Rick Ross’ camp is facing a lawsuit from a woman who claims she was raped by his affiliate. Rick Ross has had to dance around the conversation of rape in the past, when his lyrics on an “U.O.E.N.O.” remix seemingly promoted date rape, and even lost him his deal with Reebok. Unfortunately, it looks like the heavy topic is coming […]

The nanny which The Game blasted all over Instagram sued for defamation, and won easily. According to reports,The Game is going to have to pay a nice penny just because he didn’t show up to court. Nanny Karen Monroe won a defamation lawsuit against the rapper by default, as The Game never responded to her suit. Los […]

Bobby Shmurda’s trial gets a start date. Bobby Shmurda has been appropriately quiet on the new music front since his lock-up. Being a relatively new rapper at the time he was pinched, it’s understandable that he doesn’t have hoards of unreleased music in the stash a la Gucci Mane. News on Shmurda’s case has slowed down, although the other […]

You might remember a year ago Frank Ocean filed documents to legally change his name from Christopher Breaux (his birth name) to Frank Ocean. He got his wish today in an L.A. courtroom by a judge who finally signed off on it. It would have been done a long time ago but Frank had some […]

The stoner holiday – April 20 – is here and more and more states are taking the steps to make marijuana legal. In past years, its…

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With rappers being sued left and right for sample clearance issues and adopted monikers, it’s a change to see one taking someone else to court.…

(By Karen de Sá – kdesa@mercurynews.com)  — Beginning today, carrying a small amount of pot in California is no longer a crime. Also beginning today, law enforcement will also tighten for fast-flying paparazzi, under a bill authored by Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles. Following appeals by actresses Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, Bass’s bill resulted in […]