March 2, 2009  

Wale

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This is one of the hottest songs in the country. This video was directed by the legendary video producer Chris Robinson and features numerous guest appearances. Wale comes to us from Washington D.C and is signed to Allido/ Interscope.  For more on Wale visit his web site

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Young Jeezy signs with

Hip Hop Since 1978

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Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy is the latest artist to join management firm, Hip Hop Since 1978, a firm that manages artists such as Kanye West and Lil Wayne.

Currently managed by HUSH Management’s Demetrius "Kinky B" Ellerbee, Jeezy will continue to be managed by Ellerbee but will also work with Hip Hop Since 1978’s Gee Roberson and Kyambo “Hip-Hop” Joshua.

“Young Jeezy, along with our artists Kanye West and Lil Wayne, is at the pinnacle of this culture right now," Gee Roberson explained in a statement. “So it's just great synergy to be able to work with him and Kink during this exciting time in his career."

As part of the partnership, the two management companies will focus on several aspects of Jeezy’s career including music, television, and film. 

“With Young Jeezy, we've watched a legitimate movement build into an incredible brand over the past several years," Demetrius Ellerbee said in a statement. “In partnering with Gee and Hip-Hop we are hoping to continue to push his brand further than ever. I'm thrilled to have them on board."

Most recently, Jeezy released The Recession his third studio album on September of last year, the album debuted as number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Young Jeezy is also preparing for his acting debut in Janky Promoters, an upcoming film featuring actor/rapper Ice Cube.

source:

www.hiphopdx.com

Producer T Mix Sues Cash Money For $2 Million 

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By Tai Saint Louis

A former Cash Money Records producer has filed a civil suit in New Orleans, seeking damages in excess of $2 million dollars for a breach of contract, stemming from a November 2005 production deal with the label.

In court documents filed by an attorney for Tristan “T Mix” Jones, the producer claims that while partial payments have been made, he has yet to be fully for the work he contributed to four Cash Money albums, which have sold a combined total of over three million copies.

According to the suit filed with the United States Eastern District Court in Louisiana on February 26, Jones entered into an exclusive agreement with Cash Money to provide production for the label’s roster of artists, including Lil’ Wayne and Baby.

In addition to production, Jones’ services to the label as stipulated by the contract, included programming, arranging, recording, mixing and editing.

The producer states that his work with the label between 2005 and 2007 yielded more than 40 master recordings included on at least four Cash Money records including Tha Carter 2, Birdman’s 2005 solo album Fast Money, and the Wayne/Birdman joint album Like Father Like Son.

 

Among T Mix’s production credits is “I Run This,” the Lil’ Wayne-assisted third single from the 2007 Birdman album 5 * Stunna.

Estimating that his work has earned Cash Money over $30 million in gross income, Jones and his attorneys claim he is owed at least $2.25 million in mechanical and producer royalties.

 

However, since Cash Money has failed to provide Jones with royalty statements and accounts of album sales and downloads in the U.S. and abroad, the final amount owed may be more than the original amount sought.

Jones states that he has received partial payments totaling $187, 850 to date.

 

In addition to the royalties owed, Jones is seeking court and attorney fees, including the costs associated with reviewing the royalty statements to determine additional monies due him.

 

www.allhiphop.com

 

 

  

Diamond Girl

Rosa Acosta

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NFL Players lost at sea

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NFL players Corey Smith & Marquis Cooper are among four boaters that remain missing since Saturday night off Florida’s Gulf Coast:

Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper and NFL free agent Corey Smith, who played for the Detroit for the past three seasons, have not returned from a Saturday fishing trap in water off Clearwater, Florida, family members and colleagues said Sunday.

“It feels like my greatest fear coming true — it doesn’t feel real,” Cooper’s wife, Rebekah, told CNN affiliate WTSP in Tampa on Sunday afternoon. “I’m just waiting for a phone call.”

