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Will Zune's Latest Marketing Song Make Buyers Dance? (E-Commerce Times)

18 November 2008, 8:43 am

A video for the title track on hip-hop veteran Common's forthcoming album, "Universal Mind Control," begins with a digital music player pulsing to the beat. The viewer is pulled through the screen into the gadget's guts, where the cool, collected rapper lets loose an easy stream of lyrics. It takes ... Read More »

Nettwerk Music Group and Universal Music Canada Tap Indaba Music for New Crowdsourced Album Model (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

18 November 2008, 6:08 am

NEW YORK----Nettwerk Music Group, led by progressive founder, Terry McBride, Universal Music Canada, Canada’s leading music company, and Indaba Music, the leading collaboration tool and social network for musicians, announced today their partnership surrounding the Spring 2009 release of YES! by C... Read More »

Obama and hip-hop: Where will the president-elect stand on rap lyrics? (Baltimore Sun)

18 November 2008, 5:53 am

Barack Obama was in his last year of high school in 1979 when hip-hop broke out of the ghettos of New York on its way to becoming a national phenomenon.... Read More »

Music Choice Set Nominees For VOD Awards Show (MultiChannel News)

17 November 2008, 3:51 pm

Teen heartthrobs The Jonas Brothers, R&B chart-topper Chris Brown and hip hop star Lil’ Wayne will battle each other for top honors during video on demand service Music Choice’s inaugural Most Demanded awards show.... Read More »

Hickman Hip-Hop club sets high goals (Columbia Missourian)

17 November 2008, 3:45 pm

COLUMBIA — The music starts. Twelve bodies saunter in single file, to the rhythm of the music, taking wide steps to the right, then to the left.  They bring their hands in and then ball up their fists and strike an imaginary musical triangle to one side. This routine continues until 12 pairs of a... Read More »

Zune could lend Microsoft a rare rhythm infusion (AP via Yahoo! News)

17 November 2008, 2:55 pm

A video for the title track on hip-hop veteran Common's forthcoming album, "Universal Mind Control," begins with a digital music player pulsing to the beat. The viewer is pulled through the screen into the gadget's guts, where the cool, collected rapper lets loose an easy stream of lyrics.... Read More »

New Music: Ludacris [ft. Nas and Jay-Z]: "I Do It for Hip-Hop (Clean)" [MP3] (Pitchfork)

17 November 2008, 12:54 pm

The feud between Nas and Jay-Z is long over, culminating in collaborations like Hip Hop Is Dead 's "Black Republican" and American Gangster 's "Success". It should still be a treat to hear the two together on a track, particularly alongside Ludacris , who never quite managed to ... Read More »

KNRJ-FM changes to hip-hop format (BizJournals)

16 November 2008, 9:33 pm

Phoenicians craving old school hip-hop beats from the likes of 2pac, A Tribe Called Quest and Slick Rick have a new station to check out on the FM dial.... Read More »

'Lyrics,' 'Fall' ably stretch the limits of hip-hop dance (San Diego Union-Tribune)

16 November 2008, 3:18 am

Eveoke Dance Theatre's new “Lyrics, Beats, & Bricks” pulses with the thrusting joints and explosive power of hip-hop. To a driving beat, dancers at a recent rehearsal whipped through a unison sequence of precisely cocked elbows and stop-on-a-dime turns.... Read More »

Lil Wayne brings hip hop to Country Music Awards (Chicago Tribune)

13 November 2008, 7:05 am

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ It wasn't hick-hop but real hip-hop at the CMA Awards as Lil Wayne joined Kid Rock onstage during country music's biggest night.... Read More »