Mister Cee, legendary hip-hop DJ, dies at 57. Why the hip-hop community is in deep mourning© Provided by NBC News

From the early days of Notorious B.I.G. to the rise of 50 Cent, legendary hip-hop DJ Mister Cee was a pivotal figure in the New York City rap scene and the careers of some of its greatest performers.

🚨WANTED for a HOMICIDE: On 12/5/21, at 10:16 PM, near E 172 St & Townsend Ave in the Bronx, a black BMW sedan pulled up alongside a parked vehicle. Three suspects then fired several shots at the car, killing one person & injuring another. Any info? DM @NYPDTips or☎️800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/ZfIUNlMw2m

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“During a rehearsal last evening for ‘America’s Got Talent: Extreme,’ an accident occurred in which escape artist Jonathan Goodwin was injured while performing his act,” a spokesperson for the show said in a statement. “He was responsive an...

Chucky Thompson, the hip hop and R&B record producer best known for his work as a part of Bad Boy Records' "Hitmen" production team, has died. He was 53.

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"It is with a very heavy heart that I can confirm the passing of Chucky Thompson," his publicist, Tamar Jada, said in a statement provided to PEOPLE on Monday.

"To anyone in his orbit, you know how generous he was with his energy, creativity and love," the statement read. "Both the music i...

DaBaby's clothing line with boohooMan has been cancelled after the rapper's homophobic comments at Rolling Loud.

An unarmed man was shot by a Virginia sheriff's deputy about an hour after the same deputy gave the man a ride home, Virginia State Police confirmed to CNN.

© Courtesy The Cochran Firm Isaiah Brown.

An attorney for Isiah Brown, 32, said his client was shot while on the phone with 911 after the deputy -- who had returned to respond to a "domestic incident," per state police -- mistook a phone for a gun.

Brown was taken to a local hospital after the shooting early Wednesday with serious but non-l...

As Darian Simon was walking his dog with his girlfriend last June, he heard a critical voice yelling at them to not let the dog go to the bathroom in the alley of a Denver apartment building. The man in the ground-level apartment asked the couple if they were going to train the dog or just command the pet to “go poop,” according to a probable cause statement. Simon ignored the man until he saw him point what Simon believed to be a pellet gun at him and his girlfriend, Isabella Thallas.

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Rapper-turned-presidential candidate Kanye West has a financial empire worth at least several hundred million dollars spread around a slew of companies, according to a new federal filing Monday.

The hip-hop star and fashion mogul — who announced his bid for the presidency in July — reported stakes worth more than $50 million apiece in three of his Yeezy companies, said Business Insider, which obtained a copy of the filing wit...

He killed teen, then posted a video singing about it, and now he’s going to prison for decades

A Franklin Township man who shot and killed an 18-year-old woman and then casually ordered a pizza and recorded a video of himself singing about his crime and posted it on social media was sentenced Thursday to 27 years in state prison.

Tamar Reaves, 20, pleaded guilty on April 2 to aggr...

   

Sayfullo Saipov left home in 2010, just after he celebrated his 22nd birthday and won the lottery to come to America. He never looked back, never again saw his hometown of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and never stopped moving.

Early Thursday morning, two men stumbled into a deli in the Bronx, New York for a late night sandwich. After some form of an altercation, the two men got angry and decided to start throwing whole avocados at the deli clerk.

One of two men caught on video can be seen throwing avocados and bananas at a Bronx deli clerk, ultimately breaking the man’s jaw. They have been arrested and charged with assault.

One of the angry men, identified as Brad Gomez, 28, will face assault charges afte...

The freestyle is one of hip-hop’s oldest and purest challenges, vital for an MC to earn their stripes in the game. The ability to effortlessly deliver rhymes straight off the top is a skill equated with one’s talent, largely implying a degree of merit when someone can really drop that heat on the spot. On the flipside, when a rapper falls short upon delivery, it’s grounds for an unapologetic roast session (a la Eminem in ...

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Cam’ron and Jay Z‘s history of beef is well-documented, but that doesn’t mean Killa Cam wasn’t a fan of Hov’s, first and foremost. In a new clip for ThisIs50, the Harlem rapper spits one of his favorite all-time verses, which happens to be from Jay Z’s “In My Lifetime.” You can watch the clip above.

The Dipset artist states to the camera, “One of my favorite verses—besides all of my rhymes—is probably one of Jay Z’s verses before Jay Z had an album out. I thin...

As he's feeling recovered from back-to-back beatdowns, Stitches feels grateful to The Game for granting him increased exposure. 

