Rapper C-Murder was sentenced to life in prison last Friday after he was convicted of second-degree murder earlier last week. C-Murder, whose real name is Corey Miller and who also happens to be the brother of Master P, was convicted of shooting a 16-year old fan in Louisiana in 2001. What would drive a celebrity to shoot down a fan anyway? Someone was definitely in need of anger management. This was the second time that a jury convicted the rapper in the case but a 2003 conviction was overturned. I don’t think having the name murder in his rap name proved to be beneficial in his case either.
LL Cool J was recently quarantined when a flight that he was on also carried someone so ill that all the passengers had to be quarantined when the plane landed. That wasn’t the only trouble that the rapper experienced on that flight. Before the quarantine, the flight from LA to St. Louis, had to make an emergency landing in Kansas City after passengers smelled smoke and realized that the jet reeked of gas. That was when the quarantine order came when one of the passengers who recently returned from a trip outside the US got very sick. They were quarantined for 3 hours. After that, LL opted not to re-board the plane and opted to hire a car service to get him to St. Louis instead.
Coolio has reached a plea deal and has avoided some jail time. The has-been rapper was arrested back in March for possession of crack cocaine at LAX Airport. He was also arrested last June for traffic violation charges and having an outstanding warrant. He has pleaded guilty to felony cocaine possession in a deal that requires him to spend 18 months in rehab. Coolio can request for the case to be dismissed if he successfully completes the program. He is due back in court on September 28th for a progress report.
It seems that yet another rapper has brought honor to his kind by getting involved in a violent crime and ending up for trial. It seems that Tru Life and with his younger brother were involved in the lethal stabbing of a man in New York. Tru Life pleaded not guilty and is currently being held without bail. His brother surrender a day after. The rapper’s lawyer of course claims his client is innocent and will no doubt do everything in his power to prove it. So it seems that the saga of the rappers continues and Tru Life is doing his best to write his own verse in the monumental epic.
If you’re a pot smoking employee who is looking for someone else to take the blame, you might want to consider working for Snoop Dog. Last week, cops in Norfolk, Virginia were tipped off that a suspicious package has arrived in the mail from Canada to the Plaza Hotel where the rapper and his crew were staying. Sources say that the package was addressed to one of Snoop’s entourage and then they swooped in to arrest the guy for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Snoop then showed up in the lobby and said that the pot was for him after flashing his medical marijuana card. The guy who got arrested is still in custody and the case is still under investigation.
Eminem has just been the victim of a robbery! While the rapper was busy getting tea bagged by Sacha Baron Cohen at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, a thief or two snuck into his Los Angeles hotel room and stole a bunch of his stuff. Some of the items that were stolen included a diamond necklace worth $60,000 and his laptop. I wonder if there would be any juicy stuff hacked out of his laptop. Naked pictures perhaps? I don’t want to see any of his junk though. Maybe there are some demos there that we can make fun of.
If you’re a pot smoking employee who is looking for someone else to take the blame, you might want to consider working for Snoop Dog. Last week, cops in Norfolk, Virginia were tipped off that a suspicious package has arrived in the mail from Canada to the Plaza Hotel where the rapper and his crew were staying. Sources say that the package was addressed to one of Snoop’s entourage and then they swooped in to arrest the guy for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Snoop then showed up in the lobby and said that the pot was for him after flashing his medical marijuana card. The guy who got arrested is still in custody and the case is still under investigation.
Kanye West has entered his plea of not guilty to charges of misdemeanor battery, grand theft and vandalism from his September 11 arrest at LAX. The rapper was not in court as he entered the plea through his lawyer. His next hearing has been set for July 15. I wonder what was so important that he had to miss a court date. Mind you, there’s a lot of video evidence regarding the charges against him. There’s a chance that he’s still going to get more than just a slap on the wrist. I would love to see him head to jail. Maybe our eyes won’t have to be harassed by his all caps blog writing for a while.
Slain rapper Dolla may have been caught in an earlier dispute with the events promoter who was arrested for his suspected murder, according to a US report.
The dispute, or altercation, was thought to have happened at a strip club that is popular with the hip-hop crowd. Police did not make the location of the incident available.
But the Los Angeles Times said it interviewed an employee of Platinum 21 Adult Entertainment who recalled Dolla in a dispute with a man going by the “initials A.B.” on May 13.
Los Angeles detectives are reported to be travelling to Atlanta where both Dolla, aka Roderick Anthony Burton II, and the promoter Aubrey Louis Berry, 23, had both been living to investigate.
Dolla was killed in the valet parking area of LA’s upscale Beverly Center shopping mall.
Berry is believed to have fled from the scene of the shooting in a silver Mercedes Benz SUV and boarded a flight to Los Angeles International Airport, where he was apprehended.
Eminem’s recently leaked full album has got to be one of the crappiest albums I’ve heard this decade. I doubted he could actually do something nice. But it turns out that the rapper is doing something nice in return. Albeit, it’s a publicity stunt, but still nice. Reports are saying that Eminem is flying out 200 laid off workers from Toledo’s Ohio Modular Management. They’re all going to be part of Jimmy Kimmel’s audience on May 15th, the first of the rapper’s 3 appearances on the show. The workers flying to LA for the taping are from different auto plants in Michigan and Ohio who were laid off and do not receive certain sub-pay benefits. A former worker from the company revealed “He is flying us out, all expenses paid, for the show to put a face on the American auto workers who are affected by this hardship. He is supposed to do a meet and greet and sign autographs.”
