New York police are alleging that a dispute between Tru Life’s brother and several other individuals may have killed a teen and left another man seriously injured.

According to investigators, early yesterday morning (June 16), five gang members ambushed two men at a Manhattan apartment complex, to retaliate against the earlier shooting of a man named Michael Slater.

The man authorities say is a suspected drug dealer was shot in the abdomen outside nightclub Pacha, and is listed in critical condition.

The gang-inspired apartment ambush resulted in the two individuals being stabbed repeatedly in the chest and face.

One man, 30 year old Jason Black, survived the assault and is listed in critical condition.

The other, an 18-year old teen whose name has not been released, died on the operating table.

While details are still being revealed police believe the shooting and fatal stabbing are the result of an ongoing feud between Jason Black and Tru Life’s brother.

The brother, whose name has also not been disclosed, was first introduced to Hip-Hop fans in 2007 courtesy of the punching incident between then rivals Tru Life and Cam’Ron.

According to various reports, the brother joined Tru Life in confronting Cam’Ron outside of Club Stereo.

After an escalation of words and some reports alleging the brother even threatened to shoot up the venue, Tru Life assaulted the Dip Set founder with a single punch to the face.

Source:AllHipHop

Not sure why Tru Life is turning himself in but expect more to develop…..

Jeremih Will Preview His Self Titled Album On Myspace On June 26th… Don’t Miss Out, Also he’s performing live at the BET Awards Pre-Show on 6/28.

Jeremih on MySpace, Twitter or Imeem

50 cent is crazy yow, he’s actually quite entertaining when he’s like this, he should be this way more often.

What I fell in love with and inspired me to get into hip-hop is dwindling away. I’d like to be a representation of that, because there isn’t much of that left. I think people are so conscious of the numbers they’re not being creative anymore.

Source: Billboard

You’ve got to be f*cking kidding me, really 50? I distinctly remember you saying that it was all about the numbers a couple years ago, saying that you might not be the best rapper but your selling the most records what happened to that? I guess you have a different perspective when your not moving 10 million units anymore huh?

If anything your mostly responsible for people for people paying so much attention to the numbers…..

Every move Jay-Z makes is so calculated, he became the president of Def Jam so he could get his Masters then he uses the labels marketing dollars to push American Gangster and then dips out and goes independent. Now his his new label Roc-Nation which is a roughly $150 million package with the concert giant Live Nation that includes financing for his own entertainment venture, in addition to recordings and tours for the next decade. Blueprint is now set to be released as an Independent album with a marketing push from Atlantic records.

Hova….

Credits:MissInfo

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While there is arguably nothing new under the sun, there are times when the recycled past takes on new relevance and meaning within a different context.  Enter the New Boyz and their revamping of “the Jerk,” a regional phenomena of the 90’s perpetuated by L.A. street culture and house-party connoisseurs alike.

Armed with a minimalist beat and a hip(ster)-hop fashion sense, the summer-ready single “You’re A Jerk” has been gaining momentum in Southern California, propelling the Victorville duo into national prominence.  And the Web is watching, as hundreds of user-generated videos are surfacing on sites like YouTube of youth across the nation imitating the acrobatic and fancy footwork.

MTV recently caught up with Legacy, Ben J and their Power Rangers set to get a first-hand report of the burgeoning resurgence and its significance to their music. MTV News

But “one-trick-pony” the group is not.  Though leaders of this new-school dance craze, a look at their Myspace page (myspace(dot)com/officialnewboyz) reveals the track “Want This” feat. Tay, a unabashed juxtaposition of their pop-friendly lead single in the same vein of “The Whisper Song” 2.0.

Living embodiments of the carefree summers of yesteryear, the New Boyz are “geeked” for a smooth transition into their movement’s next step.  One jerk at a time.

Check out the You’re a Jerk Music Video

Download:New Boyz You’re A Jerk

Myspace:http://www.myspace.com/officialnewboyz

Imeem:http://www.imeem.com/newboyz

Twitter Legacy’s : http://www.twitter.com/thalegacy

Ben J’s: http://www.twitter.com/benjnewboyz

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The song, complete with instrumentation light enough for the summer and a beat heavy enough for any club, shows not only a maturity in Huey’s subject matter but in his lyrical ability as well. Utilizing inherent natural charm and clever wordplay, Huey speaks directly to the ladies, letting them know that if they’re looking for a good time, they need look no further – Huey has it all. Huey raps, “Speaking of PAYOW, I got something you might love / And it’s a murder weapon, wearing a white glove… I’ll light you up from just a few shots / And have you sounding like the sirens of two cops / If you don’t know about me, you’re gon’ learn right now/ 150 rounds, that sounds like that PAYOW!” With a helping hand from Juelz Santana and Bobby V, it’s safe to say by summer’s end Huey will once again be climbing the charts.

