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RUMOR: Yung Joc Sues Diddy, Outs Him As Gay?!

VIA Bossip:
According to bossip.com, Yung Joc is going after the infamous career-ending Diddy and Bad Boy Records. He might be the only one in the history of Bad Boy to actually take Diddy to court over money and his music.
Yung Joc reports that there has been some shady business deals, missing budgets, and now rumors [...]

SEAN COMBS - RAPPER’S BOOK BLASTS COMBS

An artist formerly signed to SEAN COMBS’ record label has slammed the star in a tell-all book about his time spent with the rapper’s company.
Mark Curry is set to publish Dancing With The Devil, a memoir that details his years at Combs’ Bad Boy Records, which the I’ll Be Missing You hitmaker founded in 1993.
Curry [...]

Jay-Z, Stargate Form Label, Publishing Company

Hip-hop performer and entrepreneur Jay-Z and Norwegian songwriting/production duo Stargate have joined forces under the StarRoc banner, which will encompass a record label and music publishing company under Jay-Z’s Roc Nation venture with Live Nation.
According to the principals, “the focus is to find new talent and develop artists through mutually beneficial global partnerships which include [...]

Smokey Robinson Gets College Fund Honor

 
Legendary Motown singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson is being honored for his contributions to the miracle of education.

Robinson, who helped put the fledgling Motown record label on the map in the early 1960s with his group the Miracles, is receiving the United Negro College Fund’s award of excellence.
“The award honors Smokey not only for his five-decade career [...]

50 Cent Cancels 3 European Performances

50 Cent, who is in a much-hyped battle of album sales with Kanye West, has canceled several performances in Europe.

 
 

MTV News said the 31-year-old rapper canceled performances at the MOBO Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards, both in London on Wednesday, and a performance for MTV in Germany on Friday.
No details were posted on [...]

50 Cent Accuses Kanye’s Label of Chart-Rigging

50 Cent–real name Curtis Jackson–has today (September 17) blamed Kanye West’s record label Def Jam for yesterday’s chart defeat, saying Def Jam had been “rigging” sales.

The two rivals were battling it out for number one in the charts–with West’s Graduation beating 50 Cent’s Curtis.
West’s single “Stronger” has also beaten 50 Cent’s “Ayo Technology” in the [...]

Bishop Thomas Weeks Agrees To Divorce From Juanita Bynum

Attorneys for a minister accused in an assault on his estranged televangelist wife say he will speak out today.
The lawyers say Thomas Weeks the Third had held out hope that he and Juanita Bynum could reconcile even after she filed a petition for divorce on Monday, but now he has decided not to stand in [...]

Third Album Not the Charm For 50 Cent

 
If you want a sense of how stressful it’s been for 50 Cent to release his third album, just look at the CD cover. Whereas his first two albums featured portraits that exuded confidence and authority — a rippling torso coupled with a menacing glare — 50’s new album out Tuesday, “Curtis,” shows a seemingly [...]

Hi Five’s Tony Thompson Found Dead

Friends believe singer died of a drug overdose.

Tony Thompson, a member of the 1990s R&B group Hi Five, was found dead Friday night of an apparent drug overdose, friends told the Waco Tribune-Herald. He was 31.
 
      Thompson’s body was discovered at around 10 p.m. outside of an apartment complex in his native Waco, Texas.
 
       Immediately [...]