Hip-Hop News Archive

Skillz Back-Packing w/KOCH, July T.I.’s Album Pushed Forward To August Immortal Technique Gears Up For New Album Jay-Z Sets Up Funds For Sean Bell’s Kids 50 Cent’s Chain Robber Arrested In Angola Brooklyn’s Nino Bless to Drop Heavy Street Scriptures Cool Kids To Drop EP, Work On Debut LP Pete Rock’s ‘…Finest’ Instrumentals Drops May Killah Priest To Drop Sixth Studio Album Lil Wayne Tops Charts, LP Postponed Again Witness To JMJ’s Murder Sent To Prison Foxy Faces Florida Judge, Lawyer Resigns Nas’ ‘Nigger’ to Emerge Third Quarter Capone-N-Noreaga Break Hiatus With New LP Young Buck Leaves G-Unit Amid Rumors Dilated Peoples, Alchemist Headline June Tour Wu-Latino’s Exclusive Media Precedes LP Bill Cosby’s Hip Hop Album Due Next Month Foxy Brown Gets Early Release This Friday Alicia Keys Says Gov’t Hip Hop’s Public Enemy #1 Timbaland is ASCAP Songwriter of The Year KOCH Records Taps La.’s Max Minelli for ‘…Remedy’ Foxy Brown Talks Reality Show While In Jail 50 Cent, Yayo Sued By Mom For Teen Assault The Roots’ New Album Due This Month Termanology of Nature Sounds Debuts Fall ’08 50 Cent: Young Buck “No Longer in the Group G-Unit” Jay-Z and Beyonce Wed on April 4 RZA Preps LP For July, Tour For Summer Rock Steady B-Boy Pioneer Passes Away Vast Aire Chucks The Duece This Summer Jay-Z Forms Roc Nation For $150 Million Sirius and XM Merger Mos Def Is Chuck Berry in Chess Film T.I. Pleads Guilty to Federal Weapons Charges Remy Ma Convicted, Papoose Plans Wedding Remy Ma’s Shooting Victim Drops Civil Suit Craig G, Marley Marl To Release Joint Album Yo-Yo Returns on VH1 Diddy, Shyne Face Lawsuit Over 1999 Shooting Busta Rhymes Gets Probation For Four Court Cases Diddy, Rosemond Deny Ties To Tupac Ambush Method Man, RZA Work On Movie Projects Eminem & DJ Premier Build “Keys…” DMV Based DJ Taking Indie Producers Worldwide New Details about 2Pac’s Shooting In 1994 Lil Wayne Sets May Date For ‘Carter III’ Album Del to Funk Dify America Juelz Santana Arrested For Weed, Bullets In Car Tony Yayo Promotes Literacy, Teen’s Mother Outraged Brooklyn Rapper Cast As Biggie In Film Juvenile’s Daughter Laid To Rest On Friday Koch Records Presents ‘…Secret Weapon’ Duck Down Vs. Stones Throw Sound Clash Omillio Sparks Backs Mad Ave Movement, State Prop Fokis’ Lens Co-Signed By DJ Absolut Game Turned Himself In For 60-Day Sentence Hip-Hop Birthplace in Bronx Evades Rent Hike Harlem’s Jae Millz Signs To Lil Wayne’s Label Bun B Preps First LP Since Pimp C’s Passing Juvenile’s Daughter Killed In Tragic Family Murder Eminem Pens Memoir To Drop In The Fall KRS-One, Buckshot Team Up For Duck Down LP Lil Wayne Pleads Not Guilty, Pushes LP To April Common Works On Album, Q-Tip Joint Project TVT Records Folds, Uncertain Future For Artists Hot Boys Reunion Show Ends After Gunshots KRS-One, Others Record New Anti-Violence Track Kanye West Releases Dates For Spring Tour Producers Descend On Desert, March Game Gets 60 Days In Jail For Gun Charge Common, Others Remake Classics For Smirnoff Buckshot, 9th Wonder Prep Album For April Bubba Sparxxx Ushers In New South w/Koch Records Snoop’s LP Bumped Up From May To March Kanye Takes Home Four Grammy Awards Kidz In The Hall Blends w/’The In Crowd’ Asylum’s Shawty Lo Got Illegal Units In The City Jay-Z & Mary J Touring This Spring Pimp C Died From Overdose, Sleep Condition Kanye Plans Tour, Invites Lupe Fiasco and Others AZ’s ‘Undeniable’ This Black History Month Roc-A-Fella Rumors Denied, Jay-Z Preps New LP? Pete Rock Readies ‘NY’s Finest’ For February Judge Denies Foxy Brown’s Travel Request Ying Yang Twins On ‘Dr. Phil’ Over Saggy Pants Lil Wayne Charged After Arrest In Arizona Joe Budden Works On Studio LP, ‘Padded Room’ Suge Knight, Pirus May Be Banned From Compton Lil Kim Leaves Atlantic, Preps New Album Game Almost