B13 Peer Review

Check out the full list of winners for Hip Hop related awards. The 57th annual Grammy Awards has announced all of its Hip Hop related winners - one hour before the live show begins. Kendrick Lamar's "I"  has been awarded two Grammy awards already, one for "Best Rap Performance" and another for "Best Rap Song." Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP2  beat Iggy Azalea, Common, Schoolboy Q, Wiz Khalifa and Childish Gambino in the "Best Rap Album" category. He has now won the "Best Rap Album" Grammy award a total of five times ( 2000, 2001, 2003, 2010, 2015). Eminem also won the "Best Rap/Sung Collaboration" category for "The Monster" featuring Rihanna. Beyoncé and Jay Z have been announced as the winners of the "Best R&B Song" category for "Drunk In Love" and Pharrell's Girl has earned the award for "Best Urban Contemporary Album." ...

UPDATE: Suge Knight has returned to jail. Following Suge Knight’s court appearance Tuesday (February 3), the former Death Row Records owner was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after suffering chest pains while in the lockup area near the courtroom. However, according to new reports by TMZ , Knight experienced more than mere chest pains, instead having suffered from an intense physical reaction to a potentially fatal blood clot. “Suge began experiencing chest pains after he was taken from the holding area at the courthouse to the hospital,” the TMZ article states. “Suge family sources tell us, doctors determined he's suffering from yet another blood clot -- like the one that almost killed him in a Vegas jail 3 months ago. “We're told the clots began forming after Suge was shot 6 times last summer at 1OAK during VMA weekend,” the report adds. The publication continues, stating that Suge Knight has now been moved to Long Beach Memorial Medical Cen...

Raekwon, Ghostface and more special guests will be in attendance.

Up until that anticlimactic mess up of the touchdown pass to lose the game for Seattle,  the game had been one of the most entertaining of all time– accented beautifully by  Katy Perry ‘s performance complete with uncoordinated sharks, crystalline lions, shooting stars… and  Missy Elliot . The performance has proved to be huge for Missy who has since had three singles appear in the trending “top 10″ on itunes. Apparently Missy has been grinding for a minute as rumors have leaked of a Jack Ü remix of Take Ü There   featuring Elliot with some new verses that has existed for weeks if not months .I don’t know if Missy made a management change or what, but her team/agent is obviously putting in some good work for the classic, classy female rapper. On Twitter: Missy Elliott          ✔ @ MissyElliott Follow I think it's cool new kids think I'm a new artist that goes to...

UPDATE: (Duluth PD) Max Lomas, the man with Nick Gordon when they found an unconscious Bobbi Kristina Brown in her bathtub on Saturday, is an alleged drug dealer accused of drugging his girlfriend to hold her against her will. The latest shocking report concerning the Brown saga comes from TMZ, which reveals that Lomas was arrested on January 14 after Danyela Bradley’s family told police they believed Lomas was essentially holding her hostage. When cops investigated, Bradley claimed she was fine and not being held prisoner. But law enforcement officials did discover a gun and more than five ounces of pot, arresting Lomas for possession of a firearm during commission of a felony, and felony drug possession with intent to distribute. Cops also found Xanax, marijuana grinders, a digital scale and 1,000 Ziploc baggies. Brown’s family now claims cops found drugs at her residence during a second sweep of the property, after they had turned up no drugs during a quick, initial search. It ...

PHOENIX – In the early morning hours before NFL Hall of Famer Warren Sapp's arrest on assault and solicitation of prostitution charges, hotel guests at the Phoenix downtown Renaissance awoke to what they believed to be an argument and physical altercation in a hotel hallway, Yahoo Sports has learned. ... Warren Sapp is introduced before the inaugural Pro Football Hall of Fame Fan Fest Friday, May 2, 2014. (AP) The Phoenix police department and an employee at the Renaissance declined comment Monday, but a source with details of Sapp's arrest told Yahoo Sports that sometime around 2:30 a.m. MT, guests reported hearing an argument followed by objects banging in either the hallway or another room. When guests opened doors to see the disturbance, at least one reported seeing two women – one lying on the floor with apparent marks associated with a physical altercation, and a second woman who was with her, the source said. The women were shouting and alleged that Sapp had...

After five-year legal battle against his former manager, the Family Stone rocker recoups more than ten years of lost royalties. Sly Stone  was awarded $5 million after a Los Angeles Supreme Court jury found that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was cheated out of over a decade's worth of royalties by his former manager and an entertainment lawyer. In the breach-of-contract lawsuit, Stone's lawyers argued that Gerald "Jerry" Goldstein and Glenn Stone had tricked Sly Stone into becoming an employee and co-owner of a company called Even St. Productions, which they then used to pocket Stone's royalties through "shady accounting." Sidebar Sly and the Family Stone Jam on 'Higher' »        "It's a good day for Sly, it's a good day for entertainers in general," Nicholas Hornberger, one of Stone's lawyers, told the press following the verdict. "This was an important verdict for people that are artists, entertai...