Pharaohe Monch and Jurassic 5 will represent hip-hop on this year’s Lollapalooza tour. The tour, which is being labeled as "a fully interactive extravaganza with a wealth of new sights, sounds and experiences," will also feature such rock acts as Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, The Donnas, Queens Of The Stone Age, Incubus and A Perfect Circle. […]
Professional parody king "Weird Al" Yankovic’s hopes of filming a video for his version of "Lose Yourself," were shot down by Eminem, who agreed to have his song spoofed, but nixed the notion of a video. Yankovic, who has filmed videos for his takes on Michael Jackson’s "I’m Bad" and Coolio’s "Gansta’s Paradise," said the […]
Lawyers for Trina issued a cease and desist order to a website that claimed to have a videotape of the rapper engaged in sex acts. The website is hawking the tapes, which allegedly has a younger Trina in the video for $9.95. "We do not know whether the photographs or video footage contained in this […]
Kareem "Biggs" Burke, who shares CEO duties of Roc-A-Fella Records with Dame Dash and Jay-Z, was arraigned Tuesday morning after 24 marijuana plants were found growing in his Cliffside Park, New Jersey penthouse. According to Cliffside Park Police Chief Donald Keane, two police and two employees of the Carlyle Towers entered Burke’s empty apartment Monday […]
Nelly and his sister, Jackie Donahue will launch Jes Us For Jackie On May 14. Donahue is in need of a bone marrow transplant and the duo hope to increase the number marrow donors in the National Marrow Donor Program Registry across the United States. Nelly’s non-profit, 4 Sho 4 Kids will sponsor a campaign […]
In a statement released to AllHipHop.com, Lydia High, has come forward to speak on recently published reports, accusing her of being uncooperative in the investigation to find Jam Master Jay’s killer. Recent reports suggested High and her brother, Randy Allen, may know more about the murder than they are telling. Jam Master Jay’s mother, Connie Mizell also questioned why […]
Jay-Z will open a new sports bar, 40/40 in New York City on May 28. The mogul’s sports bar pays homage to baseball’s rare 40/40 club, the few who have had 40 stolen bases and 40 home runs in one season. The only people that belong to the club so far are Jose Canseco, Alex […]
Daz recently closed a distribution deal for his DPG Records with Sony/Red. The first release under the new deal will be Daz’ anticipated album, DPGC: You Know What I’m Throwing Up. The first single from the album will be a remix to the song "All Night Long," produced by DPGC’s newest producer, Chops. A native […]
A federal jury has recommended Dr. Dre pay a British record label a $1.5 million dollar payday for illegally sampling a recording the record label owns.Minder Music claims that Dre illegally sampled Fatback’s 1980 song “Backstrokin,” on his 2001, which moved over 9 million units.U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall has yet to sign the […]
A jury in New York federal court awarded TVT Records $132 million in punitive and compensatory damages against the Island Def Jam Music Group and Lyor Cohen.The award gives $108 million in punitive damages and $24 million in compensatory damages. Sources said that TVT initially sought $400 million in damages.Ja Rule signed with TVT in […]
50 Cent has been sued by a Queens doctor who claims that the multi-platinum artist shirked him on a medical bill in access of $32,000 after extensive surgery in May of 2000. In a lawsuit, filed in Manhattan’s State Supreme Court, Dr. Nader Paksima claims that the Shady Records rapper came to Jamaica Hospital after […]
Juvenile emerged victorius in a federal copyright lawsuit stemming from his 1998 hit, "Back That Azz Up. Local disc jockey Jerome "DJ Jubilee" Temple, a special education teacher and his record label, Take Fo’ Records, claimed in the lawsuit that Juvenile used his song without permission. After a five day trial that saw both rappers […]
The Lox’s D-Block Records has signed a production deal with Universal and expects member Sheek Louch’s solo album, Walk With Me, to be the first release from the union. The label expects to drop Sheek’s album midway in the summer time, citing a tentative date of July 29. After hitting the mixtapes and garnering street […]
On Sunday, May 11th, Suge Knight will serve as honorary host of Death Row’s annual Single Mother’s Day Brunch at The Regent Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. "For many reasons, a lot of women find themselves serving as both mother and father in raising their sons and daughters," Knight said, "Each and every […]
Just Blaze is staying busy, working on a variety of projects. The multi-platinum producer has two beats on Dr. Dre’s next album and he is also working on not one, but two record label deals. On working with Dr. Dre, the producer said he didn’t believe that he would actually be working with someone of […]
Jam Master Jay’s mother recently stated that the person (or persons) who had a hand in the murder of her son, would eventually pay for the puzzling, still unsolved murder. “They might not get what’s coming to them right away, or be arrested right now, but their soul will never be free,” Connie Mizell told the New York Daily […]
Billboard magazine has ranked Koch’s In The Paint imprint as the #1 independent R&B/Hip-Hop label, based on sales compiled by SoundScan over the past 12 months. Koch Entertainment landed 22 titles on the Billboard 200 albums chart, fueled by the hip-hop acts on both Koch Entertainment and In The Paint. "Our focus has always been […]
A variety of West coast rappers have recorded "S.T.O.P.," short for ‘Stop The Oppressive Politics.’ Daz, Everlast, Defari, J-Ro, Trey Dee, Soopafly, RBX, Dilated Peoples, W.C. Mac Minister and Light (BushBaybes), are featured on the Internet only release, produced by Fred Wreck. "We all had different views that were basically about the same thing," Wreck […]
An affidavit filed by the Internal Revenue Service in the United States Eastern District of New York alleges that Murder Inc. is secretly controlled by Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, the former head of a Queens, New York drug gang known as "Supreme Team," whom the IRS claims set 50 Cent up to be shot. IRS agent […]
Busta Rhymes was formally charged with assault in a Massachusetts court yesterday. Celine Giguere, 21, claims that Rhymes slammed her head into a table after she touched him on the chin during a Dec. 2002 performance at a local club. The complaint alleges that Rhymes then grabber her by her hair and said, "If you […]
