Hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre's 20-year-old son Andre R. Young Jr. was found dead on Saturday (Aug. 23) in his Los Angeles home. According to a spokesperson for the L.A. coroner, Young's mother discovered his unresponsive body in bed at about 10:24 a.m.
The wake up show is allowing rappers to download music and create the dopest rhymes on the planet using exclusive beats worth over $100,000 collected from some of the illest producers in the game!Heres the detail: Think you got the skills to crush the competition? Grab a beat, rap over...
After months, even years of speculation on what Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III would sound like, many journalists and fans have previously inquired on personnel behind the milestone album. After telling one journalist that the whole album was produced by him and featuring only him, Lil Wayne ended up enlisting...
The Author writes: I’ve known Shakir Stewart and have been watching his executive evolution since the late 90s. During that period he was heading up L.A. Reid’s Atlanta-based boutique HITCO music publishing company—which was home to songwriters such as producer Shek’spere and Beyonce. In 2004, Reid brought Stewart, of his...
An upcoming application for the iPhone will allow people to compose simple tunes on the go. Mark Terry of Moo Cow Music took the stage at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday to demonstrate the application, called "Band." Band for iPhone includes two-octave piano, guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, vinyl...
HHNLive.com writer SoulStice sits down with "Flashing Lights" producer Eric Hudson to talk about his hit song with Kanye and how it came about, bringing soulful creativity back to music, how producers get paid, Whitney Houston and more. Eric on "Flashing Lights": "Yo, I had originally did that beat for...
Having a degree can’t hurt, but the decision is up to you. Kanye West enrolled in college, but then dropped hence the name of his album College Dropout. Timbaland never went to school and Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard. Clearly success can be achieved without a degree. However, some...
Ike Barnes from the beatcreators.com asked me a great question. This is such a good question I’m going to answer it here online. Here’s Ike’s question “If Sam Walton was a music producer what things would he do to advertise build a brand as a producer?” Here’s My answer: To...
Besides serving his community service, having a new baby and preparing his new album, T.I. is also taking up making beats. "I was in the Grand Hustle studio. We sat down. [Tip] told me he wanted to produce five records for me," Rick Ross said. "I was like,...
