Lauryn Hill paid $500,000 towards her debt to the IRS just ahead of her tax evasion hearing. The singer is due to appear in federal court in Newark on Monday afternoon to be sentenced for failing to pay taxes…

As a way to avoid going to prison due to tax evasion charges, Lauryn Hill has committed to a $1 million deal with Sony Music to create five new songs.





After not paying federal taxes for a $1.8 million income she earned between 2005 and 2007, the former Fugee member owes the government roughly $504,000.





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Fat Joe could be facing up to two years in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion. The Terror Squad leader was accused of failing to pay the federal government more that $1 million in income taxes for…

Turk is finally free after serving nine years in prison. According to …

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When we previously reported that LL Cool…

Former Hot Boys rapper B.G. was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday for a variety of charges including weapons violation, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. His former label mate Juvenile reached out to …

B.G. has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to guilty to two counts of a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice according to Nola.com.

The charges stem from a 2009 traffic stop where officers found three guns in the car…

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Young Buck was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition according to MSNBC.

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Despite the bad news regarding Beanie Sigel's upcoming two year prison sentence on tax evasion charges, fans will be able to enjoy a new project from the rapper before he goes in this September.

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Beanie Sigel will be spending the next two years in prison for failing to pay more than$728,000 in federal income taxes according to MyFoxPhilly.

The Philadelphia born rapper whose real name is Dwight Grant, earned more…

Grammy winning singer/rapper Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty today to "intentionally and willingly" not paying federal taxes on more than $1.5 million earned over three years.

Hill appeared in U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey and admitted failing to file tax returns from 2005 to 2007. Each count carries a maximum penalty of one year in…

Lauryn Hill is in serious trouble with the Internal Revenue Service. In charges filed in a New Jersey Federal Court, the former Fugees singer is accused of not paying taxes in the years 2005, 2006 and 2007. According to a report by …

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Prodigy’s first book, My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, drew solid reviews and also stirred a great deal of controversy amongst several of P’s rap peers upon its April 2011 release.

But as much…

One of the men who helped start Roc-A-Fella Records along with Dame Dash andJay-Z could be spending the next 40 years in a federal prison.

Kareem “Biggs” Burke pleaded guilty Thursday [March 15] to a single federal count of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with…

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One of Papoose's most memorable songs is "Alphabetical Slaughter." In it he rhymes using letters of the alphabet going from A to Z. On his upcoming album, The Nacirema Dream, the Brooklyn MC says he will be releasing a part two of the record,…

Lil Wayne is releasing a new book detailing his 2010 stint in prison.

"Gone Till November" will give fans an inside look into Weezy's 10-month bid on New York's Rikers Island on a gun charge. The rapper kept detailed diaries and notes of day to day events, people he met, his kids and family…

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B.G. is sticking by the street code of "no snitching."

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Mobb Deep's re-introduction to the world is coming November 25, in the form of their new Black Cocaine EP.





"We're doing the EP first just to give 'em a little appetizer, a little warm up project before…

The brother of accused cocaine trafficker James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond received a 12-year prison sentence for running his own cocaine trafficking operation Wednesday (October 5).…