What began as music chart dominance for the rap music phenomenon …

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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DMX just released his seventh studio album titled Undisputed. The rapper is donating the first week of sales to the families of 9/11 victims. He appeared on The…

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It was magnificent from beginning to…

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It was magnificent from beginning to…

Singer/actress Aaliyah was just 22-years old when she died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, but she had already accomplished so much. She touched the lives of everyone she came in contact with as well as her many fans worldwide. One person who got the…

Fans in Norway won't be seeing Snoop Dogg perform live for at least two years after he was banned from entering the country for two years because he was caught trying to bring a small amount of weed in with him last month.

According to the Associated Press, Snoop was on his way to a…

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.

When…

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…

In the summer of 2002, 50 Cent changed the direction of the game. He dropped his breakout mixtape, 50 Cent Is the Future, successfully j****** other artists’s beats and remaking the songs to be his own—sometimes creating a more memorable product than the original. The tape’s legacy is layered. First, not only did it solidify Fif as hip-hop’s next rising star, but it introduced his G-Unit crew—at the…

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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 …

NEW YORK — Rapper G. Dep will spend at least 15 years in prison after being convicted of a 1993 New York killing. The case was reopened when he went to police to say he'd shot someone years earlier.





The 37-year-old rapper got the minimum sentence Tuesday for his April murder conviction: 15 years to life.





He went to a…

Hot 97's DJ Mister Cee remembers Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes ten years…

On April 19, 2010 the hip hop world lost one of it's most unique voices when rapperGuru passed away from cancer. As a member of the group Gang Starr along with DJ Premier, Guru…

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…