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Cam'ron turns down Dame Dash's Roc-A-Fella offer and Young MC drops his debut album, 'Stone Cold Rhymin'.'

Rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced Wednesday to six to 23 months in prison after pleading guilty to a narcotics possession charge in a Philadelphia suburb. Sigel, whose real name is Dwight Grant, entered the plea to a misdemeanor count of illegal possession of Percocet, a painkiller, The Delaware County Daily Times reported...

Beanie Sigel got into it with his former boss Jay-Z last year, accusing the rapper of neglecting him and turning overwhelmingly greedy over the years. Now, he's going at the other former Roc leader, Damon Dash, by claiming that the hip-hop entrepreneur owes him $11 million in back pay from his glory days...

Kareem "Biggs" Burke, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records along with Damon Dash and Jay-Z, was arrested earlier today in a federal drug sweep. The New York Post is reporting that Burke was one of more than 40 people arrested in a federal investigation called "Green Venom" that centers around Geovanny "Manny" Rodriguez Perez, allegedly a big time drug trafficker... Read

Now that Jay-Z has moved forward with his new label, Roc Nation, Damon Dash has found the opportune moment to resurrect the defunct Roc-A-Fella Records. Dame told MTV News that he plans to relaunch the notorious label this Spring, with the release of Curren$y's album 'Pilot Talk' on June 15...

Damon Dash may be one of the co-founders of Roc-A-Fella Records, but since selling his half of the company to Jay-Z, the former mogul says the label has gone down hill. Big time. According to Dash he's saddened by present day Roc-A-Fella and blames music executive Lyor Cohen for its demise...

Last week Beanie Sigel unleashed the Jay-Z diss track 'Average Cat,' which hit home hard enough to illicit a response from the Brooklyn rapper. Sigel's recent mission to salt old Roc-A-Fella wounds didn't stop there. Sigel has become chummy with part-time Jay-Z hater 50 Cent, but not just for the sake of beef -- there was business at hand...

A bench warrant has been issued for Beanie Sigel after the Philadelphia rapper failed to appear in court for a drug-possession charge on Sept.14. State police pulled Sigel over in Wrightstown, New Jersey, on Aug. 16 while en route to a private performance at the local venue Kelly's Bar, owned by a local councilman...

Memphis Bleek is taking the independent route for his fifth album, 'The Process,' ending a decade-long relationship with Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records. Bleek will release the follow-up to 2005's '534' on his own imprint, Get Low Records, with distribution through Boston-based Mass Appeal Entertainment...