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The latest celebrity Twitter battle involves the young and the senseless. Rev. Run’s son, Jo Jo Simmons received a Twitter jab from Soulja Boy Tuesday after announcing to all 34,000 + of his followers that SB wasn’t “too dope” lyrically while posting a link to his song “Patriotic”. Jo Jo’s Tweet read: “Lyrically Soulja Boy […]

From music to movies to VitaminWater and now to literature, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is clearly becoming the definition of a true hustler during these trying financial times. Jackson is set to begin a five-day book tour of his upcoming The 50th Law. He will be accompanied by Robert Greene who is the co-author of […]

Kelis has reportedly given birth to her son. The soon to be ex-Mrs. Nasir Jones was scheduled to appear in court for her divorce settlement case but went to the hospital to have her baby instead. According to Nas’ lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, he rushed to the hospital to be with her for the birth […]

Less than a year has passed since Massachusetts rapper Termanology dropped his debut album, Politics As Usual, and he is now on the verge of continuing his mixtape series of Hood Politics with volume 6. Entitled, Time Machine, the next installment in the series is expected to be dropping Sept. 22 through his own label, […]

The war of words between Joe Budden and the Wu Tang camp has finally come to a halt even though it was really done a while ago until Inspectah Deck came with “House Ni**a.” Deck and Budden have both stated that they are done going back and forth and pulled away from the battle. The […]

A Federal judge denied prosecutors a postponement for C-Murder’s murder trial. Judge Hans Liljeberg ruled Monday that prosecutors will not have the extra time requested to investigate new testimony from his friend and fellow inmate Juan Flowers. As previously reported, C-Murder is charged with second degree murder for the death of 16 year-old, Steve Thomas […]

The legendary Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC was in Atlanta last week and had few interesting points to make about the current state of Hip-Hop and how rappers have to take responsibility for their actions. Not being preachy or coming off as an old head, DMC told Frank Ski and Wanda Smith from Atlanta’s V-103’s […]

As most rappers are becoming fed up with neglect coming from their record labels, many are packing their bags and beginning to go towards the independent route. Busta Rhymes may be another to add to that list, in a way, as he has made an exclusive deal with independent publisher Kobalt Music Group, according to […]

Twitter was abuzz over the weekend as news of Atlanta’s resident trapper, Gucci Mane La Flare, was rumored to have been arrested and sent to jail. Fellow rap stars Soulja Boy and Nicki Minaj were some of the first people to speak on the rumor of the underground rap king’s recent apprehension at the hands […]

Chris Brown finally manned up and apologized for beating up former girlfriend Rihanna. The R&B crooner released a video yesterday. Click here for more more.

In an interview with CNN’s Larry King Monday Joe Jackson, father of the late pop legend Michael Jackson, denied abusing his son, as the deceased performer claimed. During a show – which has been just one in a blitz of Michael Jackson-focused topics the show has aired since Jackson’s death – the patriarch of the […]

The legendary Hip-Hop group The Beastie Boys is halting their tour. The plans to cancel the tour were revealed in a video posted on their website. The video shows MCA and Ad Rock sitting in a recording studio minus Mike as MCA wastes no time telling fans the reason why the concerts are cancelled. “I […]