Done With LP, Help From Dr. Dre 50 Cent, Chris Lighty Start Indie Film Company Ghostface On Deck With Zoo York Man Says He Slapped Teen In Tony Yayo Case Rock of Helta Skelta Accused of Attempted Murder The Roots’ Rahzel Finishes Up Third LP Twista Squares Up with Teammates End of First Quarter DMX To Pay $1.5M In Defamation Case U-God Files $170,000 Suit Against Wu Music Pete Rock Rolls with Jim Jones For ‘NYs’ Finest’ Sony BMG Reaches More Consumers Via Amazon Donda West Had Heart Attack, Says Report The D.E.Y. Increases Momentum Via MTV & EW Ranks Del the Funky Homosapien Leaks Music Itunes Big Ups Duck Downs’ Ruckus XXL Fires Editor-In-Chief Elliot Wilson Saigon Leaks Tracklist, Still No Release Date Flo-Rida Sets New Digital Sales Record DMX Planning Rugged Gospel For Bodog Music Debut Tech Website Calls Jay-Z/Apple Rumor Bogus Lil Wayne’s Digital EP Falls Under The Radar ODB’s Estate Links With Merchandise Line Chuck D Eyeing Def Jam’s #1 Spot MC Lyte Returns with Almost September Team Prodigy Spreads His Message Worldwide [Update] Yung Joc Charged, Out On $50K Bond Hip-Hop Politics, Forbes.com Takes Stock Jay-Z Leaving Def Jam In New Year Yung Joc Arrested For Having Gun At Airport Universal Home Video Leaks Info on ‘American Gangster’ DVD Joe Budden To Release ‘Mood Muzik 3: The Album’ Lil Jon’s ‘A-Town’ Takes Over Funny or Die New Years Eve Beanie, Cosby March Against Violence in Philly The LOX Break Five-Year Hiatus On-Stage DMX Signs New Deal, Works On Two Albums Dipset Entourage Clashes with Cassidy’s People @ Grand Opening [Edited] The D.E.Y. Named in MTV’s 2008 Top New Artists List Jay-Z One of Fortune’s Big Dummies in ‘07 Sounds From HBO’s The Wire Hit Retail ‘08 Jay-Z Plans To Open Hotel In Manhattan Eminem’s Mother Writes Tell-All Book Jim Jones & Styles P Planning Joint Koch Album Lupe Re-Ups with Japanese Swagger, Trilly & Truly Young Jeezy Brings Early Christmas to Dirty’s Children Lupe Sets Up Tour Dates For ‘The Cool’ [Update] ‘The Vapors’ Film Expands Cast Big Noyd Preps LP, Works With MOP’s Lil Fame Ghostface Supplies Smart-Dumb Cats Online Rhap Around With South Bronx’s The D.E.Y. Friends, Family Say Goodbye To Pimp C Plies’ Manager Arrested For Drug Trafficking Joe Budden’s MM3 Online Mixtape Kingdom Clipse Launch New Clothing Line, Play Cloths Snoop Dogg To Rap For the Kids In LA Dr. Dre Dodges Detroit Lawsuit Outkast’s Big Boi Finishes Up Solo Album Chi-Town’s Street Wear Community Celebrating ‘Brotherhood’ Pimp C’s Funeral Scheduled For Thursday M.O.P. Work On G-Unit Debut, Solo LPs Kidz In The Hall Endorses Obama with Hip Hop Anthem Prodigy Awaits Jail Sentence, ‘HNIC 2’ Album Kanye West Blesses Madonna's Warner Swan Song RIAA's Watchful Eyes on Students' Internet Gait Universal Music Group Limits Third Party Exposure Movie Music of Spike Lee & Terence Blanchard Kanye West Tops Grammy Noms Snoop Dogg's Reality On E! Pimp C’s Mother Speaks On His Passing [Update] Duck Down Records Inks Deal with YOUTUBE Pimp C Found Dead In Hollywood Hotel Boot Camp Click Marching Into History 9th Wonder Working On Hip-Hop Soul Album Lupe Fiasco Sets Tour Dates For New Album Kanye, Will.I.Am, Akon Remake MJ’s “Thriller” [Update] Nas Further Explains Controversial LP Rick Ross Album Postponed Until February Kidz In The Hall Sign Deal With Duck Down Birdman, Family Arrested For Drugs In Tennessee Young Buck Denies Online Robbery Rumors Wu-Tang Adds Tour Dates, Releases Tracklist Nas’ LP Reportedly Pushed Back To Feb. ‘08 Plies Loses Court Case Over Missed Show Kanye Buries Mom, Continues European Tour Jim Jones Inspired by Chipmunks T.I.’s Legal Team In Serious Motion Wu-Tang To Tour In Winter For ‘8 Diagrams’ Shackled T.I. Holding Down Less Fortunate Snoop Dogg Eyeing Ninth Solo, ‘Ego Trippin’ Releases Acappella Version Of ‘American Gangster’ Juice Crew Film In The Works For January Saigon: “SAIGON IS DEAD” Dame Dash May Owe The Feds Black Hand’s American Gangster on BET Def Jam Releases Rare Tracks From Past Year 50 Cent Aims Straight at Corporate Hypocrisy in Show Biz Mos Def Works With Kanye For New LP Duck Down Does Disney Hoops Tracks Jadakiss Officially Lands On Def Jam Wu-Tang Clans’ GZA Ringing In New Year With Fresh Solo Foxy’s Black Hand Still Pulling Strings Jay-Z Tops Charts, Ties Elvis For No. 1 Albums T.I. Writes Album While Under House Arrest Donda West’s Death Unclear, Conflicting Reports Nelly Paints Halle Berry As Controversial Gym Class Heroes Tapping Raw Hip Hop & Soul for New LP Kanye’s Mother Passed Away, Details Unknown Method Man Starts Canada Tour, Preps Album Ghostface Releases LP Tracklist, Side Projects Jay-Z Feeling Artful With Iconix, Tops Charts T.I. Hopes To Waive Bond Rules For Holiday Rappers Pack NY Court For Same Day Hearings New Jay-Z Brand Deals Accompany ‘American Gangster Diddy Avoids Court Man Charged With Vandalizing Tupac Statue Tony Yayo Strictly Banging On Wax Jay-Z To Air ‘American Gangster’ Songs On TV Lil Jon Keeps It Rocking Details Emerge On Jam Master Jay’s Murderer Cash Money’s Birdman Releasing New Album Lil’ Wayne Arraigned On Drug Charges In ATL 50 Cent Drops Book, Song Banned From TV Jadakiss Leaning Towards Roc-A-Fella Freeway Sets Release Date For Second Album Nas’ Album Spurs NY Politician To Action Lil Wayne Preps ‘Carter III’, Leaks Pre-Mixtape T.I. Out On $3M Bond, Under House Arrest Clipse Leaves Jive, Signs To Columbia Cam’ron Breaks Hiatus With Street Mixtape Beanie Sigel Preps ‘The Solution’ For Dec. Styles P To Drop Album, LOX LP In The Works Q The Question Hosts College Radio Show Foxy Brown Gets Solitary Over Prison Scuffle Jay-Z Plans Brief Tour, Releases Tracklist T.I.’s Bond Request For $2.2M Postponed Nas’ New LP Titled ‘N*gger’ Draws Controversy G-Unit Records Group LP, Hits Stores in Dec C-Murder’s Retrial Rescheduled For February [Update] T.I. In Custody, Friday Court Date Busta Rhymes Readies LP For December T.I. Arrested On Gun Charges Before BET Awards Soulja Boy Tops Charts For Fifth Week Rakim Wraps Up LP, No Release Date Yet Jim Jones Signs to Columbia, Preps New LP Ghostface Drops Solo LP, Same Day As Wu [Update] Prodigy Pleads Guilty To Gun Charge Lil Wayne Arrested On Felony Charges In Idaho Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Begins Gun Trial In NY Pharrell Consults For Reality Show ‘Limelight’ Snoop, Lil Wayne Join ‘Boondocks’ New Season Wu-Tang’s LP Pushed Back To December Saigon’s Debut Finally Gets Release Date RZA, Others Speak On Chess & Hip-Hop T.I. Works On LP, Affiliates Prep Projects Fat Joe Preps Album For Early 2008 [Update] 50 Cent Outsells Kanye In Europe Biggie Murder Twist, Witness Admits He Lied Mos Def Calls Out Artists Over ‘Jena Six’ 50 Cent’s UK Tour Updated After Changes Dr. Dre Plans ‘Detox’ For ’08, His Last Album Jay-Z Works on “American Gangster” Album Kanye Tops Charts, Moves 957K In First Week Queen Latifah Plans A Return To Rap Music Kanye Outsells 50 Cent In UK, US Next Q-Tip, Common Tour, Plan To Form Rap Group DMC Hosts Positive Rap Awards To Dispel Stigmas [Update] ‘Jena Six’ Charges Overturned By Court Eminem Back In Studio, Possible New LP Soulja Boy’s ‘Crank That’ Hit Tops Billboard Remy Ma Posts Bail, Despite More Allegations Rap Legends Design ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ Apparel [Update] Foxy Brown In Jail, Not Pregnant Mos Def Rallies For Jena Six, Joins Local Leaders Trick Daddy Arrested In Strip Club Melee Grandmaster Flash Pens Book On Music Career Redman Tours U.S., Works On ‘Muddy Waters 2’ Nas To Release Album Before Year’s End Foxy Brown Sentenced To A Year In Prison Jay-Z Preps 40/40 Club Opening In Las Vegas