The Background:

Hailing from the 50 Block of Arlington Ave. in St. Louis, Missouri, Huey showed musical promise from an early age, first crafting beats and rhymes with a neighborhood friend. That interest developed into a talent, and, although he was often pulled away into the street life, his older brother’s guidance steered him into a fruitful relationship with music industry veteran Angela Richardson. It was during the course of that relationship that Huey released “Pop, Lock, And Drop It,” a song which blew up in St. Louis and subsequently earned him a deal with Hitz Committee/Jive Records. The song was a huge success for the St. Louis rapper, reaching number six on Billboard charts, selling over 3.5 million digital downloads and propelling the sales of his debut album, Notebook Paper, to sales of over 300,000. Now, a few short years later, Huey is back, and he brings with him a new, grown up image that is the result of the natural progression from young man to adult. Huey’s new album, $trictly Busine$$, showcases the artist’s new direction with a more mature sound and subject matter, including the album’s lead single “PAYOW” featuring Juelz Santana and Bobby V. $trictly Busine$$ will be available August 25 via Hitz Committee Entertainment.

Download:Huey feat. Juelz Santana and Bobby Valentino – PAYOW

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/huey314

Kyte Channel:
http://www.kyte.tv/ch/195548-hueytv

MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/hueyhitz

Label Site:
http://www.hitzcommittee.com/

Earlier this week, reports surfaced that Jay-Z was on his way to bringing his Roc Nation label, an imprint he created as part of his rumored $150 million deal with concert promoter Live Nation, to Warner Music Group. Now the New York’s Daily News has learned more about the possible partnership, this time involving an alleged separate label for Hov.

According to the Daily News’ gossip section, Gatecrasher, Jay has been meeting with former Def Jam associates turned Warner vice president and executive vice president respectively, Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles, about possibly heading his own Carter Music Group on Warner.

“Jay knows Lyor and Kevin from back when they all worked together at Def Jam, and he obviously wants to work something out with his friends,” an inside source told the Daily News. “He wants to get the dream team back together. There have been a few whiffs of a reunion in the past, but only now – and very privately – is something finally starting to happen.”

The source adds that Cohen and Liles tried to get Jay to bring Roc Nation to WMG as well but he has instead decided to release his upcoming album The Blueprint 3 on Live Nation. Jigga recently reportedly bought out his contract from Def Jam for $5 million.

As of press time neither WMG, Jay-Z, or Live Nation have released any statements about the alleged negotiations. – Elan Mancini

Source:XXL

No studio is attached to the film as Cheetah Vision is bankrolling it and hoping to sell it to a studio. The last time they tried this was Streets of Blood which we exclusively reported was going straight to DVD. Let’s hope this movie doesn’t have the same fate. Check the interview of 50 Cent and Chris Klein here:

Source:Woooha

Drake sure knows how to get around. First rumored to be with Bria Miles, Rihanna, and now Teyana Taylor; and he only has one single out.

Teyana posted these pictures to her myspace, so lets wait and see if she is his new flavor of the week. If Lil Wayne can fck “every girl in the world” then why not Drake?

Props to TJ Chatman for sending this over, he also made a video response to this.

Wow she scored the cover of Essence, yeah Ricky You lost. Who is the final editor over at Essence? Because I don’t see how you could miss something like Oprah’s name being misspelled.

This feels like it will be one of those legendary posts, I sat here for like 2 minutes just watching that image over and over. Dying with laughter, this is what you call a career ended, well not really but it sure doesn’t look good on his rap resume. LMAO did you see the sonic rings get knocked out of him in the picture…..ha ha ha this made my Saturday morning. I’m gonna let this one sit on the front page for a while.

The name of the girl that laid the hand of god on Charles is Briana Latrise who just so happens to be Mary J. Blige’s stepdaughter and is suppose to be Charles Hamilton’s assitent, below is a video of the battle led to the punch. It  turns out that Charles was tapping it at one point and she got pregnant and had an abortion or something to that effect, which Charles decides to freestyle about, what a fool. Punch deserved.

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We started dating and it kinda progressed. I ended up moving to NY, I moved in with him. I started working with him, marketing plans and stuff like that to show him what I was capable of doing. (1:00)

I was really trying not to hit him, I was trying so hard. He just had that cocky look I can’t stand. (3:18)

I’m still helping Charles with his career. That’s the craziest shit about our relationship, I decked him last night but we had breakfast this morning. (7:17)

I felt bad, I felt like the bitch. Like I was wrong for decking him. (7:37)

Source:NahRight, DDotOmen and Miss Info

“I have a lot to prove – to myself and people, period. I released this mixtape and it’s kinda like: ‘Now you really have to release an album. That’s what artist’s do.’ “Can excitement last from May or June all the way till the end of this year? ’Cause that’s when the album’s going to come out,” he says. “How do I maintain that excitement?”

Full Interview: Much Music

See this is the problem with labels, they are always dragging there asses and I have no idea what having a buzz is and how it’s maintained. Buzz is something when you loose it you rarely get it back. Were going to need a So Far Gone part 2 if the album is dropping next year.

