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Hot Boys reunited and turned up in NOLA.

B.G. could be getting out of prison this year.

On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Lil Wayne returned home in New Orleans to hold his inaugural Lil Weezyana Fest on Friday night (Aug. 28). Among the surprise guests performing at the special concert included Drake and a reunited Hot Boys.

The Geto Boys, OutKast and No Limit Records may have paved the way for southern hip-hop, but it wasn't until a label out of New Orleans headed by Bryan "Baby" Williams stepped on the scene that the hip-hop civil war finally took a turn. Beginning with the release of back-to-back platinum albums with Juvenile's '400 Degreez' and B...

Bad news rap fans. You're not getting an Outkast reunion any time soon. Kris Kross, however, is getting back together. We know, we know, just what you were asking for, right? The duo is bringing back their "totally krossed out ways" for a So So Def Anniversary concert, where they will most likely perform their hit 1992 "Jump" and...

In the mid to late 1990s, rap was beginning to grow past what fans had always known it to be. The genre had been dominated by either the East or the West Coast for years but things had begun to shift toward the bottom of the map. Hip-hop heads with a personal connection to the South were aware of the new music and movements building...

Earlier today (Aug. 21), mere hours after reuniting with former Hot Boys partner Lil Wayne at Miami's LIV nightclub, Juvenile was arrested at the Fontainebleau Hotel for his alleged role in a brawl, TMZ reports. The rapper -- who's had numerous run-ins with police this year, AllHipHop...

On Oct. 12, 2012, after nearly nine years behind bars, rapper Turk will be released from jail, AllHipHop.com reports. The Hot Boys member was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2005, after a Memphis police officer was shot during a raid of his apartment...

Former Hot Boys rapper B.G. pleaded guilty to felony weapons possession charges and witness tampering on Wednesday morning (Dec. 7). The 31-year-old former New Orleans MC, born Christopher Dorsey, was pulled over for a traffic violation in 2009, when police discovered three handguns, several loaded magazines, extended clips and drugs inside his Chevy Tahoe...

Representatives for New Orleans rapper Turk have addressed rumors that the incarcerated rapper has signed with Lil Wayne's Young Money label. While Turk finishes a 10-year sentence for his involvement in the 2004 shooting of a Memphis S...