(AllHipHop News) Despite early weekend box office estimates reported Monday morning (August 30), Takers has actually edged out The Last Exorcism as the highest-grossing film for the weekend ending August 29, AllHipHop.com has confirmed. Takers raked in an impressive $20.5 million, beating it’s rival opening film by just shy of $200,000. The independently-produced crime drama originally […]

(AllHipHop News) Yonkers Hip-Hop label Ruff Ryders has relaunched its recording business as Ruff Ryders Indy and will officially launch its new roster of artists currently on the label. The principles in the new label are CEO/President Joaquin “Waah” Dean, Director of Operations Dedra Tate and Directors of Marketing, Tenisha Rae and Alimah Samsid-Deen. According […]

(AllHipHop News) A number of world renowned Hip-Hop artists and producers will gather in New York all this week, to pay homage to legendary record store Fat Beats. The legendary record store, which was launched in 1996, announced they would close their remaining physical locations in New York and Los Angeles. To celebrate the company, […]

Twista has released details behind a new bio-documentary, focusing on the chart-topping Chicago rapper’s rise to fame. The documentary was filmed in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Miami by The Vladar Company, the organization behind Big Pun: The Legacy.The film will be distributed to physical and digital retailers by EMI Label Services, which will […]

(AllHipHop News) Former G-Unit member Young Buck is releasing a new mixtape titled The Rehab, on the heels of his latest single “Hood Documentary,” which is a diss to G-Unit’s frontman, 50 Cent. The Rehab features Young Buck rapping over 14 tracks, produced by Big Hollis, Cozmo and Vince V. The album is being released […]

(AllHipHop News) Miami rapper Trick Daddy is focusing on the release of his upcoming autobiography, which will be released this Fall, the rapper revealed to AllHipHop.com. The book, tentatively titled Magic City: Trials of a Native Son, is the story of Trick Daddy’s colorful life in Miami, where he was raised in Liberty City, along […]

(AllHipHop News) Despite Lauryn Hill’s announced illness during yesterday’s Rock The Bells Tour in Washington, D.C., the former Fugees’ member came out after A Tribe Called Quest and rocked the stage. Fans became angry when concert organizers announced that Lauryn Hill would not be able to play due to the illness. Though her line-up of […]

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Big Fase 100 has dropped a new diss record titled “No Help,” aimed at his younger brother, Compton rapper Game. The pair have been publicly feuding since at least 2005, after Game cut ties with Big Fase and numerous Black Wall Street associates in a financial dispute.  Earlier this month, their beef […]

(AllHipHop News) Details have been revealed surrounding Eminem and Jay-Z’s upcoming shows in New York at Yankees Stadium and in Detroit at Comerica Park. The four dates are slated to be huge productions with heavy video elements and special effects created by some of the concert industry’s top producers, who were brought in by Live […]

(AllHipHop News) Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas is jumping into the lucrative footwear game,  with the launch of his own sneaker line. The multi-platinum singer will sell the Taboo Deltah 3008 sneaker exclusively through Foot Action, while an upscale shoe line named Taboo X Jump will be available through Saks. “In 3008, there will […]

Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Friday kicked off yesterday (August 27th) when the rapper posted the track “Monster” featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver and Charlie Wilson. The rapper posted the track on his KanyeUniversity.com blog and revealed that the song is taken from his upcoming collaborative album with Jay-Z titled Watch the Throne. According […]

(AllHipHop News) Rapper 50 Cent returned to his Twitter account today (August 28th) as promised.The internationally known rap star commented on today’s news that socialite Paris Hilton was arrested in Las Vegas for possessing cocaine.Hilton was charged with felony cocaine possession on Friday night (August 27th), after police stopped her boyfriend’s SUV after witnessing marijuana […]

Lil Wayne has set a release date for the fourth installment of his series of albums, Tha Carter. Young Money’s President Mack Maine told MTV that Tha Carter IV is due in stores the same day he is released from Rikers Island, where he has been incarcerated since March, for attempted possession of a weapon. […]

(AllHipHop News) Drake’s lines about marrying Nicki Minaj in the song “Miss Me” have come true, if a series of tweets the pair sent out yesterday (August 26th) is to be believed. Last night, the pair tweeted that they had “tied the knot,” although representatives for either rapper has yet to confirm the news of […]

(AllHipHop News) Today (August 26th), Cleveland Hip-Hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony announced they are launching a new 35-city tour this September. The tour will kick off in Boise Idaho at the Knitting Factory and wind down October 30th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The group, which will consist of Krayzie, Layzie, Wish and Flesh-N-Bone, will exclusively perform […]

(AllHipHop News) A phone meeting between Kanye West and former Death Row Records CEO Marion “Suge” Knight ended in a stalemate and produced no results involving Knight’s $1 million dollar lawsuit against the Chicago rapper.  The Associated Press reports that the latest meeting took place yesterday (August 26th) in Miami, with Knight present and West […]

(AllHipHop News) Rap star Eminem and veteran producers The Alchemist and Mr. Porter have crowned a new freestyle champion, as part of Eminem’s Red Bull Emsee: The Road to 8 Mile” contest. The national freestyle rap battle was created by Eminem, to find the best freestyle rapper in country. The winner is Saffal Tall aka […]

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Mos Def is the latest rapper accused of bailing on a gig, just 24 hours prior to show time, causing what the promoter called a “$57,000 hit.”According to the documents, which were filed August 26th in L.A. County Superior Court and obtained by TMZ, Mos Def  was given an advance payment of […]

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop mogul Jay-Z is cashing in on his hit single “Empire State of Mind” with a new line of clothing with the New York Yankees.The rapper will team with The Yankees to produce a custom line of Jay-Z branded New York Yankee hats, T-Shirts, hooded sweatshirts that will go sale this Monday (August […]

(AllHipHop News) Elektra recording artist Cee-Lo Green has announced the upcoming release of a new solo album titled The Lady Killer, which will feature his new hit single “F**k You”. On Cee-Lo’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/user/CeeLoGreen, “F**k You” has received over 2 million plays and the video has become the #1 Most Viewed Video in the U.K. […]