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Sony Music Making CutsNews | Date: 0000-00-00 Sony BMG is reportedly terminating their urban music division and a large number of the unit's current employees are expected to be laid off. According to label insiders and industry experts who spoke to the New York Post, the announcement of Sony Urban's dissolution will be made on December 1 ... |
DMX Signs With Sony, Not G-UnitNews | Date: 0000-00-00 After barking loudly on Def Jam since the late 1990s, he's called it a day and left the label. DMX has signed a deal with the Sony Music Group. You may recall that X was signed to Columbia (now part of Sony Music) in the early '90s but never released material. ... |
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Nas To Join The Def Jam RosterNews | Date: 0000-00-00 Music industry executives close to the deal recently told the New York Times that God's Son and the God emcee are expected to finally enter a business agreement. While Nas is now a free agent, he reportedly had one album left on Sony. His new contract is said to be a venture between Sony and Def ... |
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Young Buck To Perform At MansionNews | Date: 0000-00-00 G-Unit soldier Young Buck is set to become the latest rapper to perform as part of the Cingular Wireless and Sony Ericsson "Flash Concerts 2006" concert series. Buck will take the stage at The Mansion in Miami Beach on Friday, December 1 to perform for scores of fans for free who ... |
Lil' Flip Officially Leaves SonyNews | Date: 0000-00-00 Lil' Flip was rumored to be leaving Sony for the Warner Music Group due to the frustration of his much delayed album I Need Mine. It was slated to hit stores late last year, but it was pushed back to a May release which also never occurred. According to Lal, the negotiations for Flip's release ... |
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Lil' Flip's Postponed Album Leaked, Houston MC Leaves SonyNews | Date: 0000-00-00 In addition to the rumors, I Need Mine has leaked onto the Internet earlier today (June 27). Some insiders believe it is retaliatory move made by Sony. Representatives for Sony declined to comment. I Need Mine was slated to have hit stores late last year, but it was pushed back to a May release whi ... |
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Project Pat Dropped From SonyNews | Date: 0000-00-00 Rapper Project Pat is now a free agent in the music world. Sources said that the Memphis, TN rapper, who is best known for his albums Ghetty Green and Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin', was released from Sony Records on Monday (Feb. 26). The move represents a turning point for Project Pat, ... |
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Sony BMG Accused of Recial DiscriminationNews | Date: 0000-00-00 A federal agency has revealed that Sony BMG Music Entertainment, home to Columbia and Jive Records, intentionally laid off its black employees from a New York City sales office while keeping its white employees. According to the New York Post, an October 2006 ruling by the New York office ... |
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Jim Jones Signs Multimillion Dollar Deal With...Rumors | Date: 2007-10-05 Ms. Info of Hot 97 in New York interviewed Jim Jones and this is what he had to say: I just left the lawyers office. I signed a multimillion dollar joint venture with Sony. My boss is Rick Rubin and Hip Hop (Kyambo Joshua) is doing my albums with me. What you think Jay-Z is gonna think about that ... |
Radio Station Payola Affecting The Music IndustryNews | Date: 0000-00-00 In one instance, a Sony BMG executive contemplated to promote Killer Mike's "A.D.I.D.A.S" by sending deejays one Adidas sneaker. DJ's would receive the other sneaker after playing the single ten times. Elsewhere, Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony BMG, offered a flat-screen television to San Diego' ... |
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Lil Flip Found Guilty of Copyright InfringementNews | Date: 0000-00-00 The jury ruled that Suckafree Records, Flip (born Wesley Eric Weston), his manager Estelle Douglass Hobbs, Sony Music Entertainment, Columbia Records, Loud Records, Lucky Publishing and Hobbs Publishing infringed the copyright on music featured on the rapper's major label debut, Underground Legend. ... |
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The Game & Young Buck Perform FreeNews | Date: 0000-00-00 The Game, Young Buck and Lupe Fiasco are among the list of hip-hop artists who will play exclusive concerts across the United States as part of "Flash Concerts 2006." Sponsored by Cingular Wireless and Sony Ericsson, "Flash Concerts 2006" kicked off in Atlanta , GA with Y ... |
Sony BMG sued over CD spywareNews | Date: 0000-00-00 Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said it was the first lawsuit filed under the state's Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act of 2005. He accused Sony BMG of installing files on consumers' computers without their owners' knowledge and which hide other files installed by Sony. The state i ... |
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Nas Launches New Label Under Def JamNews | Date: 0000-00-00 As reported earlier in the week, Nas announced his signing with Def Jam. His new contract involves a joint venture between Island Def Jam and Sony Records, Columbia's parent company, with the companies working as financial partners on Nas' first two albums under a four album deal. For the initial tw ... |
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Producer Delays Release Of New Big Pun AlbumNews | Date: 0000-00-00 According to the New York Daily News, Producer John "Jellybean" Benitez is allegedly holding up the potential project "because he didn't think of the idea himself. "Sony owns Big Pun as an artist, but Jellybean owns the publishing rights to many of the songs," a source told ... |
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Nas Releasing 'Hip Hop Is Dead'News | Date: 0000-00-00 After having his album pushed back numerous times, Nas is finally scheduled to release his highly anticipated Hip-Hop Is Dead LP on December 19. The album will mark the Queens, NY lyricist's first offering on Def Jam records under his own imprint, The Jones Experience. His new contract als ... |
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Ludacris Looks For Unsigned MC to Guest on Undisputed RemixNews | Date: 2008-11-06 Atlanta rapper Ludacris is searching for an unsigned rapper to appear on his upcoming album “Undisputed”. He just opens “The Undisputed Open Mic Throw down,” which is a countrywide contest via his spanking new social networking website wemix.com. The rapper will get a possi ... |
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Jadakiss To Def Jam?Rumors | Date: 0000-00-00 It was rumored that Jadakiss was not signing with Cash Money but however it was rumored he was headed to Def Jam. Well, rumor has it Jadakiss is getting very very close to doing a venture with Def Jam. From what sources are saying, this venture would be a co-deal with Ruff Ryders, and D-Block. ... |
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Sony Dropping PS3 PricesGaming Central | Date: 2007-07-09 Sony appears to have blinked first in the current video game console war. The company that dominated the battle among the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube announced Monday (July 9) that its current model of the eight-month-old PlayStation 3 will drop in price from $599 to $499 in North America ... |
Mary J. Blige To Recieve Legend AwardNews | Date: 0000-00-00 Performing on the two-hour show will be Ciara, Ludacris, Pharrell, Young Jeezy, Keyshia Cole, David Banner, Paul Wall and Lil Wayne, the latter three for a special Hurricane Katrina tribute. The Vibe Awards will be taped November 12 at Sony Studios in Culver City, California, and broadcast November ... |
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Flo Rida, Brisco & Billy Blue Give Back For ThanksgivingNews | Date: 2008-11-24 Poe Boy Music Group, WEDR 99 Jamz, and McDonald’s are showing South Florida how much they care. Particularly in 2008 with the increasing rate of unemployment, the rising cost of living, and the unbelievable amount of foreclosures this year has been economically difficult for most ... |
Lil Romeo's Bow Wow Diss Gets No Radio Play, Master P Blames SonyNews | Date: 0000-00-00 The song is Romeo's direct response to Bow Wow's "Fresh Azimiz." It began playing on Los Angeles radio station KKBT back in February. The song has Romeo boasting that he'll take Bow's "chick," while the video features a Ciara look-alike. Bow dated Ciara until the pair recently sp ... |
