Weekly Hip Hop Business News From ProHipHop
Harley-Davidson enlists the support of Yung Joc, DMC and Clifton Powell (Pinky from Next Friday) for Black Bike Week.- Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, president of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, is the new CEO at H3 Enterprises, creators of the HipHopSodaShop.
- Sean John’s Unforgivable wins a FiFi for men’s fragrance and was also recently honored as the top selling fragrance debut of 2006.
- Alloy Access identifies the lucrative demographic of the Urban Hustler.
- Lupe Fiasco’s business partner, Charles Patton, is sentenced to 44 years on drug charges.
- The Beastie Boys were recently honored as Webby Artists of the Year.
- Xzibit is all about owning his own music and assuring benefits from future licensing while waiting for the music industry to find a workable business model.
- ProHipHop launches Music Biz Blogs, aggregating blog feeds from ProHipHop, Hypebot and a handful of other quality blogs focused on music marketing and industry news and analysis.