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Rapper Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months in jail on Thursday for violating his probation. Back n 2005, the entertainer pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to a year in jail last September since he failed to complete his court-mandated 600 hours of community service. Gucci ended up serving for 6 months. The rapper worked hard on his music after he got released and even took his career to the next level. After gaining huge popularity in the underground scene, Gucci had just started to appear in more mainstream music in songs by Mario, Omarion, Mariah Carey and 50 Cent. He even has a new single featuring Usher called ‘Spotlight’. Now, he’s going to have to put his career on hold again for jail time.

DMX got into a screaming match with security when he arrived to Colorado Springs charity concert nearly one and a half hours late after security was told that he was scheduled to perform. The rapper, his bodyguards and fans eventually got into a shoving match with security in front of the stage, while the crowd, who had already been told that DMX wasn’t going to show up, began chanting for the rapper. DMX eventually got on stage but the sound system was reportedly turned off so he couldn’t perform. I think that he’s the only guy who could make a charity event into a melee.

I don’t think that it’s a good idea to wear any bling resembling bullets at the airport but apparently, Snoop Dogg thinks otherwise. While going thru Beirut International Airport, the rapper had to give up his necklace which had a diamond studded bullet. I know that security was just doing their job but I don’t think they could have done anything with that. The irony in it all was that the necklace is actually an anti-war message supporting the Bullets 4 Peace charity. At least the bling is for a good cause but Snoop may need to think about what he wears before going thru any airport again.

Rapper Pitbull is being slapped with a lawsuit by an Australian promoter for failing to abide by their agreed contract. That’s the one where he said that he would show up for a tour in 2008 but he didn’t. Suave Promotions released a statement saying “It is with great regret that Suave Productions and Don Juan Entertainment announce that Armando Christian Perez aka Mr 305, Pitbull is being sued for the failed Australian Tour in December 2008.” Suave representative Jamie Hernandez continued, saying “…We did everything we could to make him happy, sometimes even going that extra mile in order to meet his demands. But yet he still refused to get on the plane. Not only that, he also failed to notify that he wasn’t coming & also kept half the money for doing nothing at all.”

Just over a week after DMX was released from jail, the rapper pled guilty to another crime and he’s about to find out if he will have to make a return to Arizona’s Tent City Jail. No one should be surprised about this considering his oh so shiny track record. He originally pled not guilty to the charge but he decided to cop a plea and pled guilty to attempted aggravated assault, a felony, back on May 22 after an incident in which he verbally threatened guards at Tent City back in February. The rapper is due back in Maricopa County court for sentencing on today.

Last Friday, 80s hit maker Tone Loc was performing during a concert at Capt’n Fun Beach Club in Pensacola Beach, Florida. Unfortunately for the rapper, he collapsed at the venue! The former ‘Celebrity Rap Superstar’ was unconscious and had to be taken away in an ambulance. As for the reason for his collapse, no one is quite sure what happened. Tone Loc did make several remarks about the humidity and the heat at the open-air venue when he was performing though. According to one of the County Sheriff’s deputies working security at the show, Tone apparently has a history of seizures. Either way, I hope he’s doing ok.
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Rihanna is featured in Kanye West’s new music video for his song ‘Paranoid’. It’s the fourth single from the rapper’s fourth studio album ‘808s & Heartbreak’. The 21-year old Barbadian singer doesn’t sing on the song or speaks in the video but she does look absolutely gorgeous. It’s really more like a tribute video to Rihanna’s beauty rather than her talent really. The music video first premiered last week at the Island Def Jam Spring Collection party at Stephen Weiss Studio in New York City. It’s already made its way on the internet and it’s soon to make its way on TV.

If you ever decide to toss some money is rapper Pitbull’s face, be prepared to get your teeth knocked out. During one of his shows in Aspen, Colorado, a fan was tossing money around in the crowd and was pulled on stage by Pitbull. The guy thought it would be a good idea to make it rain in the rapper’s face. Unfortunately for him, the rapper levels the guy with a devastating right hand then follows it up with a kick once the dude was on the ground. The best part of it was that Pitbull never even missed a beat when he was knocking the dude out. Sources say that the fan was tossed out of the venue after getting socked but was let back in once he convinced security that he meant no harm. No cops were even called to the scene.