U.S. Congress To Address Misogyny In Rap Music Timbaland, Jay-Z Sued Over 'Big Pimpin' Sample Busta Rhymes’ Court Date Postponed By Judge Game On Trial For Three Felony Charges Nas Show in Canada Cancelled, Reasons Unclear Game, Timbaland Sued Over Indian Sample Concertgoer Sues Lil’ Wayne For Injuries J-Hood Leaves D-Block, Releases Statement Talib Kweli, Swizz Beatz Hit Top 10 Charts Ludacris Teaches College Course For MTV N.O.R.E., Capone To Reunite, Record Solo LPs DMX’s Dogs Allegedly Mistreated, Rapper Overseas Foxy Brown’s Probation Revoked, Back In Jail LL Cool J’s TV Pilot To Debut On CBS Producer Hi-Tek Works On Third Album Dr. Dre Sues Death Row Over 'Chronic' Rights [Update] Leak Complaints Against Ja Rule Dropped Lil Flip Cleared Of Alleged Credit Card Abuse Method Man Visits Schools After Drug Charges Remy Ma In Court For July Shooting UGK's Album Hits No. 1 On Billboard Charts Foxy Brown Charged With Assault, Starts Label Lupe's 'The Cool' Pushed Back To November Beanie Sigel Records LP, Reaches Out To Kanye 50 Cent Speaks To Kay Slay About Video Leak Ja Rule In Court Over Unpaid Leak Repair The Game Touches Down In Africa Master P Backing Up Barack Obama Notorious BIG Film, Casting Call In The Works Mos Def, Kweli Headline Black August Concert Nelly drop new Pimp Juice Flavor N.O.R.E. Releasing Rap Album In Late August Common’s New Album Tops Billboard Charts Kanye won't get involved in a debate with 50 Cent 50 Cent, Kanye LPs’ Official Tracklists Released New Zealand Politician Against Ice Cube Concert Jay-Z Denies Leaving Def Jam, Despite Rumors David Banner off Rock The Bells Tour Twista Removed From Tour by Mcdonald's 9th Wonder Drops Compilation LP in October Dip Set’s 40 Cal Records Upcoming Album Lil Jon Preps 'Crunk Rock' Before Year's End DMX Loses $242K Over Dog Clothing Line Common Sets Fall Tour, Films Coming Soon Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am Works On Solo LP David Banner Preps New Album For October Atmosphere, Mr. Lif, Cage Team Up For Tour Rick Ross Gives Back To Miami Community [Update] Ja Rule, Weezy Released on Bonds Tony Yayo Rejects Jail Offer In Assault Case 50 Cent Files $1M Lawsuit Over Internet Ad MTV’s ‘Pimp My Ride’ Coming To A Close Lil Wayne, Ja Rule Arrested After NYC Concert Dr. Dre’s Daughter Films Rap Career For DVD Mobb Deep’s Havoc Releasing Solo Debut Warrant Out Against Chopper For Parole Violation [Update] T.I. Tops Billboard For Second Week Madlib, Others Featured in ‘Brasilintime’ Documentary Aesop Rock, Cage Share Fall Tour Dates Talib Kweli, Strong Arm Steady Prep Albums [Update] Remy Ma Arrested, Pleads Not Guilty MF Doom Announces Tour, Reissues 'MM..FOOD' 50 Cent’s 'Curtis' Pushed Back One Week Remy Ma Wanted By Police For NYC Shooting Kanye, Evel Knievel Mediate Over Video Lawsuit T.I. Tops The Charts, Sells 468K First Week Raekwon, Icewater Prep Collective Album Bay Area’s Celly Cel Showcases West Coast MC’s Busta Rhymes Faces Four Separate Trials KRS-One’s Son Found Dead In Apparent Suicide Roots Headline VH1’s Hip Hop Honors Tour Yung Joc Preps Sophomore LP for August Producer Dame Grease Works On Collective Album Dipset’s Hell Rell To Release Solo Debut Music Biz Sales Down For the Seventh Year Q-Tip Releases Free Single For Upcoming Album Cassidy Preps LP, Focuses on Spirituality [Update] Foxy Brown’s Alleged Mugger Released R. Kelly, Publishers To Sue Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club Flavor Flav To Pay $1.8M For 1993 Shooting Rev. Run Honored As ‘BMI Icon’ at Awards Show Lauryn Hill Recording Album, No Release Date Police Say Foxy Brown Mugged, But She Denies 50 Cent Back In Court Over Child Support Suge Knight’s Mansion For Sale After Bankruptcy Hiero’s Del, A-Plus, Souls of Mischief To Tour Duck Down Gets Distribution From Koch, Preps