(AllHipHop News) Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, The Muppet and Oprah Winfrey are some of the entertainers that have been selected to receive a revered star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced the 2011 honorees on Thursday. A total of 30 stars have been assigned for an upcoming ceremony.

Other recipients from the movies and TV industries include Gwyneth Paltrow, Donald Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon, Penelope Cruz, Danny DeVito and Tina Fey, according to the Associated Press.

Melissa Etheridge, Los Tigres Del Norte and Rascal Flatts will be honored in the music category.

Will.i.am started his career with Eazy-E’s Ruthless Records and became the front man of The Black Eyed Peas, one of the top-selling acts ever.

(AllHipHop News) A new book being published claims that Death Row Records was actually a front for the FBI in an attempt to assault and end black activism. The new book The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders: U.S. Intelligence’s Murderous Targeting of Tupac, MLK, Malcolm, The Panthers, Hendrix, Marley, Rappers & Linked Ethnic Leftists. According to the book’s author, Baltimore area native and Columbia University graduate John Potash, he extensively researched the book, which claims to show the FBI’s consistent pattern of undermining black activism. The book claims that Shakur was deliberately targeted by the government, like other black leaders, due to his growing influence in the African-American community, utilizing Hip-Hop music. “What I think it was was that he had become the most influential black man in the black community in the country,” Potash told The Baltimore City Paper. “The CIA and U.S. intelligence, what they have to do is win the hearts and minds of the people. They don’t want to control us by force, they want us to control ourselves by having us believe in a certain way–that we don’t need national health care, for example. And here, Tupac was threatening to win over the hearts and minds of people, he was able to counter so much of the propaganda in the black community.”The FBI War on Tupac Shakur took ten years to research, utilizing court testimony, FBI documents and a number of previously unseen documents provided by The Black Panthers to Potash. As for Death Row, Potash claims that the government was definitely involved in the record label’s operations, in a continued attempt to harass Shakur and derail his career. “I believe that Death Row Records, which included dozens and dozens of police officers at all levels, according to a high-level police officer that investigated them, was a front company and was trying to continue penal coercion and mess up [Tupac Shakur’s] head,” Potash said. A research documentary also accompanies the self-published book.

Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs has assumed an all-star cast of Hip-Hop M.C.’s for his collaboration with Ill Bill titled Kill Devil Hills. The album features guest appearances from Sean Price, O.C., B-Real, Raekwon, Everlast, Slain, Vinnie Paz, Q-Unique, Sick Jacken and Chace Infinite. DJ Muggs produced the entire album, which seems to be a bit dark in nature judging it by the title, Kill Devil Hills and tracks like “Skull & Guns, ““Illuminati 666” and “Amputated Saints.” Ill Bill, who co-founded Hip-Hop group Non-Phixion said that he was honored to work with DJ Muggs on Kill Devil Hills. “I’ve always been a huge Muggs fan and his Vs. series is one of the last places to hear the vibe that made albums by Cypress Hill & Gang Starr so dope,” Ill Bill said. “Not too many producers can craft an entire album on their own, let alone an album that’s a classic. Muggs has done it many times over the past 20 years. It’s an honor to be part of that legacy.” According to DJ Muggs, he works prefers to work with artists on an album-by-album basis, as opposed to the current trend of spreading numerous tracks around in hopes of landing placements on various projects. “I prefer getting in the lab and actually creating projects with people instead of just sending out beat CD’s,” DJ Muggs stated. I’m a producer in the fullest extent, where I like to not only produce an album; but craft an album. Being able to start a record from the beginning and following through with it, making sure that all the songs compliment each other. I’ve always come from making albums and producing my records—I’m still into that” relays DJ Muggs.Kill Devil Hills will hit stores August 24th on Fat Beats Records. Tracklisting is below: 1.) Cult Assassin  2.) Trouble Shooters f/Sean Price, O.C. & Sick Jacken 3.) Paul Stanley4.) Illuminati 666 5.) Amputated Saint f/B-Real 6.) Skull & Guns f/Everlast & Slaine of La Coka Nostra 7.) Giants Stadium f/Q-Unique 8.) The Owl9.) Millenniums Of Murder10.) Chase Manhattan f/Raekwon11.) Luciferian Imperium12.) ILL BILL TV13.) Secrets Worth Dying For f/Chace Infinite14.) 201315.) Kill Devil Hills f/B-Real & Vinnie Paz16.) Narco Corridos f/Sick Jacken & Uncle Howie

(AllHipHop News) A variety of rappers have called upon R*B crooner Lloyd to help deliver them hit singles this Summer, including G-Unit member Lloyd Banks. Lloyd, whose vocals are heard on 2009’s smash single “Bedrock,” is featured on four new singles that will drop this summer: Nipsey Hu$$le’s “Feeling Myself,” Chamillionaire’s “Make a Movie” featuring Twista, “Go, Go, Go” by newcomer J. Futuristic and Lloyd Banks’ “Any Girl.”According to Lloyd, he would have never been able to work with an artist like Lloyd Banks, due to the ongoing feud between 50 Cent’s G-Unit and Irv Gotti’s Murder Inc. collective of artists. “There was no hesitation on my part because we never had direct issues,” Lloyd told AllHipHop.com of his collaboration with Lloyd Banks. “We met for the first time in the studio and everything just clicked. It felt like it was our 10th song together.”Lloyd is currently preparing to release his debut album for Interscope Records and his fourth studio album overall. The release could feature a rumored collaboration record between Lloyd, Drake and Rich Boy. ““I was independent for about 6 months and we just tried to stay as busy as possible with shows and collaborations,” Lloyd stated. “It’s starting to pay off now. “I like working with talented artist that are on their grind, whether they’re newcomers or veterans.”

