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      *On Thursday, the rapper known as Black Rob was sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of grand larceny for robbing a hotel room in 2004.  He pleaded guilty to criminal possession of stolen property in November 2005, after hotel security cameras caught him leaving a New York hotel with a woman's pocketbook in November 2004.

      *Sean Combs (AKA: Diddy) filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against Proactiv Solution for failing to leave his skin "with no bumps" according to sohh.com. You may have seen the infomercial that Diddy does for Proactiv, which he claimed helped preserve his "sexy." Well, either he was lying or Proactiv stopped working for him. He says he started to experience breakouts and decided to file suit because the product has discredited him in the hip-hop community.  (Hmm, if this story sounds slightly bent, it's because it's is. The source, sohh.com, has admittted that it was their idea of an April Fools prank.)

      *Death Row Records owner Marion "Suge" Knight skipped a court-ordered appearance at a hearing about his assets Saturday. That probably wasn't a good move because it sets the stage for the court to take control of the label. As we've reported, Knight has missed several hearings in a legal battle since he lost a $107 million judgment last year to Lydia Harris, a former associate who claimed she helped start the rap record empire with her former husband, Michael Harris. A judge last month ordered the record company into receivership, which hinged on Knight's appearance at Saturday's hearing.

      *In Los Angeles, a community group is not too pleased with a new billboard promoting hip hop radio station Power 106's morning drive host Big Boy. The DJ has been the subject of an ongoing ad campaign that ties into his very, very sizable weight loss over the past 3 years. The new billboard shows a now incredibly smaller Big Boy wearing a pair of his old pants. As he holds the waist of the pants waaay out to where his belly used to be, he's wearing his patented smirk/grin while the headline says "Still Big Where it Counts!" In a protest Sunday in South Los Angeles, the activists called the billboard offensive. Another, larger protest is scheduled for today.