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In today’s Daily Rap, DMX gets three months in jail, Diddy is caught up in even more controversy, Busta Rhymes thinks of leaving Interscope and there is baby girl joy for Badu.
DMX gets Three Months
Rapper DMX was sentenced on Friday for a string of offences including identity theft, drug possession, cruelty to animals and found himself sentenced to three months in jail.
He will have to serve the full three months as no time will be credited for the time he has spent already in prison after being arrested in Miami late last year.
The rapper’s sentence also included 18 months of supervised probation as well as 360 hours community service and various fines for his misdemeanors.
Diddy Caught up in Controversy Again
The bottle design of Sean Comb’s award winning Unforgivable is in the middle of a new lawsuit after a Massachusetts man claims he was the actual designer of the bottle.
Tom Patti an artist from Springfield Mass has indicated in a lawsuit that the bottles which Comb’s uses to secure his fragrance is in fact an exact replica of glass sculptures that he designed and created in the 1980’s.
“Everywhere I went, people started congratulating me on the success of my fragrance container. I didn’t know what they were talking about. Eventually, I realized that Combs had replicated my work,†Patti explained to The Boston Globe.
Busta Rhymes Talks Interscope Departure
Flipmode front man Busta Rhymes recently talked about his departure from Interscope last year in an interview, squashing all rumors of any issues between him and label boss Jimmy Iovine.
Various outlets had reported that Busta had left the label famed for acts such as Eminem, 50 Cent and the Black Eyed Peas after a serious argument with Iovine who has worked with innumerable artists including Dire Straits, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Nicks.
Busta explained in a recent interview that that certainly wasn’t the case and had gone to Iovine to discuss the marketing and promotions of his impending album Back on My BS. When the talk hadn’t been to his liking Busta was not only granted permission to leave the label but had also been allowed to walk away with the album and take it to another label.
Back on my BS, after various push backs, is expected to hit stores on March 24th through Universal Motown.
Baby Girl for Badu
Erykah Badu and Jay Electronica welcomed their daughter into the world yesterday, the first for the couple who started dating in 2007.
The little girl born at 1.30 pm is the third child for the Texas songstress who already has a child with Andre 3000 of Outkast and another with West Coast rapper The D.O.C.
Jay Electronica, a producer from New Orleans recently toured with Nas after being introduced to the rapper through his girlfriends relationship with Nas’s wife Kelis.
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