Throughout his career, Ne-Yo has regularly been called upon by hip-hop's heavyweights to lend his vocals and songwriting abilities for their records. The Grammy Award-winning ...

Photographs by Asia Minor Well, sort of. Last week, when I heard Ski Beatz was hosting a beatmaking class at New York's Scratch DJ Academy, I ...

Yesterday (May 13), it was announced that Michael Clervoix—better known as Sha Money XL—officially left his post as SVP of A&R for Island Def Jam ...

The ability to make a successful career out of doing what you love is a dream everybody strives for, and the thing ...

Since announcing the CMG label partnership with Epic Records, Yo Gotti hasn’t stopped putting in work for his next album. The self-proclaimed King of Memphis, ...

Throughout his 10-plus years in the music industry, Killer Mike has established himself as one of hip-hop's strongest and most uncompromising voices. From his 2003 ...

When the trailer for Terence Nance's debut feature film, An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty, came out a few weeks ago, confused hip-hop blogs across the ...

John Jackson, bka Fabolous, is just a quiet kid from Brooklyn’s Brevoort housing projects, who first hit the music scene in 2001 with the release ...

Ever since Kid Ink signed with RCA Records, the Los Angeles rapper hasn’t stopped thinking of new ways to climb to the top. It’s evident ...