Source: SOHH.com
MTV is planning to reach out to Hip-Hop listeners with a series of new marketing tactics through the sponsorship of film festivals and car shows.
Recently, MTV2 sponsored The Urban World Film Festival, which showcases urban, ethnic and multicultural films. The network has also sponsored other festivals, car shows and other functions that aren’t directly tied into music.
“You have blinders on if you’re only marketing music in music venues,” MTV2 president [...]
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Sean “P. Diddy” Combs has been ordered to pay $35,000 in child support to his son Justin and his mother, Misa Brim.
According to the nylawyer.com, Diddy was also ordered to pay $400,000 in retroactive child support for payments dating from June 2003. The mogul was paying only $5,000 a month before Brim demanded an increase earlier this year.
Carol Ann Jones, a Westchester Family Court judge reportedly advised Combs to take out a $4 [...]
Source: BallerStatus.net
Hip-hop journalist, Rahiem Shabazz, has just finished up a script for a film he calls “The Sun Will Rise.” Already gaining interest from Universal Pictures along with many noted hip-hop artists, radio and television personalites, the film looks to be something fans should look out for.
“The Sun Will Rise” centers around two artists (Malachi and Stephon) that get signed by a rap mogul, but then their chances at stardom are lost when [...]
Source: AllHipHop.com
Two women who filed a lawsuit against Snoop Dogg after being featured on the front cover of “Girls Gone Wild Doggy Style” have settled out of court.
Terms of the settlement were not immediately available and under the terms of the deal, attorneys were not available to comment.
The two women claimed that Joseph Francis, owner of Mantra Films which distributed the Snoop episode along with other popular “Girls Gone Wild Series,” broke a [...]
Source: SOHH.com
After enjoying platinum sales with the first installment of his Beef DVD, QD3 is prepping the release of Beef II.
While the first volume explored beefs between KRS-One & MC Shan and Busy Bee & Kool Moe Dee, the sequel elaborates on battles mentioned in the first installment, which sold well over 1 million DVDs.
The documentary features interviews with 50 Cent, Method Man, Redman, Canibus, Ice Cube, LL Cool J, DMX, Nelly, [...]
