2007thru2010, Radio and Music Industry News

OH NO: Polow da Don Used Garage Band Tracks for Usher’s New Song (vid)

Talk about a lack of creativity…. Atlanta producer Polow da Don used Garage Band tracks to produce Usher’s new smash Love in the Club. If I’m not mistaken the tracks are free to use but Ursh paid big bucks nonetheless… Shit, maybe I need to put together some beats with my old ass. I have

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RIP Terrance Keith Smith

(BlackPressMagazine.com) – Popular New York radio host Terrence Keith Smith, aka TK Smith, 40, died in his sleep on March 16 2008 at his home in Long Island , New York. Smith’s radio career catered to the Caribbean and international communities. He worked at WWRL in the late 80’s and in 1999 he joined Culture Jam Radio program at 93.5FM in New York and was later enlisted by Clinton Lindsay to be the new host of the Top 30 Reggae Charts that aired on the same Radio Station . […]

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HOT 102.7 Promotions Worker Carjacked in Detroit !

HOT 102.7’s station vehicle was stolen and an employee carjacked early Tuesday afternoon as he re-fueled the vehicle at an area gas station less than a mile away from the station Keith “Shug””Gillespie, fleet manager for HOT 102.7, was held at gunpoint by an armed teen at the Jefferson Mobil in Downtown Detroit. The teenager

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PARTY HEAT: Man Killed at a Damn BOOK SIGNING for Dr. Dre?

Filed under: “What’s Next Coffee House Shootings?” 1 killed, 1 wounded in Tukwila after-party shooting A Renton man was fatally shot and another man critically wounded early Sunday when revelers spilled out of a Tukwila restaurant after a party for two authors who penned a biography of rapper and hip-hop producer Dr. Dre. Read whole

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OH NO! DJ Almost Gets His Ass Kicked in Interview by Rapper

DJ WREKK 1 of Hot 96.3 (WHHH) in Indianapolis probably almost sh…ted on himself when rapper Webbie turned on him for asking him about his seizures. Webbie said: “Bitch, stop asking me about seisures” and proceeded to go left threatening to “be all over you. Perhaps in this situation it would have been best to

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V103’s Greg Street Says Jermaine Dupri is DEAD

This is a personal situation folks. Watch both videos. Greg seems to have taken the statement personal. Yet, Greg makes some really good points here too. I never heard Jermaine say “I’m the biggest thing in Atlanta since Martin Luther King” and I agree that would be extremely disrespectful… Jermaine makes no reference to Greg

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