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DMX's year is only getting worse: Over the weekend, he was finally arrested for checking into an Arizona hospital under a fake name a few months ago, a tactic he ineptly employed in hopes of skipping out on a $7,500 bill. He was busted while at a local mall and at last report was currently in jail; given that this arrest is his fourth this year, you'd think that at this point the local law-enforcement types would just want to keep him around for purposes of avoiding future paperwork. [E! via the listenerd / Photo: AP]

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dr. drew, where were you?

A Great Week For Cocaine, A Bad Week For Steven Adler

I can't imagine their paths cross often, but Steven Adler and Steven Page have something in common this week... arrests for narcotics possession! The often troubled Steven Adler, whose stint on Celebrity Rehab 2 seems to not have been terribly effective, was picked up this morning by Hollywood police; he also has an outstanding warrant in his name. Only somewhat related: I wonder if Jani Lane's Google Alerts perk up every time "outstanding warrant" is used in a news article. [Blabbermouth]

11:40 AM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Dan Gibson
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Latest by Al Shipley: The stuff in Slash's book about kicking Adler out of the band is pretty depressing; they realized how hypocritical it was, but some of them were functioning addicts who could still play, while Steven just couldn't keep a steady rhythm more »

they were calcium tablets, apparently

Steven Page Is Having A Court Date

Steven Page's dalliance with coke parties and the ladies of Syracuse might not be the sort of image that Disney is looking for, especially with Miley Cyrus' latest troubles in mind, so the Barenaked Ladies have bowed out of the Disney Music Block Party Tour, which also features They Might Be Giants. "Members of the band completely support Steven Page," said the band's manager, Terry McBride, "but we don't want to put Disney in an awkward position before issues involving Steven's arrest are resolved." Note the language has moved from the charges being "strongly contested" to them being "resolved," likely thanks in part to Page admitting he snorted some coke with some rolled-up Canadian currency. Well, that's a revelation that should add at least a line or two to "If I Had A Million Dollars." [Marketwatch]

11:20 AM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Dan Gibson
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Latest by cheesebubble: People are sure having a heyday with this one in Canada. Especially since Page's band just put out a children's album. Hell, if you were a Barenaked Lady for umpteen years, you might just go for some blow more »

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Gym Class Heroes Singer Arrested For Properly Responding To Audience Member's Racial Slur

Travis McCoy of the Gym Class Heroes responded to a Warped Tour attendee who heckled him with the former title of Nas' album last night (and a few other choice words) by breaking his microphone over said audience member's head as he was being led out by security. "I'm sorry. But when someone calls you something that offensive and that disgusting, you have to bash their head in with a microphone," McCoy said after everything went down. Apparently local police didn't agree, as they arrested him on one count of third-degree assault (he was released early this morning). Me, I'm just wondering just when he's going to weigh in on the incident on his blog. A very shaky clip of last night's scuffle—complete with post-skullcrushing dedication to the ladies in the audience out there—is after the jump. More »

12:30 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by AquaLung: Why can't people just hate on GCH because they suck ass? more »

x, gonna take it from ya

DMX's Bad Year Gets Even Worse

The old adage "when it rains, it pours" seems to be the key cliche for DMX's 2008: He's been hit with moving violations, raids on his house, and accusations that he's been using aliases to get medical treatment. Friday, he was arrested in Miami after attempting a coke and marijuana run. And now he's going to have to give up one of his Harlem real estate holdings, in part because of his failure to promote a couture line—for dogs. More »

11:30 AM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Axl Rose Believes That The Truth Is Out There

Last week's leak of nine songs purporting to be from Guns N' Roses' eternally delayed Chinese Democracy had a whole mess of repercussions, but perhaps none of them were as unnerving for the proprietor of leak source Antiquiet.com as the visitors his office had yesterday—who happened to be from the FBI. (They even looked like Mulder and Scully! Talk about verisimilitude!) "It was kind of an ambush," Antiquiet proprietor and ex-Universal Music Group employee Skwerl told Rolling Stone. "When I came back from lunch they were waiting in the lobby for me." The three chatted for 15 minutes, then made plans to regroup back at Skwel's place at 7 the next morning. More »

