Perez Hilton — Stars, including our very own IM5, turned out last night to help give back to the youth of South Central El Lay!! The event was the 6th Annual Stars & Strikes Celebrity Bowling and Poker Tournament to benefit non-profit org, A Place Called Home (APCH... more info

Perez Hilton — The boys from South Central L.A. might be returning for one more Friday. According to reports, Tom "Tiny" Lister has said that Chris Tucker and Ice Cube have been in talks to bring back the cast of the 1995 classic. Lister, or Deebo, the scariest per... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — War Music Powered by Crooks & Castles comes November 8th.   more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Emma Warren bounces along to OutKastAquemini was the album that turned me into a raving OutKast fan, a position consolidated by subsequent albums Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. I consi... more info

Guardian Music — New project launches in US, inspired by Venezuela and based on the principle that classical music can be a force for goodWhat do the sardine-packed, poverty-riven barrios of Caracas and the classical music elites of Los Angeles, Cambridge, Massachuse... more info

XLR8R — This is our first time hearing LA production duo The Two.Fifteens, but for a couple of anonymous newcomers with a small number of self-released tunes, they seem to have their identity figured out. We were sent "Extra Cheese Slapp" with the dubious de... more info

TMZ — Filed under: Shaquille O'Neal, Shaunie O'Neal, Celebrity Justice Shaquille O'Neal is embroiled in a criminal case in which 7 gang members allegedly kidnapped, beat up and robbed a man who claimed to have a tape showi... more info

Guardian Music — Florida wants to ban sagging and Obama hates it too, but can anything stop blokes wearing their jeans below their pants we ask. Plus, some habitual 'saggers' tell us why they wear their trousers slow-slungFlorida's attempt to ban young men from "sag... more info

DrownedInSound — The entire project smacks of the type of non-specific, tacky fare that directors of noisy American blockbusters consider futuristic and edgy. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Topix — 'Rapped about the stuff I knew' Updated: Tuesday, 19 Apr 2011, 2:20 PM EDT Published : Tuesday, 19 Apr 2011, 2:20 PM EDT MIKE HOUSEHOLDER,Associated Press "Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption - from South Central to Hollywood" , by Ice-T: A... more info