Director Nick Broomfield will hold a Q&A session at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square, New York on April 29th. Starting at 6 pm, the director will field questions related to one of the most talked about films at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, "Biggie & Tupac." The DVD, which will be released on home […]

A mural that was the subject of controversy at Woodbury High School in New Jersey featuring Eazy-E, Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G. and Big Punisher has finally found a home, in a popular shopping mall. The Mural was unveiled in the Deptford Mall’s teen center Saturday (April 5) and has been expanded to feature Aaliyah, John […]

Human rights anti-war activist and comedian legend Dick Gregory will deliver the keynote speech to open the fourth annual “Hip Hop Generation-Hip Hop As A Movement” Conference, April 11-13, 2003 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Gathering under the banner of Peace and Anti-Militarism, the weekend event will feature panels, strategy sessions, and performances. The […]

MTV’s show "Making The Band 2" and P. Diddy have come under fire from residents in Greenwich Village in New York, where the show is being filmed. MTV rented two combined brownstone townhouses for the show and neighbors are complaining of loitering, noise and cigarette butts being left on the sidewalk. Residents in the area […]

Irv Gotti may have committed a federal crime by using the FBI letters in Ja-Rule’s latest video "The Reign," without permission. The video features Patrick Swayze as an FBI agent and recreates the FBI raid on Murder Inc.’s offices earlier this year. While FBI officials aren’t pleased with the video, they said that it would […]

EXCLUSIVE: Juvenile has reunited with Cash Money Records after a bitter breakup in 2001. “Juvenile and Cash Money have settled any differences they had, and Juve is currently working on album which will be released by Cash Money later this year,” Peter Seitz, CEO of American Talent Agency, told AllHipHop.com. ATA is Juvenile’s management company […]

Wu-Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard has been released from an upstate New York prison. According to sources Ol’ Dirty is being held in a New York area mental facility after he was deemed unsafe to the public. Fellow Clan members remained optimistic that Ol’ Dirty would be released as early as July. “It’s good […]

IJay-Z will be honored along with Jive Records President Barry Weiss tomorrow, April 2. The two mogul’s will be honored by the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding at the home of songwriter Denise Rich. The award comes for promoting diversity in the workplace. The Foundation For Ethnic Understanding is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to […]

Recent Academy Award nominee, Queen Latifah, is among named defendants in a copyright lawsuit seeking $15 million over the box office standout, “Bringing Down the House.” Marie Flaherty, a New York attorney, claims to have written a screenplay entitled “Amoral Dilemma,” whose plot is strikingly parallel to that of “Bringing Down the House.” In 1999, […]

Jay-Z and Nas have been named two of the top 50 most hated New Yorker’s according to a poll taken by The New York Press. "These endlessly feuding rappers should be merged to form one, giant, illiterate organism called Notorious S.U.C.K.," the New York Press said. "Either that, or they should stop pretending and jump […]

Jennifer Capriati gave Outkast some shine before her match at the Nasdaq-100 Open. The tennis star played 1999’s "Bomb’s Over Baghdad," before her match. Capriati said that she played the song to show solidarity with troops fighting in Iraq. The song was reluctantly previewed by stadium court producer Bob Ruf. After Ruf previewed the song […]

Eightball and MJG have filed a lawsuit against Tony Draper’s Suave House Inc. and Koch Entertainment, claiming upcoming releases are in violation of a settlement the group entered into with Suave House. According to the suit, the settlement was reached to resolve a dispute over master sound recordings that Eightball and MJG claimed non-payment of […]

An answering machine message has gotten Snoop Dogg into trouble for the second time. According to court documents, the rapper is being sued by a man only known as "Joh Doe," in Los Angeles Superior Court. Doe, who resides in Compton, California, claims that Snoop used his voice unauthorized on "Pimp Slapp’d," which appears on […]

Roc-A-Fella CEO Damon Dash was arrested yesterday on a warrant for "absconding with a subject child," after his son’s mother claimed he was taking the 11 year-old boy to live in California. The arrest comes amidst a custody battle between Dash and Linda Williams, the 11 year-old’s mother. On March 10, William’s claims that the […]

50 Cent’s reign at the top of the charts continues, as the rapper moved 234,000 more copies of his Get Rich or Die Tryin, bringing his sales totals to over 3 million copies in just seven weeks. The rapper is showing no signs of slowing down. On April 15th, he will release "The New Breed" […]

Today, March 26 1995 pioneering Compton, California rapper/executive Eazy E died from complications of AIDS just three weeks after being diagnosed. He was 31. Wright, who founded Ruthless Records’, is arguably one of the most influential figures in hip-hop history, helping to jumpstart "gangsta rap." Eazy was also one of the founders of N.W.A. "I […]