G-Unit member Lloyd Banks’ debut album The Hunger for More is outselling expectations and will debut at #1 next week on Billboard’s Top 200 Charts. The past three weeks have been banner weeks for Hip-Hop starting when veteran group The Beastie Boys’ latest album To the 5 Boroughs shot to #1 and moved over 360,000 […]

Queens rapper Mr. Cheeks is preparing his third solo album, Ladies and Ghettomen, but not without some legal problems. Mr. Cheeks founded Legal Drug Money Records to release his music independently in a partnership with Contango Records, a company partially owned by underground rapper Breez Evahflowin. However, Cheeks was under contract to another label, The […]

The Carlyle Group, one company that is the subject of intense scrutiny in Michael Moore’s anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" is one of three investment firms that now own movie theater chain Loews Cineplex Entertainment. Carlyle, which was founded in 1987, manages almost $17 billion dollars worth of investments. Past directors include George Bush, James Baker […]

Former Three 6 Mafia rapper Mr. Del is planning to release Mr. Del Presents Holy South Worldwide, his first official full length project since leaving the hardcore Hip-Hop group and converting to Christianity. Mr. Del appeared on early Three Six material and now preaches in Memphis, Tennessee, at the City of Refuge Hip-Hop Church. "Worldwide […]

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs’ annual "White Party" will distinguish itself from other events this year, by presenting attendees with a viewing of a copy of the United States’ original Declaration of Independence. The copy Combs will show off is owned by legendary television producer Norman Lear, responsible for such hits as "All In The Family," […]

Cam’ron, CEO and chief lyricist of Diplomat Records, has designed his own signature baseball hat for New Era’s 59Fifty “Capture the Flag” limited-edition hat series. With this feat, he joins the ranks of Roger Clemens, Fabolous and Bobbito as the fifth time a celebrity has crafted a 59Fifty cap. Of course the hat represents Cam’ron […]

Emcees in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are in a state of emergency, as the government has censored all Congolese rap groups and foreign music. The Committee of Censorship instituted the ban earlier this month, claiming that the music is ‘obscene and violent, and causes the youth to behave badly.’ Congolese rappers have united […]

Earl "DMX" Simmons was treated at a New York hospital and has had additional charges slapped on him, due to an altercation with another driver at Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York. Simmons and associate Jackie Hudgins were released on $15,000 bail. Simmons was initially charged with attempted robbery and impersonating an officer. Additional charges […]

As a member of Ruff Ryders, D-Block and The Lox, Jadakiss has enjoyed a lengthy tour of duty. Now he has gotten the attention of the general American population with one song simply titled “Why.” A collaboration with crooner Anthony Hamilton, “Why” has been the subject of various media outlets attention, due to one line […]

Earl "DMX" Simmons was arrested on charges that he and an aquaintance attempted to steal a car in a parking lot of New York’s Kennedy Airport. Port Authority police arrested Simmons and Jackie Hudgins, after a dispute ensued between the the two men and the owner of the vehicle. A Port Authority spokesman said that […]

G-Unit’s Young Buck and 50 Cent have elected to jumpstart G-Unit South Records in an effort to expand the gangstas’ business properties below the Mason Dixon line. For Buck, the move is as much personal as it is business, he said. “I want to see more artists from where I am from get into the […]

Rapper Skillz (formerly Mad Skillz) has launched chapter 2 of his odd rap battle with basketball star Shaquille O’Neal. Without warning, the pair’s musical clash began with a JiCE-produced Shaq freestyle that hit exclusively on a DJ Sickamore mixtape. Spreading rapidly, the track had Shaq spitting lines that appeared to be directed at Skillz.4 In […]

Snoop Dogg has entered into a partnership with sneaker company Pony and will release his own footwear line, "The One and Only," described as a "a creative fusion of Snoop’s signature West coast flavor and style with classic Pony design." A nationwide marketing and advertising campaign featuring Snoop Dogg is currently being produced to support […]

Rap icon Ice-T and film maker Paul “Paulie Paul” Eliacin are collaborating on an independent film, “Up In Harlem,” and hope to spark a new era in independently funded films. The movie hits stores nationally today (June 22) on DVD. With $80,000 of his own money, Eliacin paid for the film after many African American […]

The internet has been in a silent uproar over an alleged incident of Jay-Z striking a woman, but the speculation over a 3-second moving GIF image has been proven inaccurate. The image, which has been spread through the internet through websites, instant messenger transmissions and message boards, seems to show the image of Jay-Z assaulting […]

Houston rapper Lil Flip has issued a detailed statement to rebuke TI’s comments against him during a concert in Atlanta, Georgia.During his performance, TI dissed the Houston, Texas lyricist and showed pictures of him in a green leprechaun outfit, often seen on his first album. Flip, who was scheduled to go on as the headliner, […]

Civil Rights spark Rosa Parks has finally gotten a date for her legal bout with rappers Andre 3000 and Big Boi of Outkast. The trial has been set for January 10, 2005, but the suit will take on an even more dramatic twist because of the civil rights leader’s ailing health. Lawyers for Outkast have […]