Man Shot After Drake Concert

A man was injured when shooting broke out after a concert at the House of Blues in Chicago featuring popular rapper Drake early Saturday morning (May 16).   According to reports, an unidentified 21-year-old male was shot in the buttocks outside of the venue around 4:00 am, as more than 1,000 fans were leaving the […]

T.I. Heading To Minimum Security Prison

Only eleven days remain until rapper must report to begin serving his federal prison sentence in connection to his October 2007 arrest for possession of firearms by a convicted felon.   The Atlanta-based Grand Hustle/Atlantic recording artist has until noon on May 26 to surrender himself to federal authorities outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, where […]

Jadakiss Starts D-Block West

D-Block is has been widely regarded as an almost exclusively East Coast street-hop entity.   However, now Jadakiss has proclaimed that he wants to sign artists from the other side of the nation.   “I’m trying to start this D-Block West thing over here. I’m looking for everybody. Hit me up,” the rapper told radio […]

Joe Budden Vs Method Man Heats Up

Lyrically, Joe Budden thinks that he’s Method Man’s superior and the notion has taken on new heights as the New Jersey rapper conducted an interview this morning. “I will cut that dudes head off his shoulders,” Budden said on the Ed Lover Morning Show. Budden wasn’t talking physically, but his verbage spoke volumes about how […]

Rapper DMX Released From Arizona Prison

Yonkers Hip-Hop star DMX is free after serving over 90 days in jail on drug, fraud, and animal cruelty charges, a representative confirmed with AllHipHop.com.   The rapper was released from “Tent City,” aka the Maricopa County Jail,  late yesterday afternoon (May 13).   DMX’s conviction and prison sentence was a culmination of a 2008 filled with […]

Alfamega Arrested After Police Find Gun

Alfamega, a rapper formerly affiliated with T.I., has been arrested after police say they caught him with a loaded .40 caliber semi-automatic weapon in his vehicle. The police maintain the rapper attempted to flee during a routine traffic stop on April 29. Upon attempting to run from the police, Alfamega became “combative and non-compliant” and […]

Twitter Removes Fake Kanye Account

Like fellow superstar T.I., Kanye West has clarified that he has no interest in joining the social networking phenomenon known as Twitter.   In a recent blog entry on his website kanyeuniversecity.com, the eclectic Chicago artist launched a trademark, all caps tirade over a fake Twitter account (@kanyewest) that carried his name.   “DON’T HAVE […]