Black Entertainment | Black News | Urban News | Hip Hop News | Black Entertainment
*“It’s not your average cop show, first of all,” says rapper-turned-actor RZA, the Wu-Tang Clan co-founder who is currently shooting his first regular TV role in Fox’s upcoming drama “Gang Related.” “There’s a twist in the sense you have all these different agencies coming together – DEA, FBI, NSA, LAPD – and they form this [...]
*Federal prosecutors say that the offices of Interscope Records were used by a drug-trafficking ring as a transit point for cases filled with cocaine and cash, according to a report in the Smoking Gun published Thursday. The allegation was included in a letter containing evidence against James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, the CEO of Czar Entertainment [...]
*Male-skewing cable network Spike has just ordered four new reality shows – among them, one from the production companies of Jennifer Lopez and “Today’s” Al Roker. “Big Easy Justice,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, takes viewers into the gritty underworld of post-Katrina New Orleans. The series centers on a legendary bounty hunter, Tat-2 and his [...]
*Family members, fans and supporters have pleaded for leniency for Grammy-winning reggae singer Buju Banton, who likely will be sentenced to prison Thursday for conspiring to set up a cocaine deal. According to the AP, dozens of letters to U.S. District Judge James S. Moody are included in the court file for the 37-year-old recording [...]
*Police in Baltimore say Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who starred as a gang enforcer on the HBO series “The Wire,” is among about 30 people arrested in a drug raid carried out early this morning. Authorities say the drug dealer-turned-actress, who played a killer of the same name on the hit television series, is one of [...]
*Al Roker’s production company has been sued by two New Jersey men who claim its Spike TV reality show,” DEA,” illegally entered their apartment twice and then showed the searches and busts on TV. The New York Post is reporting that Tyler Hodson and Eric McGuirl also named Spike TV, the Jersey City Police Department [...]
*In New York City, 45 people, including one of the Founders of the Rock-A-Fella record label, were caught up in a raid by federal authorities on Friday. Kareem Burke, who, along with Jay-Z and Damon Dash, was caught on a wiretap discussing “grow houses” with the ringleader, Geovanny “Manny” Rodriguez Perez, federal prosecutors in Manhattan [...]
*California lobbyists are using the example of Michael Jackson’s death to push for a law restricting the use of Propofol. Referred to as “Michael’s Law,” the legislation was crafted by a group of people who have all lost loved ones to the misuse of Propofol, a powerful anesthetic that has been linked to the King [...]
*Buju Banton, the Jamaican reggae star, was arrested on federal cocaine charges last year. On Monday he is finally going to trial in Tampa, Florida a week before his album’s release in the States. “I’ve been accused, wrongly convicted. Jah knows I’m innocent,” he sings in his gravelly voice, invoking the Rastafarian God. “I’ve been [...]
*Sitting down and talking to music industry veterans is one of our most favorite things. It seems that everyone has a story or two about someone they once associated with. Most of the time those stories are very funny, but they are often sad as well. Recently EURweb.com had the pleasure speaking with longtime industry [...]
 |
|
Recent Comments