The Coast Guard began searching around 2 a.m. Sunday after it learned that four men — Cooper, Smith, and former University of Florida football players William Bleakley and Nick Schuyler — had not returned from their fishin trip Saturday evening as expected.

Rough weather has hampered the effort, but “it’s still a very active search,” Coast Guard Capt. Tim Close told reporters Sunday afternoon. Poor visibility from heavy waves forced the search-and-rescue effort to be conducted primarily by air, though authorities deployed patrol boats as well, Close said.

Searchers have focused on 750 square miles of open water in the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles west of Clearwater Pass. From there, the men had left the Seminole Boat Ramp in a 21-foot single-engine boat about 6:30 a.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard said.

Rebekah Cooper said she became worried Saturday night when she didn’t hear from her husband. She called her one of her husband’s fishing buddies, Brian Miller, who contacted the Coast Guard with the coordinates of where the men planned to fish.

“Usually I’m on the boat. It’s a little difficult wondering if something would have been different if I had been there,” Miller said. “Or who knows? They may be just sitting out there with a broken motor — and that’s what we’re hoping for.”He said it was clear something was wrong when Cooper didn’t call Saturday night.

“He should’ve been within range to use his cell phone, and he knows enough to shut it off when he goes out so the batteries are still there,” he said. Close said weather conditions were relatively good Saturday, “but the weather picked up overnight.” “It’s a small vessel for the conditions that are out there right now,” Close said Sunday afternoon.

Rebekah Cooper said her husband was aware of Sunday’s weather forcast and for that reason picked Saturday for the trip. “Fishing is his first love, it always has been,” she said, adding, “I have a lot of faith in him out there.”

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www.bossip.com

 

 

  

MTV Games, Warner: No 'Rock Band' Boycott Of WMG Artists
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By Antony Bruno, Denver

MTV Games is not boycotting Warner Music Group artists from the “Rock Band” franchise, despite what an article in the current Wired magazine claims, according to sources from both camps.

Rather, the impasse is best described as a stalemate. WMG CEO and chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. said last August during the company’s quarterly earnings call that it would start demanding higher licensing rates from music-based videogames.

According to multiple sources involved, WMG has not struck any new content deals for the “Rock Band” platform since.

MTV requested several new licenses in that time, under the same deal terms as before, but WMG responded with counteroffers that MTV would not agree to. So MTV has stopped requesting new licenses until both parties can resolve the licensing dispute.

“Rock Band” releases new music that can be downloaded to the game every week. Rival “Guitar Hero” does so far more infrequently. Since the beginning of this year, several WMG artists—such as Belly, The Grateful Dead, and The Pretenders, among others—have been added to the weekly download offers. And more are in the pipeline, including the entirety of Jane’s Addiction's “Nothing’s Shocking” sometime in the next month.

But these releases are all a result of licensing deals struck prior to Bronfman’s statements last summer. If no deal is reached soon, “Rock Band” will run out of new WMG content to sell in its weekly updates early this summer. What’s more, even once the stalemate ends it could still take as long as four to five months before new WMG content is reinserted into the weekly pipeline, given the time it takes to program music into the game as well as the need to give priority to deals made earlier.

By all accounts, WMG is ready to wait it out. It recently pulled its content from YouTube over a similar licensing disagreement, and previously removed music from Last.fm and Nokia’s mobile music store.

But it faces a more difficult challenge with videogames like “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero.” Unlike digital retailers--which really need content from all four majors to offer a compelling product--these games only offer a segment of available music to its users. And both are also able to offer cover versions of songs for which they can’t get master recording rights. Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid,” for instance, is one of the top 10 best-selling songs available on the Rock Band downloadable content platform… as a cover.

Until now, the back-and-forth between the videogame makers and WMG was limited to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick—publisher of “Guitar Hero”—and Bronfman. MTV has been far more diplomatic in its response, but is rather letting its actions—refusing WMG’s new licensing terms—speak louder than its words.

source:

www.billboard.com