(AllHipHop News) Hitt Afta Hitt CEO Johnnie Cabbell has denied allegations allegations that he stiffed another promoter out of a show featuring popular Atlanta rapper, Waka Flocka Flame. A number of lawsuits were filed against Cabbell and Hitt Afta Hitt Entertainment in 2009 and 2010, claiming that Cabbell and his company booked Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame and kept the deposits when the rappers failed to either show or perform at various concerts. Last week, Walter Conwell  and promotion company G.D.B. filed a $1 million dollar lawsuit against, Cabbell, claiming his company raised the price and changed the dates for a performance featuring Waka Flocka in Birmingham, Alabama. “I personally have not been served with any papers,” Johnnie Cabbell told AllHipHop.com.  “This [AllHipHop News Story]  was my first time being aware of any lawsuit. My lawyers haven’t informed me of any thing. But he was in the wrong and he didn’t want to pay the backend for the difference of what he had to pay. He wanted to have Waka to do the show once he came out and we weren’t going to let him do it and the show didn’t happen because of him.  He waited until a year later to do this?  How are yall gonna post something a year later?”Cabbell scoffed at the notion of a $1,000,000 dollar lawsuit over a dispute that involved less than $2,000 dollars. The lawsuit claims that G.D.B. spent over $20,000 dollars to book Waka Flocka Flame for an under 21 show in Birmingham, Alabama in June of 2009. “All of this is over $1,000 dollars. This is an old performance that never happened. Waka was in the city, its not like Waka didn’t want to perform that show.  I’ve done numerous shows from Crime Mobb, to Nicki Minaj, to Gucci, to Jeezy,  to Rick Ross, all the way up to Diddy.”According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, G.D.B. Promotions sent a $1,800 deposit to secure Waka Flocka, with another $1,500 due when the rapper arrived at the venue. After the wire was sent, G.D.B. claimed that he was contacted by Hitt After Hitt and told that Waka Flocka would no longer honor the agreement, because  the rapper was booked by JAMZ FM, a local Hip-Hop station. G.D.B., which purchased advertising time with JAMZ, attempted to reach Hitt Afta Hitt with reps from JAMZ, but couldn’t contact a representative for Hitt Afta Hitt to resolve the issue. “We haven’t had a bad track record as far as my shows, and as far as the way I do shows. It’s just if there is a discrepancy, then they cant perform,” Cabbell said.

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop executive James Rosemond is going on the offensive with a plan to file a $120 million dollar lawsuit against The New York Daily News and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Chuck Phillips, over an article published in September in the popular newspaper. The news article, which was published on the 14th anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur, accused Rosemond aka “Jimmy Henchmen” of cooperating with the government for years. Phillips, a former writer for the Los Angeles Times, is a well-respected investigative journalist who has been reporting on the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. for over a decade. “It never fails, every year around Tupac’s death that Chuck Phillips raises his fabricated mouth against Jimmy Rosemond but we intend to silence his foul mouth with this lawsuit and bury these tampered minutes and paperwork that Chuck Phillip received from jealous and envious inmates, which is the basis of this fairy tale story the Daily News wrote,” Rosemond’s lawyer David Feinstein snapped. In an article published by The Los Angeles Times on March 17th, 2008, Phillips claimed that Rosemond set up Tupac Shakur to be beaten, robbed and subsequently shot at the Quad Studios in New York in November of 1994, resulting in tension between rap groups on the East and West Coasts of the United States.The information was based off of civil court documents filed by an inmate named David Sabatino, who claimed that he worked with Rosemond early in his career promoting rap conventions.TheSmokingGun.com later revealed that the documents were based on forged by Sabatino, who according to Rosemond’s lawyers, has been declared insane by doctors.The Los Angeles Times was forced to retract the story, in addition to offering an apology to Rosemond and Combs. Additionally, the Los Angeles Times settled a lawsuit initiated by Rosemond over the story.Recently, a letter Chuck Phillips allegedly sent to an inmate attempting to get him to reveal information on Rosemond, while making disparaging comments about the executive, was circulated on the Internet.”On more than one occasion both Daily News & Chuck Phillips have contacted the same inmate trying to coerce him into saying Jimmy was an informant,” Rosemond’s lawyer Feinstein continued. “We have affidavits from inmates to prove the efforts of their coercion and how determined they were in proving their point. Even after the article’s release Chuck Phillips continued in his quest to change the mind of individuals who refused to lie against Jimmy Rosemond at grand jury proceedings.”Jimmy Rosemond has paid his dues to society and since his release from jail, a decade ago, he’s been active in his community, working with troubled youths and have worked extensively abroad in Haiti,” Feinstein said. “The only thing Jimmy Rosemond is guilty of is being an accomplished manager for singers & rappers and now he’s a victim of his own success.”