(AllHipHop News) Black C. of West coast rap group RBL Posse (Ruthless By Law) dropped his third solo album on Tuesday (June 15th), titled 70’s Baby. The 17-track album features a number of Bay Area heavyweights, including producer Rick Rock, Sean T., Slapadelic, So Crates and others. RBL Posse, which originally consisted of Mr. Cee, Black C and Hitman, released their first album A Lesson to Be Learned in 1992. By 1997, the group was landed a deal with Atlantic, but suffered a setback when they released an Eye For An Eye as a duo, after Mr. Cee was gunned down.Tragically group member Mr. Cee was shot nine times and murdered on New Years Day in 1996. On February 2, 2003, group member Hitman was shot dead in the Hunters Point section of San Francisco. Black C. is the only original surviving member of The RBL Posse, who created the hit single in 1992 single “Don’t Gimme No Bammer (Weed).”The group  worked with artists like Spice 1, Rappin’ 4 Tay and Mystikal.Black C.’s new video for “Need the Luv” is below. 70’s Baby is in stores now.

(AllHipHop News) Snoop Dogg has been banned from performing at a free concert taking place at The Hague in the Netherlands next weekend. Snoop Dogg was slated to play at the Parkpop festival on June 27th, but a coalition of police and justice ministry officials led by the Mayor of the Dutch city of Hague are protesting the rapper’s appearance. Police have asked organizers to find a suitable replacement for Snoop Dogg with just ten-days left until the concert takes place. “This is all very annoying that the headliner is being removed from the programme 10 days before the event,” a spokeswoman for organizer Ducos Productions told ANP-Reuters.According to the Mayor, Snoop has been banned in order to maintain the “open and friendly atmosphere” of the family-oriented festival.Other performers slated to hit the stage during Parkpop include Nick Lowe, Alphabeat and Nena.

(AllHipHop News) Carrying the Trill torch high, Houston rapper Bun B is readying his third solo released on Rap-A-Lot Records called Trill OG, which is set to be release on August 3rd via Fontana/Universal Records.“We have been working on it the past few months, it’s a strong project, one of the strongest albums I have ever been a part of,” Bun B. told AllHipHop.com. “I think it brings the foundation of hip hop to the forefront, with the kind of rhyming and kind of music and the type of vibe and feeling that I’m building to.”The album will also feature the rhymes of Young Jeezy, Gucci Mane, Yo Gotti, Slim Thug and production from Play-N-Skillz, Boi-1da, Drumma Boi and Steve Below.“A lot of the production is done by Steve Below, who was a prodigy of Pimp C, he worked under Pimp C for a long time,” Bun B. told AllHipHop.com. “J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League is on the album, DJ B-Do. Just a lot of different people in the game, some up and coming talent as well,” Bun B told said. “Then as far as features of course Pimp C, Drake, and Tupac, are all on the album.”In addition to discussing his up and coming project. Bun B also spoke both candidly and modestly about the UGK legacy and the group’s place in hip-hop history.“Well its difficult for me to sit here and talk about me and to talk about history and to blow my own horn, but UGK as a group, as well as a movement has definitely made a lot of contributions, to not just to southern rap, but to rap music and hip hop in general,” Bun B explained. In other news Bun B is working on 2 Trill West, which will feature west coast producers and artists.”We have gone out here from city to city, standing tall, repping for the Trill, and people respected it because we showed nothing but love and respect city to city, and people showed love back to us,” Bun B. stated.

(AllHipHop News) Floyd Mayweather Jr. may be undefeated in the ring, but he suffered a loss to Just for You Entertainment yesterday (June 16th) in court.While the victory was extremely small, The New York Post reports that a judge awarded Just for You Entertainment $6,000 because Floyd’s label Philthy Rich Records signed Freck Billionaire to a contract in violation of a previous agreement with Just for You.Just for You was seeking over $600,000 in damages, claiming that Mayweather’s Philthy Rich signed Freck in violation of a 2005 agreement the rapper signed with the company.That was quickly whittled down to a $6,000 judgment, because of a lack of evidence in court and because Just For You’s owner, Ahmed Fahmy, failed to provide enough written evidence to receive more damages. Mayweather never answered the suit and didn’t even send lawyers to yesterday’s court proceedings, according to the New York Post. In August of 2009, Floyd Mayweather Jr. publicly chastised Freck Billionaire over the matter during an interview with AllHipHop.com.Mayweather was angry that Freck Billionaire signed to Philthy Rich, even though he knew he was in a previous, binding agreement with Just For You Entertainment.After dropping him from the label, Mayweather also accused Freck Billionaire of stealing a diamond watch.”We were working with an artist named Freck Billionaire. When he came aboard we asked if he had any contracts and he said no,” Floyd Mayweather Jr. told AllHipHop.com in an exclusive interview. “Come to find out he was signed with somebody. The guy was trying to sue us and Freck stole one of our watches and left. So we’ve been looking for Freck Billionaire but he’s been ducking and dodging us. He stole a diamond watch and left.”Freck Billionaire wasted no time responding to Mayweather’s interview, and accused the boxer of being greedy and arrogant.“Since you really at the bottom of your heart don’t wanna see anyone around you with anything, I’ll send a courier to you with my watch. Maybe you can use it to lure in your next victim,” Freck told AllHipHop.com.Freck’s manager Animal Steele also clarified the watch theft allegations, saying it was a signing gift for joining Philthy Rich Records.“The watch was a gift from Floyd to Freck. It symbolized the business arrangement that we were all heading into together,” Animal Steele told AllHipHop.com.