Ashanti sure is looking good these days! It’s hard to believe Nelly let all of that go. She and Ja Rule reunited on stage at the 2009 VH1 Hip Hop Honors Wednesday night (Sep 23), which saw performances from Wale, Kid Rock, Method Man & Redman, Eminem and more. The ceremony honored the pioneers of Def Jam along with the people, past and present, who helped create the label and build it into what it is today. Hosted by comedian Tracy Morgan, the show is set to make its television debut only on VH1 on Tuesday, October 13th at 9 pm.

It’s only right that the first Def Jam artist to be honored was the label’s foundation and face for so many years, LL Cool J. The Roots started it off with “Rock the Bells.” Black Thought ripped the first verse of the record, then gave way for a special guest: Eminem. Last year, Slim Shady publicly expressed his love for LL during a phone prank on DJ Tony Touch’s Shade 45 radio show. Spitting the second verse of “Rock the Bells” on Wednesday night, Em sounded almost exactly like the legend who inspired him. “Now I’m worldwide known/ Whether you like it or not/ My one-man band is Cut Creator…/ When he’s on the fader/ What’s my DJ’s name?” “Cut Creator!” The crowd yelled. Later, Kid Rock paid tribute to LL with “I’m Bad.” The Kid also DJed during the show, as did Ed Lover.

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Rapper DMX walked the Red Carpet of the 2009 VH1 Hip Hop Honors Wednesday night (Sep 23) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. His appearance at this year’s show marked his first public appearance/performance in at least three years. And we all know all of the drama he’s been getting himself into in the meantime.

Also on the red carpet were Wale, Ashanti, Fabolous, Ludacris, Eve, Trey Songz and more. The show, hosted by Tracy Morgan, airs October 13th at 9 pm on VH1. Continue reading for the rest of the pics from the Red Carpet.

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Foxy Brown and Young Jeezy the September 2008 issue of XXL Magazine. Foxy’s new album, Black Roses, is set to drop December 11th and Jeezy’s new album, The Recession, is scheduled to hit stores on August 19th!

#1: Why did Allure hide Jill Scott behind a bush, but left Gabrielle Union out in the field?

#2: Does Jermaine Dupri use a booster seat when he drives?

#3: Why is Madonna’s new album shitting on “Discipline” and it hasn’t even been released yet?

#4: Why is “Don’t talk to me, you know better than that!” [Jay-Z] so damn funny?

#5: Why did Wesley Snipes get 3 years in prison, and those racist ass cops who murdered a black man for no apparent reason didn’t spend one day behind bars? All Wesley did was not pay the government. Those idiots filled an un-armed person with 50 bullets! Am I the only one who feels this way?

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And Jesus wept. Hard. Rapper Foxy Brown was photographed in church today kneeling and praying. I’m all for people turning to the Lord for strength and deliverance, but was summoning the paparazzi appropriate and even necessary? I think not. But meh, to each his own. If she likes it, I love it! I wonder what’s next on her list of things to keep the blogs talking about her.

For flicks of Kelly Rowland, Mariah Carey and more, follow the break!

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When Foxy Brown was released from prison in Rikers Island earlier today (Apr. 18th), some tears were shed and some words were shared. The rapper was met outside of the prison by members of the press and some of her family, including her mother, whom she thanked repeatedly in the video above sent over by Danica from SOHH.

Homegirl might be boo-hooing and thanking God now, but I’m still not convinced that she’s learned her lesson. She’ll be back…

After serving 8 months behind bars at the Rose M. Singer facility in New York’s Rikers Island, female rapper Foxy Brown will be released from jail tomorrow (April 18th), according to her manager Chaz Williams.

“She did every single minute of her bid in jail, and she did it under the most severe conditions,” Williams said. “They had her on continuous lockdown just because she is a celebrity. They were trying to break her spirit.”

Word on the sidewalk is that she’s in talks with a couple of television networks for a reality show on her life. She’s also planning on putting the finishing touches on her 4th studio album, Brooklyn’s Don Diva, which is set to be reelased on May 10th. This will be Foxy’s first studio album since 2001.

“She’s going to get on top of her career again. She’s ready to hit the ground running and do anything she needs to do to get her career back on point,” says Williams.

Something tells me her crazy ass is gonna end up right back in prison very VERY soon! That damn Inga…

LUDACRIS HIT WITH A LAWSUIT » Three producers from Chester, Pennsylvania, are claiming that Ludacris stole their track and used it on his hit album “The Red Light District.” The lawsuit alleges that “Boogiii Men Entertainment Group” sent a CD of beats to the Atlanta-bred rapper’s Disturbing Tha Peace record label back in 2004. And apparently one of those beats ended up setting the groundwork for Ludacris’ hit single “Get Back,” which only cited The Medicine Men and Tic Toc as the song’s producers.

The three producers who make up Boogiii Men Entertainment Group, Damon “Damethegreat” Mayfield, Markus “Vincent” Vick, and Anthony Turner, attempted to contact the label but were met with lukewarm responses, the lawsuit states. So now the three men, who have worked with artists like Juelz Santanta, Rampage of Flipmode Squad, Charli Baltimore, and more, are suing Ludacris and his label for copyright infringement. [ via All Hip Hop ] CONTINUE READING

Page Six, The NY Post’s gossip column, is reporting that Foxy Brown is requesting an early release from prison. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the female rapper says she’s a changed woman after spending five months behind bars, and a judge should release her before she serves the rest of her year-long sentence because of “emergency” health issues. Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, says she should be set free before her expected release date of April 20 “due to her emergency medical condition relating to her progressively deteriorating hearing loss.

“Her condition is worsening in jail since she cannot obtain at Rikers [Island] the proper treatment that is required for her to maintain her post cochlear implant condition,” and she needs to go to Los Angeles by the end of the month to get the situation dealt with, the filing says.

Brown said she hasn’t been able to get maintenance work on her hearing implant while behind bars, and it was damaged when she was attacked by another inmate this past October. “If her hearing is damaged any further, it will affect the way she hears and will affect the way she sings,” the filing went on to say. “It will have dire consequences on her ability to maintain her profession and livelihood.” The filing asks that she be released early or serve the rest of her sentence at home.

Our favorite Rykers inmate, Foxy Brown, was finally released from isolation! After a long and hard (for Foxy of course … we could care less lmao) 40 days in solitary confinement, good ol’ Inga is back in the general population.

The rapper, who is serving a year in jail for violating probation, recently received 76 days in punitive isolation for various offenses at the prison but served only 40 days on account of good behavior, TMZ.com and the New York Post are reporting. Brown, 28, still must serve out the rest of her prison term, which she earned after facing several assault charges in the past two years. Brown reportedly was sent to her own cell after what the Post described as a “bloody shoving match” with another inmate, as well as other violations. [ SOURCE: PEOPLE » ]

Now maybe she’ll play nice like a good little prison inmate! Haha, yeah right…