The “Gospel Rap Extravaganza!” which was supposed to be held at Independence High School in Glendale, AZ was just canceled three days before show time. According to sources, the school canceled the concert once they realized the Yonkers bred Ruff Ryder was involved.

Aware of potential risks, the Pastor of the church reportedly “took out a $1 million insurance policy on the concert” but the school still refused to cooperate.

“They just weren't having it,” the Pastor stated, “[The school] has already agreed to give back the church's $500 deposit.”

The church is offering refunds to fans that purchased the tickets, but the Pastor insists that a concert will take place, just at a smaller venue. “

Records show that the rapper turned actress owes the state of California, who filed a lien against her on Jan. 29, 2009; $29,059.

This will make the second lien filed since 2008 with the Los Angeles County Recorder of Deeds. This may explain why she has decided to sell her Hollywood Hills home, which according to published reports was built only 5 years ago.

In addition to Los Angeles County, Eve also reportedly owes the IRS a total of more than $271,684 for liens filed since 2008.

In addition to financial legal woes, Eve was facing some criminal legal woes when she had reportedly been named in an on-going investigation involving foreign corruption with millions of dollars being illegally transferred into her alleged boyfriend's American banking account. Eve addressed the rumors on Twitter stating:

“None of that is true. Please don't believe everything you read on the internet. it's negative and I don't fu&% wit negativity. People trynna test me. Now listening 2 Sizzla "praise ye Jah" and "head over hills. Thank ya'll 4 the support!!!!! Life is crazy 4 everyone and we all get tested.”

Although things are looking rough, Eve is still in high hopes for 2010.

She recently announced in January that she left Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records in search of a new label. Although label-less, the Philly bred MC is still busy making music.

Currently she is appearing on the remix for “My Chick's Bad,” the second single off Ludacris's Battle of the Sexes and preparing to release a new album titled Lip Lock which will feature appearances by Ruff Ryders and production by Swizz Beatz.

The announcement of the Ruff Ryders reunion must have given the New York native an extra boost as reports are stating that he will be releasing a new project, self titled, which should be dropping on February 23.

With the lead single, “Put Em Up” features can be expected from Mobb Deep, Hell Rell, AZ, J.R. Writer and many others.

Features such as Loon, who has since denounced his status as a rapper, causes speculation to whether the upcoming project is an official release or a compilation of unreleased material, but something new, no matter what the time period, is something good when it's coming from the Dog.

As it relates to the double album Walk With Me Now and You'll Fly With Me Later, there has been no word if this project will replace the two or there will be three albums to look forward to from X in 2010.

First Single “Put Em Up

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Tracklisting for DMX:

1. Prayer

2. Put Em Up

3. I've Seen ft. J.R. Writer

4. Solid ft. Rampage

5. Baby I'm Going to Win

6. Boy Back Up ft. Mobb Deep

7. You Aint Sh*t ft. Loon and G-Dep

8. This is That ft. Hell Rell

9. F*ck That B*tch

10. No Where to Hide ft. AZ

11. Lil Room

12. Silent Prayer

13. Have You Ever

Her last album headlined by her single “Tambourine" was due out in 2007 but was canned leaving Evie-Eve to fade into the background of female MCs.

This year however Eve promises to turn that around with new material now that she's been freed from her contract at Jimmy Iovine's label.

She announced the news via her @TheRealEve Twitter page telling her followers that she was a free agent and was back in the studio.

“Trust me ya'll I got ya'll on MUSIC!!! … Let me tell u what happened with music so ya'll don't think I quit. Left Interscope, free agent now. Went back in re-doing music. Trust me….”

Solidifying her statement, Eve had this to say about the state of music today.

“Not letting this year pass wit out an ABULM! Can't take the non-sense MUSIK .”

In between making new music, Eve will return to her career in acting and is set to star in a new crime thriller “4,3,2,1.” The film has wrapped and is currently in post-production with a release date that is still unknown.

