When the opening credits of “The Carter,” the documentary based on the life of Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter opens with the disclaimer that the megastar rapper didn’t give any personal interviews for the film. Furthermore, it states the rapper had since pulled his support from the project. One might assume that the resulting film includes a [...]

50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. have shown no signs of slowing down their Rick Rosstaunts after new photos of the emcee’s rivals posed with his son and ex-girlfriend landed online over the weekend. image sources provided by thisis50.com and bossip.com COMMENTS “50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather are holding Rick Ross’ son, Willie, in the picture above. Guess where [...]

Jay-Z has reportedly signed rock-oriented group The Ting Tings to his Roc Nation company which would represent the rapper’s first non-urban group on the company’s artist roster. Jay-Z’s Live Nation-backed Roc Nation, which has a distribution deal with Sony Music, has inked British pop-rockers The Tings Tings, now at work on their sophomore album. The rapper apparently [...]

Baton Rogue, Louisiana rapper Lil Boosie has been sentenced to four years in prison for violating the terms of his probation. The rapper, born Torrence Hatch, was to serve two-years of a ten-year suspended sentence and was placed on active supervised probation for his third offense on a marijuana possession charge. The sentence was the [...]

Comedian Katt Williams was arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday night (November 8), following an incident that resulted in charges of burglary and criminal trespassing. A deputy at the Coweta County jail, about 40 miles south of Atlanta, confirmed that Williams remains in custody morning (November 9). According to Major James Yarbrough of the [...]

With Eminem’s Relapse 2 being uncertain for a November release, two of its recruited heavyweight producers Denaun Porter (Mr. Porter) and Just Blaze have shed light on the album’s progress. In an exclusive dual interview with AllHipHop.com, Porter detailed how his production relationship with Eminem has grown since their work on the superstar’s debut album, [...]

Some may be disappointed to learn that Juve is abandoning the social commentary that fueled a creative high mark for him on his last album, 2006’s Reality Check, and more specifically the LP’s second single “Get Ya Hustle On.” Juve’s daring indictment of political shenanigans (both local and national) that took place during and after [...]

Juvenile is clearly tired of all the Hot Boys talk that consumed his recent round of interviews. While politely answering all of the HB-related questions asked of him during his most recent interview with HipHopDX , when one too many inquiries into the genuineness of the Boys’ reformation began to be made Juve quickly interrupted: [...]

Jay Z is probably the only “rap” dude that can get grown men excited.  Now, for what may appear to be obvious reasons, after that statement, I feel the need to interject “no homo.”  Do people even say that anymore?  And not to digress, but I ask, was it ever cool to say anyway?  Last [...]

A cameo appearance by rapper Plies on Kay Slay’s upcoming album More Than Just a DJ has caused a rift between the emcee and the Hot 97 radio jock. According to Kay Slay, he approached Plies about appearing in the video for the first single “Blockstars,” which originally featured Plies, Jim Jones, Busta Rhymes and [...]