Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - A US music publisher has accused Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Akon and producer Swizz Beatz of ripping off a 1970s song in a new lawsuit. more info

MTV.com News — Among songs that could come out after singer's death are collaborations with Queen's Freddie Mercury.By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson Photo: Michel Linssen/Redferns With reported worldwide sales of more than 9 million albums, Michael Jackson... more info

AllHipHop — Popular Hip-Hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, producer Swizz Beatz and R&B singer Akon have been hit with a lawsuit by a Texas-based music publisher.   Songster, which is located in Fort Worth, Texas, filed the lawsuit in the Central District of Cali... more info

Starpulse — Akon's lawyers have denied the R&B superstar is running away from his responsibilities - after the mother of one of his children alleged it's impossible to serve the star with child support papers.[...] Read more! more info

Perez Hilton — Akon sure knows how to collaborate and listen with his peers, but when it comes to his babymama, Sara Coleman, he is nowhere to be found. In fact, the woman has been desperately trying to serve Akon with papers requesting child support, but apparentl... more info

TMZ — Akon made a baby with a woman who now wants him to make child support payments -- but she claims the only thing he does better than sing is hide from process servers. We're told Sara Coleman's lawyer, Patrick Baghdaserians, has been desperately ...... more info

Guardian Music — Guy Hands, the controversial City financier behind the crisis-hit company EMI, is preparing to inject £300m to shore up the troubled music label.The last remaining large-scale British music business has been buoyed by the recent releases of Lily A... more info

ET Online — What kind of music was the King of Pop dreaming up before he died? Read on for the dish. The late star was at work on a pop album and classical, instrumental pieces, says Billboard.com. On the pop album, he was collaborating with songwriter Cla... more info

AllHipHop — Veteran rapper/actor Busta Rhymes is going beyond the borders of the United States to give fans a lively dose of hip-hop with his upcoming tour of Canada.   The outing, which kicks off July 16 at the Ottawa Blues Fest in Ottawa, ON, will be in supp... more info

MTV.com News — 'There's just some genius and brilliance in there,' former Sony Music CEO says of recordings.By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images Like Jimi Hendrix, Elvis and Tupac before him, Michael Jackson left a mu... more info