According to the London Paper, Beyonce recently had a bit of a scare during the after-party for the London stop of her ‘I Am…’ tour when a fan managed to infiltrate security and get backstage. A witness said “A man barged through the backstage door just as Beyonce was walking past. He cried out her name with his arms outstretched before security bundled him back out again. He said he wanted [just] to see Jay-Z to give him a demo tape.” The crazy things people do when they want to get famous. Oh well, the guy just got his few minutes of fame with this one.

The upcoming edition of XXL is going to feature a collaboration between Eminem and Marvel Comics in anticipation of the release of the rapper’s new album ‘Relapse’, which has already leaked online. In addition to the comic cover art, the magazine will include the first part of the triumvirate’s special edition ‘Punisher’ comic which co-stars Eminem. Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief commented on the collaboration saying “When we learned that Eminem is a fan and collector of Marvel comics, we could only imagine what would happen if The Punisher and Slim Shady met up in the Marvel Universe. This was a unique partnership and the team had a blast working with Eminem and incorporating the rapper into the Marvel fold.”

For someone with the abbreviation of the word little in front of his name, Lil Wayne has been getting into some big trouble recently. The rapper was recently ordered by a Miami judge to pay New Orleans jeweller Jack Sutton the money he was due. Lil Wayne has now recently missed a scheduled court appearance related to his drug charges. Even though he didn’t show up, the judge said that he was not excused from appearing. Lil Wayne’s reps however claim that he only missed the hearing due to an unnamed medical condition. Sure. The rapper is due back in court this October. Surely his medical condition would have let up by then.

Mariah Carey has recently released a remix of her new single ‘Bye Bye’ featuring the iconic rapper Jay-Z. When I first heard the song when she performed it on American Idol, I thought of how incredibly cheesy and overall sucky the song was. But after hearing the remix with Hova on it – man! I can’t believe I actually like it now. Just the remix though, not the original. Maybe it’s because that Jay-Z’s rap cuts out the really cheesy verses of the song and Mariah was mostly just back up on the first half of the song. The less I hear of her, the more I like the song.

I knew that there was a gangsta rap but I never knew that there was a gangsta twang. Snoop Dogg showed up to the 2008 Music Awards on Monday night trading in his Crips blue for a full on vampire western gear. It’s highly possible that the rapper was stoned when he chose this outfit. And can someone tell me just what Snoop was doing at a country music awards ceremony? Is he turning in rap for country now? Or maybe he was just trying to get the country folk into his reality show ‘Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood’. Fo’ shizzle my nizzle, watch my show ya’ll!

The guy who rapper The Game allegedly assaulted on a street basketball court has filed a civil suit against the rapper, claiming assault, battery, a civil rights violation and negligence. All that because of a pick-up basketball game – wow! Court documents elaborate on what happened prior to the rapper’s arrest – from the provoking to when a gun was pulled out of the rapper’s car. The Game was arrested after the incident and eventually pleaded no contest to felony possession of a firearm in a school zone. He served just 8 days out of a possible 60 day sentence before being released. Maybe the victim is looking for justice to really be served.

If you’re thinking about getting on stage at a Wyclef Jean concert, be sure to weigh yourself before going and see to it that you weigh under 200 lbs. The former Fugees member asked for 30 girls to shake it with him on stage at a Super Bowl weekend performance at 944 Village in Scottsdale, Arizona but announced that there was a weight limit for anyone who decides to climb up there to join him. Wyclef finished his performance with a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Mind you, the caliber of that rendition was far from Jimi Hendrix’s caliber.

Diddy – the rapper, the producer, the entrepreneur and now, the actor. Now that he has a starring role in the upcoming film ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, he would now like to be called by his given name, Sean Combs. He says “The reason why it’s very important to me is ya’ll know me for a lot for different things–music, fashion, television and films. But you don’t really know me as an actor. I’d like to introduce my actor to you. That’s me! Sean Combs! My name is Sean Combs! You know I’ve got a lot of split personalities.”

She’s gotten very creative in making a plea to be let out of jail but it’s no use, Foxy Brown is staying in the slammer. The rapper recently asked to be release so she could see an ear specialist in Los Angeles. She claims that only a Hollywood doc could make it all better. However, a judge said on Thursday that she needed more info to determine if Foxy would really go deaf if she stays in jail. While at the hearing, Foxy pleaded to be released saying “I have too much talent to throw it away. I know I will make you proud and my family proud.” Really now.