Lil Wayne has distanced himself from his peer group simply by embracing his love for rap with open arms much like the way the lovably rotund Mabel Thomas used to lovingly squeeze her son Roger on “What’s Happening!!” Last year MTV News unofficially stamped Weezy F. Baby as the hottest MC on the planet, but [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
If you planned to pick up a wedding gift for Usher this weekend, hold up  the singer and his fiancee have announced that their wedding is off. Usher‘s representatives issued a statement Saturday (July 28) announcing that the singer and his fiancee, stylist Tameka Foster, have canceled their ceremony, adding that “no additional information [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Regardless of what 50 Cent thinks, Kanye West says he’s not blinking: His album Curtis will be coming out the same day as the leader of the G-Unit.”The date, Graduation, September 11, we ain’t moving,” West said Sunday night at the Beacon Theatre, where he was waiting to perform with Lil Wayne. Kanye West is embracing the [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Ja Rule was arrested in New York late Sunday 22 July evening [Same night Lil' Wayne was arrested] and charged with criminal possession of a weapon after police stopped a speeding car in which the rapper was a passenger. A handgun was discovered during a subsequent search of the vehicle. According to a New York Police Department [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Lil Wayne‘s first major gig in New York ended with a trip to jail on Sunday night when the rapper was arrested on gun charge. The arrest came just hours after Lil’ Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) made what he labeled his Big Apple debut with a raucous show at the Beacon Theatre. A New [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
On Monday, Remy Ma denied shooting her friend Makeda Barnes-Joseph outside a New York nightspot on Saturday night. “I didn’t shoot my friend!” Ma yelled to reporters from the second-floor window of her Cliffside Park, New Jersey, home, according to New York‘s Daily News. “I didn’t shoot nobody!” Barnes-Joseph, however, told the paper a different [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Music industry know-it-alls figured Zeitgeist would fare better on next week’s Billboard top 200, bumping T.I. from the albums chart’s #1 position. But it didn’t work out that way. Instead, the Pumpkins debut at #2, after being outsold by T.I.‘s T.I. vs. T.I.P. by more than 30,000 scans, despite the rapper suffering a 63 percent [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
50 Cent has a few words of advice for Nas in the new issue of XXL Magazine: put down the book. When asked, “What percentage of MCs in hip-hop do you think are actually intelligent?” 50 Cent replied: “You have different kinds of people. You have people that are extremely book-smart that lack common sense, so [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
They say what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, and these days, Gucci Mane looks like he’s on steroids. The Atlanta rapper put in time behind bars for a parole violation stemming from an assault case he caught after a run-in with a club promoter. And he also faced a murder rap after a [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
You think Vincent Chase and his boys are the only celebs who get it on in Medellin, Columbia? Nah. Young Buck shot his latest video for “U Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” down there. When we saw him last week on the BET Awards red carpet, he marveled at how beautiful the women are in Columbia. Stateside, [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Young Jeezy is the only other MC who will appear on Kanye West‘s LP this summer, and the Snowman didn’t even have to spit a verse. “I don’t have any rappers on my album,” West said. “Not just because I’m trying to make a statement of being an MC, I want people to get into [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Def Jam 4: Street Legend is the fourth installment to the Def Jam video game series. There will be different areas in the game the character will be encountering. The story of Def Jam 4 has drama, comedy, suspense, and romance. It will have more realistic features than the last three games. There will also [...]





