(AllHipHop News) DJ Premier recently sat down to talk with AllHipHop.com about his label’s first compilation and working with the various artists on the label, as well as veterans. Year Round Records’ first release Get Used To Us is a compilation record that features guest appearances from Styles P., Joell Ortiz, Saigon, Freddie Foxxx, KRS-One, […]

(AllHipHop News) T.I. is being sued by an audio engineer who claims he was beaten and held hostage for 12 hours by one of the rapper’s employees, who was searching for a missing necklace. Norris Gresham, who is employed at Echo Studios, claims he was attacked on September 8th by a variety of men associated […]

(AllHipHop News) And like that, it was over. MC Hammer has declared that the beef between he and Jay-Z has now come to an abrupt ending. “As a responsible veteran of twenty something years of this [Hip-Hop]. I can’t leave it out there with tensions,” MC Hammer told AllHipHop.com exclusively. “I am reading comments on […]

(AllHipHop News) Geto Boys member Willie D. has broken his silence regarding an upcoming prison sentence and is planning to drop a new single before serving a year in prison for wire fraud. Willie D. has recorded a single titled “Cell Block Ready,” which will address his upcoming prison sentence for wire fraud, after he […]

(AllHipHop News) West coast veteran Snoop Dogg has announced that Doggumentary Music, his 11th studio album, will land in stores this March. The album is Snoop’s first official release as an artist under his current role at the Chief Creative Officer at Priority Records/EMI. According to Snoop Dogg, he has not lost his love for […]

(AllHipHop News) U.S. rap star Busta Rhymes has been forced to cancel a concert in London because of problems with his visa. According to reports, Busta was slated to perform at London’s Coronet venue on December 7th, but had to cancel the highly anticipated show because his application for a temporary visa was rejected. Promoters […]

(AllHipHop News) Big Truck, a former member of Busta Rhyme’s entourage who feuded with the rapper in 2008 is attempting to appeal a September conviction for assault and robbery in Albany, New York. Big Truck, born William Robinson, was recently convicted of a violent encounter in Albany in January of 2010, shortly after moving to […]

(AllHipHop News) The infamous Staten Island group Wu-Tang Clan has announced a limited winter tour starting this December.  The cross country tour kicks off in San Diego, California on December 4th and wraps up with a New Year’s Eve performance in Millville, Pennsylvania. Also included is a stop in Times Square at the Best Buy […]

(AllHipHop News) A Missouri woman has hit Lil Wayne with a court order requiring the rap star to submit to a DNA test to see if he is the father of an 8-year-old child. TMZ reports that Lil Wayne is being tested by the child’s grandmother, who believes Lil Wayne impregnated her daughter around 2002. […]

(AllHipHop News) George W. Bush has accepted an apology from rap star Kanye West, who called the former President of the United States a “racist” during a telethon in 2005, for his slow reaction to Hurricane Katrina. President Bush labeled Kanye’s comments that he “didn’t care about black people” as the lowest point in his […]

(AllHipHop News) T.I.’s options for travel will be extremely limited after the chart-topping rapper finishes an 11 month sentence for violating the terms of his probation when he was arrested with drugs in September. T.I., born Clifford Harris Jr., is serving time in an Forrest City, Arkansas prison, after he and his wife Tameka “Tiny” […]

(AllHipHop News) The author of a book on Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti has filed a $5 million dollar lawsuit against the producers of the Broadway Play Fela!. Carlos Moore, author of the 1982  Fela: This B#### of a Life, filed the lawsuit in the United District Court in Manhattan yesterday (November 8th).Moore claims that […]

(AllHipHop News) Saint Louis Hip-Hop star Nelly has been tapped to open the highly anticipated boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito this weekend in Dallas, Texas. Nelly has been tapped to perform his new single “Just A Dream” for the first time live, prior to the ring entrances of Pacquiao and Margarito. “In […]

(AllHipHop News) Kanye West’s new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has hit the internet in a way that the rapper probably isn’t pleased with. The version of the opus in circulation is a clean version with no profanity. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is officially due in stores and digitally on November 22. In the past, […]

(AllHipHop News) Alabama rapper Yelawolf will drop six brand new tracks later this month as part of a new collection hitting stores titled Trunk Muzik 0 – 60. Trunk Muzik 0-60, which is being released via Ghet-O-Vision/DGC/Interscope, is a follow-up to Yelawolf’s Trunk Muzik mixtape and features the new single “I Just Wanna Party” featuring […]

(AllHipHop News) Rap star 50 Cent has been hit with a lawsuit claiming he stole the idea for his movie and album Before I Self Destruct was stolen from a book titled The Preacher’s Son-But The Streets Turned Me Into A Gangster.The lawsuit, which was filed in United States District Court of New Jersey by […]

(AllHipHop News) Details  continue to emerge in the arrest of Wiz Khalifa on purported drug charges. The rapper, whose real name is Cameron Thomaz, was released from the Pitt County Detention center earlier this morning, after he was apprehended in the middle of a concert at East Carolina University . Greenville, North Carolina police have […]

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Wiz Khalifa was arrested in the middle of his concert during a tour date in North Carolina. The concert took place at East Carolina University. Details are scant at press time, but early reports suggest the arrest is related to Khalifa’s penchant for smoking marijuana. Early  reports suggest that after he was […]

(AllHipHop News) Pittsburgh, PA rapper Wiz Khalifa was arrested in Greenville, North Carolina for unknown reasons, it’s being reported. While details are sketchy, early reports state that Wiz Khalifa was at a show at East Carolina University when police reportedly stopped his show 45 minutes into his set. He was arrested later, as he attempted […]

Jay-Z has been added to the Miami Book Fair’s International lineup, when he will take part in a discussion with revered educator, Dr. Cornel West. Jay-Z and Cornel West will conduct the chat live from the New York Public Library, although the session will be telecast live to the fair. The pair will discuss Jay-Z’s […]