Controversial rapper DMX (pictured) was hospitalized, after suffering a concussion that resulted from an accident in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) outside of his South Carolina home, according to the Daily Mail.

DMX, whose actual name is Earl Simmons Jr., was riding down a hill in the ATV when he lost control, crashed, and landed on his backside. The rapper-turned-reality TV star reportedly blacked out after the incident and came to at the flashing lights of the ambulance.

ATVs actually ca...

Drake is raking in plenty of cash and has recently used some of it to purchase a plush new bachelor pad in the Los Angeles suburb of Hidden Hills. The 25-year old rapper plopped down $7.7 million for the new digs, but he he got a hell of a deal because according to TooFab.Com the house was listed for $27 millionjust three years ago. The nearly 7,500-square-foot house comes equipped with seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a 24-seat movie theater, game room, gym, spa/massage room and a Gothic-lo...

Cooling his heels: Rapper Coolio's son, Grtis Ivery, 22, will serve between 3.5 and 10 years for an armed robbery he allegedly committed last year 

The eldest son of rapper Coolio, who arrested last November for breaking into a Las Vegas apartment with a gun and forcing the tenant into the washroom while his prostitute friend looted the place, has reached a deal to serve between three and half and 10 years in prison.

Law enforcement sources told TMZ that Grtis Ivey, 22 - who appeared on...

Nicki Minaj has made no secret that she grew up in a very dysfunctional household, but her recent admission that she wanted to kill her father because he abused her mother has left him gutted.

 During an interview last week on ABC's 'Nightline' show, Minaj told Juju Chang that her dad Omar was a dope fiend and alcoholic with a violent temper.

 "We were afraid for my mother's life because whenever he would have a real bad outburst he would threaten to kill her." Nicki said "I wanted to ki...

Quamine Taylor

Taylor was arraigned on trespassing and petit-larceny raps and was being held in lieu of$2,000 bail.

Diddy might want to tighten up the security around his crib in the Hamptons because a squatter was able to break in and have a nice 24-hour stay. And according to the New york post this isn't the first time the same intruder has kicked his feet up at Diddy's mansion while the hip hop mogul wasn't home.

 30-year-old Quamine Taylor broke into Diddy's home on April 1, 201...

From now on Nas will have to make music just for the fun of it because he won’t see a dime of his album sales until his debt is paid to the IRS. The rapper’s delinquent tax filings have caused the government to begin garnishing his wages until his tax debt—to the tune of $6 million—is paid off.

Uncle Sam filed court documents in the state of Georgia to have music publishing organizations BMI and ASCAP send royalties earned on any of Nas’ albums directly to the government rather...

Nicki Minaj‘s “Stupid H*e” will not be getting any play on Black Entertainment Television (BET).  Reportedly, the bootylicious Minaj has some pretty racy scenes in the video, and according to sources, the higher-ups at the station are not fans of such explicitness.

The video’s antics include Minaj in a thong gyrating in a cage, making any non-prude blush.  The video’s lyrics are outright raunchy and the constant repetition of the phrase “stupid h*e” may be considered off-putt...

Serving two years for gun possession, Ja Rule found a new posse behind bars — a couple of cons he calls “Hevey D” and “Koz.” The Queens-raised rap star says disgraced pol Alan Hevesi and corporate greed poster-boy Dennis Kozlowski took him under their wings. From Kozlowski, he got stock tips. From Hevesi, he heard about the perennial impasse in Albany. They watched Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert together.

“Outside, you don’t meet guys like this ...

 Hip-hop hype man and reality star Flavor Flav says that during a brawl at his residence, his daughter, Dayzana Drayton, did not hit him.

Reportedly, two of Flavor Flav’s children had been trading blows early Sunday morning. When Flavor Flav tried to intervene, his daughter allegedly clocked him.  It has not been determined whether the strike was intentional or accidental, but when police arrived at the home and interviewed all who were present, they indeed found evidence of domestic ...

Big Fendi, the owner of Come Up DVD fires all kinds of shots in the trailer for the next volume in the series.

Doggie Diamonds of www.ForbezDVD.com interviews Big Fendi, to get the real story behind his conflicts with Nicki Minaj, Jordan Tower, Gravy, Diddy and more.

Fendi goes in on Nicki Minaj for never compensating him for helping to launch her career. If you search youtube, you will see that before Nicki Minaj changed her image into the Young Money pop star she is today, she was featured...

The beef between Drake and tattoo artist Kevin Campbell appears to be over. Campbell sent out several tweets yesterday indicating that he and Drake had talked things over and put aside their differences.

Dark Man X had a run in with some bad seafood yesterday (January 25) and as a result had to spend four hours in the emergency room at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C., just outside of Charlotte according to TMZ.

DMX reportedly ate some bad shrimp at the Miami home of the mother of one of his kids. After boarding a flight from Miami to Charlotte the rapper became ill, spending the entire flight vomiting in the aircraft's lavatory. Once the plane landed X was rushed to the hospital...

 After 17 years of marriage, Lorena Cartagena (pictured), Terror Squad front man Fat Joe‘s wife, is reportedly breaking up with her husband due to cheating.

The alleged cheating began almost a year ago, after Fat Joe, born Joseph Antonio Cartagena, dropped the hefty pounds that garnered his name. According to a source close to the couple, the weight loss supposedly emboldened the renewed MC to begin having an affair with a 26-year-old woman from Dubai.

We’re told Joe has allegedly been hav...

"Kim is one of the main reasons why me and Kanye are not together," she told Star Magazine. "She's a homewrecker! She was sending pictures, and I was like, 'Kim, just stop. Don't be that person.' I thought at least she'd be woman enough to respond to me. She never responded. It's very important that us women stick together and we don't f*ck each other over like that...

DMX was performing in Long Beach, California last night when a deranged fan hopped onstage and grabbed him by the throat. Security quickly rushed the fan and dragged him away.

Dark Man didn't let the distraction stop him, telling the DJ to turn the music back on.

"We don't stop the music for sh*t!" X said before continuing his performance.