Up and coming Atlanta based rapper Dolla was shot and killed yesterday outside the popular Beverly Hills Mall.  Dolla, born Roderick Anthony Burton II, was shot down while waiting in the valet area with fellow artists D.J. Shabbazz and Scrapp DeLeon. Reports say that Dolla was involved in an altercation inside the mall prior [...]

Kate McAlpine might have the next Chocolate Rain type sensation on YouTube.  The 23 year old graduate student from Michigan State is creating a buzz online after her rap has surpassed the 600,000 viewed mark.  Going by the screen name Alpinekat she is becoming famous for rapping about particle physics.  To be more specific she [...]

Rapper The Game pleaded no contest to gun charges and will be spending a couple of months behind bars.

In exchange for his no-contest plea on a felony count of possession of a firearm in a school zone, the district attorney’s office dropped two other felony charges—making criminal threats and exhibiting a firearm in the presence [...]

Leave to Smooth magazine to honor Black History Month in their own special way. Their February issue features an in your face picture of rapper Trina. She is promoting her latest studio release entitled Still da Baddest which is a follow up to her first CD Da Baddest Bitch. The CD is [...]