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Mike Lawrie, Getty Images DMX has been arrested in South Carolina for driving without a license. The oft-troubled rapper was booked at the Spartanburg County jail early Wednesday morning, where he was ordered to pay a fine and was then released shortly after...

Lil Wayne is being sued by Alfredo Marino, a Downey, California-based bill poster who says a member of the rapper's entourage smashed him in the back of the head with a skateboard after he snapped an ill-advised photo of him. According to Marino, back on May 3, 2012, he ventured to the Odd Future store on Fairfax Avenue to buy his daughter a t-shirt, when he spied Wayne skateboarding outside... Re

West-coast rapper The Game, formerly a member of G-Unit, has started an online petition at GUnitReunion.com in an effort to bring the powerhouse hip-hop group back together. 50 Cent and Game have been feuding since 2005, when the former kicked the West Coast MC out of Guerilla Unit for what the leader perceived to be disrespect and being unappreciative of helping him launch his career...

LL Cool J appears on "Oprah's Next Chapter" on Sunday (Jan. 27), where the hip-hop star the opens up about abuse he faced as a young child. Though quick to explain that the violation was not sexual, in the segment with Oprah, LL vividly describes the physical torment and torture he faced at the hands of a family friend...

There's only one thing worse than moving, and that's moving when a court has mandated that you vacate your home. Such is the situation Young Buck finds himself in, TMZ reports. The onetime G-Unit rapper has been evicted from the Tennessee mansion he bought in 2004...

Iranian Rapper Shahin Najafi has been forced into hiding after Iranian clerics placed a $100,000 bounty on the performer's head. According to The Independent, Najafi's latest single "Naqi" -- named after Ali an-Naqi, an important imam to Shia muslims -- was released on May 7...

An aspiring rapper from New Mexico was apprehended Sunday (March 18) after shooting two people at a house party earlier that day. Raul Avalos, 24, was taken into custody by Farmington police and charged with 17 felonies including attempted murder...

T-Pain, known for his brand of rapping and singing -- after all, he coined the term "rappa-ternt-sanga," which was also the name of his debut album -- is a musical mastermind, having taught himself the art of production as well as playing a wealth of instruments, piano and guitar included...

B.o.B., the Atlanta-based rapper-guitarist known for his Bruno Mars-assisted song 'Nothin' on You,' has also been known to cross genre lines here and there. According to Singapore-based paper Today -- quote via BET -- the MC might be goin' country...