Young Money

Incarcerated Young Money leader Lil Wayne was sentenced to three years probation by an Arizona judge today, for possession of drugs. The rapper was arrested in 2008, while passing through Arizona on his tour bus, where police found marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and an unregistered ...

Sunday night's BET Awards seemed fully infiltrated by members of Lil Wayne's Young Money crew. As has been his position since Weezy went to Rikers, Drake took the lead role: performing, winning awards and pushing a brand new collaboration verse on Young Jeezy's trunk-rattling single 'Lose My Mind...

In a recent phone conversation with Young Money president Mack Maine, an incarcerated Lil Wayne inquired as to the projected sales of his artist Drake's forthcoming album 'Thank Me Later.' "What that boy's s--t sounding like?" Wayne asked Mack...

A former child star, Drake played a wheelchair-bound high school kid on seven seasons of Canadian TV drama 'Degrassi: The Next Generation' and voluntarily appeared on an anti-gun PSA. While this may be common knowledge to fans, something people may not know about Drake is that he grew up decidedly upper middle-class and is the game's first black Jewish rap star...

Young Money rapper Drake made a much-publicized trip to visit his mentor Lil Wayne in Rikers Island last week, and announced that the two made plans to record a collaboration album. After the visit, Wayne lent credence to this claim by recording a verse from his cell, over the instrumental for Drake's 'Light Up,' which features Jay-Z...

Drake made a highly publicized trip to Rikers Island to visit his incarcerated mentor and Young Money CEO Lil Wayne recently. During the visit, Drake and Wayne reportedly made plans to release a collaboration album, upon Weezy's release. "I went up to Rikers, and me and Wayne agreed that there will be a Lil Wayne/Drake album," the Canadian rapper/singer told DJ Envy on MTV ...

Drake is headed off to visit his mentor and Young Money labelhead Lil Wayne in prison. Drizzy dropped the news via his Twitter page Tuesday (June 1) informing his followers that if they had any message for Wayne, to let him know. "FINALLY got some time for a visit to go see my brother," he wrote...

Drake leads the nominations for the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards -- Canada's answer to the MTV's VMAs -- with seven nods. The Canadian rapper received a nomination for Best Hip-Hop Video with his single 'Successful,' in addition to two nominations for Best International Video with his singles 'Forever' and 'Over...

Several of Nicki Minaj's peers have been very vocal lately in their opinions about the Young Money artist. Just a few days ago The BoomBox reported that rapper/model Gloria Velez referred to Minaj as a "gimmick" who simply had the "right team behind her...

Over the weekend rap heartthrob Drake made a stop at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival as one of the only rappers gracing the bill. Not surprising, as the Toronto native calls New Orleans his "second home." The Big Easy, after all is home to Drake's Cash Money/Young Money imprint, whose co-founder Mack Maine made an appearance during his set, as well as his currently incarcerate