Now that the NFL has inked a deal with Bose, players will no longer be able wear their Beats By Dre headphones on the field.  This includes players and coaches. The Bose deal was signed in August.  Motorola was the league’s sponsor for 13 years paying,million a year. The league’s deal takes precedence over all players […]

Mapei was born in Rhode Island, but eventually split her time in adolescence between Stockholm, Sweden and Brooklyn, NY. She began as a rapper, releasing her…

After weeks of speculation and teases from Tyrese and Dr. Dre, it’s official! Apple Inc. has agreed to pay $3 billion to purchase Beats Electronics, the headphone and music-streaming service founded by iconic rapper/producer Dr. Dre and music executive Jimmy Iovine, Biz Journals reported. The price is about $200 million lower than the number initially […]

Soooooo, the guy that originally designed BeatsByDre, before they were Beats, and brought it to Jimmy Iovine, asked for Dre to be involved, and originally told Jimmy to ask Apple to be the distribution, Steven Lamar, has filed a lawsuit against Beats citing 4% of back royalties for almost every pair of Beats headphones sold! […]

Despite what reports and people are saying, Dr. Dre will not be a millionaire after Apple acquires Beats. Word hit yesterday that Apple wanted to…

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  Hip-Hop used to be all about originality and celebrating individuality. However, somewhere along the line, rappers starting coveting beats and flows that were hotter…

Over the course of Nas' career, the one thing that's always frustrated his fans is his inability to pick good beats. We're not saying that he hasn't had any good beats on his albums, but dude picked Chris Webber's beats over DJ Premier's beats on "Hip Hop Is Dead."

In an interview shot for actor Michael Rappaport's upcoming documentary on legendary hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, "Beats Rhymes & Life," Ludacris talks about how the Queens, New York group influenced them. Click here to see what Luda had to say about Tribe.