You have to give Da Shop Boyz credit where it’s due. The Atlanta-based rookies’ first single, “Party Like a Rockstar” is right behind Rihanna’s #1 “Umbrella” on the Billboard charts and dubbed the ...

*In 2007, clubs across America were blasting the edgy sound that mixed mosh pit music and hip-hop beats. The Grammy-nominated trio, the Shop Boyz (Demetrius “Meany” Hardin, Richard “Fat” Stephens, and ...

As you dudes and dudettes well know, “rock” has long been used as a code word for “white.” Black rock musicians continue to be rendered largely invisible in America, but Shop Boyz’s “Party Like a ...

Strong radio airplay has helped push "Party Like a Rockstar" by OnDeck/Universal Republic act Shop Boyz onto the Billboard Hot 100. But in an inadvertent move, it's also helping an obscure, similarly… ...

In the 2000s, Atlanta—almost indisputably—supplanted New York as hip-hop's dominant metropolis, the cultural Mecca of innovation and influence for the genre as a whole. Although it would gain a ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Strong radio airplay has helped push "Party Like a Rockstar" by Shop Boyz onto the Billboard Hot 100. But in an inadvertent move, it's also helping an obscure, similarly named ...