According to SOHH, Rapper/producer Jermaine Dupri is set to receive the prestigous Bill of Rights Award next Monday, December 8th, in California. The award will be presented by The American Civil Liberties Union and will pay homage to Jermaine Dupri and his accomplishments having worked with superstars like Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Usher and more.

He will be sharing the award with Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and the two of them will join the likes of Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Antonio “LA” Reid, Rosa Parks, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Stone, and more people who have received the award in the past.

Congratulations on the award, JD!

NFL football player Plaxico Burress was the butt of all jokes this weekend after shooting himself in the leg at a Manhattan club Saturday night. Well, he turned himself in on Monday, and was released 4 hours later on $100,000 bond. The judge ordered the New York Giant wide receive to return on March 31st 2009. Possible charges include criminal possession of a handgun. If found guilty, he could be suspended from his team.

The man, who was a suspect and “person of interest” in the murders of Jennifer Hudson’s mom, nephew, and brother, was formally charged and subsequently arrested on Monday, according to recent reports. 27-year-old William Balfour was being held in prison for violating his parole right after the October 24th Chicago murders, and now, he has been charged in the shooting deaths of Darnell Donerson, Julian King, and Jason Hudson. He is now being questioned by detectives in the Wentworth area of Chicago, IL.

Since being taken in as a potential suspect in the Hudson family murders, Balfour has maintained a tense relationship with authorities as he refused to take a lie detector test and cooperate with detectives assigned to the case. Balfour’s mother, Michelle Balfour, has stood by her son throughout the investigation while denying that he had anything to do with the deaths. During a hearing in November, Balfour’s girlfriend told authorities that a gun used in the slayings was “identical” to the gun that was recovered. As a result, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board board opted to keep Balfour in custody pending a review board panel hearing on Wednesday (December 3).

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According to TMZ, Chris Brown and Rihanna are looking at a $1 million lawsuit from a Florida photographer who claims that he was beat and robbed for taking a picture of the couple without their permission back in May of this year.

Luis Santana just filed a $1 million lawsuit in Florida — claiming his $3,000 camera was stolen from him after being form-tackled outside Brown’s 19th birthday party at the Vintage Ultra Lounge in St. Petersburg. Luis says bodyguards for RiRi, Brown and the Lounge attacked him for taking a photo of the couple through their open limo window, according to The St. Petersburg Times. The reason Santana’s suing for such a large amount — he says the photo would have made a killing since the two lovebirds weren’t officially dating, and it showed them together.

So he’s basically trying to get paid because he didn’t get paid the first time. Is that legal?

Here is the official Gossiponthis.com music video premiere of Busta Rhymes brand new video for his latest single, “Arab Money,” featuring Ron Browz. Check it out above and let us know what you think in the comments!

On Friday, November 28th 2009, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was working the door during a Valley Stream, NY Wal-Mart’s “Black Friday” sale even and was trampled to death after urging customers broke the door down. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital an hour later.

Some workers who saw what was happening fought their way through the surge to get to Mr. Damour, but he had been fatally injured, the police said. Emergency workers tried to revive Mr. Damour, a temporary worker hired for the holiday season, at the scene, but he was pronounced dead an hour later at Franklin Hospital Medical Center in Valley Stream. Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them, Kimberly Cribbs of Queens, said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared, she recalled.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They kept shopping.”

Wal-Mart security officials and the police cleared the store, swept up the shattered glass and locked the doors until 1 p.m., when it reopened to a steady stream of calmer shoppers who passed through the missing doors and battered door jambs, apparently unaware that anything had happened.

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Well damn, we really hope the discounted George Foreman grill was worth it…

Grand Hustle rapper Alfamega recently sat down with our friends over at All Hip Hop and talked about what happened at the 2008 Dirty Awards. He also apologized to Radio One. He’s the guy who threw the chair water bottle on stage causing all of the ruckus.

“First I wanna apologize to [Radio One Atlanta Operations Manager] Steve Hegwood and all of Radio One, and to all of the fans, for the incident that occurred,” Alfamega told AllHipHop.com. “The fans, they came to see a show, they shouldn’t have been subject to the beef that we had. I not only embarrassed myself, I embarrassed them also.”

Here’s the official GOT music video premiere of Jamie Foxx’s brand new music video, featuring T.I., “Just Like Me.” Love the “Guitar Hero” reference in the video … we love Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock!

Leading Lady Taraji P. Henson talked about the video in a recent interview with AOL Black Voices.

Taraji P. Henson: It was so much fun working with Jamie Foxx and Bret Ratner, whom I had never worked with before. I’m looking forward to doing more work with the both of them. It was a chance for those who have seen my work to see me be really silly. I don’t think my audience understands that I’m a stronger comedic actress or that I’m a comedic actress. You have seen me in more dramatic films, but in my opinion, comedy is my strongest attribute. It was a chance for me to be as silly as I want to be.

AOL BV: What’s the story in the video about?

Taraji P. Henson: The song is called ‘Just Like Me’ and Jamie and I have been rivals since we were kids. The video opens with us as toddlers having a hot dog eating contest, and we go through these vignettes of competition. Silly competitions like a ‘High Five competition’ or ‘The Stare Down competetion’, and it goes through who wins. I win the majority of the time, but since it’s his video, he has to win in the end.