Akon, the top-selling ringtone artist of all time, is building a futuristic city in Senegal that will trade exclusively in Akoin: a cryptocurrency named after himself. If you have been away from the news for a while, yes, this…

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A Nigerian DJ has broken the world record for the longest ever DJ set. Earlier this month, DJ Obi completed a 240-hour marathon on the decks at a Lagos cafe, smashing the previous record of 200 hours set in Dublin…

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The Other Festival is bringing major girl power to New York. Billed as the “first all-female festival,” the one-day event is loaded with panels from female entrepreneurs followed by a concert series of all female acts. 
  
The festival’s founder, Dee…

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Nas may not have been putting out a lot of music lately but he's been making his rounds as an investor and now as Executive producer on the IFC film "The Land." 

Here's the synopsis and watch the trailer below:

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Ms. Lauryn Hill has launched a three-day series of music and art events celebrating the African Diaspora. The former Fugees singer inaugurated Diaspora Calling with a private art gallery at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre, which opens to the public on 4/14…

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A play about comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory will open off-Broadway this spring starring Joe Morton and with an original song by John Legend. "Turn Me Loose," by Gretchen Law will play the Westside Theatre starting May 3…

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Sony is set to buy out the Michael Jackson estate’s half stake in the Sony/ATV song catalogue for $750 million. The total “includes a lump sum payment by SCA of approximately $733 million as well as distributions previously committed to…

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Ryan Leslie gave every fan his phone number. It’s (915) 600-6978. But instead of a million unwanted phone calls, it’s making him money and giving him deeper intelligence about his listeners than anyone in the music business. That’s why A16z’s…

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Unless you’ve been totally hidden from society you have probably seen or heard about the Flint Water Crisis. A systematic poisoning of an entire city in Flint, Michigan via the negligence and out right disregard of the water delivered to…

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History was made with DJ Con back on Nov 19, 2015 in Harlem, New York when 125 DJ's rocked on125th Street at the Apollo Theatre. It was sponsored by The 125th St. Business Improvement District. If you missed it don't…

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Seeing names like Drake or the Weeknd appear on the Billboard Hot 100 is commonplace today.
But 10 years ago, there was zero Canadian hip hop on those charts. That was until Kardinal Offishall
became the first Canadian rapper to…Read more

There's child prodigies, and then there's child prodigies: DJ Arch Jnr, the three-year-old DJ
from South Africa who just became the youngest winner ever of South Africa's Got Talent, is
giving new meaning to the term. The toddler, whose already-enviable…Read more

Lifetime is getting into the hip-hop game. Following the success of Fox's Empire, the female-skewing
cable network is teaming with Queen Latifah and Jermaine Dupri for a new unscripted series called
The Rap Game. The eight-episode series, set to premiere…Read more

Akon, a hip-hop star who's collaborated with everyone from Eminem to Andy Samberg, is about to release
his first albums in seven years but you won't find them in stores or on streaming services like Spotify.
Instead, he plans to…Read more

David Banner puts historical perspective to business of today.
He sums up business deals, contracts, natural resources, 
intellectual property and so much more. Professor Banner is
rarely off point and this is no exception. He did all of this 
promoting…Read more

The music industry is modern-day “slavery.” Record labels are running a “shell game.” Music streaming
is sucking artists dry. And rights-management groups are nothing more than “collection agencies” that fail
to pass along any real money to artists. At least,…Read more

In an ongoing feud that goes back some years which stems from Action Bronson
stealing the style, flow, and imitating the voice of WuTang Clan's Ghostface Killer, 
Ghost straight checks Action Bronson on this.  The spark was Action Bronson
saying…Read more

U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt ruled that the copyright infringement verdict a jury reached in March should
be cut from nearly $7.4 million to $5.3 million. The judge's ruling, however, gives Gaye's family 50 percent of the
song's future…Read more

Janet Jackson's Unbreakable World Tour is coming to the East Coast. Jackson has added 27 more cities to her trek,
beginning January 12, 2016, in Portland, Oregon, with stops planned for New York City, Washington DC, Boston,
Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia…Read more

Rapper Nasir 'Nas' Jones takes us on a world tour of breakdancing in the most unexpected places.
We visit the slums, shanty towns and ghettos of the world, where hip-hop really means something.
With jaw-dropping breakdancing moves, b-boys and b-girls…Read more

Hip-hop mogul Master P says his new show brings something that's missing from reality TV: positivity.
The rapper invited cameras to follow his life with five of his children, ages 10 to 25, for "Master P's Family Empire."
"We're about…Read more