The Iconz Are Coming

With multi-platinum albums by Trick Daddy and Trina under their belt, the 3-man Committee (Luc Duc, Chapter and Stage McCloud) has firmly established itself as the premiere hip hop production crew in Miami. These midas-plus men have now stepped from behind the boards and into the booth, adding a dash of female flava with Supastarr, […]

Big Mike Busted

Big Mike, former member of The Geto Boys, was arrested in Arlington Texas, after he became rowdy outside of a night club. Big Mike, whose real name is Mike Barnett, arrived at the club around 9:00pm and according to the manager he went outside to make a phone call. Around 10:00pm, club managers called police […]

MP3.com Ends Legal Dispute

MP3.com has ended it’s legal dispute with Universal Records, paying the out $53.4 million in damages, resulting from the company’s Mymp3.com service. MP3.com also secured licenses from the Universal, the largest record label conglomerate, and now have permission to use all of their copyrighted material. The negotiations for the deal lasted almost 48 hours. Universal […]

Eminem Adds Tour Dates

Eminem is expanding his European show dates. What was originally a two date sold out visit in February, has turned into a seven date arena tour of Europe. The tour will begin in Hamburg, Germany on January 30th, and conclude February 9th in London, England. Here is the full European schedule: January 30 – Hamburg, […]

Prodigy’s InfamousStores Shutdown

InfamousStores.com, the website launched by Prodigy of Mobb Deep, has been shutdown by the webmaster because Prodigy’s allegedly neglected to pay the bills. According to the webmaster of the site, InfamousStores.com will be closed down until Prodigy "acts in a responsible manner to his fans." M.D Thorpe, Jr., a medical doctor who runs several web […]

BET Bought By Viacom

BET has been acquired by Viacom, the company the owns UPN, and MTV among other holdings. The deal is worth an estimated $3 Billion dollars, gives Viacom a monopoly over the music distribution in the United States, including VH1, The Box, M2, MTV, and now BET. Executive at BET claim that their programming will not […]

Urb Magazine Celebrates 10 Years

URB Magazine, America’s leading voice of independent hip-hop, electronic dance music and DJ culture, will celebrate it’s 10-year anniversary with it’s upcoming January/February 2001 issue (Issue #81, on stands January 2, 2001). To commemorate the occasion URB is planning a three-cover issue, each featuring an artist that has represented the different musical tastes that have […]

LL Cool J’s Cousin Busted

According to NY Newsday, LL’s cousin, Cynthia Cooper was charged with stealing checks sent to LL Cool J and his Camp Cool J fund. Yesterday, she was arraigned on charges that she stole more than $150,000 from the rapper and his camp sponsorship program. She pleaded not guilty to grand larceny, scheming to defraud, falsifying […]