LPs 50 Cent Excused From Allen Iverson Trial NY Judge Dismisses Charges Against Fabolous Wu-Tang Preps Europe and US Tour, Group LP Foxy Brown Catches A Break In Courtroom Chamillionaire’s Album Pushed Back to September Timbaland Jailed Briefly in Germany Over Brawl Stones Throw Preps Projects For The Summer Stack Bundles Killed In Queens Neighborhood Andre 3000 To Play Sammy Davis Jr. In Film Jermaine Dupri Involved in Car Accident [Update] Game Pleads Not Guilty To L.A. Fight Cilvaringz Drops Debut, Gets Help From Wu Marley Marl Suffers Heart Attack, Hospitalized 50 Cent Plans Back-To-Back LPs, Then Hiatus Lupe's Label Partner Gets 44 Years For Drugs Game Charged for Basketball Brawl in L.A. Wyclef Produces Docu Film on Haitian Gangs Sharpton’s Campaign Hopes to Clean Up Rap Kanye's LP Release Pushed Up To August Police Seek Fat Joe As a Shooting Witness Jay-Z, Dame Dash Face ‘State Prop’ Lawsuit Tony Yayo Associate Charged in Teen Beating 50 Cent’s LP Pushed Back To September Snoop Joins Global Concert In Germany Jay-Z, 40/40 Face Lawsuit From Unpaid Employees Busta Rhymes Settles Assault Lawsuit From 2005 Eve Pleads Not Guilty To DUI Arrest Ex-Jurassic 5 Members Work On New Projects Flavor Flav Honored at Comedy Central Roast Beanie Sigel Rips Pharrell and Kanye West Clipse Are Free Agents, According to Malice Method Man Arrested For Marijuana Possession Camp Lo Returning With EP In August NYPD Spied On Rappers, According to Leaked Files Cam’ron Apologies for Comments On ‘60 Minutes’ T.I., Fat Joe, RZA Speak On Imus Controversy Simmons Hopes To End Offensive Slurs In Hip-Hop 50 Cent To Release ‘Curtis’ Album In June Cam’ron On ‘60 Minutes’ Segment, ‘Stop Snitchin’ Heltah Skeltah To Release LP, Says Sean Price Biggie's Family Sues Los Angeles Again Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Gear Up For Group LP DMX Misses Court, Hit With Bench Warrant A-Trak, Kanye West's DJ, Starts New Label Inmate Suspected In Jam Master Jay Murder Case Hip-Hop, R&B Back On The Billboard Charts [Update] Snoop Pleads No Contest in Gun, Drug Case Grafh To Release Album, Offers Free Tracks Ludacris Launches Tour, Co-Stars In Comedy Film Snoop Dogg Hit With Gun and Drug Charges Common Sets Release Date For New Album 2Pac Honored In Overseas Tour, US Film Festival Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Works on Film, Solo Album MIMS Kicks Off National Tour, Microsoft Co-Signs Royce Da 5'9" Drops Mixtape With Statik Selektah Bone Thugs, Mike Jones Join HSAN Financial Tour Spike Lee Develops Sequel to Katrina Documentary DJ Drama Speaks About Arrest , Mixtape Industry [Update] Anti-Yayo March Expands, HSAN Pulls Out Mannie Fresh Signs To Def Jam, Speaks On Weezy Ice Cube To Star In Family Comedy ‘Tough Love’ TLC’s Left Eye Documentary To Air On VH1 Young Jeezy, USDA Work On Group Mixtape Al Sharpton, HSAN To March Against Tony Yayo Busta Rhymes Faces Trial For Assault Charges Nas Joins Wu, Others For Rock The Bells Tour [Update] Snoop, Diddy Forced To Cancel UK Tour Snoop Hopes To Overturn UK Visa Denial Hiero’s A-Plus Tours, Preps Solo Debut Styles P Signs To Koch, LP Drops In July Clipse Headlines Seagram’s National Tour DJ Khaled Preps Sophomore LP For June Foxy Brown In Trouble With The Law Again Omillio Sparks Blames Jay-Z For Album Setbacks KRS-One, Marley Marl Team Up On New LP T.I. Completes New Album, ‘T.I. vs. T.I.P.’ Timbaland Partners With Rockstar For Video Game DVD Docu Explores Illegal Hip-Hop Mixtapes Ice Cube Improves The ‘Hood For Reality Show Madlib, J Dilla’s ‘Champion Sound’ To Be Reissued Rock Hall of Fame Welcomes Grandmaster Flash Snoop Held Overnight For Suspected Drug Use Rhymesayers Picked Up By Warner Music Group Busta Rhymes Banned From NY Movie Set Nappy Roots Working On Third LP Nas, Kelis Confirm MTV Reality Show Eminem To Testify in Ireland Over 2005 Concert Jay-Z Sells Rocawear Brand For $204 Million Nas Tours North America in April, May Ray Benzino Not Guilty of Tax Evasion Jay-Z To Induct Flash Into Rock Hall Of Fame C-Murder Gets Gag Order Lifted By Judge Arrest Warrant Out for Young City Ludacris Receives Award for Helping Runaways Judge Gives Foxy Brown One More Chance NY City Council Bans Use of N-Word 50 Cent Formally Files Papers for Child Support Shabaam, Others Reform Polyrhythm Addicts [Update] Foxy Brown Explains Florida Arrest Wu-Tang Tour in Summer With Rock Group Beanie Sigel’s Probation Extended Due To Incidents M.O.P. Working on LP, Promoting Sizzurp Spike Lee Wins Polk Award for Katrina Documentary Busta Rhymes May Cop Plea in Assault Cases Remy Ma Hopes To Star in Reality Show Kanye West’s Mom Releasing Autobiography Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne Tour U.S. Dates Foxy Brown Arrested Again For Beauty Melee Nas Releasing His Own Sneaker Line Fabolous Sets March Date for New Album Paul Wall Releasing Second LP in April Wu-Tang’s Hell Razah Drops Free Mixtape Biggie Clothing Line To Launch In Vegas Supreme Sentenced To Life For Double Murder Dr. Dre Announces Film Production Deal The Roots Already Working On Next Album Young Buck’s Album To Drop in March Gillie Da Kid's Management On Narcotics Arrest Jadakiss Says No Way on Gun & Weed Charges 50 Cent Mixes Business, Street Life in New Book Jermaine Dupri Named President of Island’s Urban Music Rick Rubin Offered Chairman Spot at Columbia Hip-Hop Artists, Essence Host Songwriting Contest Aesop Rock Records Nike Commercial, New LP Supreme Convicted On Drug, Murder Charges Diddy, Jay-Z Propose Urban VOD Channel Ludacris, Grammy Winners Advise Atlanta Students Dead Prez, Others Unite Against Police Brutality Chamillionaire Denies Rumors About DJ Drama Raid Sony BMG Settles Over Anti-Piracy Software G-Unit CEO Sha Money XL On 50 Cent & Buck Releases Timbaland Preps Solo Project 'Shock Value' Jay-Z Stars in Super Bowl Budweiser Commercial Gangstarr’s Guru Works On ‘Jazzmatazz Vol. 4’ Young Buck Arrested For Missing Court Wu Tang Clan Working On Fifth Studio Album Three 6 Mafia Premieres Reality Show On MTV Mixunit Removes Mixtapes From Its Website Disco D Commits Suicide Dr. Dre Tracks Possibly Final Ingredients for Papoose Debut Styles P, The Phantom Menace Begins Again Lil Jon Ready to Rock With TVT Game Apologizes To Video Vixens For New Single Q-Tip Dropping New LP, Tribe Done For Now Drama & Canon Released on $100,000 Bond Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Preps Two Solo Albums Jay-Z Sidesteps Activists Over Fur Controversy ‘Wu-Tang & Friends’ Compile Unreleased Material DJ Drama, Employees Arrested for Racketeering Mikes Jones Works on Sophomore LP, Film Jim Jones Stresses Education In NYC Schools Raekwon, Paul Wall, Kanye Discuss Blood Diamonds Consequence Preps Solo Debut For March N.O.R.E. Testifies During Triple Murder Case B.G. Formally Unveils Chopper City Boyz on New LP Slim Thug Goes Indie with New Album Kanye West Works On HBO Reality Series Grandmaster Flash Inducted To Rock Hall Of Fame BCC's Sean Price Ready for Solo Action Again Rotem Works on ‘Detox,’ 50 Cent’s New LP Cross Coast Female "Super" Group in Works Stat Quo Unprofessional Interviewee Tyrese Accused of Alleged Domestic Abuse LL Cool J Releases Workout Book Lupe Fiasco Wastes No Time, Planning Follow Up Busta Rhymes Arrested For Misdemeanor Assault Wyclef Becomes Haiti’s Roving Ambassador Styles P Released From Interscope Slim Thug Finishes Group Project, Solo LP Talib Kweli, Madlib Give Fans Free Album Timbaland Working On New Solo Album 50 Cent Launches G-Unit Books, Novels Jimmy Rosemond Joined Upliftment Jamaica Styles P in Traffic Accident Over Weekend BET Hosting All-Star New