Method Man will shoot you, if you ask for his autograph. Too weed will do that to you. A Houston woman who is suing the Wu-Tang star, claiming he shot her with a pellet gun after she asked for autograph after a concert with Redman last November.
He says he was signing autographs out the back window of his tour bus when he suddenly pulled out the weapon unloaded into her chest multiple times.
“These aren’t life or death injuries. She’s alive. She’s not paralyzed. She’s moved on with her life as far as the injuries are concerned, but punitive damages are to punish the person who did the damage, and that’s the reason we’ve done this,” her attorney, Daniel Horowitz, tells ABC.
In an interview with Ms. Drama this week, Liza Rios, the widow of late hip-hop heavyweight Big Pun, revealed that she and her three children have been forced to move into a New York City shelter after being unable to secure her husband’s royalities.
Mrs. Rios also speaks at length about her ongoing feud with Pun’s “Twin,” “Lean Back” star Fat Joe, being shut out of the industry, and Big Pun: The Legacy, a documentary scheduled for release next month.
The long-awaited retrial of Corey Miller, better known as rapper C-Murder, began in a New Orleans courtroom on Monday.
Miller, the brother of rapper Master P, is charged with second-degree murder and faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted of killing 16-year-old Steve Thomas during a brawl in a city nightclub in 2002.
C-Murder was convicted of the murder in 2003, but the judge granted the No Limit star a new trial after finding prosecutors improperly kept the defense from accessing criminal background information on three state witnesses.
A judge has ordered Nas to pay his estranged wife nearly $44,000 in monthly support for the near future, The Associated Press reported on Thursday. The move comes one day after R&B singer Kelis gave birth to the divorcing couple’s baby boy, Knight Jones.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Louis Meisinger issued the order during a Thursday afternoon hearing.
In April, Kelis, whose full name is Kelis Rogers, filed for divorce from the rapper after four years of marriage. The two have spent the past several months arguing over support payments.
Nas was banned from witnessing the birth of his baby boy because he was too drunk, according to a report from TMZ.com.
The hip-hop star had been performing in New York earlier in the night, where he announced to fans in the crowd that he was drunk on champagne, according to the gossip site. Nas later turned up at the bedside of his estranged wife — R&B singer Kelis –but staff turned him away, reportedly because he was under the influence of alcohol. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam Yauch, of pioneering rap group the Beastie Boys, has been diagnosed with what is described as a “very treatable” cancerous tumor in his salivary gland. Read the rest of this entry »
Foxy Brown has been hit with a lien from U.S. tax officials after running up debts topping $641,558.
The femcee is accused of failing to keep up with her taxes between 2003 and 2006, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents have taken their case to a court in New York to try to recoup the cash.
Jay-Z is so frightened that his new album leaking onto the internet he will personally deliver the disc to the boss of Atlantic Records in London next week. Read the rest of this entry »
