Finding hip-hop music online is easy. There are literally hundreds of blogs and sites dedicated to the genre and it’s myriad sub-genres but when it comes to R&B it’s a different story. As popular as the genre is there are very few sites that cater to the niche. Sure there are...

In the second installment of BE Next‘s talk with music biz impresario Kyambo “Hip Hop” Joshua he tells how he helped transform Lil Wayne‘s cult following into a pop music phenomenon and he also tell about his latest venture partnering with New York indie label and...

Last month we saw the release of two of the music world’s biggest albums: Jay-Z and Kanye West‘s Watch The Throne collaborative project and Lil Wayne‘s eagerly-anticipated Tha Carter IV. While fans and critics debate the merits of each album, compare sales stats and speculate...

Blackenterprise.com correspondent Shannon Lanier recently caught up with self-described “Entrepretainer” Nick Cannon, who, at just 30, has already been in the entertainment business for 15 years and juggles weighty responsibilities as the Chairman of Teen Nick (part of...