(NewsUSA) - Hip-hop loves it's bad boys.

(NewsUSA) - The sounds that are changing the music world are not the voices of artists unknown, but rather the faint click of a computer mouse.It used to be that singers and musicians had to rely on an agent (or more likely sheer hope) to get their music played or their album in a store -- both unlikely unless the artist was either well-known or touring nationally with someone else who was already famous.Fast forward to present day, and sites like YouTube are

(NewsUSA) - When YouTube first made its Internet debut in 2005, no one could have predicted the global affect it would have for musicians or record labels.
Fast-forward to present day, and wannabe recording artists are exploiting the dot.com site to broadcast their music to the world and to get noticed by record companies.
One case in point is Euro dance artist Abie Flinstone, a 19-year-old wunderkind from Lommel, Belgium, who has b

(NewsUSA) - In the rap game, business is a booming. But the MCs making new waves in the hip-hop scene aren't what you might expect. Female rappers are taking the game to new levels -- the most notable being Lil' Wayne's protege, Nicki Minaj.