News and general news formatting guideline [read before posting]

Firstly, it is of most importance that this sections news posts are well formatted, as it should serve as source of info, not opinion. Making these news threads comprehensive and relative is your simple task as you choose to share information. Important for News posters...

Basic formatting.

* Date in the the topic title, written before the Text title, in numbers. DD/MM/YY
example: "23/10/08 T.I. Is Scared Of Senator McCain"
Note: the date should be of when the article was written or the info was released, not when you posted. (ALL article writers include the date, the article was posted/written)
* Post a link to your source(s). A simple link will do, the perfect way to do it would be link ur source with a url code highlighting a single word: "SOURCE"
Example: "SOURCE" or "www.rapbasement.com"
* If you should find yourself in a position of needing to give your own title to the topic containing the info posted in the thread, do so considering that other people have to understand what the thread is about. As most good sources already have a good title that describes the info, your only concern is that it's not too long (so that your title of the thread is not cut off half way through), and if your source doesn't happen to give a good description in the title, then use your own mind to rephrase it.
Please don't post old news... it should not be 2-3 months old... post new news or post news which is maximum 1 week old... please, keep that in yo' mind...

If you are posting Eminem news, you don't have to put the date, just the news title and the text ofcourse with proper source...

The general News contains only these 2 topics:
1) Hip hop news
2) News of any other music genre...
2) World news (All the latest happenings around the world)

Peace,
Sanjiv (Admin)