Memphis Bleek

Rihanna recently revealed that she turned down a spread in Playboy magazine. "I got a few offers to do Playboy actually. They want to pay you to be naked on the cover," she told Angie Martinez. "If I'm gonna take my clothes off, it has to be in a classy way and my will, not a check...

Eminem and Jay-Z kicked off their Home and Home concert series in Detroit's Comerica Park on Thursday night in front of 42,000 rabid fans. The concert is already going down as one of hip-hop's most epic with a series of guest appearances that included Young Jeezy, Drake, 50 Cent and Dr...

Though Jay-Z doesn't seem to notice, Beanie Sigel continues to send shots his way. Having recently threatened to "smack the sh--t out of" Drake for featuring a Jay verse that he deemed offensive on his album, Beans was at it once again, dissing Jigga at a recent performance with Freeway in Baltimore...

DMX's wife, Tashera Simmons, recently launched her non-profit organization, Women of Strength Group, which aids women and children in their struggle against abuse. In her first venture to raise money for the organization, Simmons will auction off a rare Roc-A-Fella plaque, autographed by Jay-Z...

British songstress, Estelle, has teamed with Atlanta's DJ Trauma to release a new mixtape in June. The project, titled '#Ialmostmadeamixtape,' is an eleven-track collaboration that features original songs as well as several covers. The mixtape's lead single, ',' features Estelle rhyming over the instrumental from Memphis Bleek's 2005 single 'Dear Summer...

Aspiring Brooklyn rapper Gregory "G Baby" Brown was fatally shot after a Fabolous concert in New York on Friday (March 12). Although details are scarce, the shooting took place at Amazura Nightclub in Queens after a show thrown by cell phone company, Metro PCS and local radio station Hot 97...

In 2003, Freeway released his debut album 'Philadelphia Freeway' as he, Beanie Sigel and Memphis Bleek were riding high on the wave of Roc-A-Fella's success. The album was manned by Def Jam's in-house producer Just Blaze, with some extra tweaking from a relatively unknown Kanye West...

Beanie Sigel is still attempting to initiate a war with Jay-Z, but the Philly rapper seems to have fewer and fewer allies in his court. Memphis Bleek recently told MTV News that he fails to understand the thought process behind Sigel's decision to carry on the fight ...

Consider a new chapter written in the current Roc-A-Fella family drama following the debut of Freeway's single 'Love is Battlefield' on Angela Yee's Shade 45 satellite radio show this morning (Dec. 2). Laying down his verses over a Pat Benetar sample, Freeway waxes poetic about his feelings toward Jay-Z, the current lyrical target of his former Roc comrade Beanie Sigel...

While VH1 gears up to celebrate Def Jam's 25th anniversary at the annual Hip Hop Honors show on Oct. 13 some artists are going the opposite route and taking the time to express their discontent with the iconic hip-hop label. For years now, artists have criticized the label for focusing its marketing energies on mainstream artists and leaving the rest, which includes veterans like Redman and Method