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Larry Busacca, WireImage Rick Ross has been sued for $171,000 allegedly failing to pay his longtime talent agency Total Access Talent their commission for tour dates they set up for the troubled rapper.

Lauryn Hill has managed to avoid jail time by signing a last minute deal with Sony. In order to pay the $504,000 in back taxes which she owes, Sony will receive five songs from Hill, and will also provide recording funds for a new album, which the label will release...

Trina's 19-year-old brother Wilbrent Bain Jr., aka Goonkie, was reportedly shot this weekend, and has since apparently died. Trina's management is said to have issued a statement about the shooting via her Myspace page, however no record of this currently exists...

AP Though her sentencing was supposed to take place yesterday (April 22), Lauryn Hill owes the government $504,000 in back taxes, and has two weeks to pay up.

Jay-Z will be gracing the cover of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World, in an article written by New York's Mayor Bloomberg. "Jay-Z embodies so much of what makes New York New York,: Bloomberg writes. "A kid from a tough neighborhood who grows up in public housing, overcomes lots of bad influences on the street, never lets go of his dream, makes it to the top - and then keeps

According to the International Business Times, Jay-Z and Beyonce are "pop music's first billionaire couple." A significant achievement, for sure. For the rest of us, Jiggaman said it best. Afrika Bambaataa's manager, Ahmad Henderson, has finally addressed the hip-hop legend's reported stabbing, which allegedly occurred several weeks ago...

Mark Davis, Getty Images Cam'ron's back with a new collaboration with Lil Wayne on Funkmaster Flex's upcoming mixtape Who You Mad At? Me or Yourself?, which drops today.

Ethan Miller, Getty Images A security guard is suing Universal Music Publishing Group and a variety of other parties for "alleged labor violations, including a hostile work environment," by which she means T.I. and his entourage smoked too much weed in the UMG offices...

Jay-Z is reportedly planning to sell his share of the Brooklyn Nets. Jay, who currently owns 1/15 of 1% of the organization, apparently intends to launch a new venture as a sports agent, heading up Roc Nation Sports, which he cannot do as an owner of an NBA team...

Chris Brown's "blonde homewrecker," who reportedly came between the troubled singer and Rihanna again recently, has been revealed to be none other than 22-year-old Hollywood waitress Keisha Kimball, who "doesn't "go for black guys," anyway...