7:00 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by JohnOO: "The FBI officials wanted to see the original files, but Skwerl erased them last week per instructions from Axl Rose's attorneys. Skwerl ultimately gave them second-hand files that are now widely available on the Internet." So, he downloaded the files in more »

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Nate Dogg Is Not Having The Best Year

First, Nate Dogg had a stroke. Then the always-classy folks at TMZ mocked his ladyfriend for not being upset enough during the 911 call reporting said stroke. Then the Internet thought he was dead. And now? The once-ubiquitous singer has been arrested for making "terrorist threats," according to TMZ—which somehow restrained itself from making a joke about his medical condition while reporting on why, exactly, he's headed for the medical ward of a downtown Los Angeles jail. More »

3:45 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by n/a: Obviously the regulators mounted up and paid a visit to the TMZ offices to straighten those punks out. more »

Young Jeezy has been arrested in Atlanta for "speeding, driving with no proof of insurance or license plate, having an open container, reckless driving and driving impaired by alcohol or drugs." Jeezy claims that his new Corvette's temporary tags must have fallen off and that the open container was his passenger's, and I'm inclined to believe him. Speeding? The Jeezy I know doesn't do anything fast. [Houston Chronicle]

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can you ban the snowman?

How About That: Young Jeezy May Have Been Involved In Trafficking Massive Amounts Of Coke

A witness in the Feds' trial against Fleming "Ill" Daniels, the alleged third-in-command of the Detroit-based criminal organization Black Mafia Family, has claimed that the self-proclaimed snowman Young Jeezy may have, in fact, received multiple kilos of cocaine from the BMF. Creative Loafing Atlanta reports that Ralph "Ralphie" Simms, who is testifying after receiving a plea bargain on another drug case, said under oath that part of his job involved unloading coke from secret compartments in limos; once, at an Atlanta-area mansion that was nicknamed "Space Mountain," two people stopped by to pick up a multi-kilo shipment. And one of them looked kinda familiar! More »

5:30 PM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by Oldboy: What a wonderful name to give your illegal criminal organization---Black Mafia Family! SO classy, so discreet! One would never have guessed that the Feds would take an interest... Me, I'm going back to the Coffee Shop with my man Yung Joc. more »

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Scott Storch Is A Wanted Man

Record producer and car collector Scott Storch owes $511,839.16 in back taxes on his Miami Beach home, is way behind on child support, and has a paternity suit pending. There are also reports of various cars he owes money on, including one that turned Lil Kim into the subject of a local TV news segment, being repossessed. So a judge in Miami-Dade County has authorized police to jail the producer until he can be brought to court for hearings on his various debts. For his part, Storch's lawyer says that he's trying to refinance his house—which is reportedly worth upwards of $10 million—in order to pay down his debts, but I suspect that his mountain of problems is resulting in banks being shy about giving him a blank check for anything more expensive than a pack of gum at this point. [Miami Herald via The Daily Swarm]

10:00 AM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Warren G, who was arrested over the weekend after police found marijuana in the trunk of a car he was riding in, will not go to trial, thanks to the person who owned the car not being present at the time of the arrest. And here I was looking forward to him being court-ordered to appear in Celebrity Fit Club Rehab as part of his sentence! [AP]

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Judge Vincent Gaughan ruled that Chicago Sun-Times music writer Jim DeRogatis will not have to testify in the R. Kelly trial because of the Fifth Amendment, which protects people from self-incrimination, after DeRogatis showed up in court this morning to be questioned by the judge. Sun-Times attorney Damon Dunn said that an overly zealous prosecutor could potentially take any testimony in which DeRogatis admits to watching or possessing the tape and use it as the grounds for a child pornography case, and that DeRogatis is still protected under the First Amendment, despite the court's earlier ruling. The matter of who slipped the tape to DeRogatis in the first place still remains a mystery. [The Kelly Chronicles]