Hip-Hop Wired recently spoke with Ruff Ryders CEO Waah Dean as he shed some light onto the pitbull in a skirt's label situation and also spoke on how Interscope and Dre tried to pull a jack move a few years back and take her off the Ruff Ryders brand and put her on Aftermath.

“The Eve situation… Eve is pretty much in the process of being released from the Interscope deal right now. We're in negotiations of helping her get in control of her situation, we're supporting her.

Interscope is a great label that supported us in our success along with Def Jam and Universal.  So we got Eve from Dre initially [and she wanted to go back] and they went through something.  Eve was working out that way (Los Angeles), doing movies a lot and they kind of like was clicking at that time so we wanted to support Eve in whatever she wanted to do and that's what we do.  We support our artists and our family so at that time she wanted to do that.  And we was there to embrace and support her and they didn't do what they was supposed to do on some level but she's getting released and we're gonna be here to support her in whatever direction she want to go.”

Waah also revealed that Eve, The LOX, DMX and Drag-On were all on board for the upcoming reunion album, Ruff Ryders Evolution:  Generation I.  The album will include the “Who's Real Remix” featuring Jadakiss, Eve, Drag-On, Styles P, Sheek Louch, and DMX.  He added,

“The compilation is pretty much finished and we're looking to knock it out and have it up and running at the end of 2^nd, beginning of 3^rd quarter.  We got a couple of nice joints.  It's gonna be a mixture of the old and new… we got this joint called “Family.”  We got a remix on it too and we want to launch the compilation with that. It's expressing a lot of how families should move and how they should roll.

We're   gonna feature our established artists, new artists and we're gonna remix it and just really unify the family thing, bring back the foundation.  We have collaborations songs that we did with The Lox and Cassidy and we get a song from each artist and let them express themselves. I's gonna be a decent album, we're gonna do that one independent and we may even take it upstairs (to major label) to do that on a whole other level. This album is really going to be about coming together.”

With new projects scheduled this year from Eve, DMX, The Lox and Drag-On, it looks like Ruff Ryders is indeed back in the building.

DMX - "Dat's My Baby"

Styles P - "Send A Kite"

Nickelus F - "3G (Grind, Go Hard, Get Paid)"

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For rapper Drag-On, his years of working alongside Swizz Beatz, DMX and the Ruff Ryders has paid off as he has branched out to deliver his own slew of artists and launch his own record label.

Aptly titled Hood Environment, as Drag continues to push his own solo project My Life, My Legacy, My Melody, due out around April, the rapper is trying to clear a lane for new artists to have a platform to showcase their talents as he was provided an outlet when he was first coming up.

As the Ruff Ryders slowly pick up the pieces, Drag only looks forward with his own career.

During an interview with HipHopWired, Drag spoke on the background behind his label and how he has been grinding to push the name out into the open.

“It actually started like three years ago.  I went and found two artists and we just been up in the studio just grinding.  I started the Hood Environment, we started dropping mixtapes on the streets and the streets kept grasping to it and we just kept going from there.”

So far, the roster of artists is Terror the Dude and Oz D, both hailing from New York.

“I had actually met up with them through my old accountant that I used to deal with.  A couple cats that understood my movement, they just linked us up.”

As the year closes, the rapper is far from taking a break as he looks at January 1 as the point where things must pick up with introducing the music world to Hood Environment and its artists, along with the Ruff Ryders movement.

“In 2010, I'm just trying to launch my record label and get it off the ground and at the same time, I'm trying to get the Ruff Ryders back to where they need to be all in the same process while I'm doing that.  I'm definitely trying to break my artists, hoping to drop a Hood Environment Compilation.”

With so many questions and even more yellow tape surrounding the future of the rumored Ruff Ryders compilation, the rapper is clearly not keeping his eggs in one basket.  The love for the movement will never leave Drag, but for now, he has tunnel vision with the finish line being the success of Hood Environment.