Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed code In less than a month, X found himself behind bars. DMX was taken into custody in South Carolina last night for possession of marijuana and having an active warrant. According to TMZ, cops spotted 4 bags of weed inside the F350 he was riding in during a…

Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed code With a week to go until Hall of Fame arrives, Big Sean shared some insight into two of the biggest collaborations on his sophomore album, “First Chain” with Nas and Kid Cudi and “Milf” featuring Nicki Minaj and Juicy J. “‘Milf’ is definitely raunchy, but it’s real…

The nominations for the 44th Annual Dove Awards were announced this morning, with a diverse slate of top artists including Steven Curtis Chapman, Lecrae and TobyMac all in the mix for inspirational music’s biggest night. Chris Tomlin, who topped the Billboard 200 chart in January with his “Burning Lights” album, will go head to head…

It had been a minute since many fans had seen Foxy Brown up close and personal, but that changed this past week when the Bedford-Stuyvesant femcee made a tearful appearance on “RapFix Live,” as part of the unofficial kickoff to the 2013 VMAs in Brooklyn. Sitting alongside fellow Brooklynite Big Daddy Kane, Foxy told host…

  Loaded Lux recently spoke about his favorite battles and his open invitation to take on Eminem. “This is out of nowhere but one day, if I could get that bout, that would be something,” Loaded Lux said of a battle with Eminem in an interview with VladTV.  “That’d be the one. That seals the…

A submarine, Tahitian ukuleles, music written in Renaissance Italy — these were some of the elements put in play by this year’s Emmy-nominated composers for music composition for a series and original main title theme music. The categories saw Netflix’s new presence emerge arguably even more forcefully than elsewhere: David Schwartz, nominated for dramatic score,…

Kanye West gave his first television interview in three years yesterday to a familiar face: Entertainment Weekly reports that West sat down with Kris Jenner, host of the new talk show Kris, to talk about his relationship with Jenner’s daughter, Kim Kardashian, their baby daughter North and the the pressures of fame and the media….

Focusrite Tape is an iPad recording solution with 2-track recording, instant mastering, customizable tape artwork and social media connectivity. Synthtopia talked about this iOS app earlier this summer as a tool to use with Focusrite’s iTrack Studio; the Tape for iPad app has now been released and is available for free in the App Store. Users…

Country crooner Jake Owen is taking aim at roots rocker Tom Petty for Petty’s recent digs against contemporary country music.  In a recent radio interview, Owen called Petty’s comments “ridiculous” and “uneducated,” adding that he couldn’t understand why Petty was making comments about a format he’s not even a part of. Petty recently told “Rolling…

Macklemore recently spoke about perceptions and his competitive nature. “I’m a competitive person,” Macklemore said in an interview with New York radio station Power 105.1. “I understand why people get put into boxes. Once you have a song like a ‘Thrift Shop,’ or even a ‘Can’t Hold Us,’ it’s easy for people to label it…