Rapper says he was defending himself in Romney confrontation

Rapper says he was defending himself in Romney confrontation

BOSTON (AP) — A rap star says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him — and not the other way around — during a confrontation aboard a taxiing Air Canada flight.

Sky Blu says in a video on TMZ.com he was trying to go to sleep when he leaned his seat back on a Vancouver-to-Los Angeles flight Monday. He says Romney loudly told him to straighten it and grabbed his shoulder.

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Rapper Lil Wayne sentencing postponed

Rapper Lil Wayne sentencing postponed

NEW YORK (AP) — Rap star Lil Wayne has gotten a temporary reprieve from jail — for dental surgery.

The Grammy Award-winning rapper’s sentencing in a New York City gun case was postponed Tuesday, because he needs to finish a string of recent surgeries before he goes to jail.

Lil Wayne, one of music’s biggest sellers and rap’s hottest stars, is poised to spend as much as a year in jail under a plea

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Atlanta rapper T.I. released from Arkansas prison (AP)

ATLANTA – Atlanta rapper T.I. has been released from a federal prison in Arkansas and is headed to a halfway house in Georgia.

A lawyer for T.I. said the rapper was released Tuesday morning.

T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., last May began serving his sentence of a year and a day for illegal firearms possession and possessing a gun as a convicted felon.

Steve Sadow said his client was expected

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Rapper B.G. Arrested On Gun Charge

Rapper B.G. Arrested On Gun ChargeRapper B.G. is in trouble with the law after he was caught in possession of three guns during a routine traffic stop last week.

The star, a member of Bryan ‘Baby’ Williams’ Hot Boyz group, was arrested in his native New Orleans, Louisiana last Tuesday after cops discovered the weapons in his car, two of which had been reported stolen.

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Rapper Jim Jones pleads guilty to NYC assault

Rapper Jim Jones pleads guilty to NYC assault

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Jim Jones admitted Monday to punching a friend of Ne-Yo’s in the face in a Louis Vuitton store during a scuffle that erupted as the R&B crooner was browsing.

Jones pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in his Dec. 22 dustup with Jayvon Smith in the luxury-goods retailer’s Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan. Jones, 33, was sentenced to time served — the few hours he was in custody after turning

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Rapper Ludacris gives away cars to contest winners

Rapper Ludacris gives away cars to contest winners

MORROW, Ga. (AP) — Talk about a one-man stimulus package: Grammy-winning rapper Ludacris has given away 20 cars to people who wrote about their struggles to keep their jobs for a lack of wheels of their own.

Ludacris said he was taken aback after reading thousands of essays by people struggling or unable to buy cars needed to get to and from work or find jobs. The 31-year-old rapper felt he could step in and move them ahead,

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Rapper gets 75 years for fatal NJ robbery

Rapper gets 75 years for fatal NJ robbery

HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — Rap artist Max B and his stepbrother have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for a deadly robbery at a northern New Jersey hotel.

Max B — whose real name is Charly Wingate — was ordered Thursday to serve 75 years. He was convicted in June of felony murder, armed robbery and other offenses in the September 2006 robbery in Fort Lee.

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2nd witness says he saw rapper C-Murder shoot teen

2nd witness says he saw rapper C-Murder shoot teen

GRETNA, La. (AP) — A second witness Thursday testified that he saw rapper Corey Miller, known as C-Murder, shoot a teen in a suburban New Orleans nightclub in 2002.

Miller is being tried on a second-degree murder charge in the death of 16-year-old Steve Thomas, who was also beaten in the now-closed nightclub. If convicted, Miller, 38, would face life in prison.

Kenneth Jordan, 26, testifying for the

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Rapper T.I. Coming To Arkansas - For Prison Term

Rapper T.I. Coming To Arkansas - For Prison TermLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — T.I. will be coming to Arkansas by May 26 to serve a prison sentence on federal weapons charges.

The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., will be serving his sentence of one year and a day at the Forrest City low-security federal prison. Paperwork filed in his federal court case shows he has until noon on May 26 to report for his sentence.

Prison officials didn’t immediately return a call Friday for comment.

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Eminem Struggled With Depression After Rapper Friend’s Murder

Eminem Struggled With Depression After Rapper Friends MurderEminem was left so distraught following the 2006 murder of his best friend Proof, he slipped into a downward spiral of drug-induced depression and self-loathing. Rapper/producer Proof, real name DeShaun Holton, was shot dead in his native Detroit, Michigan after a heated argument over a game of pool. He was 32.

The “Without Me” hitmaker, real name Marshall Mathers III, has been struggling to deal with the sudden loss of his pal and D-12 bandmate for the past three years - and

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