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According to reports, rapper Tru Life has accepted a plea deal for second-degree murder charges stemming from a 2009 fatal stabbing of a man outside an apartment building in New York City's Murray Hill neighborhood. Under the agreement, Tru, real name Robert Rosado, will carry out a 10-year sentence as punishment...

After pleading guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in December 2010, Ja Rule is finally facing the music. The former Murda Inc. rapper will appear before a judge today to be sentenced to a prison term for a crime stemming back to July 2007...

After spending over a month and a half in an Ohio jail for assaulting a police officer, it looks like troubled rapper Charles Hamilton has finally been released. The former Interscope-signee was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio on Dec. 10, for disturbing the peace...

Mobb Depp rapper Prodigy will be released from prison on Mar. 7, after completing a three-year sentence for weapon possession charges. His fellow group member, Havoc, revealed the news during an appearance on Statik Selektah's Shade 45 radio show on Thursday night (Jan...

Kenny Mack, an Oregon-based hip-hop performer whose real name is Nathan Paul Burke, is suffering through just about the worst possible fate for an up-and-coming rapper that has yet to find a big national audience. He has been sentenced to more than seven years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to being in possession of an illegal firearm...

Last week, T.I. made headlines yet again from behind bars after it was reported that his wife Tameka "Tiny" Cottle gave her hubby a handjob during a prison visit. But according to Tiny, that wasn't the case. Calling into the 'Rickey Smiley Morning Show,' she refuted rumors that she had a hand in the publicized controversy, claiming that the prison guards misjudged what had actually trans

Waka Flocka Flame headed to the big house on Monday after surrendering to police to deal with the charges stemming from a raid of his home in December. But after being held in prison overnight on $31,950 bond in anticipation of his hearing yesterday, the 'Hard in Da Paint' rapper has allegedly waived the hearing and currently remains incarcerated...

Just 24 hours after news broke that rapper Gucci Mane -- who spent a good part of 2009 and 2010 locked up -- may be returning to jail, we've now discovered that the Atlanta-bred emcee was committed into a mental health treatment facility...

Waka Flocka Flame surrendered to Georgia police on Monday (Jan. 3) to face charges after a raid of his home last month. According to TMZ, he was booked by the Henry County Police Department on a slew of charges including possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of firearm by convicted felon, violation of probation for driv

As Ja Rule prepares to serve a two-year prison sentence on a weapons possession charge, the rapper will be pulling doubly duty prepping the release of his new album 'The Renaissance Project.' The Queens native plans to drop the project before beginning his prison bid, and has no plans of letting his incarceration impede his career comeback...