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For those who remember, back in January we posted a story up about an Asian artist to watch out for in the future. Her name BoA. Now we can premier some tracks of her upcoming US album. Read More Read Full Story

Atla nta based rapper T.I has announced that he’ll be doing a tour of the US before he enters prison next month. The tour has 12 stops and started last night at St. Louis, Missouri and then finishes on the 15th of March in Texas. See the full list of dates below. Read full article Read Full Story

Ex Bad Boy rapper Mark Curry is set to release a book next month, February 2009, that is meant to criticise and undermine P.Diddy’s business sense and success regards the Bad Boy Label. Read the full article on The Beat Junkies Website Read Full Story

OK, I admit it, I’m a bit slow on this one, but I thought I should still let you all in. Just in case you didn’t know. Rapper and actor DMX has been placed in Solitary Confinement after he threatened and used abusive behavior towards a guard at the Arizona jail he’s currently serving time in..... Read More Read Full Story

According to an LAPD source TMZ, the company that released the images into the public domain, might have helped Chris Brown get of the hook. Read the full article. Read Full Story

2008 was definitely not the year of the Dog. DMX, real name Earl Simmons, got in trouble for stealing someone’s identity which he then got arrested for in Florida and then to top it of on the 31st of December he got sentenced to 90 days in Jail which he’s still serving. The New York rapper and actor pleaded guilty to all four charges against him, contained in three cases. The first case was cruelty to animals and possession of narcotic drugs, the second case was theft and then the last... Read Full Story

Ladies and Gentleman, the figures have been checked and re-checked and we now have the Forbes 2008 Top Selling Musician Rich List. Read the article by visiting The Beat Junkies . Read Full Story

For years the Western World has been ignoring/not receiving Asian music. It’s never made it big. This is now about to change, this change comes in the form of BoA (Best of Asia), a Korean artist taking the world by storm specializing in hip-hop and RnB. Born in 1986, BoA Kwon (stage name BoA), has been training up on how to make it in the music industry. Having been releasing music since 2000 she has only just decided to grab the US’s attention and, wow, is she ready for it. With... Read Full Story

Finally the biopic film of hip-hop megastar Notorious B.I.G, real name Christopher Wallace, has been released. The film, released in America on the 16th January 2009, has been long awaited but has it lived up to its hype? Read the Full Article Here. Read Full Story

On Saturday 28th February The Custard Factory in Birmingham played host to the annual dnb awards, all of the scenes big players were in attendance and with the place packed to the rafters this was always going to be huge. The event was also broadcast live on BBC Radio 1 and 1 Xtra with sets from Fabio & Grooverider, Crissy Cris, Baily and the unstoppable Chase & Status who were joined by Plan B and Kano. Predictably (but by no means undeserved) the winner of Best DJ was Andy C with... Read Full Story