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Rapper also announces release date for his 10th album
Snoop Dogg has been appointed Creative Chairman of Priority Records by the imprint’s owner EMI.
In a statement about the appointment posted on Priorityrecords.com, Snoop Dogg hailed himself the “Boss Dogg” of the label.
Priority Records’ catalog has included the likes of NWA, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Jay-Z, [...]

Eminem was never a part of Def Jam Records, but the rapper is going to be part of the celebration when the legendary label is honored by VH1.
Eminem will join Mary J. Blige, DMX, Public Enemy, Kid Rock, the Roots and more when the label is feted at the network’s sixth annual Hip Hop Honors.
Def [...]

The-Dream is moving from the studio to a Vice Presidential office at Island Records !
“I wanna Thank everyone at Island Records/DefJam for their faith in me and making me Executive Vice President of Island Records,” The-Dream wrote on Twitter earlier today.
The-Dream will now oversee Island Records’ development of talent, a role that was once [...]

Shaheed Najm & his son Fahiym “T-Pain” Najm in 2005

Tensions have been high between T-Pain and his father/former manager Shaheed Najm ever since Shaheed was left sitting alone at the negotiating table at Interscope Records in L.A. while his son signed paperwork with Akon’s Konvict Music label in Atlanta back in 2005. Needless to say, [...]

Some of the most highly anticipated albums of the summer have been delayed, including Mariah Carey’s “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” Sean “Diddy” Combs’ “Last Train to Paris” and Lil Wayne’s rock and roll album “Rebirth.”
Carey’s “Memoirs,” first slated for an August 25 release via Island Def Jam, will instead be available September 15, according [...]

Jay-Z is drawing up a curious date for his latest Blueprint.
The Jigga Man’s Blueprint³ will drop on Sept. 11, eight years to the day when the first Blueprint hit stores—and fell off the media radar in the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
News of the release, which will be distributed [...]

Kris Allen, winner of U.S. TV’s top-rated singing contest “American Idol,” has signed a record deal with producer 19 Recordings, and his debut album is expected to be released this coming fall through Jive Records.
“Everyone’s been asking me what it’s going to sound like. It will be very similar to what you heard from me [...]

Back for its sixth year saluting the best in hip hop, VH1’s Hip Hop Honors 2009 will celebrate the achievements of one of hip hop’s greatest brands — Def Jam Records. The music event will tape from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, New York, and air on VH1 [...]

June, the beginning of summer, Black Music Month and often one of the biggest month’s for new releases in R&B/Soul and Hip Hop. With that said, this year is no different as everyone from Ginuwine and Mos Def to Teena Marie and Al B. Sure! are releasing new albums.
Kicking off a busy month, soulful [...]

VIA Bossip:
According to bossip.com, Yung Joc is going after the infamous career-ending Diddy and Bad Boy Records. He might be the only one in the history of Bad Boy to actually take Diddy to court over money and his music.
Yung Joc reports that there has been some shady business deals, missing budgets, and now rumors [...]

Grammy nominated R&B group Jagged Edge is ready to break ground on new music thanks to a recently signed deal with Slip N Slide Records !
Joining labelmates Trina, Rick Ross and Trick Daddy, Jagged Edge is fast at work on their next album set for release in 2010.
“We are happy to embark on our collaboration [...]

There will be no encore for Jay-Z and Def Jam.
The rapper confirms reports that he has left the record company where he made most of his biggest hits and went from artist to president, and back to artist again.
In an interview with the Web site RapRadar.com, he thanks the label’s executives and calls his time [...]

LEE CARR feat. YUNG JOC
“PATRON (RHYTHM & NUVO)”
The voice that brought you “Stilettos” featuring Jadakiss & the follow up record “Breathe” is back with a new club banger. After months of wanting his freedom [...]

An artist formerly signed to SEAN COMBS’ record label has slammed the star in a tell-all book about his time spent with the rapper’s company.
Mark Curry is set to publish Dancing With The Devil, a memoir that details his years at Combs’ Bad Boy Records, which the I’ll Be Missing You hitmaker founded in 1993.
Curry [...]

Following is a preview of noteworthy releases for the first two months of the year.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
“WORKING ON A DREAM” (COLUMBIA, JAN. 27)
Reinvigorated by the rich pop that fueled 2006’s “Magic” and the tour that followed, Bruce Springsteen, the E Street Band and producer Brendan O’Brien knocked out “Working on a Dream” in occasional sessions while [...]