GrandMaster Roc Raida of the X-Ecutioners (1995 DMC World Champ), in association with Shure, presents THE GONG DJ BATTLE - NEW YORK DVD to be released on March 6th, 2007. Suggested retail price: $14.98 (Caroline Distribution).
Popular Brooklyn record store Beat Street has officially closed its doors, citing a downturn in record sales. According to reports, the legendary store, which was opened in 1995 on Fulton Street, could not compete with the Internet. The trend has also forced the shutdown of numerous mom and pop stores and majors like Tower Records, […]
Tuf America has filed a lawsuit against Roc-A-Fella Records, claiming the label illegally used a sample of Trouble Funk’s 1982 song “Let’s Get Small.” The lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan Federal Court, claims the group incorporated a portion of the often sampled record “Let’s Get Small” on the song “Criminal Background,” taken from State […]
Hip-Hop clothing company Sedgwick & Cedar recently launched the Freedom Collection in partnership with DEMO. DEMO will carry The Freedom Collection in its 200-plus chain of stores. The collection is made up of high quality, graphic tee’s. Sedgwick & Cedar, which was founded by DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Melle Mel, Sha-rock, Ray Riccio and […]
With his latest album The Price of Fame recently hitting stores (Dec. 19), rapper Bow Wow is ending the year on a strong note. The rapper is taking his success outside of the rap arena with a new sneaker store and fast food franchise. “I’m franchising my own McDonald’s, I’m thinking about getting a little […]
Five years after the release of their last album, Iron Flag, Wu-Tang Clan has reunited for their long awaited follow-up by signing a new record deal with the man credited for bringing them to the masses. Steve Rifkind, CEO of SRC Records, announced the acquisition of the Staten Island collective this week in a video […]
Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic recording artist Trick Daddy is celebrating the season by giving a little something back to his beloved Miami community. The pioneering rap superstar and his Trick Luvs Da Kids Foundation will host their 4th annual Christmas Toy Drive, with events slated for the two weekends leading up to the Christmas holiday - Saturday, […]
Producer Diamond D. has revealed that legendary Hip-Hop group Diggin’ in the Crates is planning to release a new, untitled album. The New York-based collective features Diamond D., Fat Joe, Showbiz, A.G., Buckwild, O.C. Lord Finesse and the late Big L, and the group has become legendary for a slew of classic albums as a […]
Apple Corps Ltd/Capitol Records are to release the Beatles LOVE album in stereo and 5.1 on November 21st. This will be the first Beatles album available in 5.1
The stereo CD will contain 78 minutes of music. The DVD surround sound version on DVD disc album will be a slightly extended version with 81 minutes of […]
Atlantic Records has announced the forthcoming release of “MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE: TYLER PERRY’S DADDY’S LITTLE GIRLS,” the original motion picture soundtrack to the forthcoming romantic drama slated to open in theaters nationwide on February 14, 2007. Due in […]
Kelis has been tapped to star in a new urban marketing campaign promoting the 2007 Ford Edge crossover utility vehicle (CUV) with an ad campaign featuring a new song titled “Push it to the Edge.” The radio spot, which also features a cameo appearance by Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex, starts airing Wednesday (Dec. 20) on […]
Malaco says “YES! QUARTET” and declares February 2007 National Quartet Month with the releasing of newly signed legendary Quartet artists Slim & The Supreme Angels, Spencer Taylor & The Highway QC’s, along with the most exciting young Quartet group in the nation, True Believers.
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Mathew Knowles’ Music World Entertainment and Beyoncé Knowles’ Survivor Foundation has teamed with Houston-based Target Hunger to present its 5th Annual Christmas Carnival Extravaganza today (Dec. 16) in Houston, Texas. The one-day event will feature rides, games and live performances from rappers like 2 Much, J Xavier, Mic Little and DJ Energizer. Each child that […]
Ahmet Ertegun, Co-Founder of Atlantic Records Dies At Age 83
at the *Weill Cornell Medical Centre*, New York City. 83 years old, the
music executive fell into a coma on October 29th at a Rolling Stones
Concert and never recovered. Son of a US Ambassador to Turkey, Ertegun
took the entrepreneurial leap in 1947 at age 24 with a […]
Ahmet Ertegun, the famed pioneering co-founder of Atlantic Records, is in a coma after sustaining a serious injury to his brain after a fall. Ertegun, 83, lapsed into a deep coma, after he fell on Oct. 29 while attending a Rolling Stones concert. Ertegun is currently on life support at Weill Cornell Medical Center in […]