Music can settle your nerves, relieve depression, uplift spirits, relax you after a long, hard or busy day as well as offer motivation to some otherwise uninspired souls.  Therefore, it is well worth the 99-cents that iTunes charge for a download.
Recently at Walmart, I noticed that in the check-out isle there were music cards not [...]

Do you know that U.S. terrestrial broadcasters are exempt from paying a public performance right for sound recordings?  This leaves hundreds of thousands of U.S. songwriters and composers in the lurch.  The royalties are generated when a copyrighted song is performed publicly, whether on a traditional radio station, satellite radio, at a sports event or [...]

If a songwriter links up with the right rapper or artist, he/she could end up in a very lucrative position and launch his career into the stratosphere.  Dolly Parton once joked that Whitney Houston made her so much money for the song “I Will Always Love You” that she was able to buy wigs of [...]

Nowadays, most indie rap artists know the word is that it’s a DIY environment because a lot of major labels want to know that you have a solid work ethic and a viable  commodity.  In other words, you have to invest considerable sums of money in yourself before a record label will feel that you [...]

eMultimediaGroup, Inc. is a hip hop and rap label that came on the hip hop music scene to serve as a catalyst for rappers and artists that dear to be so different as to be uncategorized.  As we’ve seen with Obama, all things new and agents of change are a hard sell, a long arduous [...]

Producer, Jair Dynast grew up in a household filled with music of a very versatile nature.  As a young boy of barely seven or eight years old, he was taken to outdoor concerts at Ontario Place up in Canada to hear “Chuck” Mangione, Ashford & Simpson and Roberta Flack.  Since that time, Jair has lived [...]

Do you have someone on your Christmas gifts list that’s between 16-24 years old?  Are you on a strict budget this holiday gift-giving season?  Have you had to consider only giving the kids on your gifts list and omit the adults?  Do you have someone on your list that you just don’t know what’s appropriate [...]

Are you annoyed at the way the authorities are dealing with graffiti art?  If you live in a major city in North America, you are almost certain to encounter these beautiful paintings that grace more than a few otherwise bland walls.  There’s an attitude that comes from these authorities because some criminal elements in our [...]

ASCAP Bill of Rights for Songwriters and Composers has adopted ten core principles to ensure that all rappers, songwriters and producers benefit from the exposure generated from their creative works on the Internet.
Most new rap music artists are looking for exposure for their music but no rapper expects to be exploited to the extent that [...]

To help build the hype behind their releases, major rap record labels like Def Jam often hold conference calls for mixshow radio DJs around the country with their most popular artists. Hip Hop DJs from around the country each get to ask one question of the artist often related to the process of making the [...]