Rick Ross has delivered a back-handed apology to the gay community after coming under fire for calling 50 Cent derogatory names - by offering to collaborate with a homosexual artist "such as 50 Cent."

Superstar 50 Cent has stepped up his hip-hop rivalry with Rick Ross - by posting a pornographic video allegedly featuring the Hustlin' rapper's ex-girlfriend online.

50 Cent has offered to mentor Joaquin Phoenix as the Oscar nominee tries to cut his teeth as a rapper.

50 Cent's weapon of choice is a 9 mm handgun - at least for his new third person shooter video game "Blood on the Sand." In a call with the hip hop star/actor/video game producer,

Rapper Foxy Brown is demanding 50 Cent keep her name out of his war of words with Rick Ross - or be "handled Brooklyn style."

Rick Ross has challenged rap rival 50 Cent to go back into the studio and record a new lyrical attack - because his musical response to the Hustlin' star's latest insult is "garbage".

The music executive who succeeded rap mogul Jay-Z as head of Def Jam Records has been found shot dead in his Atlanta, Georgia apartment.

Rapper Rick Ross has confessed he once worked as a prison officer after initially denying the rumors. Ross went so far as to accuse Internet pranksters of faking photos of him in uniform, when snapshots appeared on website TheSmokingGun.com in July.

Ring the alarm. The Vault is being opened. It holds 12 never-before-released recordings from Grammy Award-winning, platinum-selling R&B songstress Ashanti. The Vault will be released October 14th by AJM Records.

Houston, Texas rappers Trae and Mike Jones stole the show at Monday's Ozone Awards by fighting backstage before the ceremony began. Jones was punched in the fracas,