serious money

New York is known as the city that never sleeps. That might sound exciting, but if you live next to a night club that closes at 4 a.m., it can also be exhausting.

Now some community leaders are pressuring night clubs to close earlier. But night club owners say the trend could cost them — and the city — serious money.

With gas prices hitting record levels, the traditional family road trip has become a source of dread. It now costs some serious money to drive a few hundred miles.

Never mind that artists like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor are releasing albums online.

And forget that ringtones have helped lift rappers like Flo Rida to stardom and earned them some serious money.

These digital experiments apparently don't interest hip-hop icon DMX.