03/15/08 - D12's Manager Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Teenage Girls

D12's Manager Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Teenage Girls

The manager for Eminem's rap group D12 has reportedly been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two sixteen year old girls.

According to The Fresno Bee, 35-year-old Jeremy Geffen was arrested Friday (March 14) by Los Angeles authorities and is currently being held on $1.11 million bail.

Geffen is slated to be arraigned on felony charges Monday (March 17).

Police Lieutenant Felicia Hall told The Bee that Geffen has been under investigation since last October after a teen came forward revealing incidents that took place in Hollywood clubs and Geffen's home in 2006 and 2007.

Danny Davis, Geffen's lawyer, asserted to The Bee that his client is innocent.

Jeremy Geffen runs Jeremy Geffen Entertainment which also represents Sean Paul of The Young Bloodz and producer Young L from the Bay Area group The Pack.

03/15/08 - New Evidence surfaces in TUPAC Quad shooting

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Nearly 15 years after Tupac Shakur was pistol-whipped, shot five times and left for dead outside a New York recording studio, new evidence has surfaced implicating two associates of entertainment mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs for orchestrating the rap icon's ambush, AllHipHop.com has learned.



In an upcoming article written by Chuck Phillips on the latest developments, the Los Angeles Times claims that Combs was notified in advance that the trap for Shakur had been laid, according to sources familiar with the incident.



"Tupac was mostly right about what he wrote about [in his songs]," author Chuck Phillips told AllHipHop.com, although he admitted Shakur "had a couple of things wrong" in regard to Bad Boy’s possible role in the shooting.



The article claims that Combs was present in the Quad Recording Studio with at least two dozen Bad Boy Records associates when the assault took place 10 floors below in the lobby.



"Tupac’s shooting at the Quad was really catalyst for everything that happened afterwards including his own death and including the death of Biggie," Phillips said. "It started the whole thing off and if you lay it out in a timeline which I do, you can just see; it’s obvious and kind of sad for two guys to be this talented. I ended up with a much larger story than I imagined."



Sources familiar with the incident state that James "Jimmy" Sabatino and Czar Entertainment CEO Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemond were among those that Combs met on the night in question.

03/15/08 - Jim Jones & Lyfe Jennings Help Raise AIDS Awareness

Jim Jones & Lyfe Jennings Help Raise AIDS Awareness
Dipset Capo Jim Jones and soul singer Lyfe Jennings will join in the fight against AIDS, as they participate as panelist for the Third Annual Hip-Hop and Higher Education Symposium "HIV/AIDS and the Hip-Hop Generation," at Howard University.

This year's conference, which is sponsored by HowardUniversity's Afro-American Studies Department, purpose is to raise awareness about the alarming increase in statistics of young African-American males and women infected with the deadly disease. There will be a screening of two short films courtesy of BET's Rap-It-Up campaign.

"The purpose of this year's symposium is to raise awareness about the staggering rates of HIV/AIDS infection in young African American males and particularly, in African-American women, who are members of the Hip-Hop generation," said the Chair of the symposium, Joshua Kondwani Wright, MA, in a statement. "It will also impart helpful knowledge, for those living with the disease, to lead a healthy life."

President & CEO of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, Dr. Benjamin Chavis and video vixen turned television personality, Melyssa Ford, are the keynote speakers for the event and will deliver the address. Washington Redskin running back, Clinton Portis, HIV/AIDS activist, Maria Davis will also participate in the symposium that will feature discussions on awareness and prevention, HIV/AIDS and the Black Church and HIV/AIDS and Black women.

The Third Annual Hip-Hop and Higher Education Symposium will take place at Howard University's Blackburn Center Ballroom from 12 p.m.-5 p.m. on March 27, 2008.

In related news, Jim Jones recently stood as a award recipient at the 5th Annual Hip Hop Summit Action Awards, last month. Jones, along with Snoop Dogg and Ciara, were amongst those honored for their outstanding contributions in the community.

03/15/08 - Man Involved In B-Ball Brawl With The Game Files Lawsuit Against Rapper

Shannon Rodrick, the man who was involved in the basketball brawl that sent The Game to prison, has reportedly filed a civil lawsuit against the Los Angles bred rapper.

