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Jermaine Dupri has made last minute arrangements to save his Atlanta mansion from going up for auction after it fell into foreclosure. Dupri's home was scheduled to be sold last week, but according to local new station WSBTV, the 15,000 square foot estate, located on Mount Paran Rd...

Super producer Pharrell Williams will join the list of musicians leading ASCAP's annual 'I Create Music' seminar at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles next week. The N.E.R.D. frontman, who is also one half of the producing duo the Neptunes and behind colossal hits for the likes of Beyonce, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Britney Spears, will discuss his success in the industry during the three-d

Gangsta rapper-turned-family film star Ice Cube has created a new television series that will star Cash Money rapper Bow Wow, and the two rap-film stars are now taking another familiar name from the hip-hop world along for the ride: Jermaine Dupri...

Fresh off her release from prison, Da Brat is excited to get back into the swing of things. The female rapper is prepping tons of new projects including new music, a book, and getting up to speed on Twitter. Earlier this week, the 36-year-old completed a three-year bid for assaulting a waitress with an alcohol bottle back in 2007, and her new found freedom has changed her outlook on just about eve

Jermaine Dupri is depending on his entrepreneurial spirit to carry him into the future. The Grammy Award-winning producer just officially launched a new website and social networking community called Global 14. The site, which is supposedly the "coolest, hippest city on the Internet," originally came to Dupri when he was the president of urban music at Virgin Records and working with lon

Akon has just signed the next big thing. He's a lot like the last big thing, literally, kind of. "I just signed a kid named Jeffree Star. He will be the next biggest thing," Akon explained. "To me he's like the male version of Gaga in the aspect of you have to see it to understand it...

According to producer Bryan-Michael Cox, two major R&B forces could come together for a tour. Cox spilled the beans -- or started an insane rumor -- on Jermaine Dupri's 'Living the Life' YouTube series. "Usher and the boy Chris Brown are going on tour, y'all know that, right?" C...

Super-producer Dr. Dre received the top honor at the ASCAP 23rd annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills this past Friday (June 25). Dre was presented with the performing rights organization's coveted Founders Award for his over 20 year contribution to the music industry as both an artist and a producer. ...

The Dirty South was shown a little hospitality at the 2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors, which aired last night (June 7). The two hour show paid homage to some of the music industry's musical innovators from the southern region, including Organized Noize, Jermaine Dupri, Timbaland, Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell, Master P, and Rap-A-Lot records founder, J Prince...

Inglewood's latest musical export is Cali Swag District, a group of teenagers who are pushing their youthful and carefree jams, which bear no similarities to the gangsta rap their neighborhood has been historically associated with. Rappers C-Smoove, Yung, JayAre and dancer M-Bone, assure us that the West Coast has seen a new day and that day is now, "Everybody just wants to party and have fu