DMX Arrested In Phoenix

Remember when DMX checked into the hospital using a fake name and social security number to avoid paying the bill? That illegal chicken has come home to roost. Your boy was picked up in a Phoenix shopping mall on identity theft charges this past Saturday because back in April he checked into Scottsdale's Mayo clinic using the name 'Troy Jones' then failed to pay the $7,000 hospital bill.

They Say

Pharrell is expecting a baby with his girlfriend and that he refuses to disclose any details.

Free Agent

Naomi Campbell has cut ties with her modeling agency, IMG in London. Naomi signed with the independent agency with hopes they would get her more TV and film roles and when that didn't happen, she jetted. IMG still reps for her international work, though.

Dr. Dre's Daughter Got Something To Say

Dre's daughter Menaj is pissed off because Dre won't help her make it in the music business so she made a You Tube about it.

Lil Srappy Stabbed And Arrested

Atl rapper Lil Srcappy [don't say "who!?" Just Google him!] got into a little scrap over the weekend. Looks like Scrap's little sister was getting her butt kicked by her boyfriend when she called Scrappy for back up. The boyfriend ended up stabbing Scrappy and when the police showed up, they found a .38 caliber hand gun, 2 lbs of weed and $80k in Scrap's car. Why they were searching his car, when he was the "victim" I don't know. But anyway, your boy spent a few hours in jail until he came up with the $1,500 he needed to bond out. Lil Scrappy is facing felony charges of firearm/knife possession, marijuana possession, and misdemeanor battery and obstruction of justice charges.

Kirky Speaks

Remember when West Coast rapper Game was fighting his cousin Kirkwood over payment of Kirky's sister's funeral expenses at the funeral? Well, here's cousin Kirk's side of the story.

DMC In The Hospital

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.

McDaniels, 44, had been suffering from pain and swelling in his arm when doctors discovered the clots, his publicist Tracey Miller told The Associated Press.

Miller did not know when McDaniels would be released, and said he had canceled a planned performance over the weekend.

50 Passes Drug Test Gets To See Son

50 Cent's estranged baby mama Shaniqua thought she was being slick when she sprung a surprise drug test on 50 after he showed up in court to ask for permission to take his son Marquis on vacation with him from Aug 3 thru Aug 12, after Shaniqua refused to hand the kid over claiming those dates coincided with Marquis' summer basketball camp. Well, your boy took the test without hesitation and passed. But get this, Shaniqua FAILED her own drug test and blamed the opiates found in her system on a codeine-laced cough medicine she dranks takes.

They Say

the launch party for Kimora Lee's new Fabulosity line, sold exclusively at JC Penny's and your local hot house, was a big ole mess. Angry party goers claim there weren't enough seats for invited guests and when they complained, were offered free bottles of champagne to stay. Most, however, opted to loot the gifting suite and dip.

James Brown Auction Disappoints

The James Brown Estate auction, which was expected to fetch anywhere from $1 to $2 million dollars, hauled in just $857,688 yesterday with 97% of the items offered sold. A judge cleared the way for the auction after it was bitterly contested by James' former trustees and some of his children, who felt the money should go to James' I Feel Good trust as opposed to paying off the accumulated tax debts and expenses the estate has racked up since James' death on Christmas day 2006. Some of the Brown children are particularly upset because they claim they were told to list items they felt should stay off the auction block but said their lists were ultimately ignored. The children felt certain items should have been saved to create a Graceland type museum for the Godfather of Soul.

Foxy Covers XXL

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Jeffrey Wright Got Tasered

Actor Jeffrey Wright [Lackawana Blues, Basquiat, Boycott, Shaft] got arrested down in Shreveport, Lousiana last week after he and some of the crew from his latest film got into a bar fight with some locals. Jeffrey is playing Colin Powell to Josh Brolin's George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's new movie 'W'. Details are sketchy, but they say Jeffrey wasn't involved in the actual fight. After the cops showed up, Jeff and Josh tried to speak up for their friends and Jeffrey got tasered, called the n-word and thrown in jail, and Josh Brolin got the pepper spray treatment. Six others from the crew, including Josh Brolin were also arrested.

And It Don't Stop

Hold on to your seats people. The Jesse wants Barack's Nuts controversy ain't over. They say your boy Jesse also dropped a couple of N-bombs in previously unreleased footage from the hot mic conversation that caught him saying he wanted to cut Obama's nuts off. Rumors run the gambit from claiming Jesse called Obama a "no good half breed nigga" to him claiming, "Obama be trying to tell niggas what to do".

Nate Dogg Posts Bail

Hip Hop hook singer Nate Dogg, who suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed earlier this year, has been going through a thang. First it was the stroke thing, which when word first leaked out, was largely dismissed as rumor but turned out to be horribly true. Then in 2006 he got charged with five misdemeanors -- aggravated trespass of a dwelling, battery, annoying telephone calls, dissuading a witness from reporting a crime and violating a protective order from a previous domestic violence incident -- after breaking into a Huntington Beach home where his ex-girlfriend, her new boyfriend and her mother lived. After Nate got in the house, he punched the boyfriend in the face and left. Three of the five charges were eventually dropped, but Nate's ex and her man filed restraining orders against him.

Anyway Nate got arrested a couple of weeks ago for trying to run his current wife off the road, driving with a suspended license and making terrorists threats. So yesterday after his arraignment, Nate posted $100,000.00 bail and was released with a warning to stay away from his wife. Nate is due back in court August 1.