Started in 1981 by current chairman Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2001. In celebration of this milestone, Tommy Boy will release a series of reissues and compilations. Tommy Boy has made an undeniable impact on the history of popular music by being one of the first labels to recognize the […]
CDuniverse is in serious trouble. Two major credit card companies have canceled the cards of customers who bought music from CD Universe, from which a hacker claims to have stolen 300,000 credit card numbers. Customers of American Express and Discover will be, or already have been, reissued new cards, the companies said. About 30 to […]
Suge Knight, the incarcerated-soon to be released-CEO of Death Row Records, Continues his assault against Snoop Dogg. As we reported earlier, Suge has had unfavorable things to say about Snoop, Eminem, Xzibit, Dre and anything associated with his former cohorts, has leaked Snoops Last Meal album on the deathrowrecords2001.com website via MP3, and issued warnings […]
Hip-Hop and Rap just continues to dominate the charts. Sales of Rap/Hip-Hop albums jumped 20 percent during the year 2000, the biggest increase of any music genre. R&B, Alternative and New Age albums also increased on the average of about 8% to 12 %. Classical was down 5%, Country dropped 3%, Jazz went down by […]
Puff Daddy’s turmoil continues. Jury selection started today for his high profile case, which involves bribery and gun possession, which were a result of a dispute and shooting in Club New York in December of 1999. After the shooting Puff offered his driver, Wardel Fenderson $50,000 to say that the gun in question was his, […]
Shyne helped delay the Jury selection process in the the gun and bribery trial of Puff this weekend. Shyne was arrested after a car accident in Manhattan and charged with driving with a suspended license. Shyne was driving a silver Mercedes when he collided with the other car. According to investigators, he was not at […]
Everlast’s feud with Eminem has taken a more serious turn. Reports are coming in from our representatives in Detroit, stating that when Everlast took to the stage at St. Andrews Hall tonight (Friday Feb.2, 2001). He was allegedly speaking Ill of Eminem, calling him amongst other things, a "f###### midget" took shots at D-12, Eminems […]
In case you missed the 27th American Music awards, here is how Rap/Hip-Hop music did in the respective categories. The Artist or album that is bold and red is the one that won in that category. Favorite Rap Group: DMX Jay-Z Juvenile Favorite Male Artist (Pop): Lenny Kravitz Will Smith Ricky Martin Favorite Male Artist […]
Russell Simmons unveiled his latest endeavor, the RUSH Communitcator project. It will make all types of wireless devices accessible to anyone who needs it or wants it, via one prepaid phone card, The One Card. The card will be usable for cell, long distance, 2way pagers, alphanumeric paging, internet appliances and local telephone dialing services. […]
Deathrow Records continues to make news headlines. The rise and fall of Deathrow has been chronicled for the big screen, and will be shown February 2nd at the Hollywood Black Film Festival in Los Angeles. The movie, titled Welcome To Deathrow, is not authorized by Deathrow and no input from Suge Knight or any Deathrow […]
36 Mafia continue to make moves.Their latest release, When The Smoke Clears: Sixty 6 Sixty 1 which was released on June 13 2000, is now certified platinum. The group is staying busy in the new year, with a number of projects slated. The group will drop a new album by Project Pat, a new album […]
Shyne’s were put on the stand during a pretrial hearing in court Wednesday (Jan. 10th). Arguments from both sides did not persuade Judge Charles Solomon from ruling on the matter. The judge asked both sides for written arguments before he made a ruling. The prosecution wants to use Shyne’s lyrics against him in cross examination. […]
Suge Knight, who showed his compassionate side recently by donating over $20,000 to a school who’s play ground needed to be repaired, is also showing the more familiar menacing side. If you go over to www.deathrowrecords2001.com and watch the flash intro, it is more than apparent that there is going to be serious problems when […]
Outkast has announced that they have cancelled their remaining European tour dates with Eminem, so group member Big Boi can witness his girlfriend give birth in the United States. Here are the dates that have been cancelled: Brussels, Belgium on Feb. 5; Paris on Feb. 6; Manchester, England on Feb. 8; Three London shows on […]
Jay-Z continues his assault on mainstream America. After releasing the double platinum album, The Dynasty and launching a new record label (Carter Faculty), Jay-Z will be on the cover of USA Weekend on January 28th. He will also be on Madtv in the next few weeks. Check out the official Jay-Z site, www.jayz.net for more […]
Eminem is drawing more unwanted controversy. A 17 year old fan committed suicide by throwing himself under a train. He had attached some of Eminem’s lyrics to his suicide note. According to reports, the note was found in a waste paper basket in David Hurcombe’s bedroom. He quoted songs from the song "Rock Bottom", a […]
Ludacris, who’s debut Def Jam South album Back For The First Time is certified platinum and was fueled by the Neptunes produced smash Southern Hospitality, is hitting the road with fellow ATLiens Outkast to spread some more Southern Hospitality. The 30 city tour begins on February 28th 2001. Here are the dates: Feb. 28th: House […]
Loud recording artist, Xzibit, who this year garnered a massive amount of attention across the country first on the “Up In Smoke” tour with super-producer Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Eminem and more recently on the “Anger Management” tour performing alongside Eminem, Limp Bizkit, and Papa Roach, DEBUTS at #1 with the Dr. Dre Executive […]
Dr. Dre turned down an offer to work with the King Of Pop according to Sonicnet. After working on mega successful albums such as Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit and his own Dr. Dre 2001, Dre said he would rather work with new talent. Dre told MTV Radio at the American Music Awards: " Somebody approached […]
Brooklyn Babylon, the movie which stars The Roots own Tariq Trotter, premiered at The Slamdance Film festival in in the opening slot despite protests by the films domestic distributor, Artisan Entertainment. the hip-hop love story “Brooklyn Babylon” screened in the event’s prime slot on Saturday anyway. According to Artisan spokes people the movie’s producer, Off […]