Drake hits up Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds to clear up the Rihanna make out rumors.

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Kelis filed for divorce April 30. She’s weeks from giving birth and unable to work, but no matter to Nas — he’s filed his response to the divorce, asking the judge to deny her the spousal support she’s seeking. For bad measure, he also wants her to pay her own lawyer’s fees.

Source: TMZ

Nas is trying to avoid that child support, maybe Kelis is asking for too much. Damn all that when is that sextape coming of Kelis getting banged by some no name rapper supposedly before she Married Nas. I remember 50 Cent was saying something about Kelis getting her back blown out by some one back in 2007 but never thought anything of it.

Camron return album Crime Pays after a two year hiatus sold 43,000 copies it’s first week, which is 200 more than Jim Jones debut with Pray IV Reign album. I think it’s a safe assessment to say that Dipset was better off without of the division. Do you all think that a Dipset album would be much more successful than the solo efforts of Camron, Jim Jones and Juelz Santana?

Alexander explained that, at best, according to federal sentencing guidelines, anyone who serves more than one year in prison is eligible for a 15 percent “good time” credit, which in Tip’s case could shave almost 55 days off his sentence. The confusion may have stemmed from mixing the credit for home confinement with the prison sentence, which are separate terms, Alexander said. Once T.I. completes the prison term, he will still have to serve out the remainder of his home confinement, she said, which will amount to about two months.

Source: MTV

Hmmm, so somebody messed up. I figured something like that had to had happened, dude is lucky he only got a year. For all of you who were yelling snitch, it’s time to retract those statements.

If rumors are to be believed, Rihanna has officially moved on from Chris Brown. The “Disturbia” singer was reportedly spotted making out with rising star Drake on Monday night.

According to the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six, RiRi showed up with a group of friends at Lucky Strike Lanes & Lounge in New York City. Witnesses claim to have seen her kissing 22-year-old rapper-singer Drake. “She was drinking whiskey and apple juice and making out with him all night,” says a spy. “They were really cute together.” She left with Drake around midnight.

Source:Rap-Up

Ha ha, that is hilarious, that would be so gangsta if that turns out to be true, I wonder if that’s why Drizzy decided to spit over the Take You Down beat? Maybe I’m just reaching with that one.

The young up and comer from NYC Kasual links with Soulja Boy for this club banger!

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Download:Kasual ft. Soulja Boy – Dance, Dance

Swizz tells us that, yes, he’s in love with Keys and, yes, she did give him a birthday party at that museum. “But we’re nowhere near ready for a baby or a ring,” laughs Swizz, aka Kasseem Dean. “This whole song is not about Alicia. The part about her cooking breakfast for me naked — she never done that for me.” Damn. Swizz didn’t want to talk about Keys till now because, he says, “What we have is so precious.” He also felt it would aggravate Mashonda, who’s also a singer.

Full Story: NY Daily News

Damn Swizz finally lets the cat out the bag, I’ve known about this for a while but now that he actually verifies it, now it’s like wow Alecia is a home wrecker. She can wreck my home any day, lol. You can hear Swizz Beatz talk about Alicia Keys on his, Best I Ever Had, remix Chozen posted a few days ago.

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Download:Rick Ross – Crack A Bottle Freestyle (G-Unit Diss)

Keri Hilson’s, “In A Perfect World,” debuts with a acceptable 94k units sold which isn’t bad for new artist in this type of economic climate, while Jim Jones first week sales for, “Pray IV Reign,” was a less than spectacular 43k. Pop Champagne was a big record but Jim Jones failed to follow up with a noteworthy second single. Should be quite interesting to see how these albums will perform in the coming weeks.

With these type of numbers from two artist that had hit singles, how will upcoming projects from Jadakiss and Rick Ross perform on the charts, being that they both didn’t have any big singles.

It was all about the fun times in ATL as OJ Da Juiceman shot the video for the second single off his mixtape “The Otha Side Of The Trap”. His label mate and friend Gucci Mane, who was recently released from a 6 month stint at a GA correctional center, was on set for the shoot! When asked about working with Gucci again, Oj says “Man, he’s like family, so its nothing. We just glad he’s back out and gettin’ this money”

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Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear co-founder Damon Dash has been slapped with divorce papers by wife Rachel Roy, the Daily News has learned. The stunning fashion designer piled onto Dash’s already sizable stack of lawsuits when she filed for divorce from her husband of four years this month in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The breakup is the latest legal mess for the has-been hip-hop titan, whose empire – which he once pegged at “about $50 million” in a New York magazine profile – has crumbled under massive debt, bad business deals and one suit after another.

Full Story: NY Daily News

Damn, shit was a good just a week…….She probably got tired of his ego or maybe he just can’t afford her anymore with all his money burning up in law suites. Things have not been going down hill for Dame Dash ever since the Roc-A-Fella break up.

You got this young cat hard, you lookin Megan Good, Let Me Stomp That Yard – Juelz

Download:Juelz Santana – Shake Your Ass For Daddy