Rapper Mystikal were Jailed on charges of rape
BATON ROUGE, La. (hip-Hop Magazine) - Top-selling rapper Mystikal and two other men were jailed Thursday on charges they raped an acquaintance at his house. Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, surrendered to authorities early Thursday and was booked on an aggravated rape charge, police said. ...
| More R. Kelly Tape Trouble
CHICAGO, Ill. (R. Kelly Fans Website) - A Kansas City man is suing R. Kelly over a videotape and no one is saying what's on it. According to the suit, Kelly hired a private detective who contracted Charles Freeman to recover a stolen performance tape last August. The contract promised Freeman 100-thousand ...
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Rapper Slick Rick Facing Deportation
MIAMI (RnB Magazine) - Rapper Rick 'Slick Rick' Walters has been held in a federal immigration jail since last month and is facing deportation to his native Britain because of an attempted murder conviction 11 years ago, his lawyer said. Walters had been ordered deported following his conviction, but ...
| P. Diddy Will Do MTV Reality Show!
NEW YORK (P. Diddy Fans Website) - No, it's not going to be called "P. Diddy's in the House." Unlike the enormously popular "The Osbournes," which chronicles the daily personal lives of heavy-metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his family, MTV's new reality show, "Making the Band II," will feature rapper-producer ...
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Snoop Dogg To Record With Real British Gangster From 'Snatch'
NEW YORK (Snoop Official Website) - Snoop Dogg is collaborating on a recording with a real gangster, London's Dave Courtney. Courtney wrote 'The Unwritten Rules Of The Courtroom," which will appear on his own album and Snoop's next record. Courtney says the pair will perform the number live sometime ...
| Aaliyah Pilot Autopsy Shows Traces Of Cocaine And Alcohol
NEW YORK (Aaliyah Fans Website) - The autopsy results of the pilot of the Cessna 402-B aircraft that crashed on takeoff in the Bahamas last August, killing R&B singer-actress Aaliyah and eight others, have revealed traces of cocaine and alcohol, according to the Bahamas Civil Aviation Authority. The ...
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Is Pilot in Aaliyah Crash A Cocaine User?
NEW YORK (Aaliyah Fans Website) - The pilot of the small plane that crashed in the Bahamas last year - killing 22-year-old singer and actress Aaliyah , himself and seven others - had traces of cocaine and alcohol in his body, aviation officials said Tuesday. An autopsy performed on Luis Antonio Morales ...
| Nelly On The Telly
LOS ANGELES (Nelly Fans Website) - It worked for Will Smith and now Nelly is giving it a shot. At some undisclosed time in the future, Nelly is set to begin shooting a sitcom for Paramount Network Television according to a movie magazine. There�s no title, no premise, and basically no details at all ...
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Lauryn Hill Ignores Hits, Focuses On New Material In Hollywood Bowl Show
NEW YORK (RnB Magazine) - Towards the end of Lauryn Hill's set at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday (June 14) ?- the second stop on a summer tour that finds her hooking up with the Smoking Grooves festival later in the month -- the large outdoor amphitheater glowed a warm orange hue. It wasn't from the 12,000-or-so ...
| P. Diddy In Director's Chair For Foxy Brown's Ill Na Na 2
NEW YORK (P. Diddy Fans Website) - P. Diddy may not have been able to lure Foxy Brown away from Def Jam to Bad Boy, but he's making sure his influence is heard throughout her next LP, Ill Na Na 2: The Fever. He's co-executive producing the project along with the feisty siren's brothers, Gavin and Anton ...
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Pharoahe Monch On Appearing On Linkin Park's 'Reanimation'
LOS ANGELES (RnB Magazine) - Pharoahe Monch is among the All-Star lineup of MCs featured on Linkin Park's remix album, Reanimation, due out on July 30 on Warner Bros. Pharoahe appears on the song "H! VLtg3" with Dilated Peoples members Evidence, who remixed the song, and DJ Babu, who adds turntable ...
| Whitney Houston's New Single Leaked To NY Radios!
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Whitney Houston's new single, "Whatcha Lookin' At," aired on New York City radio stations on Wednesday (July 10). The song was co-written by Andre Lewis and Jerry Mohammed, and will appear on her as-yet-untitled new release, tentatively due out September 17. Other producers ...
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Rapper Fat Joe Arraigned in Bar Brawl
NEW YORK (Fat Joe Fans Website) - Rapper Fat Joe has been released without bail following his arraignment on charges that he and several others broke a man's jaw at B.B. King's Blues Club in Times Square. The 31-year-old artist, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena , was arraigned late Wednesday on ...
| Brian McKnight To Sing National Anthem At WNBA All-Star Game
NEW YORK (WNBA Official Website) - Brian McKnight will sing the national anthem at the WNBA All-Star Game, which takes place Monday (July 15) at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. At halftime, rising-star singer Ashanti will perform her new single, "Happy." The WNBA All-Star Game will be televised on ...
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Bow Wow Hopes To Play Basketball For Duke At 18
NEW YORK (Bow Wow Fans Website) - Bow Wow's debut as a leading man in Like Mike has been well-received. The film made approximately $13 million in its first week of release. The young rapper-actor recently shared, however, that basketball is his first love. Bow Wow, who will attend Vince Carter's basketball ...
| Ice-T's Perverted Sex Cult Rock Band Is 'Gothic, Scary Stripper Music'
NEW YORK (Hip-Hop NY magazine) - Nabbing New York perverts on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for the past two years, Ice-T hasn't released an album since 1999's 7th Deadly Sin, but the veteran rapper has two new music projects in the works. While SVU and Beyond Tough, a reality ...
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Will Smith Accuses Former Employee Of Stalking & Harassment
LOS ANGELES (Will Smith Fans Website) - Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith have filed a petition for a restraining order against Mike Cooley in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday (July 9). The Men in Black star claims that the 66-year-old Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Cooley, who worked as ...
| DMX, N.E.R.D., Method Man, Redman, Fugazi, & Cypress Hill Got Game
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts Review) - As the gaming industry flourishes, so does its association with the music world. DMX, N.E.R.D., Method Man, Redman, Fugazi, and Cypress Hill are among the artists readying music for upcoming games. Activision's Street Hoops, a street-wise basketball game for PlayStation ...
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Eminem's Used Car Sells On Ebay Auction
LOS ANGELES (Ebay) - Eminem's former car sold on the Internet auction site Ebay on Monday morning, July 8, for $27,900. The custom-painted purple 1999 Mustang convertible was traded in by Eminem (Marshall Mathers) to Russ Milne Ford Inc. of Macomb, Michigan. The dealership inspected the two-door, six-cylinder ...
| 'Soul Man' Sam Moore making solo album debut
LOS ANGELES ('Motown' Fans Website) - He's still a "Soul Man." Veteran singer Sam Moore of the 1960s soul duo Sam & Dave will make his solo album debut next month with a collection of nearly forgotten tunes he recorded more than 30 years ago, his label said Monday. "Plenty Good Lovin': The Lost Solo ...
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