Roundup: Hip Hop Business News

Singles chart report. Linkin Park donates 100k to tsunami relief. Hip Hop Blogs' Hashim Warren adds his take to Mark Cuban on hip hop culture and the NBA. Brand Autopsy's John Moore elaborates on NPR's CD Baby report. Way back before Christmas, Wyclef Jean was interviewed by Brian Braiker. Not quite … [Read more...]

More Tsunami Disaster Resources

MSNBC provides a diverse range of links while CyberJournalist.net focuses on a list of quake/tsunami bloggers. … [Read more...]

NPR: Rapper’s Delight, Stand and Deliver

NPR honors the 25th anniversary of Rapper's Delight, the hit that began the process of music labels taking hip hop from the streets, tarting it up and marketing it to the masses. Allison Keyes talks with Yvonne Bynoe, author of the new book Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership and … [Read more...]

Encore Again at No. 1

Eminem's album Encore has again reached the top album sales position. For more chart action, see Album Charts and Singles Charts. … [Read more...]

After the Tsunami

As the death toll continues to rise in the wake of the recent earthquake triggered tsunami, the region begins to enter the period where the lack of food and drinkable water combined with other needs will produce a death toll of its own, potentially even larger than that caused by the initial … [Read more...]