Rap entrepreneur Damon Dash would like the women of the world to know that his days of pouring bubbly all over their bikini’d bodies are over, and that he’s sorry for objectifying them in Jay Z’s “Big Pimpin’” music video back in the year 2000. At the time, “Champagne Dame” was Jigga’s manager and Roc-a-Fella Records…

On Monday, announced her new album, called 1989 after the year of her birth, during a live stream that began with her greeting fans from atop the Empire State Building. Available in October, 1989 will include “Shake It Off,” the song whose video she also premiered during the event….

The Made in America festival is coming to downtown Los Angeles, not as an inconvenience, but as a way to boost the local economy and create jobs for crew specializing in construction, lighting and sound, among dozens of additional professional tasks. So boasted L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti in a press conference held on Thursday, after…

Exclusive: On August 31, it will be ten years since Fabolous released his hard-hitting track “Breathe.” Producer Just Blaze drops some facts on making the song….

In 2012, a hard-strumming British singer named Ed Sheeran performed his first Los Angeles gig at the tiny Hotel Cafe, capacity 165. Roughly a year later, the young beatbox troubadour sold out the Nokia Theatre on his 22nd birthday — capacity 7,100. On Wednesday, he returned to an effusive reception from about 20,000 fans at…

President Barack Obama has nominated Danny Marti to be the new U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator, or “piracy czar.” Marti is the managing partner of Kilpatrick Townsend’s Washington, D.C., office. He is an Emory University law school graduate, and he served as co-chair of Kilpatrick Townsend’s intellectual asset acquisitions and transactions team from 2010 to…

The Johnny Ramone tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery has become a tradition. This past Sunday marked the tenth annual event honoring the late guitarist. In a marathon celebration that began before sundown diehard Ramones fans were treated to a Q&A that included Johnny’s widow Linda, Duff McKagan, host Rob Zombie and more, an all-star concert…

Common is curating this year’s AAHH! Fest which will take place on September 21, at Union Park in Chicago….

Kanye West has been sued by Ricky Spicer, the Ponderosa Twins Plus One singer behind the sample from “Bound 2”. The New York Daily News reports that Spicer has asked West to compensate him or cease and desist from using his voice. Spicer sang “Bound” as a 12-year-old….

In the wake of the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the Game has enlisted a formidable force of 10 rappers and four R&B crooners, banding together in protest on musical molotov “Don’t Shoot.” On the track, the Game is joined by Diddy, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, Diddy, Fabolous, Wale, DJ Khaled,…