(AllHipHop News) The plot surrounding a rare Wu-Tang Clan album has taken another twist.

The State of New York just filed legal documents laying claim to the only copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.

The State of New York argues disgraced “Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli owes them $1.6 million in back taxes that are due immediately.

Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison years for securities fraud after he took money from a company called Retrophin Inc to pay off his other debts.

In addition to the prison sentence, which he is appealing, Martin Shkreli was ordered to hand over $7.36 million in assets.

The State of New York is asking a judge to grant them ownership of the Wu album, as well as an unreleased copy of Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V and other assets Martin Shkreli owned including a Picasso painting.

The State of New York would auction off the albums and the art in order to satisfy Shkreli’s massive tax bill.

(AllHipHop News) Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight’s murder trial will begin in September.

The Death Row Records co-founder is accused of ramming his Ford F-150 pickup into two men during a fracas in a Los Angeles parking lot in January 2015.

Terry Carter, 55, died from his injuries.

Suge has pleaded not guilty, arguing that he acted in self-defense.

The murder trial was initially set for January, but two former members of Knight’s defense team were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit subornation of perjury, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and serving as accessories after the fact.

The trial was postponed again earlier this month but on Monday, four days after the rap boss’ 53rd birthday, he and the judge agreed on a September 24 start date.

(AllHipHop News) Migos star Offset has reportedly been served a court-ordered paternity test by a woman who claims he’s her baby’s father.

Celina Powell claims the rapper, who is expecting a child with fiancee Cardi B, is her month-old child Karma’s dad, and she wants him to take a DNA test to prove it.

“He was shook,” she said recalling serving the rap star with the legal documents. “Kenny and Danny (Zook) (his managers) were p##### off. They threw the papers on the floor.. So now I’ve got to wait…

“Offset was in town for a concert, near where I live in Colorado, and I pretended to be the venue’s manager. I acted like I was the promoter and called up Danny… to find out when they will be at the venue… It all happened really fast. Plus they missed their flight and were late to the show so they were like rushing and the sheriff just gave him the papers and he threw them and kept walking.”

Powell is convinced Offset will take the test because “he thinks I am lying.”

“DNA cases are closed cases, so he probably thinks it’s going to come out negative and I am going to post it and he can say I faked it or something and have no proof,” she adds. “But watch it come out positive and he will have to pay me!”

(AllHipHop News) Two of the top lyricists in the culture combined forces for the track/video “Boblo Boat.” Detroit’s Royce Da 5’9″ recruited Fayetteville’s J. Cole for the collaboration.

“I knew that I wanted to put somebody else on it to make it a little bit more broad. I didn’t want it to be so super-personal to where people wouldn’t get it,” Royce told Beats 1’s The Pharmacy. “Me and Cole had been talking about doing some stuff, so when he came to Detroit, and we were working at the studio, I played him a song like, ‘What would you do for a hook for this?'”

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Nickel Nine continued, “I think I might have went to the bathroom and came back, he was already in the booth capturing the feel. You don’t wanna lose the feel. Everything came together organically.”

“Boblo Boat” is on the tracklist for the Book of Ryan album which is due out May 4. Royce will also hit the road with DJ Premier for the “PRhyme 2 Tour” beginning May 30.

(AllHipHop News) Fans of Nicki Minaj will soon get to see their favorite artist live in concert. She tweeted about her upcoming world tour.

The proposed global trek is likely in support of Nicki’s upcoming fifth studio album. The New York representative recently released the singles “Chun-Li” and “Barbie Tingz.”

(AllHipHop News) Cardi B’s debut album, Invasion Of Privacy, bowed at #1 on the Billboard 200, giving the New Yorker the first debut chart-topper for a female rapper since Eve in 1999. Privacy collected 255,000 first-week units.

The second-week numbers for Cardi’s full length were also impressive. She racked up another 129,000 units, falling to #2 behind Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town with 183,000 units.

All thirteen songs off Invasion Of Privacy have appeared on the Hot 100. Cardi B surpassed Beyoncé for the most simultaneous songs on that chart by a solo female act.

(AllHipHop News) It appears YG has something coming in seven days. A countdown clock is featured on the West Coaster’s 4hunnid.com.

