Rapper 50 Cent has signed on to star in Universal Pictures’ new heist film Live Bet, which is set in the world of underground clubs and illegal car racing, Daily Variety reports. The movie, which was originally penned by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, is being produced by Mary Parent and Scott Stuber, along with G-Unit […]

Rapper Ice Cube has teamed up with the McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota to establish The Ice Cube Scholarship, the schools first scholarship to be made in conjunction with a Hip-Hop artist. The Ice Cube Scholarship, which will be awarded for the 2007-2008 school year, will be awarded to the student […]

Rapper Young City has officially closed the book on a legal case involving a 2001 robbery attempt. Baltimore County Circuit Court judge Michael Finifter sentenced the rapper to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service last week. The decision was welcome news to Young City (also known as “Chopper” from MTV’s#### show […]

Russell Simmons and The Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation announced today that the third annual Art For Life Palm Beach benefit gala raised more than $600,000 to provide disadvantaged youth in New York City and Palm Beach County with access to the arts. The gala too place on Mar. 17 at the oceanfront estate Casa Vita […]

The life of best-selling author Kody "Monster" Scott is coming to the big screen. Bay area rapper Saafir will portray Scott in the Billy Wright-directed film, titled Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop. Scott chronicled his life as a child and young adult growing up in Los Angeles as an Eight-Tray Crips gang member in the book […]

One of the most legendary feuds in Hip-Hop history will come to an end with the May 22 release of Hip-Hop Lives, created by two pioneers and former rivals, KRS-One and Marley Marl.The pair’s now legendary beef started in 1985 with MC Shan’s classic record "The Bridge," which paid homage to Shan’s place of birth, […]

The Hip-Hop Association, a national organization dedicated to the movement of Hip-Hop as a culture, has announced the release of The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume One.Conceived by the Hip-Hop Association’s Education Initiative, The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume One is a textbook that documents the history of Hip-Hop music and culture as a product of the […]

Following the Mar. 6 release of his solo debut Don’t Quit Your Day Job, G.O.O.D. Music recording artist Consequence is issuing a challenge to those doubting the quality of his album: he is offering to issue a refund to anyone who doesn’t find a song they like. Consequence said those wishing to claim the refund […]

After more than three years, the man accused of murdering rapper Soulja Slim has yet to be indicted for the slaying.The rapper’s murder is one of three first-degree murder cases prosecutors have refused to bring against Garelle Smith. The 25-year-old was arrested but never charged in the Nov. 26, 2003 murder of Soulja Slim.Prosecutors originally […]

Popular rapper/actor Ice-T will speak at Teachers College at Columbia University, one of the United States’ leading graduate schools. The rapper will be featured during a two-day gathering called "Teach, Think, Play: Popular Culture in the Classroom." According to organizers, the conference is designed to explore challenges and power of integrating pop culture into the […]

For two decades, the Atlanta-based Black Mafia Family (BMF) allegedly ran a cocaine ring that produced an estimated $250 million, but after years of investigation they were busted in 2005. The case will go to trial in August 2007. Over 30 members of BMF were arrested and three million dollars in cash, two kilograms of […]

Despite the current microscope being put on mixtape DJs, Green Lantern appears unfazed. In fact, the turntablist is setting his sights on bigger fish with a new radio show and artists under his tutelage. “I just started my brand new radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio Hip-Hop Nation Channel 40, Monday nights 10 p.m. to […]

Police in Jersey City, NJ raided the offices of Block Royal Entertainment, a Hip-Hop studio/record label founded by Akon’s slain road manager, claiming the business was a front for a wholesale distribution ring that sold uncut heroin and cocaine. Robert "Screw" Montanez founded Block Royal and helped promote the early career of chart topping R&B […]

A little more than a month after being appointed President of Urban Music at Island Records, Jermaine Dupri has hit the ground running by signing Compton,CA/ Hattisburg, MS rapper Hot Dollar. According to the music mogul, Hot Dollar’s talent was too good to pass up. "Yeah, he’s my first Island artist," Dupri told AllHipHop.com. "His […]

A remake of Rudy Ray Moore’s 1975 movie Dolemite will finally come to the big screen, almost 30 years after the original movie hit theaters. The movie centers around a pimp named Dolemite, who is released from prison, after being framed. He fights an assortment of enemies in the film, along with a group of […]

Redman’s upcoming album, Red Gone Wild, isn’t even out yet and the New Jersey rapper is looking to the past for his future projects."I’m getting back into [the studio] with Muddy Waters 2 right after Red Gone Wild. I already did two songs for it. It ain’t gonna be hard, because I’m gonna take it […]

After the success of Making The Band 3’s girl group Danity Kane, Sean “Diddy” Combs is at it again, but this time shifting his focus to the men. Making The Band 4 finds Diddy scouring the country in search of the next hot boy band. Auditions for Making The Band 4 began back in January, […]

Three of the five New York Police Department officers accused of murdering a groom to be the night before his wedding were indicted Friday (March 16) by a grand jury. Although officers Marc Cooper, Gerscard Isnora and Michael Oliver were indicted for the murder of 23-year-old Sean Bell, the Associated Press reports that the men […]

Newark, New Jersey rapper Rah Digga has officially departed from Busta Rhymes’ Flipmode Squad to pursue other business ventures. The former first lady of Flipmode, Rah Digga first signed with Flipmode a decade ago and has only released one solo album since. Her debut album, Dirty Harriet, was released in 2000 and was followed by […]