MTV Boots Heavy Metal For Hip-Hop

MTV is canceling their MTVx cable channel and replacing it with an all hip-hop music channel. The move was made because the content was too "alternative" for many cable operators and for the digital TV subscribers on which it’s aired. Despite the fact that MTV has experienced their highest rating ever with the popular "Osbournes" […]

AZ returns with ‘AZiatic’

With his new album, AZ hopes to bring some old fashioned nostalgia back into the game of hip-hop with his new album, Aziatic. On the album, which is already getting favorable early buzz, he features Nas, whith whom he hopes to release a group collaboration. On the cut “The Essence,” the two go back and […]

AllHipHop Loses A Writer

We are saddened to say one of our humble journalistic servants from Allhiphop.com is moving on to The Source Magazine. Jerry L. Barrow leaves us to move on to bigger, but not necessarily better things. The writer who has captivated you with his witty editorials and interviews finally bounces. You know his work but where […]

Vibe Magazine Wins 2002 NMA Award

Vibe magazine, which was founded by the legendary Quincy Jones, won the 2002 National Magazine Award in the category of General Excellence in its circulation division (400,000 to 1,000,000). The urban themed magazine beat out The New Yorker, Jane, Gourmet and Wired. Under the direction of Emil Wilbekin, who has been editor-in-chief of the magazine […]

Big Tymers Hit Number 1

Cash Money’s Big Tymers (Bryan "Baby" Williams and producer Mannie Fresh) album HoodRich debuted at number 1 on Billboard’s 200 album chart, dethroning kick country star Kenny Chesney for the top slot. The record was released April 30, and is the follow up the the duo’s previous platinum selling album, I Got That Work. "[Being] […]

Treach Takes It All Off

Naughty By Nature‘s Treach will star in "Love And A Bullet," where he will be the first rapper turned actor to show full frontal nudity in a movie. Brand Nubian’s Lord Jamal beat Treach in the game of showing off the nether regions, when he appeared with nothing on HBO’s popular prison drama, OZ. In […]

Mariah Carey Goes Def

Mariah Carey has inked a deal with white hot Island Def Jam, home to such acts as Jay-Z, DMX, LL Cool J, Method Man, Ludicris and DMX. The deal, which is worth an estimated $20 million dollars, will give Mariah another label to run. She headed up Crave Records while she was under contract with […]

Public Enemy Readies New Album

Public Enemy is preparing their latest album, Revolverlution for a summer release. The announcement of the new album comes on the heels of a new deal between Chuck D.’s long standing SlamJamz imprint and white Koch Entertainment. The album will feature 14 tracks and four of the tracks are winners from the producer contest that […]

Half-A-Mil Goes To Work

Queens rapper Half-A-Mil , who appeared on the remix to the single, “Firm Biz” with AZ, Foxy Brown and NAS, is currently in the studio finishing up work on his sophomore album, “Da Hustle Don’t Stop,” on Warlock Records. Half signed with Warlock after Penalty Records folded in 1999, shortly after he released his debut […]

Eminem In Negotiations To Copy Proof New LP

Eminem, Universal and Interscope Records are in negotiations to make Eminem’s 3rd LP, "The Eminem Show," copy proof. If approved, the LP would be the most significant release embedded with the technology, being adopted by major labels to combat consumer piracy. Universal is using technology developed by an Israeli based company, Midbar. Consumers have complained […]

Tenants Don’t Want Jay-Z

According to published reports , Jay-Z is attempting to buy a $7.5 million duplex penthouse in Manhattan, but residents are outwardly against it. Some of the more vehement tenants have even threatened to sue if the current owners of the duplex attempt to sell the place to Jay. Many of the residents said that Jay’s […]