The header on the website reads, “Stay Dangerous: A Message From YG.” Back in February, the 4Hunnid boss announced he had a new album titled Stay Dangerous on the way.

YG’s last LP, Still Brazy, dropped in 2016. This year he appeared on “She Bad” off Cardi B’s Invasion Of Privacy.

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(AllHipHop News) A violent music video is now part of the back-and-forth between Rich The Kid and Lil Uzi Vert. RTK uploaded a visual for his Uzi diss track “Dead Friends.”

In the clip, Rich is seen burying a green-haired, nose-pierced man that tried to set him up. “Dead Friends” lives on The World Is Yours album which debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart.

(AllHipHop News) On his new project KOD, J. Cole presents himself as the ruler of the rap game. The opening week sales predictions for the LP will give the Roc Nation emcee another reason to claim the crown.

According to industry forecasters, Cole’s fifth studio album is on pace to move 375,000 – 390,000 units over its first seven days of release. This would be the biggest debut week of 2018, topping Justin Timberlake’s 293,000 units for Man Of The Wood.

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(AllHipHop News) Drizzy Drake still has the #1 song in the country. “Nice For What” spends its second week atop the Hot 100 chart.

The Toronto performer also controls the #2 spot with “God’s Plan.” Drake’s Young Money labelmate Nicki Minaj returns to the Top 10 with “Chun-Li.”

(AllHipHop News) Madonna lost a lawsuit seeking to regain ownership of a break-up letter rapper Tupac Shakur wrote to her.

The case started in July of 2017, when a woman who used to work for Madonna named Darlene Lutz put the letter up for auction with a starting bid of $100,000.

Madonna filed a lawsuit seeking to block the sale of the letter against her former art consultant, but she has lost the case according to reports.

A judge recently threw the case out of court, since Madonna had actually signed a release granting Lutz control of the letter and other memorabilia when the pair ended their relationship in 2004.

Now, the letter in which Pac poured out his heart to the singer, is free and clear to be auctioned off.

Here is a portion of Tupac’s breakup letter to Madonna:

“For you to be seen with a black man wouldn’t in any way jeopardize your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting. But for me at least in my previous perception, I felt due to my ‘image’ I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was.”

(AllHipHop News) R&B singer Usher has asked a judge to seal the legal documents in his herpes lawsuit.

Usher is facing court action from Quantasia Sharpton, who went public with her rumored night of passion with Usher during a press conference in August.

Sharpton revealed she had not contracted herpes from the alleged encounter at a Days Inn hotel following an Usher concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 2014, but is suing because she believes she had been put at risk by the musician.

Usher has refuted her claims and the singer is now seeking to keep his responses to her requests for evidence under wraps.

He is reportedly worried his answers will identify another unnamed woman suing him for the same reason and expose her medical records, while he is also concerned private information could be made public in the media and violate a reported court order between himself, Sharpton, and the unidentified woman.

A hearing on the motion is scheduled for later this month.

The unidentified Georgia woman, who claims she was diagnosed with herpes after sleeping with the musician, filed suit in July, demanding $20 million in punitive damages and another $20 million for emotional harm and medical bills.

Usher, who recently separated from his second wife Grace Miguel, has also denied those allegations and previously asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit.

(AllHipHop News) Married actors Will and Jada Pinkett Smith once offered Prince $400,000 to perform at a private party.

The “Purple Rain” icon regularly played lucrative private gigs, and one three-year-old memo reveals the Smiths were among those willing to pay big bucks to treat 100 guests to a very special night out in Los Angeles, scheduled for September 17, 2015.

It appears the bash was arranged to celebrate Jada’s birthday, as she turned 44 the following day.

It’s not known if Prince agreed to headline the event, but the note was among the treasure trove of paperwork recovered by Minnesota police following the superstar’s untimely death at his Paisley Park estate on April 21, 2016.

Authorities at the Carver County Sheriff’s Office released the documents last week, days before the second anniversary of the singer’s passing, after declaring no criminal charges would be filed in relation to Prince’s death from an accidental drug overdose.

Investigators determined there was no evidence to suggest he knowingly took powerful painkiller fentanyl, as it appeared he had been taking counterfeit Vicodin pills laced with the drug.

He did not have a prescription for the medication.