In your rap sheet catch the latest on Foxy Brown, Ciara, Jay-Z and the latest threat to ITunes

UK Hip-Hop Festival
The biggest Hip-Hop event in the UK, The UK HIp-Hop Festival which garners a great deal of support from Love Music, Hate Racism, an organization that encourages anti-racist politics has announced its line up, for this its fifth event.Expected to perform at this event are Sway, Klashnekoff, Baby J, Dynamite MC, Wiley and Lethal Bizzie who is going to perform tracks from his forthcoming album. The event organized by Hip-Hop producer Joe Buddah and Radio One personality Mista Jam will be held on May 28th at the Trent University student Union in Nottingham and sponsors will include Hip-Hop Connection magazine and BBC One Xtra.
Foxy heading to Prison
Foxy Brown is scheduled to appear in court on September 24th on charges of assault after an outburst in a Florida beauty salon earlier this year. The rapper could face up to one year in prison as she failed to attend a plea hearing earlier this week.It was also reported last week that the rapper who burst onto the scene collaborating with Jay Z back in the mid nineties on his Reasonable Doubt album came close to knocking over a young lady and her child as they walked along a street in Brooklyn, New York. No charges were made against the rapper born Inga Merchand.
Ciara becomes face of the Roc
The Princess of Crunk, Ciara has aligned herself with Jay Z and his Rocafella clothing line to become the new face of the Roc.

The 21 year old multi platinum singer born in Atlanta is defintelly happy to be on board and told US Weekly "The clothes are so cute. The stuff is great. I am so happy to be able to do the campaign."

Former faces of Rocafella clothing, which Jay Z recenlty sold for 240 million dollars are the somewhat controversial Naomi Cambell and the infamous Victoria Beckham.

Amazon to launch music store
As digital music literally puts CDs into extinction, Amazon have decided to monopolize on the digital boom by launching their own music company that will supply music to a whole range of musical devices from Ipods to the Microsoft Zune. This move will of course possibly put in jeopardy ITunes and such companies who specifically cater to their own devices.

Working with 12,000 companies to provide content it is expected that when the music store launches it will literally control the market by providing music in mp3 format as opposed to the DRM (digital rights management) based format that compaies like ITunes use which restricts consumers to using the purchased music on only one device.

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