Check out Monica’s new video, “Anything,” featuring Rick Ross. The single will be featured on the R&B diva’s upcoming album, New Life, available everywhere Nov. 29.

Beyonce’s Bey-By Bump wasn’t the only thing poppin’ behind-the-scenes of the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards over the weekend. Bay Area hip-hopster Kreayshawn — the self-professed “White Girl Mobster” of “Gucci Gucci” fame — may be new to rap, but she’s already getting a tough lesson in one of the oldest parts of the game: Beef.

Wethinks Kreayshawn bit off more than she could chew when she decided to diss correctional officer-turned-emcee Rick Ross in a flurry of Ustream videos and radio freestyles. All Hell broke loose when the musicians ran into each other backstage at Sunday night’s VMAs, prompting Rick to confront her for talking reckless about him. Luckily for Kreayshawn, her security team wouldn’t let Ole Ricky Rosay anywhere near her. (Phew!)

We wonder if Ricky knows anything about those nude pics of Kreayshawn that are floating around the Interwebs?

Newlywed R&B songbird Monica looks for love on “Anywhere (To Find You),” the Missy Elliott-produced first single from her upcoming seventh studio album, New Life.

With a little help from hip-hopster Rick Ross and Lil’ Kim (Who just so happens to be the nemesis of her BFF, Keyshia Cole. But that’s a different story for a different day…) Ms. Arnold returns to the R&B world with a track that samples the late Notorious B.I.G.’s famed “Who Shot Ya?” and borrows the line “Like sweet morning dew/ I take one look at you/ And it was plain to see/ You were my destiny…” from Mary J. Blige’s 1995 hit, “You’re All I Need to Get By.”

New Life is tentatively scheduled for release on Oct. 4.

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Clean….

Dirty…

Instrumental…

Man down! Miami rapper Rick Ross was briefly detained in police custody following an arrest for marijuana possession in Louisiana on Friday.

So much for being “The Teflon Don!”

The former Florida State correctional officer — whose real name is William Roberts II — was issued a misdemeanor summons and released after cops responded to a complaint about the smell of marijuana waifing from Ricky’s room at the Hilton Hotel.

Upon checking, police confiscated 1 gram of what investigators believed to be marijuana.

Developing…

After much anticipation, Comeback Kid Kanye West bids farewell to 2010 with the premiere of the visually-impressive video promo for his hit single, “Monster,” a collaboration with Rick Ross, Jay-Z, and Nicki Minaj that appeared on Yeezy’s popular fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, available now.

Check out the Jake Nava-directed vid and sound off with your thoughts in the Comments Section below!

Attention Chubby Chasers: Rick Ross and his ample bosom are reportedly the stars of a recently-surfaced sex tape — a snippet of which is already available online.

You know…If you’re into that kind of thing.

In the grainy 3-minute clip, which first surfaced on ThisIs50.com, a portly gentleman that looks disturbingly like Officer Rick hops into bed with a woman for a little pre-game rubdown.

Brain Bleach!

The Gotti Family has a bone to pick with “Super High” rapper Rick Ross.

Ross is no stranger to snatching the identities of famous criminals for lyrical purposes. After all, the former Miami corrections officer recently warded off a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from Los Angeles cocaine kingpin Freeway Ricky Ross, who accused hip-hop’s self-professed “Bawse” of turning his street moniker into a top-selling brand. Now the “Hustlin’” hitmaker’s “Teflon Don” tag has attracted the anger of one of the Mafia’s most legendary families: The Gottis.

Ross used “Teflon Don” as the name of his recently-released album, but the grandson of former Gambino Family boss John Gotti is determined to stop the imposter from cashing in on Johnny Boy’s nickname.

Gotti — who died of lung cancer in a Michigan prison in 2005 — was dubbed the “Teflon Don” by New York’s tabloid media after winning acquittal after acquittal in the 1980s before he was finally convicted of murder and racketeering in 1992. (Gotti’s penchant for tailored Italian suit also got him dubbed “Dapper Don,” FYI.)
Although the nickname wasn’t one John came up with himself, Rick should have gotten the okay from the late mobster’s family before using it, Carmine Agnello, 24, told The New York Daily News Tuesday.

Carmine — as you may recall — appeared on the A&E reality series Growing Up Gotti with his mother and two brothers in the mid-2000s. These days, Carmine’s working to get his own rap career off the ground, and he doesn’t appreciate hanger-ons like Rick, 34, lining his pockets courtesy of his grandfather’s criminal legacy.

(Hello! That’s his job)

“He should have asked for permission. A standup, respectable guy would come and ask ‘If I could use the nickname,’” Carmine fumes. “I think he’s a great artist, but you can’t just start calling yourself that to sell records …He wants to go for that whole image, but hey, be yourself…Only in America can you go from being a corrections officer to calling yourself Teflon Don.”

For those who don’t know, John Gotti was a reputed racist, who was known to spew the N-word and went out of his way to keep people of color from purchasing property in his upscale community in the Howard Beach section of Queens, NY. With a history like that, I’m not sure why any African-American man (or anyone with morals) would want to name himself “Gotti,” “Teflon,” “Dapper,” or anything else having to do with this convicted murderer. Just my two cents….

“Freeway” Ricky Ross, former Los Angeles crack kingpin, talks to StreetGangs.com about his lawsuit against rapper Rick Ross for swapping his identity.

Let this be a lesson to all of the rap stars who adopt monikers from over-the-hill street stars.

Miami’s own Rick Ross — who we affectionately like to call “Officer Ricky — is on the hot seat and headed for a courtroom after being slapped with a lawsuit from ’80s cocaine lord “Freeway” Rick Ross, the L.A. drug dealer from whom he’d appropriated his name. William Leonard Roberts II, better known by his stage name Rick Ross, is being sued by the real Ross who accuses the “Hustlin’” hitmaker of swagger-jackin’ his name.

Ross, who was released from prison in 2009, claims Roberts has profited off his name and reputation, and now he wants some money for it.

Check out the full scoop @ AllHipHop.com….