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At Atlanta's Miller Grove Middle School, two young wannabe rappers met up with each other, left their individual rap crews, and joined forces to become YoungBloodZ.

Rapper DMX has been arrested at a Phoenix mall on a felony charge of taking the identity of another.

Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill did not have details of the charge, as it stemmed from a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office case.

The sheriff's office did not immediately return a request for comment.

Hill says DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was being taken Saturday for booking into the Maricopa County jail.

The musician/actor has had a recent string of run-ins with the law, including an arrest at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport earlier this month on outstanding warrants after he failed to appear in court.

While I was sitting in the theater waiting for Hellboy 2 to start this weekend I was subjected to some "commercials" that promised a behind -the-scenes look at such quality films as Death Race and The ...

The rapper DMC, named Darryl McDaniels, from the legendary rap group Run DMC was scheduled to have surgery done to remove blood clots at a New Jersey hospital on Friday.

A Long Island, N.Y., judge has granted hip-hop artist 50 Cent permission to take his 11-year-old son, Marquise, on vacation.

Linkin Park headlines The Projekt Revolution tour. Mike Shinoda, Chris Cornell and Sam Endicott are all on the line looking back at the 1992 Lollapalooza, a groundbreaking tour for the then-fledgling genre of ...

As the embodiment of '90s gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg blurred the lines between reality and fiction.

Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of the legendary rap group Run-DMC was scheduled to undergo surgery at a New Jersey hospital Friday to remove two major blood clots in his left arm.

Posted in Pitchfork Music Fest 2008 , Music by Brent DiCrescenzo on July 18th, 2008 If the Pitchfork Festival 's Thursday afternoon symposium at the Chicago Cultural Center was intended for us to believe the ...

A Brooklyn rapper who claims his image took a bullet in a documentary about slain hip-hop star Notorious B.I.G. wants $20 million from the filmmaker for using footage of him without permission, according to a ...

Rapper 50 Cent is free to take a vacation with his 11-year-old son after a Long Island judge ordered the rap star to submit a drug test and he passed.

HIP HOP legend and controversial Glastonbury headliner Jay-Z rocked the crowd on his first visit to the Welsh capital last night.

Beck's "Modern Guilt" and the soundtrack to the film of "Mamma Mia" were the only debuts in the top 10 as Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" held onto No.

Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" is No. 1 on the U.S. album chart for a third non-consecutive week, Billboard.com reported Wednesday.

So Fort Lauderdale's hardest working hip-hop crew, Major League , have a brand new video that they just released a couple of days ago.

Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash is convinced the sale of Death Row Records won't bring an end to rap heavyweight Marion `Suge' Knight's empire.

Tompkins - who the star is battling over a home he owns, and she lived in until it was burned down earlier this year - claimed Kimmel had a conflict of interest, because she attempted to hire him to represent ...

B.G. the Prince of Rap sang in stage productions and choirs while growing up in Washington, D.C., but enrolled in the military soon after graduation.

Exuberant, loud-mouthed, and regularly adorned with a bejeweled pimp chalice at hand, Lil Jon was the charismatic figurehead of the Dirth South crunk movement that arose from the Atlanta area around the turn of ...

For a third non-consecutive week, Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" tops The Billboard 200.