Ja Rule‘s third album, titled Pain is Love, is scheduled to hit stores on October 9th of this year. The Murderer’s first single has just been released called "Livin’ It Up". The track samples the legendary Stevie Wonder’s "Do I Do" which guests Def Soul R&B artist Case singing the hook. The song was originally […]

Kim Mathers, wife of Eminem was busted Sunday in Harrison Township in Michigan on an outstanding bench warrant according to the Macomb County Sheriff’s department. According to local news reports, Deputies from the marine division were responding to calls about a possible Jet Ski accident. While investigating, they found two women carrying life jackets. After […]

Dr. Dre has reached a settlement with the now shut down file swapping service, Napster. According to the terms of the settlement, Napster agrees to identify and block access to files that Dr, Dre does not want to allow users to share. On his part, Dr. Dre has agreed to make certain of his material […]

Killarmy, the 6 man collective of Wu affiliated emcees and one in house producer, prepare for war once again. The group’s third album, Fear, Love and War, bears the mark of maturity. “On this album, we are showing a more mature side of the group but we are still the same as ever,” member Killa […]

Krayzie Bone is working on developing his movie, "Ghetto Cowboy," which is based on a song off his 1999 album, Thug Mentality. The movie will see Krayzie starring as Sawed-Off Slim, who he calls a Robin Hood styled outlaw. The plot centers around Krayzie, who is a fugitive from justice and on a quest to […]

A Liberal politician and a family lobby group are still calling on the Australian government to keep Eminem out of the country later this month, when his tour is set to land. Peter Slipper, who is a member of Prime Minister John Howard’s Liberal Party, said on Monday he had written to Howard asking that […]

Canibus’s release party turned ugly last night around midnight at club Aria. Canibus, who was celebrating the release of his sophomore album, 2000 B.C. (Before Canibus), was sucker punched in the face, and stomped in the ensuing chaos. The perpetrators were Harlem World’s Blinky Blink, Cam’Ron, who’s rhyming abilities are limited, thus the fight. The […]

Above The Law, one of the pioneering West Coast Hip-Hop groups to come out of Eazy E’s Ruthless Records fold, have announced that they are officially signed to Suge Knight’s Death Row imprint. Above The Law group members Big Hutch aka Cold 187um, KM.G AKA Vin Loco and DJ K-oss, severed their ties with Tommy […]

The hip hop world patiently awaits, for Rakim, the god of rap to emerge after signing with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Records. In a recent interview with Jerry Barrow, a freelance writer, Brooklyn’s M.O.P. said they were contacted by Rakim to be on his yet-untitled album. "I had a convo with Rakim. He said he got […]

The Sanitation Department in New York City is cracking down on illegal poster advertisements and has found its biggest victim to date-a record record $100,000 fine paid by Jay-Z‘s Roc-A-Fella imprint. New York City officials have cracked down on illegal stickers and posters, as the music industry has recognized their marketing and promotional power. Roc-A-Fella […]

Russell Simmons, organizer of the historic Hip-Hop Summit that took place in New York recently and served to galvanize the hip-hop community around the theme of "Taking Back Responsibility," has taken another step forward toward accomplishing its goals and formed the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, dedicating to realizing the initiatives that came out of the […]

Omar Gooden, who plays the wild, young gangsta Sweet Pea, in John Singleton’s Baby Boy is preparing to release a rap album. The actor has a crew called Legion, a group hoping to drop their freshman album sometime this year. With the first single, "Mamacitas," the group has received some airplay on commercial radio. The […]

On Sunday, July 15, 2001, at Cedar Sinai Hospital in California, Anthony Berkeley aka Poetic of The Gravediggaz succumbed to his two year battle with metastatic colon cancer. Poetic had been fighting for his life for the past two years, ever since he collapsed in the studio in 1999 from stomach pains and became diagnosed […]

Tha Slumplordz release The Yakuza has been named as one of the best hip hop albums of 2000 by The San Francisco Bay Guardian. The full length LP, which was released in October, is the group’s first national release and second full-length offering. Other honorees include Dead Prez, Outkast, Blackalicious, Talib Kweli, and Dr. Dre […]

After debuting on the Billboard Charts at number 2, only two weeks ago with The Saga Continues, P.Diddy is still in the news. He was in the studio earlier this month with the legendary David Bowie recording a remake to Bowie’s 1985 hit "This is Not America" for the "Training Day" soundtrack. The movie is […]

Russell Simmons, tired of hearing lawmakers diss Hip-Hop music, attended a meeting held by the Senate Government Affairs Committee yesterday. The meeting, which also included various representatives from different Genre’s of the entertainment field including the RIAA’s Hillary Rosen and MPAA’s Jack Valenti. Simmons requested a seat on one of the panels testifying before the […]