Irv Gotti arrested
LOS ANGELES (R. Kelly Fans Website) - Murder Inc. CEO Irv Gotti was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday facing charges of possession of a controlled substance. Gotti was arrested backstage at an R. Kelly concert in California Friday when his pockets were searched in a routine backstage security check. ...
| R. Kelly teams up with Bryan 'Baby' Williams
NEW YORK (AllHipHop Website) - R. Kelly and Bryan "Baby" Williams are teaming up to produce Best Of Both Worlds 2. Although no release date is set, the album will include an all-star line up. "Baby" told AllHipHop.com, "It's still early in the recording process. It's gonna come out on Cash Money and ...
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Aretha Franklin to team up with Mary J Blige
NEW YORK (Aretha Franklin Official Website) - Aretha Franklin has recruited hip-hop star Mary J Blige for two songs on her new album. So Damn Happy - her first LP since 1998's A Rose Is Still A Rose - features 11 new tracks, and is set for release this autumn. The first single to be taken from the album ...
| Marvin Gaye's songwriter dies
NEW YORK (RnB magazine) - Songwriter Ed Townsend, the man behind Marvin Gaye's suggestive hit Let's Get It On, has died aged 74. Townsend, who wrote more than 200 songs for artists including Gaye, Nat King Cole and Etta James, died of heart failure in hospital in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday. ...
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Luther Vandross' recovery
NEW YORK (Rolling Stone) - Luther Vandross, who has been hospitalized since suffering a stroke last April, is apparently on the road to recovery. According to his spokesperson, Vandross has been talking and showing signs of increased movement on his right side. The spokesperson told Rolling Stone that ...
| Lumidee is feeling proud for writting her own songs
NEW YORK (Lumidee UK Fans Website) - Lumidee - or, as some refer to her, the "Uh Oooh!" singer - is enjoying the success of her debut album Almost Famous, which features "Never Leave You." The song is climbing up the charts and currently sits at No 2 on Top40's World Airplay Top 100. Lumidee said that ...
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Toni Braxton: 'Family comes first' on VH1
NEW YORK (VH1) - While Toni Braxton was thrilled with the news of having a second child in late 2002, her longtime record company, Arista, was less than enthused. Fearing that her pregnancy would prevent the promotion of her long-awaited fifth album More than a Woman, Arista's fears became a reality ...
| Prince releases concert live DVD August 19
NEW YORK (Prince Official Website) - The upcoming concert DVD by superstar pop artist Prince will be shown at invitation-only theatrical screenings in 10 cities the evening before its official August 19 release. Corporate sponsors, press, retailers, radio contest winners, and members of the NPG Music ...
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Snoop sued over 'Girls gone wild' picture
NEW YORK (Snoop Dogg Fans Website) - Snoop Dogg is being sued by two Louisiana women, who claim that their pictures were used without permission on the cover of Snoop's X-rated "Girls Gone Wild Doggy Style" videotape. The pair claim that they were offered drugs at a party for Snoop Dogg in a New Orleans ...
| 'Born Gangsta' book: Tupac Shakur And 50 Cent
NEW YORK (Y Direct Media press release) - "Born Gangsta" is the unauthorized double biography on the lives of Tupac Shakur and 50 Cent. These two are arguably the most controversial and misunderstood artists of the latter part of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book will be published and exclusively ...
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Murder Inc. investigation intensifies
NEW YORK (NY RnB magazine) - The investigation of Murder Inc. Records - home to Ashanti and Ja Rule - continues in New York City, and prosecutors may have caught a break in their case. Two Murder Inc. associates have cut plea bargain deals with investigators and are expected to assist police seeking ...
| P.Diddy sued
NEW YORK (P. Diddy Fans Website) - A multimillion dollar lawsuit against Sean "P.Diddy" Combs was filed in a Manhattan court yesterday. Two men are seeking $25 million (U.S.) each, claiming that they were assaulted by Diddy's security guards outside his recording studio last year. Puffy's spokeperson ...
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Shady in court
DETROIT (Detroit News) - The Detroit News reports that Eminem will appear before a Michigan judge later this month. Marshall Mathers is expected to ask for the dismissal of a lawsuit against him filed by a former school-mate, DeAngelo Bailey. Bailey filed a defamation suit against Eminem for naming ...
| DMX recorded 'Thank You' duet with Patti LaBelle
NEW YORK (DMX Official Website) - DMX recorded a duet with the legendary singer Patti LaBelle called "Thank You" in New York City on Monday (July 28). MTV.com reports the track samples Alicia Myers' 1982 spiritual dance hit, "I Want To Thank You," and is slated for X's next album, Grand Champ, which ...
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Suge Knight behind bars again
LOS ANGELES (Suge Knight Fans Website) - Suge Knight is back in prison. Knight is the founder of Los Angeles based Death Row Records - now known as Tha Row. In a Los Angeles courtroom yesterday, Knight was found guilty of assaulting a parking lot attendant last month - a charge that carries extra weight ...
| Ja Rule talks about 50 Cent's lifestyle
NEW YORK (RnB NY magazine) - Ja Rule recently said that his feud with 50 Cent is not just a scheme to generate publicity, and insisted that the two rappers really don't like each other. Ja Rule thinks that a lot of hip-hop artists, including New York's 50 Cent, falsely represent a particular lifestyle ...
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Sean Paul taxed for slackness
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (Montego Bay festival) - Jamaican police announced yesterday that Sean Paul has been charged with using profanity during his Sumfest performance in Montego Bay last week. Jamaican law prohibits individuals from using profanity in public. The dancehall superstar is scheduled to appear ...
| Whitney Houston is recording a christmas album
NEW YORK (W. Houston Fans Website) - Whitney Houston is currently in the studio recording a Christmas album that will be released this fall. Mervyn Warren, who was the main producer on Houston's the Preacher's Wife soundtrack, is producing it. More information about her first-ever Christmas album will ...
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Jam Master Jay Street
NEW YORK (NY Times) - If some residents of Queens New York get their way, 203rd Street will soon be renamed Jam Master Jay Street. A petition is being passed around to rename 203rd, the street where the legendary Run DMC dj was born and raised, by October 30. This would mark the first anniversary of ...
| Chingy hits the 'Jackpot'
NEW YORK (Capital Records press release) - Chingy didn't call his debut "Jackpot" for nothing. The St. Louis rapper's first album has become a phenomenon, selling more than 156,000 copies its first week in stores and debuting as the #2 album in the country. "Jackpot" has already shipped gold. The Ludacris ...
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