Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam is slated to tour internationally this summer, kicking off in the United Kingdom in August. "The original cast is slated to go," Executive Producer Stan Lathan told Playbill. "We’re going to go to Edinburgh in August and probably to London right after that, then there’s the U.S. tour." Black Ice, […]

Raekwon is set to star in "The Coalition," a movie that centers around New York’s lucrative construction business and how it is exploited by minority non-union labor. The movie, described as a "modern day ‘On The Waterfront’," centers around one man’s quest to go against a city’s largest and most dangerous coalition group, the SBM […]

Irv Gotti snagged BMI’s Pop Songwriter of the Year award at BMI’s 51st Annual BMI Pop Awards. Gotti placed five titles on BMI’s Most Performed List of the 50, which garnered him the award. "Always On Time (Ja Rule featuring Ashanti), "I’m Real" (Ja Rule with Jennifer Lopez) "Livin it Up" (Ja Rule featuring Case) […]

According to reports, media conglomerates AOL Time Warner and Bertelsman are in preliminary talks to merge their recorded music divisions. Both companies have suffered losses during the first quarter this year and are considering a 50/50 merger to better compete with Universal Music Group, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal and the #1 leader in music […]

A new civil suit filed in a Brooklyn federal court claims that Murder Inc. wrote checks to Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff in exchange for money made from drug proceeds. Authorities are seeking to take all revenue generated from the film "Crime Partners," claiming the movie was financed by drug money. The movie was released straight to […]

Former Spice Girl Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham and Naomi Campbell have been tapped by Roc-A-Wear to model the clothing line for their latest multi-million dollar advertising campaign. According to sources, Beckham and Campbell were both paid upwards of $1 million dollars to appear in the campaign, which will launch in America and Britian this summer. […]

Afeni Shakur will be the keynote speaker at the The 1st Annual Hip-Hop Appreciation Week Awards Ceremony in Atlanta, Sunday May 18th. "Afeni Shakur has come on board because I am quite sure she shares the same feelings as many in hip-hop right now; that there must be a greater sense of responsibility in our […]

A federal appeals court reopened a lawsuit filed by Rosa Parks against Outkast today, over their hit song that uses her name in the title. Parks’ initial lawsuit had been dismissed in 1999. Parks claimed that the group was using her name for profit and not compensating her. Parks was also offended at the racial […]

Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck will release his long awaited second solo album, The Movement, in June. With production from QB beatsmith Ayatollah, former UMC member Hassan a.ka. "Phantom Of The Beats," Deck said the new album is going to "blow everybody away." "This is where y’all gonna see me take a stand," Deck said. […]

Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and the Mothers of the NY Disappeared are putting pressure on the city of New York, setting a June 4th deadline demanding the repeal of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. The coalition hopes to set a precedent for the repeal of similar laws that have been established in other states […]

Rapper Cormega is working on two projects simultaneously, an EP and an LP. "I’m working on the Ayatollah-Comega EP & I’m working on the Urban Legend album," Cormega told AllHipHop.com. "It’s not gonna be a shoot um up, f**k you album. There’s gonna be no dis records," Mega said. The Ayatollah-Cormega EP features production from […]

Ice-T has reformed his controversial heavy metal band Body Count and is finishing up a new album tentatively titled Violent Demise – The Last Days. “It’s about street sh*t. It’s about b*tches,” Ice-T told AllHipHop.com. “I’m just trying to bring back that sinister, evil, violent sounding metal. I listen to the other rock-rap groups, but […]

Queen Latifah is in talks to star in a Miramax Films remake of a south Korean action-comedy. Latifah’s version of "My Wife Is A Gangster," is slated to start production next year and centers around a female mob boss (Queen Latifah) who marries a man oblivious to her trade, in hopes that he will not […]

Pharaohe Monch and Jurassic 5 will represent hip-hop on this year’s Lollapalooza tour. The tour, which is being labeled as "a fully interactive extravaganza with a wealth of new sights, sounds and experiences," will also feature such rock acts as Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, The Donnas, Queens Of The Stone Age, Incubus and A Perfect Circle. […]

Professional parody king "Weird Al" Yankovic’s hopes of filming a video for his version of "Lose Yourself," were shot down by Eminem, who agreed to have his song spoofed, but nixed the notion of a video. Yankovic, who has filmed videos for his takes on Michael Jackson’s "I’m Bad" and Coolio’s "Gansta’s Paradise," said the […]

Lawyers for Trina issued a cease and desist order to a website that claimed to have a videotape of the rapper engaged in sex acts. The website is hawking the tapes, which allegedly has a younger Trina in the video for $9.95. "We do not know whether the photographs or video footage contained in this […]

Kareem "Biggs" Burke, who shares CEO duties of Roc-A-Fella Records with Dame Dash and Jay-Z, was arraigned Tuesday morning after 24 marijuana plants were found growing in his Cliffside Park, New Jersey penthouse. According to Cliffside Park Police Chief Donald Keane, two police and two employees of the Carlyle Towers entered Burke’s empty apartment Monday […]