(AllHipHop News) T.I. is heading back to prison, after a federal judge revoked the rapper’s probation and sentenced the rap star to 11 months in prison for possessing drugs in September in Los Angeles. T.I. appeared in court today (October 15th) for a hearing that started at 2:00PM, flanked by his team of lawyers that included Ed Garland, Steve Sadow, Don Samuel, Janice Capek, Kristen Wright and Dwight Thomas.The courtroom was packed, as he stood before Judge Charles Pannell Jr. Prosecutors chastised the Grammy Award winning rapper for violating the terms of his federal probation for attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers in October of 2007 and wanted to send him away for two years.During the hearing, a small fire broke out on the side of the courthouse, causing a stir, but the proceedings continued. The rapper’s defense attorneys argued that drugs in his system were the result of a root canal and T.I. admitted to using the drugs, after he had dental surgery. Judge Charles Pannell Jr. sentenced T.I. to the prison sentence, after the Atlanta native and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Cottle were caught in Los Angeles on September 1st, in possession of a controlled substance, which was later revealed to be ecstasy. Additionally, the rap star tested positive for drugs the following day and was traveling with a convicted felon named Cortez “C-Rod” Thomas, who allegedly helped the rapper set up the purchase of illegal weapons that T.I. was originally arrested for, which further violated the terms of his probation.The rapper asked the judge to sentence him to rehab for a drug addiction, but he was sentenced to the 11 months in prison, instead. T.I., born Clifford Harris Jr., was released from prison in March, after serving a year in prison for attempting to purchase the machine guns and silencers prior to the BET Awards in October of 2007. After T.I. was released from prison, he appeared to be on the right path, hitting the studio to record his highly anticipated come back album King Uncaged, while promoting his #1 box office movie, Takers.During an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, T.I. said that he was “tired” and vowed to turn his life around. The rap star also apologized to anyone he may have hurt, or disappointed due to his arrest. “The only thing that I can say, man, is that all people who have supported me, who were behind me, who believed in me, who were disappointed and were let down, I just offered my sincerest apologies, and I will dedicate my life no matter how long it takes to earn your trust back and to make you proud yet again,” T.I. said.”I’m tired. I’m wore out,” the rap star continued. “I don’t have the age, the energy or just the attitude to move forward and continuing in this cycle in this ongoing process of destruction and disparity in my life. I’ve got too many depending on me and counting on me. I can’t do it.”According to reports, T.I. will return home and start his sentence shortly.

(AllHipHop News) Founding Roc-A-Fella Records member Kareem “Biggs” Burke was arrested today (October 15th) with 42 other people in a ring that allegedly controlled the marijuana market in New York City. According to The New York Daily News, Burke has been a part of the ring since 1992. Federal prosecutors claim that Burke was part of a network that was headed up by Geovanny (Manny) Rodriguez Perez aka “Shorty.”Police accused Shorty’s network of growing the pot down south, shipping it up north in tractor trailers and returning the proceeds to South Florida, according to Jim Hayes, a special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations For Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Police arrested Burke at his home in North Bergen, N.J. In addition to Burke, an advertising executive for High Times named Matthew Stang was arrested in an 18 month operation, which was dubbed “Operation Green Venom.”Agents confiscated $1 million in drug profits and 177 pounds of marijuana from the suspects as well. “This isn’t just a group that controlled one block, one neighborhood,” Hayes said. “They dominated the wholesale marijuana market in New York for 20 years.”Burke helped co-found Roc-A-Fella Records in 1996 with Jay-Z and Damon Dash, after the pair had been turned down by several record labels. They landed a distribution deal with Priority Records and released Jay-Z’s classic debut album, Reasonable Doubt. Kareem “Biggs” Burke and the others face 10 years to life in prison for allegedly distributing over 1,000 kilos of the drug.

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop producer Swizz Beatz and R&B singer Alicia Keys gave birth to a baby boy named Egypt Dauode Dean late last night (October 14th) in New York’s St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital. Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys became romantically involved around May of 2009 and announced their engagement in May of 2010, when it was also revealed that Keys was pregnant. “I’m so thankful for everything I been blessed with in my life wowwwwww,” Swizz Beatz tweeted. The child the first for Alicia Keys and the fourth for Swizz Beatz, who also has three other children. Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz were married in August, in a lavish ceremony on the Mediterranean.