Mercury News, California — Beats Electronics on Monday acquired MOG, the Berkeley-based subscription music service. more info

ContactMusic — Rap mogul DR Dre has been honoured in France for bringing Tupac Shakur back from the grave to perform at the Coachella music festival in California earlier this year 12 The California Love hitmaker who was murdered in 1996 was brought back to life... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Beats by Dre, the Santa Monica-based maker of high-end headphones founded by rap pioneer Dr. Dre and veteran music executive Jimmy Iovine, is expected to shortly announce a deal to acquire digital music service MOG, according to executives familiar w... more info

Guardian Music — 'I've got one song for when I'm looking for that extra bit'I tend to get to the arena two hours before a race. Let's say it takes me an hour and a half to warm up, that's the time I listen to funky house. There's a DJ called Marcus Nasty, he puts a p... more info

ContactMusic — Rappers DR Dre and Eve have been hit with legal action over her Faith Evans collaboration Love Is Blind Music producer Big Hutch claims he co-wrote and produced the single in 1997 for Eve who was then signed to Dr Dres Aftermath Entertainment but whe... more info

Prefix — The final numbers are in for April’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and it’s safe to ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/coachella-rakes-in-over-47-million-in-ticket-sales/66487/ more info

411 Mania — Talking with Eminem about writing rap was like talking to a scientist... more info

Guardian Music — NWA could avoid causing offence: all they needed to do was avoid mentioning women. Simple, really"The world's most dangerous group," as NWA liked to call themselves, were influential, confrontational, funny and unremittingly offensive. Songs suchs a ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Ice-T’s directorial debut, “Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap,” documents the genre’s history through interviews with such artists as Dr. Dre and Kanye West. But the rapper-turned-actor (he’s now a regular on NBC’s “Law & Order: Sp... more info

Prefix — In a matter of a few months, 17-year-old rapper Chief Keef went from being largely unknown outside his native Chicago ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/chief-keef-signs-to-interscope-records-establishes/66375/ more info