Monte Lipman Jimmy Iovine Doug Morris Let’s re-visit the fact that 2013 marked the first time in Billboard’s 55 year history that there were no Black artists on top of the Hot 100 chart. That’s not to say that Black music did not influence the charts (see Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Robin Thicke, and Macklemore) […]
From MSRIVERCITY.COM- Some of this is common sense, and obviously there are more reasons why pop/ r&b /country /gospel /all other genres sell more than rap. But here are 10 specific things I’ve observed and experienced first hand while promoting rap music. Never one to present a problem without offering a solution, I suggest you […]
If Lil Wayne comes out tomorrow and states that the Mixtape game is dead and he will no longer deal with it, then watch how many rappers follow his lead.. SMH “The Saturation Of The Mixtape Game” by Jesse Atkinson, CEO of Urban Threshold Inc and founder of the Underground Music Awards and The A&R […]
>By David Hinckley New York Daily News Bobby Robinson, whose tiny record shop on Harlem‘s 125th St. spawned No. 1 national hits and made him an uptown patriarch for six decades, died yesterday. The musician, personality and business owner owned Happy House Records for more than 60 years. He was 93 and had been ill […]