MEDIA WATCH, News

We’ll give the New York Times credit for bigging up the borough of Brooklyn and its importance in Hip-Hop culture, through the lens of gentrification. However, the Grey Lady needed to do a tad bit more fact checking.

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Last summer, Hip-Hop Wired attended a Spotify event in which the music sharing company boasted about the amount of money its paid out to artists. Since 2008 Spotify has worked its way up to become a go-to destination for listeners who want to try out albums before making a purchase. Unlike illegal sharing entities like Napster, […]

jay-z, News

Jay-Z appears on the cover of the upcoming New York Times Style Magazine. In this week’s issue, which should be hitting your doorstep this Sunday, Jay-Z talks with the publication about growing up Hip-Hop. At 42 years of age, Jay-Z is one of the few transcendent artists in 2012 that has grown up with his genre. […]