqiyah Mays, a popular writer and DJ, was fired by New York’s Power 105 earlier in the week, but now has already been hired by WQHT’s Hot 97, her press machine released today. Mays was fired by the program director after she commented that Black men shouldn’t date Caucasian women because of a shortage for […]

Hypnotized Minds camp recently inked a deal with Chris Lighty’s company Violator and are now managed by the same company that handles such stars as Missy Elliot, Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, Mobb Deep, Clipse and others. "They were initially interested in doing a deal with Lil Whyte," 36 Mafia group member DJ Paul told AllHipHop.com. […]

Jermaine Dupri announced that he intends to marry his love interest, Janet Jackson. The hip-hop mogul declared his love for Jackson on Ryan Seacrest’s syndicated Los Angeles radio show. "I want to marry her. I’m not going to mess this up. I would like to be with her forever," Dupri said. When the two take […]

Twista was dropped from an Alabama music festival, after city officials threatened to withhold $200,000 from the event if the rapper performed. Five commissioners in Jefferson County agreed yesterday (March 25) that they would not provide public money for the City Stages festival that is scheduled to take place during Fathers Day weekend in June […]