Year's Bash Nas' New Album Hits No. 1, Sells 355K ‘Godfather’ James Brown Dies at 73 NY’s DJ Carl Blaze Dies From Gunshots Young Jeezy Tops Charts With 352K Units Eminem Divorces Ex-Wife A Second Time Nelly, Trick Daddy, Others Give Back for Holidays Redman Working on New Album for March Outkast’s Andre Stars in Basketball Comedy Proof’s Final Album Dropping Next Year Wrestler Sues Jay-Z for Using the ‘Roc Sign’ XXL Helping Relaunch Scratch Magazine Hip-Hop Charts For The Week of December 12 Tragedy Strikes Cash Money Family ODB’s Estate & Dame Dash Dispute Over LP Tyrese Drops Hip-Hop/R&B Album Damon Dash Responds to Jay-Z’s ‘Lost Ones’ Peedi Works on Solo LP for Early ‘07 RZA Scores Soundtrack for ‘Afro Samurai’ HBO Scraps Stallone’s 2Pac/Biggie Film Lupe Fiasco Announces Lengthy Int’l Tour Dr. Dre Says 'Detox' in September...Sort Of Ghostface Publishing Biography in February Power 105.1 Dj Blaze Shot Hip-Hop Charts for The week of December 5th ‘Hip-Hop Is Dead’ Final Track List Settled Da Band’s Chopper Signs to Cash Money DJ Whoo Kid Launching Entertainment Mag Mr. Lif, The Coup Survive Tour Bus Crash Lil Wayne Claims King In Complex Magazine Ice Cube, Snoop Tour Canada for Ten Shows Wyclef Hopes to Rebuild Haitian Homeland T.I. Grand Hustle Releases Mixtape BET Scores Big With 'American Gangster' Artists To Attend Justo’s Mixtape Awards Russell Simmons Talks Diamonds in South Africa Freekey Zekey Launches Dipset South Jonathan "J.R." Rotem Inks Deall With Epic Records Capone and Noreaga Back With New Release David Banner Receives Visionary Award Ludacris, Barack Obama Discuss AIDS Awareness Three 6 Mafia Settle Club Brawl Lawsuit Jay-Z Tops Charts With 680,000 Sales Chamillionaire Preps Album, Free Mixtape DJ Clue Ends Five Year LP Drought December UGK Release 'Underground Kingz' Pushed Back Pharrell Reps Skateboarders, Several Projects Mike Jones & Lil Flip Give Back For Holidays 50 Cent Adds Some Soul to Upcoming LP LL Cool J Leaving Def Jam, Blames Jay-Z Mos Def Checking in for Fourth Quarter? Lupe Fiasco One of GQ’s ‘Men of the Year’ Hip-Hop Tops Charts After Slow Year J Dilla Gets His Own Fitted Cap [Update] Game Says Arrest Was a Set-Up Ultramagnetic MC’s Prep New Group LP DJ Jazzy Jeff Gathers Artists for Album Kanye Sponsors Race Car for BMW Finals Jay-Z - DC Hangar Tour Snapshot Ludacris Develops TV Show for Nickelodeon Ali & Gipp Team up for Duet Album Game Arrested for Allegedly Impersonating Cop Lady Sovereign Breaks Down at L.A. Show Jay-Z Responds to Jim Jones’ Disses Sean Price Resurrected in '07 Ghostface’s ‘More Fish’ Coming in December Public Enemy, X-Clan Unite for Tour Dates Jay-Z's 'Kingdom Come' Leaked But Promo Rages Forward Talib Kweli Tours in US, Buckshot Joins Shows BET Honors Hip Hop Pioneers and Poster Boys Juvenile Innocent of Police Scuffle Allegation Lloyd Banks, Young Buck Avoid Gun Charges Kanye's G.O.O.D. Music Is Dead Nas Featured on New Film Soundtrack Dr. Dre Producing Majority of Raekwon’s Album Young Jeezy Preps New LP for December Game, Ja Rule, Irv Gotti Find Truce NWA Gathers Greatest Hits CD/DVD Snoop Dogg Gives Up To Face Weapons Charge Beanie Alleged Assaulted by G-Units Mike Knox Hughes Bros. Work on ‘Kung Fu’ Remake El-P Preps Album, Def Jux’s 2007 Lineup Kanye Sore Loser at MTV Europe Awards Clinton Sparks Presents The Shade 45 Edition Police Sue Game Over Videotaped Arrest Jazze Pha Opens Clothing Shop, Preps Duet Snoop Working on “Doggy Tales” Book Series DMX Dropping Clothing Lines Jay-Z says ‘Kingdom Come’ Will Not Disappoint 50 Cent Not a Song Stealer, Says Judge Proof's Shooter Sentenced With Time Served Andre 3000 Stars in Political Action Film Shady Gets Right About 'The Re-Up' UGK Drop Double Album in December [Update] Details Emerge in Source Trial Ruling Foxy Brown Gets Probation for