“Twenty-seven-year-old Rap-A-Lot Records has signed its latest distribution partnership. James “J.” Prince’s Houston, Texas-based label has released heralded albums from Geto Boys (Making Trouble), Scarface (The Diary), Devin The Dude (Just Tryin’ To Live), Bun B (Trill O.G.) and The Convicts 1991 self-titled effort throughout its discography. This week, the label announced its partnership with…

  Developer Patchworks has released Conductr, a new iPad app they call ‘the first Ableton Live controller for iPad specifically designed for live performance’. Here’s what they have to say about Conductr: CONDUCTR is ERGONOMIC (4 different view modes: you only see what you want to see), MODULAR (you can create as many User Modules…

BET: You got some backlash for anti-gay lyrics and you gave a statement to the Huffington Post. Do you regret using the word “f*****”? No, not at all. It’s much different than the autism thing, it wasn’t conscious; that was a slip-up, being offensive without intent. The line was to engage the conversation of homophobia…

Power 105′s morning crew invited TJ back to the show. On this go round, he discusses fame, “Females Welcomed”, side chicks, making the XXL freshman class, “All Gold Everything (Remix)” and more. UPDATE: Trini’s back. He talks about his perception and beefs with Joe Budden, and Joey Bada$$? [Rap Radar]

Pandora announced Thursday it will no longer enforce mobile listening cap as of September 1st. At the same time, the company revealed two new cost-saving measures, a sleep timer and a limit of song skips within a 24-hour period. The cap was implemented in late February in order to control the royalty costs associated with…

MacProVideo.com recently announced the release of an educational DSP plug-in designed to help audio producers learn software and music production skills, directly inside of Logic Pro X. This new plugin, called the macProVideo Player, is a 64-bit AU plug-in designed specifically for Logic Pro X and other 64-bit Audio DAWs. The macProVideo Player plug-in can…

For a moment, it looked like all you needed to afford a couple semesters at a top private university was to twerk for Juicy J: Earlier today, as HipHopDX reports, the rapper tweeted that he would be “giving out a 50k scholarships to the best chick that can twerk.” Although Juicy J went on to…

Big Sean has discovered that in order to find the spotlight, sometimes you have to stay out of it. The rapper put Miley Cyrus front-and-center in his recent “Fire” music video, with his face seen just briefly in the background. Then he released “Control,” featuring an explosively competitive verse from Kendrick Lamar that overshadowed his…

Sonic State has the new Korg Volca line of analog gear in the studio and this video captures a first look at the Volca Bass, Volca Beats and Volka Keys. via sonicstate: Not quite an unboxing, We couldn’t wait… But a preview, please leave your questions below for the full review when I return from…

  Looks like there are other people telling Mr. Combs to ‘take that take that‘.  Rashida Salaam, a former intern for the Sean John clothing mogul, is suing Diddy for various things such as making her go on “get coffee errands, making deliveries, and answering phones as exploitation.” “An unpaid intern from January 2012 to…