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The R. Kelly trial has officially gone from "life imitates videos" (Chuck and Rufus vs. Chuck and Keith) to "videos imitating life imitating videos" or something even more convoluted. Lisa Van Allen, the witness who claims to have had three-ways with R. Kelly and his alleged victim, can be seen braiding R. Kelly's hair in the video for "I Wish." The chorus of R. Kelly's current single? "Hairbraider, huh, I'm doin' my hairbraider! And she do my hair so good that I'm gonna tip her!" Guess you didn't tip her enough, Kells. [ONTD]

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R. Kelly Lyrics Get Spoken-Word Treatment In Court

Yesterday R. Kelly's lawyer, Ed Genson, objected to the prosecution entering a copy of his client's 1998 album R. into evidence, saying that reading the album's lyrics in the liner notes could unfairly prejudice the jury against Kelly. When asked by the presiding judge, Vincent Gaughan, just what would result in the jury being tainted, Genson opened the CD's booklet and read lyrics to an unidentified song to the courtroom assemblage, a performance that "[reduced] prosecutor Shauna Boliker and everyone else within earshot to fits of giggles" and caused Kells to cover his face. The judge subsequently decided that the jury could have the CD, but that the printed lyrics would be blocked out, although I suspect that the "message" of "Half On A Baby" comes through loud and clear when it's put to music, too. [The Kelly Chronicles]

10:15 AM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by n/a: Good. I gets freaky with the braids. more »

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OiNK Users Arrested, Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud The Music Industry

The UK's Cleveland Police have confirmed to TorrentFreak that last month they arrested six users of shuttered BitTorrent site OiNK, which broke the Internet's heart when it was shut down by British authorities last October. All six of the arrested ex-OiNKers are being accused of releasing pre-release music to the site; whether they are being targeted for having leaked major-label releases only is unclear. All six—five men and one women, all between the ages of 19 and 33—were charged with "conspiracy to defraud the music industry" and are currently out on bail. TorrentFreak has more on the charges (obligatory warning to take any hyperbole within the description with a grain of salt goes here): More »

11:15 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by femstix: ...and the sources on the 'scene', you know, the janitor or the secretary working at the studio who actually steal and leak the material, are going to keep doing what they're doing. And some other dumb knobs will make it more »

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DeRogatis Gets To Testify Like A Real Journalist

Like it or not—and barring appeals—Chicago Sun-Times pop music critic Jim DeRogatis will likely be forced to testify in the R. Kelly case. Apparently, when you turn over a tape of apparent child pornography to police, the person accused of creating said video might have a few questions for you. Strange, but true. DeRogatis and his Sun-Times lawyers have made the contention that DeRogatis' testimony would add nothing to Kelly's defense, but Judge Gaughan declared that DeRogatis would not be compelled to share his source as part of the testimony. In other news, a lawyer with a rock band approached Kelly during a break in the action—because he wanted to give Kells a demo tape. When you think it can't get stranger, this trial delivers on something even better. [Chicago Sun-Times]

3:45 PM on Fri May 30 2008
By Dan Gibson
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Latest by n/a: "Abbbbbottttttttttt!!!!" more »

building a mystery

Which Unidentified Witness Will Take The Stand On R. Kelly's Behalf?

R. Kelly's lawyers interrupted the procession of middle-school coaches identifying the underage girl on his sex tape early on Wednesday, announcing that a mystery witness had come forward with information that may help the singer's case. Now pause the post, 'cuz what i'm about to say to y'all is so damn twisted—not only is there a mystery witness, but the witness is... More »

10:00 AM on Thu May 29 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Slick Rick Pardoned

New York governor David Paterson has given Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters a full, unconditional pardon for the attempted murders of two men in 1991 in an effort to halt Slick Rick's deportation: ""Mr. Walters has fully served the sentence imposed upon him for his convictions, had an exemplary disciplinary record while in prison and on parole, and has been living without incident in the community for more than 10 years," said Governor Paterson. "In that time, he has volunteered at youth outreach programs to counsel youth against violence, and has become a symbol of rehabilitation for many young people." So much for the only music-related angle to come out of the whole Eliot Spitzer resignation/replacement involving Ashley Alexandra Dupre! [AP / HHNLive]

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"Rough"-ing It In East Africa

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