Four people aged between 20 and 25, were shot in the early hours of Sunday 13th of June at around 1am. They had been attending an urban music event at the Custard Factory in Gibb Street, Birmingham.

Three men, from the Birmingham and Wolverhampton areas, are still receiving treatment for gunshot wounds.

A fourth victim, a 25-year-old woman, has since been released from hospital following treatment.

Police said they are analysing CCTV footage from the area as part of a “major inquiry” into the shooting. Read more…

Takeover Roc Nation is a new joint venture which is co-owned by Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation and Tinchy Stryder’s management company Takeover.

The new company will be responsible for signing new acts, tours and merchandise.

Tinchy Stryder the artists behind the successful “Catch 22″ LP  said: “Jay-Z is my music and business inspiration and to go into business with him is a dream come true.”

Writing on his blog, he said: “It’s taken nearly a year to get the deal right so I’m excited to start signing artists to the label side of the joint venture deal.” Read more…

Dizzee Rascal  has been asked to replace U2 at this year’s Glastonbury festival if U2 are unable to perform.

The ‘Bonkers’ rapper has been asked by the British music event’s organiser Michael Eavis to fill in for the Irish band after frontman Bono had emergency back surgery last week.

The ‘Beautiful Day’ hitmakers are set to headline the Pyramid Stage on Friday June 25 but if Bono has not recovered in time, they will have to pull out.

Dizzee is currently set to play the set before U2 but may be promoted to close the evening.

However, Eavis has also phoned Coldplay – who are currently in the studio working on their fifth album – to see if they are available, according to The Sun newspaper. Read more…

Tinie Tempah’s parents manage his finances in return for a summer holiday.

The rapper – who shot to fame earlier this year with his debut single ‘Pass Out’ – admitted he had an “agreement” with his parents where he had promised to take them on vacation every year for helping him organise his cash.

He told the Daily Star newspaper: “Sometimes money can overtake your decisions if you think about it too much. Some people only get up for the money and I don’t want to do that. I didn’t have much when I was younger but I was brought up by my parents who work really hard for everything. They understand money on every level and I’m so fortunate I have parents I can confide in and help manage my money. Read more…

M.I.A the UK Hip Hop artist and songwriter who won the BET Award for Best Female Hip Hop Artist in 2009, is staying with her 15 month old son Ikhyd in her mums council house in London. M.I.A wrote and produced the hit “Paper Planes“ together with Diplo, and Switch for her second studio album, Kala which was released in  August 2007.

The Artist whose real name is Maya Arulptragasam and is of Tamil Sri Lankan origin said ”I’m sleeping in a box room in a council house with my baby. I’m living out my parallel reality. What could have been, or what could still be. My mum’s got a £30 pram that her church gave here. One of the wheels doesn’t work. I feel bad doing this to Ikhyd, but I think it’s good for him in the long run. My mum’s just so ghetto.”

She then goes on to say “In Los Angeles, he’s got a state-of-the-art, pimped-out thing with a body kit. It was a present from Jimmy Iovine, from Interscope records, when he was born.”

M.I.A usually lives in Los Angeles with her long term partner Benjamin Bronfman. The rapper – who famously performed at the Grammy Awards while nine months pregnant – also revealed Academy Awards bosses were so desperate for her to perform at the ceremony last year, days after she gave birth, they offered to build her a flying hospital bed.

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P Diddy is targeting UK artists Tinchy Stryder, Tinie Tempah and Skepta.

The ‘Every Breath You take’ rapper is set to release his sixth album ‘Last Train to Paris’ and has secured bright young British rappers Tinchy and Tinie to appear on a remix of his single ‘Hello Good Morning’.

Diddy told RWD mag: “I’m actually rooting for the UK. I love the UK, I love the artists, the vibe, the style, the swag”.

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Your Facebook profile is about to get a lot more dynamic. Today, Facebook is starting to roll out an all-new way to share your likes and interests, and it’s all about Community Pages.

These changes are related to the new “like” terminology Facebook introduced at the end of March. Instead of becoming a fan of pages — which, at the time, were limited to brands and organizations — users could simply click a button stating that they liked the page, brand or organization. The new lingo gave users less commitment and more ability to easily express affinity.

Very shortly thereafter, Facebook launched Community Pages. Now, users can “like” topics, such as cooking or hip hop, in addition to brands, such as Sur La Table or Eminem. These community pages aren’t run by individuals, so they don’t have a wall and don’t send updates to users’ feeds. Instead, they import streams of related, public content from user status messages.

Status text is split into updates from friends and updates from all Facebook users. E.g., if I write in a status update to everyone, “I love this new hip hop album,” Facebook recognizes the term “hip hop” and imports my public update to the hip hop community page. Community Pages also include relevant information from Wikipedia under a Wikipedia tab.

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The latest prototype to the massively popular Apple Iphone was found left in a bar in Redwood City.

Although Apple may further modify the final packaging and design of the new Iphone, it’s clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Read more…

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 THIS YEAR “COUNTDOWN” will be hosting the the biggest new years day EVER, after hosting NEW YEARS EVE last year you all know what a great night this promisies to be. We have hand picked the best of the best form club land and we look forward to having you all there with us. Read more…

Princess Nyah Finally releases a video for her track “Frontline”.  The video is directed by Luke Van Boom (the man behind Donaeo’s videos and also Big Boys).