A study by Nielsen/NetRatings revealed that rap music is the top genre downloaded on retail and e-commerce Web sites. The study also shows that downloaders are 111% more likely to purchase the titles than the rap fans that don’t download. The study surveyed 36,000 Internet users aged 18 and older and concluded 22% of the […]
A federal appeals court reopened a lawsuit filed by Rosa Parks against Outkast today, over their hit song that uses her name in the title. Parks’ initial lawsuit had been dismissed in 1999. Parks claimed that the group was using her name for profit and not compensating her. Parks was also offended at the racial […]
Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck will release his long awaited second solo album, The Movement, in June. With production from QB beatsmith Ayatollah, former UMC member Hassan a.ka. "Phantom Of The Beats," Deck said the new album is going to "blow everybody away." "This is where y’all gonna see me take a stand," Deck said. […]
Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and the Mothers of the NY Disappeared are putting pressure on the city of New York, setting a June 4th deadline demanding the repeal of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. The coalition hopes to set a precedent for the repeal of similar laws that have been established in other states […]
Rapper Cormega is working on two projects simultaneously, an EP and an LP. "I’m working on the Ayatollah-Comega EP & I’m working on the Urban Legend album," Cormega told AllHipHop.com. "It’s not gonna be a shoot um up, f**k you album. There’s gonna be no dis records," Mega said. The Ayatollah-Cormega EP features production from […]
Ice-T has reformed his controversial heavy metal band Body Count and is finishing up a new album tentatively titled Violent Demise – The Last Days. “It’s about street sh*t. It’s about b*tches,” Ice-T told AllHipHop.com. “I’m just trying to bring back that sinister, evil, violent sounding metal. I listen to the other rock-rap groups, but […]
Queen Latifah is in talks to star in a Miramax Films remake of a south Korean action-comedy. Latifah’s version of "My Wife Is A Gangster," is slated to start production next year and centers around a female mob boss (Queen Latifah) who marries a man oblivious to her trade, in hopes that he will not […]
Pharaohe Monch and Jurassic 5 will represent hip-hop on this year’s Lollapalooza tour. The tour, which is being labeled as "a fully interactive extravaganza with a wealth of new sights, sounds and experiences," will also feature such rock acts as Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, The Donnas, Queens Of The Stone Age, Incubus and A Perfect Circle. […]
Professional parody king "Weird Al" Yankovic’s hopes of filming a video for his version of "Lose Yourself," were shot down by Eminem, who agreed to have his song spoofed, but nixed the notion of a video. Yankovic, who has filmed videos for his takes on Michael Jackson’s "I’m Bad" and Coolio’s "Gansta’s Paradise," said the […]
Lawyers for Trina issued a cease and desist order to a website that claimed to have a videotape of the rapper engaged in sex acts. The website is hawking the tapes, which allegedly has a younger Trina in the video for $9.95. "We do not know whether the photographs or video footage contained in this […]
Kareem "Biggs" Burke, who shares CEO duties of Roc-A-Fella Records with Dame Dash and Jay-Z, was arraigned Tuesday morning after 24 marijuana plants were found growing in his Cliffside Park, New Jersey penthouse. According to Cliffside Park Police Chief Donald Keane, two police and two employees of the Carlyle Towers entered Burke’s empty apartment Monday […]
Nelly and his sister, Jackie Donahue will launch Jes Us For Jackie On May 14. Donahue is in need of a bone marrow transplant and the duo hope to increase the number marrow donors in the National Marrow Donor Program Registry across the United States. Nelly’s non-profit, 4 Sho 4 Kids will sponsor a campaign […]
In a statement released to AllHipHop.com, Lydia High, has come forward to speak on recently published reports, accusing her of being uncooperative in the investigation to find Jam Master Jay’s killer. Recent reports suggested High and her brother, Randy Allen, may know more about the murder than they are telling. Jam Master Jay’s mother, Connie Mizell also questioned why […]
Jay-Z will open a new sports bar, 40/40 in New York City on May 28. The mogul’s sports bar pays homage to baseball’s rare 40/40 club, the few who have had 40 stolen bases and 40 home runs in one season. The only people that belong to the club so far are Jose Canseco, Alex […]
Daz recently closed a distribution deal for his DPG Records with Sony/Red. The first release under the new deal will be Daz’ anticipated album, DPGC: You Know What I’m Throwing Up. The first single from the album will be a remix to the song "All Night Long," produced by DPGC’s newest producer, Chops. A native […]
A federal jury has recommended Dr. Dre pay a British record label a $1.5 million dollar payday for illegally sampling a recording the record label owns.Minder Music claims that Dre illegally sampled Fatback’s 1980 song “Backstrokin,” on his 2001, which moved over 9 million units.U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall has yet to sign the […]
A jury in New York federal court awarded TVT Records $132 million in punitive and compensatory damages against the Island Def Jam Music Group and Lyor Cohen.The award gives $108 million in punitive damages and $24 million in compensatory damages. Sources said that TVT initially sought $400 million in damages.Ja Rule signed with TVT in […]
50 Cent has been sued by a Queens doctor who claims that the multi-platinum artist shirked him on a medical bill in access of $32,000 after extensive surgery in May of 2000. In a lawsuit, filed in Manhattan’s State Supreme Court, Dr. Nader Paksima claims that the Shady Records rapper came to Jamaica Hospital after […]
Juvenile emerged victorius in a federal copyright lawsuit stemming from his 1998 hit, "Back That Azz Up. Local disc jockey Jerome "DJ Jubilee" Temple, a special education teacher and his record label, Take Fo’ Records, claimed in the lawsuit that Juvenile used his song without permission. After a five day trial that saw both rappers […]
The Lox’s D-Block Records has signed a production deal with Universal and expects member Sheek Louch’s solo album, Walk With Me, to be the first release from the union. The label expects to drop Sheek’s album midway in the summer time, citing a tentative date of July 29. After hitting the mixtapes and garnering street […]