Stitches may have gotten knocked out in front of the police and jumped by his own crew in a two-day span, but as his conflict with The Game has started to simmer down, he's now saying that he ought to be thanking the Compton rapper for everything that went down. 

Yesterday, Stitches admitted to XXL that he was ready to end his beef with The Game. He explained that his...

All this for some likes? WTF!?

Turn the page to see the kid tweet and brag about getting shot in the head…

This is Amazing! Props! Jadakiss and Styles P know the importance of healthy eating and healthy living. It may have taken them some years to make it their own lifestyle but now they are making sure to be advocates for the juicing lifestyle.

Juices For Life is a juice bar providing fresh fruits, greens and more to fuel the body and give it the nutrients it needs. The NYC hip-hop stars know what kind of impact they have and this is their way of giving their community a healthi...

Well, this is depressing. Former Houston Rockets, Orlando Magic and New York Knicks guard Steve Francis got dragged to the floor, stepped on and choked by his own chain, which was later stolen, during an altercation at a hip-hop show in Houston over the weekend.

Naturally, TMZ has the video, which — again — is something of a bummer, and also contains some NSFW language:

Francis, 38, was one of many people on stage during a concert by Houston rap duo the Sauce Twinz. For one reason...

Seems like Jay Z likes his new job.

The 45-year-old rapper could not stop smiling as he sat ringside 2015 Throne Boxing Fight Night in New York on Friday.

Just hours after signing super middleweight champ Andre Ward to his growing Roc Nation sports empire, the 99 Problems star was celebrating with his new recruit at his first ever boxing show as a promoter.

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Game faces: Just hours after signing super middleweight champ Andre Ward (left) to his growing Roc Nation sports empi...

DJ Disco Wiz, hip-hop’s first Latino DJ, left a permanent mark on the music and culture after teaming up with Grandmaster Caz in 1974.

DJ Disco Wiz and Solie, 42nd Street, 1984. Photo courtesy of Disco Wiz and powerHouse Books.

DJ Disco Wiz, hip-hop’s first Latino DJ, left a permanent mark on the music and culture after teaming up with Grandmaster Caz in 1974. As a South Bronx native, his stomping ground was 183rd Street Park—where he and his crew had to defend their sound system ...

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Did Nicki Minaj go too far with her lapdance on Drake in the new “Anaconda” music video? After watching the scene again, you have to wonder if a little bit of alcohol really pushed things to the edge for her. Cosmopolitan is on it:

Nicki Minaj premiered her “Anaconda” video to much fanfare Wednesday. Because she cares about her fans, she shared a few behind-the-scenes tidbits on Twitter, including some more information about the lap dance that left...

Rumor has it that LHHATL Nikko Smith is still married to a woman from Canada while dating co-star, Mimi Faust.

Via Rolling Out Magazine:

According to Wetpaint, Faust recently called in for a radio interview on Atlanta’s V-103 radio station and denied rumors that she’s pregnant with Nikko’s child or that she’s engaged to him. However, when the radio host asked Faust about the rumors that he’s al...

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The LOX's Jadakiss and Styles P are going down the same route as close pals Dame Dash and Cam'ron by teaming up to launch their own joint juice bar in New York. #Juiced

According to reports, Jada and Styles opened their Yonkers juice spot this week.

The rappers Jadakiss and Styles P are cutting the ribbon on their new juice bar in Yonkers on Tuesday. Jadakiss, also known at Jaso...

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We all know not to text and drive. Maybe should have stressed the no selfie-ing while driving thing a little more. A lesson two women in Iran learned the hard way when they crashed their car while filming a video of themselves karaoking.

There really is only one way this video could have ended: The driver is looking away from the road, into the camera the entire time, and takes both her hands off the wheel to make a hand heart (because is selfie withou...

Ronald (Ra Diggs) Herron made threat on camera from hospital where pal was recovering from drug-related shooting by rival Victor Zapata, who was slain execution-style the next year, court papers say

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 Rapper  (Ra Diggs) in a 2011 YouTube video.

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS revealed they have a video of a Brooklyn rapper vowing to murder a drug dealer in retaliation for a shooting over turf - a threat he made good on, the Daily News has l...

By J. DAVID GOODMAN

The flood of heroin coming into and going out of New York City has surg...

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Exceptional dryness brings the hazy days of winter

A high-pressure zone that has been warding off rain for months has worsened air pollution across California and the Southwest.

A band of sooty brown haze cloaks downtown Los...

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NORTH PLAINFIELD — The man killed on Route 22 driving a car stolen out of Newark has been identified, and was transporting a safe stolen during an earlier burglary, North Plainfield Police said.

A fatal car crash took place on Dec. 27 on Route 22 at Watchung Avenue.Google Maps