Big Pun

Comic book culture Web site Comics Alliance put up a great piece on the long-standing relationship between rap and comics. It's no secret that everyone from the Wu-Tang Clan and DOOM to blockbuster artists like Jay-Z and 50 Cent have often name checked and compared their rhyme prowess to having otherworldly powers...

Nineties hip-hop duo, The Beatnuts, are bringing a blast from the past to New York City this fall with their plans to star in an off-Broadway play titled 'Deez Nuts,' that tells the story of their musical career. The show, which is written by Sacha Jenkins, the co-founder of Egotrip and VH1's (White) Rapper Show will be set in Corona, Queens, the hometown of the famous hip-hop twosome...

- Big Pun's wife responded to Fat Joe's allegations, saying "I could have joined with enemies and destroyed him...he said in interviews that I'm extorting him, he doesn't know what extortion is, I coulda been extorted him..." Oh, OK. - Ed Lover had a pretty deep question for Fabolous recently: "Do you feel like you too lyrical for what's goin' on in hip hop today...

After Liza Rios' allegations yesterday that Fat Joe failed to pay her family the royalties from her late husband Big Pun's albums, Joe has responded to the accusations, saying that he never cheated Rios out of her husband's money. "Immediately after Puns death I gave Liza Rios the whole advance of the 'Endangered Species' album, NO ONE but Liza made a dollar off that album...

Deceased rapper Big Pun's widow and three children are living in a New York homeless shelter. Liza Rios and her children have been forced to relocate to the shelter after losing their home to foreclosure. "We're in a city shelter," Rios said in an interview...