EMI Reports $1.2 Billion Loss

Are the remaining four major record labels having a tough time right now? How does losing $1.2 billion in a year sound? That's the sad, sorry state of EMI. But not only did they lose more than a billion dollars,...

Founder of MemphisRap.com responds to Hip-Hop Critics and Three 6 Mafia boycott

Memphis, TN - At a time when most publishers are jumping on board the ‘bash train’ of Hip-Hop, Director and Founder of MemphisRap.com, Hosea Mays, Jr "M Town Luv aka M Town," has responded with a written column in regards to the recent attacks by critics and others...

Starbucks: the McDonalds of coffee, music, books, and movies

Not only has Starbucks - the once tiny Pike Place Market-based, coffee-loving first mate of Moby Dick-inspired coffee roaster - grown into a vertically-integrated retail behemoth unaffectionately referred to as...

MTV and P Diddy ''Making The Band 4,'' Auditions Online and In-person

"A nation-wide open call will be going on for the show which began on Jan. 17th and will end on Feb. 6 in New York and if you can't make it to any of the auditions in-person you can now...""

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."

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.

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...

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