Now that Scott Storch has cleaned up his act, last week, he appeared on Shade 45′s morning drive. Following his interview, he allowed Brooklyn upstarts Shakespeare and Maffew Ragazino to spit never before heard tracks.  More after the jump. [Rap Radar]

A judge Wednesday scheduled an Oct. 4 trial date for country singer Billy Currington, who was charged in the spring with threatening a 70-year-old tour boat captain who cruised past the dock of a $3.5 million waterfront home in Georgia where the singer was staying. Currington’s attorney, Alex Zipperer, entered a not guilty plea for…

At just 16 years-old, Canadian-Nigerian producer Ebony “Wondagirl” Oshunrinde is already making a name for herself. After defeating 32 aspiring producers to win the 2012 Battle of the Beatmakers challenge, held in Oshunrinde’s native Toronto, the budding beat Betty created the sound for Jay Z’s track “Crown,” the Southern-flavored banger appearing on the rapper’s 12th…

Michelle Obama is making her own waves as the First Lady by releasing a hip hop inspired album for her campaign combating childhood obesity, fittingly named “Let’s Move!”.  Let’s Move! started back in February of 2010 and focuses on healthy eating and increasing physical activity for children. The Let’s Move! album may not include Mrs….

Here’s an outtake from the vocal session for The Beach Boy’s “Help Me Rhonda,” that’s interesting for a number of reasons: 1. You can hear the sophistication of their harmonies. There sure was a lot for them to remember. 2. You can hear how flat they are in the beginning of the session and how…

Drake and Common engaged in a battle of words in 2011 and 2012 that started off with subliminal disses before Common made it clear that the Toronto rapper was his target. Looking back, Drake says that he was drawn to the verbal sparring because Common struck first with the No I.D.-produced “Sweet” in November 2011….

Rock and hip-hop intersected in an unlikely place when Jay Z and Doors drummer John Densmore struck up a correspondence in the early 2000s, the rocker said yesterday in a segment on HuffPost Live. The drummer said that when Jay Z sampled the Doors’ “Five to One” on the rapper’s 2001 album The Blueprint, he didn’t understand the point….

No, I didn’t change my verse because I’m not a hoe ass nigga. I’m a real ass nigga from Detroit. I rep for everything that I do. I knew what it was going to do for hip-hop. I knew what it was going to do for the culture. This is the most exciting rap song…

Though the Beach Boys are divided rather than conquering a year after their triumphant 50th anniversary reunion tour, Mike Love is not ruling out the possibility of it happening again. But he has some stipulations. “It depends, because the way it was run and the people who were running it I have serious issues with,”…

  Misa – developer of the unique guitar-style Kitara MIDI controller – has retired the Kitara and introduced a new controller, the Tri-Bass. According to Misa, the Tri-Bass “looks like a guitar, and has a name like a bass guitar, but is played like neither”. Instead, the new instrument is designed to ‘fit perfectly in…