Cormega & Various Hip-Hop Artists Team Up to Record “I Made a Difference” Benefit Song in Support of Sean Penn’s Organization, JPRO

Cormega

After a successful coat drive this past winter and performing at the Hip-Hop For Haiti concert at S.O.B.'s in New York, Cormega continues to use his talent to make positive contributions to the devastated island. His new song, "I Made A Difference," featuring Redman, General Steele from Cocoa … [Read more...]

Hip-Hop Word Count Gets Funded

If Google had to raise fund for the maintenance of its continuous operation, Hip-Hop Word Count has been raising money since December through Kickstarter.com. The main objective of this fund raising project is to pay programmers who have been coding the custom PHP to get the website finished and … [Read more...]

AdAge Twitter Hype Overshadows Actual Eminem Marketing

I'm definitely not a big Eminem fan but his return is a huge event, his album should do well based on such early indicators as Amazon preorders and I'm certainly trying to get my share of the action with multiple posts even as I question some of the ethics of the marketing campaign. That … [Read more...]

Tanya Morgan: Brooklynati Album Cover Art & Passive-Aggressive Promotional Campaign

Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati Tanya Morgan's Brooklynati is due May 12th on Interdependent Media. A somewhat elusive group, Tanya Morgan's Brooklynati site is fairly subtle and not especially engaging, they seem to have lost tanyamorgan.com and their MySpace page states: "THE NAME MEANS … [Read more...]

B-Real’s Smoke N Mirrors: Duck Down Promotional Campaign

"B-Real Print Ads confirmed in XXL, Murder Dog, Fader Magazine" Here are a few examples of the graphics Duck Down is using in their promotional campaign for B-Real's Smoke N Mirrors from their B-Real page under "Press". Leaderboard Web Ad for "Tier 1 Sites" These are … [Read more...]