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Arrogant New York City radio personality Miss Jones is out at Hot 97. The popular urban radio station has announced plans to replace the often controversial Miss Jones in the Morning broadcast with the nationally syndicated Los Angeles-based AM show Big Boy’s Neighborhood. Jonesy’s run on Hot 97 ends the week of June 30th.
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DMX was arrested this morning (Wednesday) in Arizona on a bond violation as soon as he stepped off a plane arriving from Fort Lauderdale, Fl. He now faces several months in an Arizona jail while waiting for his next court date and possibly more jail time.
According to his lawyer, Murray Richman, “He was supposed to […]

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A class-action lawsuit against Jay-Z and his 40/40 Club has been approved by a New York City judge.
The New York Post reports that the plaintiff, former employee Celeste Williams, is claiming the club did not pay minimum wage or compensate for overtime hours.
Due to this allegation the courts have ordered 40/40 management to disclose the […]

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Collaboration between Michael Jackson and Akon for Akon’s upcoming album has leaked to the Internet, and it’s called “Hold My Hand.” An earlier version of the track, without Jackson’s contributing vocals, leaked in February, just as the pair’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ 2008″ was officially released as the first single for the re-release of Thriller.
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DMX is out of the Miami-Dade County Jail after posting a $6,000 bond following his second arrest this week in Miami, on drug related charges.
The 37-year-old, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested Friday on charges of attempting to purchase cocaine and attempting to purchase marijuana, according to a Miami-Dade Police Department arrest report.
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Jay-Z answered his critics on Saturday, notably Oasis’s Noel Gallagher, with a performance at Britain’s famous Glastonbury music festival that was received to rapturous cheers Saturday.
Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher had called hip hop at Glastonbury “wrong” and traditionalists in Internet chatrooms had said they would have preferred a band like Radiohead, while critics also blamed […]

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On his personal site, Kanye UniverseCity, the Louis Vuitton Don lays out the case from start to finish, covering why his show was so late and why the criticism is undeserved.
“I am sick of negative people who just sit around trying 2 [sic] plot my downfall…” he writes. “Why???? I understand if people don’t like […]

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For the most part, after Nas was almost forced to change the title of his new LP to Untitled, he named an upcoming mixtape The Nigger Tape. Now, the album is almost near its release date and the mixtape is going to set that up for him even more. Along with The Evil Genius Green […]

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Jacob “The Jeweler” Arabov who has made custom jewelry for pretty much every major hip-hop artist, Rudy Giuliani, and Bono has been sentenced to 30 months in Detroit today for lying to investigators about a multistate drug ring.
According to The Associated Press, Arabov was given seven months off his potential three-year-plus sentence for his extensive […]

Rap music industry veteran Neil Levine will head up BMG Label Group’s Battery Records, a new Hip-Hop imprint.
According to The New York Post, Battery Records will sign and develop upcoming rap artists, grooming them for mainstream success.
The most promising of these artists would then graduate to be distributed through BMG’s RCA and Zomba divisions.
According to […]