‘NEWS’ Archives
Rapper Drake To Protest Offshore Oil Drilling With Hip-Hop Caucus in D.C.
Rapper Drake has teamed with organizations Green The Block and The Hip-Hop Caucus to help promote a cleaner green environment. Drake is slated to perform tomorrow (June 13th) during the “Stop The Off Shore Drilling” rally being held at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. The partnership between Drake, Green The Block and The Hip-Hop Caucus [...]
Diddy’s Last Train To Paris Pushed Back Again
The highly delayed Dirty Money album has been pushed back once again, according to front man Sean “Diddy” Combs. Diddy made the revelation on the BBC’s Scott Mills show, stating the Last Train to Paris would now hit retail on September 20. The album was originally slated for September of 2009. The group couples Diddy with singers [...]
Lil Kim Ready To Beef With Nicki Minaj: ‘I’ma Bite You’
The feud between rappers Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj intensified last night (June 10th), when Lil Kim made a surprise appearance at a local Detroit club to address the matter. Lil Kim performed a variety of her hits during a show at a club named Blondie’s when she addressed Nicki Minaj, whom she claims has ripped off her style. With the help [...]
Kid Cudi Arrested For Drugs; Ripping Woman’s Door Off Hinges
Cleveland, Ohio rapper Kid Cudi was arrested today (June 11th) in New York city and hit with criminal and drug charges. According to TMZ.com, the rapper went into a rage and smashed a 24-year-old woman’s cell phone, in addition to ripping her door off the hinges. When police arrived, they found a glass bottle containing a controlled [...]
Nicki Minaj Sued Over Rented Pink Lambo
Nicki Minaj has been hit with a lawsuit over a pink Lamborghini featured in the video for her latest single “Massive Attack.” Nicki Minaj rented the Lambo from Hollywood Exotic Car Rental at the cost of $1,750 per day, to include the 2008 luxury vehicle in her video. According to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, [...]
LimeWire Given Two Weeks To Decide Future Operations
With LimeWire backed into a proverbial corner after being found guilty of copyright infringement last month, a judge recently gave the peer-to-peer file sharing company two weeks of reprieve to the decide the future of its business operations. Though the current position of the case is leaning toward a closure of LimeWire and its services, the [...]
Drake Speaks On Feeling Unsafe In Toronto & Being Played By Rihanna
In May 2009 he was robbed at gunpoint in a Toronto restaurant. He cooperated with the police investigation, in what some perceived as a violation of hip-hop’s no-snitching ethos. “I feel unsafe in Toronto at all times,” Drake said. “I’m a one of one. There’s no one else you can hate as much as me if you hate money, or you hate [...]
Bizarre Hit With $25K Tax Bill; All Members Except Em Owe
Detroit rapper Bizarre is the latest member of D12 to run into tax troubles with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to reports, Bizarre owes over $25,000 in delinquent state taxes, making him the fourth member of the group to fun afoul of the IRS. Lawyers for Bizarre, born Rufus Johnson, said that the bill is due to an accounting [...]
Kanye West Rewards Three Chicago Schools With Performance
After spending much of 2010 out of the limelight, recording his next album, Good *ss Job, Kanye West gave his first public performance of the year Tuesday night. West returned to Chicago for his 33rd birthday to promote his own foundation's Stay In School event. The Chicago Tribune reports that Farragut Career Academy and John Marshall [...]
Fat Joe Talks 10th Album, Explains Miami Mansion Sale
As the summertime gets underway and many artists in the industry prep for their summer releases, Bronx native Fat Joe is also getting ready to drop his 10th album, The Darkside. “Just rapped up the album The Darkside, s**tis a classic. Bout to touch down this July, end of July. Did the first song with Jeezy, the ‘Ha Ha (Slow Down)’ [...]