Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/16/2009
Slaughterhouse scans just under 20,000 while T.I. comes 300 units short of double-platinum, and BEP rocks on.
Exclusive Details Emerge On R. Kelly's September Album
HipHopDX attended a listening session and dinner for the Untitled album at R. Kelly's house. Get the scoop.
Death Row To Produce Film, Sons 2 The Grave
The brand that brought out Murder Was The Case hopes to do it again 15 years later with film in pre-production.
Freddie Foxxx Covers Urban Biker, Co-Hosts Radio Show
Exclusive: Bumpy Knuckles talks about his motorcycle club's expansion and deejaying on De La Soul's weekly radio show.
Arrest Made In Trae Day Shootings
19 year-old Albert Walker Mondane turned himself in for firing shots into a crowd at the June honorary event.
K-Salaam & Beatnick Revolutionize The Free Album
Exclusive: With Where The Streets Have No Name, getting six-figure downloads, the duo is on the album sponsorship frontier.
Parkbench Studies: The Graveyard
How Koch Records/E1 Entertainment resurrected itself in 2009, with help from Slaughterhouse, M.O.P., Slim Thug and the Wu.
Kool Keith Talks 50 Unreleased Tracks, Experimentation
Exclusive: The pioneering emcee talks about his Lost Masters collection, new material, and Michael Jackson.
Britain's Nathan Official Talks Album, R&B Climate
Exclusive: The UK award-winning R&B sensation tells DX why '09 is the ideal time to crack the US market.
East Flatbush Project Unveils Full Length LP
Exclusive: Spencer Bellamy unveils "Tried By 12" and many more, almost a decade later, talking R&B transition.
Wendy Day & Kim Ellis Launch 'In The Know' Seminars
Exclusive: Two respected industry vets take expensive Rap industry seminars, and move to affordable online technology.
The Breakestra Dedicates Next Album To DJ Dusk
Exclusive: Miles Tackett explains how DJ Dusk influenced this album's sound, almost 4 years since his untimely death.
Blu, Johnson & Jonson Release Instrumentals
Blu and Mainframe offer instrumentals of their acclaimed '08 album, with three never-before-heard cuts.
Moka Only Explains New Album Sequel, Battle Axe
Exclusive: The B.C. veteran explains Lowdown Suite 2, writing rhymes by the river, and remembers Battle Axe.
Final Big Pun Recordings To Release In September
With the DVD release of Big Pun: The Legacy, a soundtrack drops with new tracks.
FREE DOWNLOAD: Broken Headphones by QuESt
HipHopDX, 2DopeBoyz, and IllRoots premier the mixtape download from underground favorite QuESt.
Copywrite Explains MHz Re-Release To Support Camu Tao
Exclusive: Copywrite tells DX about the late Camu Tao, and re-releasing Table Scraps, and his new LP.
Brother Ali Joined By Freeway, Joell Ortiz On New LP
Exclusive: Ali tours with Evidence, and confirms Chuck D, Free and Joell on "Us."
Producer Jesse West Does Childrens Rap Series
Exclusive: The producer of hits for KRS-One, Biggie and Xzibit makes a series of Hip Hop-inspired Children's albums.
Tracklisting & Guests For Slaughterhouse's Album Posted
Amazon has posted a tracklisting for the album, Pharoahe Monch, Novel and Fatman Scoop are guests.
Bobbito Garcia Hired As Executive To Project 2050
The author, deejay, publisher and record exec finds his next career in advertising, working with elite brands of the culture.