Salon Assault Former Source Editor Awarded $14.5m in Lawsuit Lil Wayne May Be Charged in College Melee Mobb Deep Dodges Near Death on Flight Def Jam December Release Schedule Life Sentence for Shooter at 50 Cent Film Ice-T's Album Cover Causes Controversy Inglewood’s Damani Signs With Sony Urban Slick Rick Faces Deportation From 1990 Felony [Update] Fabolous Bailed Out Faces Gun Charges Jay-Z Builds Promos with Anheuser-Bush Fabolous Wounded & Booked in NYC DJ Premier Produces for Nas, Duet Album Next? Gang Starr Compiles “Best Of” CD, Plus DVD Lloyd Banks Donates To His Old High School Stephon Marbury Endorses Sneakers, Under $15 Lil Eazy-E Signs Deal, Works on LP State Prop's Omillio Sparks Preps Album Ice Cube Releasing ‘Laugh Now, Cry Later’ DVD The Source’s Sex Discrimination Trial Begins [Update] Cassidy Suffering from Fractures, Scars China Cancels Jay-Z Show Over Vulgarity Jay-Z's New Single Just Part of the Package [Update] Jadakiss Pleads Not Guilty, Posts Bond Nas’ LP Almost Done, Predicts Big Things Jadakiss Catches Gun and Drug Charges in Yonkers Termanology Building Toward New Street Album Cassidy Recovering from Severe Car Accident Snoop, Busta Honor Nigerian Independence Lil Kim Signs With ICM, TV Projects XM Radio DJ Cuts a Different Spin on Mixtapes Ludacris Tops Billboard, Sells 300K Units Big Tigger Rejects Offer for Morning Show Nas, Jay-Z may Perform Africa Tour Dates DMX Concert in Uniondale Ends in Violence AZ’s Back This Fall Lupe Fiasco Sells Over 80K in First Week Ol’ Dirty’s Final Album gets Release Date Proof’s Shooter Guilty, But Not For Murder Wu-Tang Clan Could Record Together Again Clipse Album Gets Pushed Back - Yet Again Hieroglyphics’ Del Kicks Off Nat’l Tour L.A. Reinstates Biggie Murder Case, Offers Reward Three 6 Mafia Star in Hollywood Reality Show [Update] Jay-Z's New LP 'Kingdom Come' Def Jam Updates its Last Quarter Lineup Benzino, Mays, Others Team Up For Weekly Mag Tyrese Offers Free Download For New Mixtape Raekwon’s LP Almost Done, Ghost Preps ‘More Fish’ Update: Eminem’s Mixtape Turns into Official Comp Xzibit Defends Rap Lyrics, Hip-Hop Stigmas Eminem’s Divorce Referred to Mediator Russell Simmons Takes Financial Tour to ATL Method Man Gears Up for Nationwide Tour The Game, Ras Kass Scuffle in LA Nightclub Jay-Z Announces New LP for November Eminem Drops New Mixtape in October G-Unity Donates $70K to Kids' Summer Camp Cage Works on LP, Blends Rap and Heavy Rock Juelz Santana and Lil Wayne Going Numb Soon E. Ness Back for More Tupac's Family Reschedules South Africa Trip 50 Cent Cited for Unsafe Driving, Minor Offenses Consequence Complete with Clinton Sparks Styles P’s latest LP Finally has Release Date Universal to buy BMG for over $2 Billion Young City Bailed Out on Robbery Charges Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to Drop LP, Start Tour Man Claims Three 6 Mafia Incited Beat Down Fat Joe teams with Virgin after Atlantic split Mos Def Arrested for VMAs Impromptu Show Swishahouse Plans Lineup, Mike Jones Films Movie Boot Camp prep LPs, Dru Ha Joins Marketing Firm Stones Throw Reaches 10 Years, UK Shows Foxy Brown Pleads Guilty to Assault Charges Saigon’s Debut Pushed Back, Yet ‘Certified Classic’ Papoose Signs $1.5m Deal, LP Before Year’s End Eminem Joins Nike to Raise Funds for Charity Pharoahe Monch Dropping LP After Seven Years K Salaam Brooklyn CD Release Party Irv Gotti’s The Inc. Plans a Comeback Proof’s Estate Sued by Slain Man’s Family Young Buck Preps New LP, Drops Mixtape Sharpton Decries ‘Gangsterism’ in Music Industry Update: EPMD’s VH1 Reunion Not Confirmed T.I., Common, RZA Act in Upcoming Crime Drama Update: Busta’s alleged assault victim speaks C-Murder Back on House Arrest, Orders Judge Busta Rhymes Arrested on Assault Charges Mack 10 Scouts Talent at New Label Melee