B13 Peer Review

Young Buck was sentenced to three years in prison on federal weapon charges. It seems every other day a rapper we know is going to jail lately, and you can add Young Buck  to that list.   Unlike Beanie Sigel , Buck was not up on tax evasion, (from  MSNBC ) he was sentenced to two 18 month sentences for federal weapon charges.   The judge ordered him to serve the two sentences concurrently, so Young Buck will be in prison for three years.   Hopefully Buck can get the sentence reduced.  Check out his "I'm Ready Now" video below.  [Update: News video added detailing Young Buck's sentencing] NASHVILLE, Tenn. -  Nashville rapper Young Buck wants a federal court to toss out his prison sentence. The rapper, whose real name is David Brown, is currently in a Mississippi prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. However, he claims the 18-month prison term handed to him is a "complete...

Omari Hardwick  is who some would call a cunning linguist. At the end of 2011 Hardwick lent his seasoned spoken word talents to his friend  Eric Roberson’s  revealing lament, “Love’s Withdrawal” from his album  Mr. Nice Guy . The song was a raw and vulnerable look into a man’s longing for a woman that transcends the flesh. Confessional couplets like, “ The lines on my palms say I’m too young to be this strung/But if I don’t taste you soon, I’m done! ” touch upon a pain that men only whisper, but it was something Omari felt needed to be shared. “When we created that template of what a man goes through emotionally when he is separated from a woman, the lovers withdrawal, we created it to be of obvious entertainment,” Omari tells TheUrbanDaily.com.  “But we definitely wanted to speak to brothers who were afraid to express what they felt. “ “Love’s Withdrawal” was born during a 5 a.m. conversation at Eric Roberson’s New Jersey basement as the two men...

Having the opportunity to co-star beside a suave British intelligence agent such as James Bond, requires a lot of skill and technique. According to 36-year-old actress Naomie Harris, prepping for her starring role in,  Skyfall , proved to be more strenuous than she originally expected. While promoting the  franchise's 23rd installment of Bond , Harris took time out to speak with the Huffington Post about her new role as 007's sidekick, in addition to her thoughts on Idris Elba possibly becoming the first black James Bond. How would you describe your character, Eve, as the latest Bond Girl? She's very independent, very playful. And what's really exciting for me about the role is that you see her going toe to toe with Bond. She's out in the field as a field agent, sees herself just as capable as him firing sniper rifles, Walther MPKs, and just having a blast at the beginning of the movie. Things go a bit wrong and she begins to question whether or not she...

HIPHOPDX EDITOR'S RATING: 1 2 3 4 5 AVERAGE USER RATING: 4.18 17  people have voted. 5  is the most popular ranking. 9  people gave it a perfect five. Cast your vote » "Napalm" finds X fluctuating between trying to recapture the sound he perfected when he was cavorting with Aftermath, and exploring elder statesmanship. Revisionist history hasn’t been kind to  Xzibit . Lost in jokes about MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” and internet memes is the fact that for about seven years, Mr. X to the Z had a run in Hip Hop that most emcees could only dream of. After putting in work in the mid-90s with  Tha Alkaholiks  and the  Likwit Crew , X released an acclaimed sophomore in  40 Days & 40 Nightz , and a relationship with  Dr. Dre  and the Aftermath machine soon followed. Xzibit may have never reached the heights of an  Eminem  or a  Snoop Dogg , but to lump X into the same category as a Hittman, a B...

By Randall Roberts Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic October 17, 2012 ,  7:00 a.m. Call it a clash of egos, a publicity stunt or merely one more battle in the long-running war between Boston and New York City, but  Aerosmith 's recent dismissal of  KISS  as "a comic book rock band" has prompted a response from KISS singer-guitarist Paul Stanley. Last week, for no apparent reason,  Steven Tyler  and  Joe Perry  of Aerosmith decided to denigrate KISS on Florida radio station the Bone. Responding to a question about the 2003 KISS/Aerosmith tour, Tyler fired this shot: "Kiss is a comic book rock band and they got a couple hits, but they're more of a comic book. You see them in their spackled faces." Ouch. Tyler continued: "We were always a band that had something to prove. We always wanted to blow off whatever band it was, and I remember when we went out with KISS in '76 or something, one of our roadies got into a knife fi...

Posted by Camille Travis on Oct 17, 2012 Consider  Flavor Flav  an all-star in our gallery of  celebrity mugshots . According to  TMZ , the famous hype was arrested in Las Vegas Wednesday morning for allegedly assaulting someone in his house with a deadly weapon. The trouble reportedly began when Flavor Flav, whose real name is William Drayton Jr., got into a heated argument with his fiancée and an unidentified teenager. Related:  4 More Bad Business Decisions For Flava Flav There is no word on if the teenager was Drayton’s child. Law enforcement sources say Drayton allegedly threatened one person with a knife and battered another, which led to his fiancée calling the police. Drayton was arrested around 3 a.m. and booked for felony assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor domestic violence He’s currently being held on $23,000 bail. In May 2011, Drayton was arrested in Vegas for having four outstanding traffic warrants and book...

One of South Africa’s leading hip hop musicians was convicted yesterday of murdering four school children while street racing through Soweto, drunk and on drugs, bringing an end to a trial that has gripped the country for more than two years. The court found Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye and his friend, Themba Tshabalala, guilty on four counts of murder and two of attempted murder after their speeding Mini Coopers ploughed into the children as they walked back from school in the Johannesburg township in March 2010. “The death of the deceased was caused by the accuseds’ reckless driving at high speeds while under the influence of drugs and alcohol,” Judge Brian Nemavhidi said. The pair could face life in prison.