There once was a time when the DJ stood front and center in hip-hop. Yet slowly, the MC made his advance — from hyping the disc jockey to free-style rap duels and tag-team collabs, on to the revered hip-hop collectives of the late ’80s and early ’90s before the final… Read more...
Urban music’s top creators shared the stage tonight at BMI’s Urban Awards at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. The annual event celebrates the songwriters, producers and music publishers of the past year’s most-performed r&b, rap and hip-hop songs in the BMI repertoire. The 2011 ceremony featured high-wattage star power and… Read more...
Hip-hop rather infamously eats its young, but that’s no big thing for 18-year-old producer G5kidMurph. Murph – born Joshua Murphy – produced one of the summer’s major tracks, Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em’s smash “Pretty Boy Swag,” which easily broke into Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop chart and enjoyed a three-month-plus run on the… Read more...
BMI saluted the world’s premier R&B, rap and hip-hop songwriters, producers and publishers Thursday, September 10 at its annual Urban Awards. BMI President & CEO Del Bryant and Catherine Brewton, Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, Atlanta, hosted the ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway… Read more...
