From ProHipHop
- Vanilla Ice hosts TurboTax’s Tax Rap contest.
- Promotional activities continues for this week’s release of El-P’s new album I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead with a video for the single Smithereens premiering at NYTimes.com.
- ProHipHop launches a Hip Hop 2.0 category focused on the use of Web 2.0 apps and services for hip hop’s special purposes including marketing Black Milk’s debut album, running news sites and social networks and launching a unique service for lyricists called Vocab Collab.
- Indie hip hop stalwart Rhymesayers Entertainment signed a marketing and distribution deal with WMG’s Independent Label Group.
- Def Jam Icon launches! Now music is your weapon!!
- Iconic Brand Group is buying Rocawear and creating a new company with Jay-Z.
- Both 50 Cent and LL Cool J are exploring extending their brands with nutritional supplements, fragrances and, for LL, a possible Chapstick deal.
- Capitol Records get their first number 1 since ’92 with Mims’ This Is Why I’m Hot.
