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Bill Cosby - a staunch critic of some rap music - is set to release a Hip-Hop album called State of Emergency, which will be a sanitized, issue-oriented CD.
Sources told AllHipHop.com that the actor, comedian and philanthropist will address issues like proper parenting, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, Black-on-Black crime and the dropout rate in America’s […]

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Joell Ortiz recently sat down with Miss Info and confirmed his release from Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Records.
“I’m not currently on that label,” Ortiz said. “I can’t afford to wait. That would be the most selfish thing for me to do — to sit there and wait for someone else to call my life. I got […]

C-Murder’s threat of his freedom in normal society has been extended. The rappers murder re-trial has been pushed back to June 9th, because of witness problems.
Murder faces second-degree murder charges for the Jan. 12, 2002 killing of 16-year-old Steven Thomas, who was shot in the chest during a brawl at a club in Harvey, La.
The […]

Contrary to wide spread rumors, Def Jam has not dropped Roca-Fella Records, even though Jay-Z left his presidential post at the label.
“Beans and Freeway didn’t get dropped,” Beanie Sigel’s manager Mark Byers telss Billboard. “I just got off the phone with L.A. Reid talking about the next video for ‘Rain’ featuring Raheem DeVaughn that we’re […]

The Home Office in the United Kingdom continues to uphold a ban on rapper Snoop Dogg, due to an April 2006 brawl in Heathrow Airport. Snoop is attempting to enter the country to launch a new advertisement for European mobile phone giant Orange. According to reports, executives with Orange wrote to the home in an […]

Fat Joe is slated to release his eighth solo album this year, a testament to an unusually lengthy rap career. His money, though, may not be so long.
According to internet reports, the real Elephant in the Room might be the near $150,000 deep Joey Crack is in to the tax man.
According to official state documents […]

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Gnarls Barkley has christened its sophomore album “The Odd Couple,” and will release it in April via Downtown/Atlantic. The duo of Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo is still finishing the project, having recently recorded with live musicians in Los Angeles.
There’s no track list just yet, but “The Odd Couple” is confirmed to feature one song previewed […]

A judge has denied rapper Foxy Brown’s crazy request to get out of jail early so she can go to Cali for an ear examination and for repair of an electronic ear implant.
This is not school foxy, you can’t just get out of jail, especially when your issue is not life threatening.

According to reports, a couple of upcoming producers out of Chester, Pennsylvania are suing DTP Boss/Rapper Ludacris for copyright infringement over a song from his 2004 album, “The Red Light District.”
Damon “Damethegreat” Mayfield, Markus “Vincent” Vick and Anthony Turner of Boogiii Men Entertainment Group said they ‘got got’ after sending their demo to Luda’s camp in […]

Weezy recently addressed is arrest of felony weapons and drug charges at a Richmond, Virginia show, and I must say his story was pretty real.
Wayne told the crowd, “A junkie can’t do what the f— I do. I try to tell them.”
“I am the ultimate high, understand? I am my drug, you understand me?”
Wayne reportedly […]