The Queen B is back as Lil Kim has come out with a so-called comeback single and video! Her new song is called ‘Download’ and it features rapper T-Pain. But as much greatness as there is between the two rappers, the song is just ok. It’s kind of mellow to be a Lil Kim single especially considering that it’s the first one after a very long time off the music scene. It sounds more like the B-side of an album instead of what’s supposed to be released as a single. She definitely could have done better but at the very least, there’s nothing really bad about the song.
Foxy Brown is off the hook as the lawsuit that was filed in 2007 against the rapper claiming that she beat down her neighbor with a Blackberry has been dismissed. Even though Foxy pled guilty to the charges of the cell phone assault, the lawsuit was dropped by Justice Robert Miller in a Brooklyn Supreme Court after finding out that Foxy had never been served with the proper legal papers. How the heck did that slip through the cracks and was only found out now? It’s pretty obvious that Foxy got lucky here. Let’s just hope that she doesn’t do it again.
As if being stuck in jail isn’t bad enough, rapper DMX has gotten more bad news. He has just been ordered to pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars to a man he assaulted at JFK airport. 5 years ago, Port Authority officers arrested the rapper for posing as an FBI agent and using a fake police siren to pull Sergei Priporin and his family over at the airport. DMX, who claims that he pulled them over for making him late for a flight, was in possession of crack, Oxycodone, Diazepam and a billy club at the time. The plaintiffs, who originally sued for $4 million each, are getting a total of $240,000 in damages. DMX isn’t letting go of his pride though as he spoke through his lawyer saying “Mr. Simmons still feels justified in pulling them over when they didn’t get out of his way… he’s not apologizing for that. He still believes the gentleman driving should have gotten out of his way. At the same time, he plead guilty to the charges and therefore paid for his behavior.”
Hip hop power couple Kelis and Nas are going through a divorce. The saddest part of this story is that Kelis is actually seven months pregnant. The couple met at a 2002 MTV VMA’s after party which was thrown by Diddy. They then tied the knot in 2003. Reps for Kelis have confirmed the split, stating “I can confirm that she has filed for divorce… We request the media to respect her privacy during this very difficult time.” The singer is asking for both spousal and child support from the rapper. I wonder what brought this on. They’ve been pretty quiet up until now.
Snoop Dogg is one of the biggest rappers of all time so you would think that it would mean that he’s making a lot of money. But no. Snoop actually finds himself in a deep hole when it comes to the state of California coming after him for his taxes. The state actually filed a tax lien on the rapper which shows that Snoop owes California a whopping $284,053.59. By my calculations, that should come up to around 190,000 joints, give or take a few. I wonder why he’s late in paying taxes. Maybe he was too stoned to remember having to pay them.
Xzibit reportedly owes at least $21,403.98 in back mortgage payments and he’s officially been warned by the bank that he’s so close to foreclosure. But judging from the way the rapper/actor flashed his ridiculously expensive diamonds in a recent trip to Las Vegas, someone forgot to tell him about his house trouble and the more than $500,000 he also owes in back taxes. In addition to nearly losing his home in Woodland Hills, California, it was also reported that the IRS filed a $205,485 lien on X in LA County for non payment of his 2007 taxes and another one for an additional $296,355 for 2006.
It seems that everyone in the world is suffering because of the recession. Everyone except Kanye West that is. The rapper’s upcoming sneaker line, Kanye West for Louis Vuitton, will start retailing at the very expensive cost of $840! And some of the pairs will even retail to a over $1000! He cannot have those prices and seriously think that people will pay the price of $1140 for a pair of sneakers like the one pictured. And who would want to pay that much money for some ugly ass sneakers anyway? You can get so many more pairs over the more sporty and more durable Nike, Adidas or what have you.
Eminem is at the head of a lawsuit that could bring artists a big payday in the near future. The rapper slammed Universal Music Group with a lawsuit two years ago regarding the royalties of digital downloads and it’s finally in court. The debate is whether song downloads should fall under the category of a licensing deal or a distribution deal. A licensing deal would split profits 50/50 between the label and artist while the current distribution deal only gives artists with less than 20 cents per download. If Eminem and company win the lawsuit, some giant checks are going to be made out to the artists under Universal, including Jay-Z, Kanye West and U2.
How convenient Clifford Harris (his real name). Do these guys ever think of these same things before committing such crimes? Means this chap keeps not 1 but 3 machine guns and two silencers. After being arrested he now fears what impact his impending prison spell will have on his young sons.
He says, “My oldest is 12 – she understands. She’s strong and smart. The three weeks I was in, before I got to come home, she said to me, ‘Don’t worry. I’ll hold things down ’til you get back.’”
If ever man thought about the consequences of crimes such as these then the world would have been a safer place to live. I am not vouching for world peace or anything right now but we all must give this a thought.
Neither am I happy that his daughter and sons would have through a lot of pain and agony when he his taken away for his sentence. But it is really very hard for the kids to have to go to school were some ass holes would inevitably drag this issue.
Hopefully this man has learnt his lesson think 10 times before doing anything illegal here onwards.
Rapper 50 Cent was in a terrible situation when he found out the he had locked himself out of his Rolls Royce, the incident took place on Friday last week when the rapper was on a visit to London where he was filming a new movie with actress Brenda Blethyn.
And this got worse thereon as his car was ticketed by a parking attendant. The only thing that saved him for the day that a member of his entourage was able to break into the car using a wire coat hanger.
Nothing to funny here as such things could happen to any one of us and who said just cause your a “big star” that human things like locking yourself out your own car and getting tickets wasn’t gonna happen.
But it would have been great fun if the hanger did not work and they had to bust his pretty Rolls Royce window out so that could go along with his ticket.
