LL Cool J Promotes His Music Social Network Boomdizzle at CES
More artists are getting into the social network frenzy, including LL Cool J. LL Cool J demoed his social network, Boomdizzle at CES on Tuesday. Boomdizzle encourages musicians to collaborate and network on various projects through the web. LL Cool J demoed how those tools would work at CES and played a track he created with Ne-Yo. According to [...]
Read MoreRise of the Black Network? Online and On-Air, Growing Alternatives to YouTube and BET
By Aymar Jean Christian This fall TV season has been tough for minority-led shows – besides maybe NCIS: LL Cool J and Law & Order: Terence Howard. NBC’s much-promoted Undercovers bowed to lackluster ratings. Blair Underwood’s The Event is slipping. Jimmy Smits’ Outlaw is cancelled. But since UPN, black Americans have grown accustomed to going elsewhere. [...]
Read MoreArbitron: Radio Continues To Reach Large Black Audiences
By Kimberly Davis Just as LL Cool J couldn’t live without his radio, neither, it seems, can African-Americans. A new Arbitron study shows that radio reaches 94 percent of Blacks aged 12 years and older each week. The 2010 edition of Black Radio Today details black-listening behavior to 10 of the country’s most popular radio formats, including urban [...]
Read MoreWant2BFamous? See LL Cool J
It wasn’t all that long ago that musicians flocked to MySpace to set up a page and eke out a loyal following through nothing but sheer will and solid hustle. But artists like Priscilla Renea have found success by following the beat of their own drum and coming up with something different. The grassroots road [...]
Read MoreRussell Simmons named new Editor-in-Chief of GlobalGrind.com
Today GlobalGrind announced via live stream on their site the introduction of a Celebrity Network and Russell Simmons new involvement as Editor-in-Chief of the site. Simmons says the site will be the “Huffington Post of Hip-hop” If you have been on lately you may have noticed more and more celebrities being introduced into the site. [...]
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