According to TMZ, Rodrick claims in his lawsuit that he exchanged words with The Game during a basketball game at South L.A.'s Rita Walters Educational Learning Complex on February 27th, 2007. Rodrick claims Game would punch him and point a firearm at him making threats.

Game would receive a 60 day jail sentence last month as part of plea deal after pleading no contest to a felony charge of possession of a firearm in a school zone. The rapper would turn himself into the Los Angeles Twin Towers Correctional Facility on March 3rd and would only serve eight days of the sentence and be released.

Rodrick claims that he suffered extreme and severe mental anguish and humiliation from the incident as well as physical injuries. The suit also names the parties that sponsored the basketball game claiming that they neglected to protect Rodrick and provide a violence free environment.

Rodrick’s suit is seeking punitive damages as well as compensation for attorney fess and medical expenses.

03/15/08 - Papoose Lays Out Fat Joe With 'A Fair One'

The controversial rivalry between New York mixtape phenom Papoose and Terror Squad honcho Fat Joe has now gone from physical to lyrical.

As reported earlier, both rappers admitted to exchanging blows in North Carolina last weekend after Fat Joe approached Papoose over his alignment with 50 Cent.

Prior to their scuffle, 50 Cent served as a host on New York radio station Power 105.1 and during his time on-air took shots at Fat Joe while Papoose was in the studio with him.

Fat Joe and Papoose have both told various media outlets since the incident that they had an upper hand in the fight.

The public may never know who truthfully won the bout but Papoose spat his version of the incident on a track titled “A Fair One”which hit the net today (March 14).

“That’s why I punched you in your face you fat motherf#*#er,” Papoose hollers at the beginning of the track. Pap doesn't hold anything back as he hits as low as he can get:

“R.I.P. to Stack Bundles, I'm sad you had to go/Instead of you dying it should have been Fat Joe....I heard Fat J oe try to say he ain't get snuffed/Somebody put something in his mouth my zippers stuck/His fat fingers cover the mic when he rap/So when he onstage you hear a lot of feedback/Man I hit hard as a d--k, believe that/Even Fat Joe was forced to lean back/This ain't Hatton & Floyd, this ain't the Giants vs. thePatroits/Hov & Nas, Beanie Sigel against Jadakiss/More like Obama versus Hillary, nothing/an intelligent black man against a woman/Baby your grandfather you bastard/You Lil Wayne's son, he should claim you in his taxes...”

Papoose then goes on to question Fat Joe's street cred and his loyalty to his friends and New York:

“When Remy [Ma] got cut, you ain't ride out partner/You went to Western Union and sent her 900 dollars/Talking bout your whole squad got a scar in they face/ That means they were facing the person when they got scrapped/Analyze where your scars at cousin/Your scars at the back of your neck, so that mean you was running/The jails don’t respect you, they know you don’t bang/Charlie Rock lost his eye defending your name/You ain’t even hold him down, this n---a's a lame/No bails bond no commissary, this s**t is a shame/You don't look out for [Big] Pun kids, that’s bananas/You a girl, your name should be Fat Joanna/You abandoned New York/why your chain say I-95 South instead of I-95 North/Screaming Yadadamean and Dade County out your mouth/You ain't repping the South Bronx, you rep Dirty South...”

Papoose, who claimed that Fat Joe attacked him with an entourage, claims he defended himself and got the better of the fight with a baseball bat:

“N----z tried to stunt on Pap/ I went in my Cadillac and came back with a baseball bat/They ain’t put that on the internet, I wore them out/Show me the video, I’ll point them out/I hit him with the bat, I hit him with the bat/I hit him with the bat, I hit him with the bat/ I hit him with the bat, that cat ran/They used to call me Papoose but you could call me Batman....Mad cause I got a street buzz/But I ain't the first rapper to snuff you, Cuban Link was/You far from a G , to me you just a joke/Real G's don’t cut faces, they cut throats/You walk around with cops, I walk with wolves/I don’t like no elephants in my room...”