Rapper Remy Ma (Remynisce Smith), who’s most known for being a former artist of Terror Squad and for her appearance on the song “Lean Back,” is reportedly being sought for questioning by police due to a shooting that took place early Saturday in New York near the Pizza Bar at 48 Ninth Ave after a mutual friend’s birthday party. The New York Police Department spokesperson states that at around 3:14 a.m. a 23 year-old black woman named Makeda Barnes-Joseph was shot in her lower torso at the corner of 14th and Washington Streets in Manhattan, NY by another black woman in her 20′s.

Remy Ma was stated to have been with a group of people outside the Pizza Bar when a fight broke out in which Makeda Barnes-Jospeh was accused of stealing $2,000 from her. Just when Makeda Barnes-Joseph stepped foot into her Nissan Maxima, Remy Ma reportedly got out of a Cadillac Escalade and pulled open the driver’s side door of the Maxima and shot Barnes-Joseph twice.
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According to reports, rapper Busta Rhymes (born Trevor Smith) who was accused of attacking two men (beating a fan and a former employee), driving drunk, and driving with a suspended license, has rejected a plea deal and is now facing four separate trials in a New York court on Tuesday (July 10).
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Being Bobby Brown isn’t so easy when your past comes to hunt you and your character is judged.

Reportedly, Bobby Brown is expected to be performing in New Zealand, but authorities are wondering if he should be able to enter the country due to his previous past and problems with the law.

While authorities question whether or not the singer will be allowed into New Zealand, it seems that he has failed to apply for his visa prior to his scheduled performance dates.
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After rapper Foxy Brown (Inga Marchand) failed to testify after getting mugged, police had no choice but to release their key suspect, Roshawn Anthony, 23, without any charges. Anthony still faces charges of robbery, assault and grand larceny according to reports.
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More than a week ago, Manhattan prosecutors couldn’t prove a seized gun belonged to rapper Fabolous, so all the charges filed against him were dropped.

Last October, Fabolous was shot in the leg outside Justin’s in Manhattan, in a parking-lot fracas that occurred after someone snatched a $50,000 chain off NBA point guard Sebastian Telfair. Fabolous along with three other men drove to the hospital to treat his gunshot wound. They all were arrested at the hospital after NYPD searched-and-seized two unregistered handguns from the SUV they were driving.
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Attorney Blair Berk plead no contest for his client Eve, the first lady of Ruff Ryders, for a DUI charge on June 28, 2007. The rapper who did not appear in court was tested in April with a blood alcohol level of .08 after she crashed her Maserati on Hollywood Blvd.

The judge ordered Eve to attach a SCRAM alcohol monitoring device to her ankle for 45 days, as well as pay $1400 in fines and enroll in the first offenders alcohol eduction program and serve 36 months of “informal” probation.
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According to reports, R. Kelly, (Wacko Jacko) Michael Jackson and others are suing Jay-Z’s nightclub 40/40 in New York for breaking music licensing laws. More than a dozen people have already filed a federal lawsuit against 40/40 due to entertaining patrons with unauthorized public performance of musical compositions.
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According to HHNLive, representatives of producer Rockwell Noel issued cease and desist letters to TuffCity Records and Marley Marl on June 1st for the bootlegging, counterfeiting and unauthorized release of two songs, “Taking U Out” and “Beat-U-Down” that were said to have played an integral role in the Queensbridge/South Bronx beef of the 80s.
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What is the world coming to? 50 Cent’s baby momma and ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins keeps demanding more money for their son, Marquise Diamond Jackson who’s 10 years-old. The boy is 10, right? After watching all these specials on E! it makes you wonder why some type of mandatory law isn’t set forth where the parent receiving the child support should put some of the money in some type of fund until the child is a certain age. Why? Because what usually happens is that when they child gets 18 the money is what…. gone.
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Rapper Foxy Brown “Inga Marchand,” 27, reportedly was set-up by her now ex-boyfriend after alledgely dumping him. According to reports, the rapper had attended a party with her boyfriend at the Louis H. Pink Houses at Crescent Street and Stanley Avenue in Brooklyn before dumping him after finding out he was a pimp. Reports state that four people teamed up on the female rapper, three of whom which were her boyfriends alleged women. The rapper was robbed for a Louis Vuitton bag, $500 in cash and credit cards, a hearing aid and necklaces on Saturday at around 5:30 in the morning.
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