Behind the scene of Cash Money Records

"Cash Money Records is known for making hot tracks, from the late 1990’s to 2006. There is several rap songs that have went through the walls of Cash Money studios to hit the rap world and make it big. However, not all you hear or know of Cash Money is there own."

Southern Rap in Houston, Atlanta & Memphis has risen

"It was born in New York, then it began to travel across the country to hit California with groups like N.W.A. taking it and making it their own; what we are talking about is hip-hop."

Universal Motown Records Signs Memphis' Favorite Son, Kinfolk Kia Shine

Memphis’ hometown rap/hip-hop artist and master producer Kinfolk Kia Shine, along with Rap Hustlaz Records, an urban music enterprise owned by Shine and business partner Jack Frost, have inked a venture deal with Universal Motown Records.

Beef leads to record sales and publicity

Beef in the entertainment world is very similar to that of ordinary people. They began with someone disliking something someone else does to them for some reason. Normally they do not lead to anything, but occasionally the beef leads to fights or even worst in the...

Playa Fly Released From Jail

Dee Money Entertainment, representatives for Playa Fly, have notified MemphisRap.com that former Three 6 Mafia member, Playa Fly has indeed finally been released from the custody of the state of Tennessee jail and is preparing to finish up the recording of his upcoming album...

Rapper shot during attempted robbery

"AP - Beanie Sigel, the popular rapper who has been shadowed by his violent past, was wounded by gunfire during an attempted robbery early Thursday."

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A History of Italian Hip Hop

The artistic militancy of African American rap is a model for Italian youth to address a wide range of contemporary social issues, from neo-fascism to the exploitation of immigrants. In the early 1980s, hip hop emerged as the cultural expression of the self-described...

B.I.G. album pulled from market

A judge halted sales of Notorious B.I.G.'s breakthrough 1994 album "Ready to Die" after a jury decided the title song used part of an Ohio Players tune without permission.

NPR : DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of the Breakbeat

DJ Kool Herc is known as the father of the DJ breakbeat -- isolating and repeating breaks, the most danceable portions of songs that form part of the foundation of modern hip-hop. He also wrote the introduction to the recent book Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the...

McDonald's Rapper Deal Yields Backlash

Recent articles report that McDonald's recent attempts to lure hip-hop artists to drop references to Big Macs into their rhymes has already begun to backfire, with the recent release of Gatbustaz new single, McGangsta. If the man at McDonald's really were truely down with...