[pic from badboyforever.com] Rapper Jamal ‘Shyne’ Barrow was released today (Oct.6th) after spending nine long years in prison on charges of attempted murder and assault stemming from a 1999 shooting incident at a Manhattan night club. Shyne was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2001 for attempted murder, assault and reckless endangerment for his role in the night club shooting. Barrow changed his name legally changed in prison to Moses Michael Levy in honor of his Jewish heritage (according to gossipandgab.com) and will be…

I found Lauryn Hill. She lives with her five children and mother in Orange County New Jersey. A source at Columbia Records, which still has Hill under contract, says she’s currently “on hiatus” but her baby-daddy, Rohan Marley, who does a lot of the speaking for Lauryn, says she’s always dreaming up songs. “She writes music in the bathroom, on toilet paper, on the wall,” says Marley. “She writes it in the mirror if the mirror smokes up. She writes constantly. This woman does not…

Before you get too excited there are three things you should know about this latest leak from Rakim’s upcoming The Seventh Seal album: 1. It is tagged.2. It isn’t finished, Styles P and Busta Rhymes are set to feature on the finished version. Rakim may also redo his verse, which may be good considering;3. This is far from Ra’s best track on on album.

AJ Jewell, Real Housewives of Atlanta cast, ex-fiance of ‘Housewife’ KANDI BURRESS dies in the late hours after a party. Reports say that AJ Jewell suffered severe head injuries during the fight at Body Tap, a strip club in Atlanta, and was rushed to Piedmont Hospital, where he later died this morning (Oct. 3rd). No arrests have been made. Regarding his death, Kandi states, “I’m just in one of those moods where i don’t wanna talk, i don’t wanna be held & told its gonna…

NEW YORK [AP] — Michael Vick is back with Nike two years after the company severed ties over the quarterback’s involvement in a dogfighting ring. “Mike has a long-standing, great relationship with Nike, and he looks forward to continuing that relationship,” his agent, Joel Segal, said Wednesday. Segal would not reveal terms of the agreement. Nike declined a request for comment. The deal was announced during a panel discussion at the Sports Sponsorship Symposium by Michael Principe, the managing director of BEST, the agency that…

Outrage is pouring over the fatal beating of 16 year-old Chicago high school student, Derrion Albert. Four teens beat him to death while he tried to return home from school. The beating was without motive and absolutely senseless (read more about it HERE). Back in the 50’s and 60’s, African Americans were hung from the neck just for sport, as well. I don’t see the difference between the crimes of the Klu Klux Klan of the past and crime of murder these four teens committed…

But this guy was shocked when it happened to him. The urban Hip Hop community is no stranger to this sort of treatment and after watching these videos, it seems like brutality is becoming a cross-over trend. {I do however want to commend the officers who are working hard to protect and serve our communties..it’s just that too often, some officers get too trigger happy} Watch the videos to see what I mean…Do you think excessive force was used? Then there is this video, describing…