The Santa Monica Police Department issued a warrant for the arrest of G-Unit rapper Young Buck on Tuesday (November 16) in connection with the melee at Monday’s Vibe Awards.

After reviewing a videotape of the fight, investigators believe Buck (born David Darnell Brown) stabbed 26-year-old Los Angeles native Jimmy James Johnson after Johnson assaulted Dr. Dre during the ceremony at the Santa Monica Municipal Airport hangar (see “Dr. Dre Attacked, Man Stabbed During Melee At Vibe Awards”).

Buck, who will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon, was one of three men seen on the videotape with knives. The other two have not been identified.

“Mr. Brown is seen lunging over another male and swinging the knife at Mr. Johnson’s upper body while Johnson is looking away from him,” Santa Monica Police Department spokesperson J.T. Butts Jr. said at a press conference Tuesday (November 16). “He is clearly depicted holding the knife after the assault and was a number of fight participants sprayed by pepper spray. Brown then fled the scene and was not identified until earlier this morning. … We are asking Mr. Brown to surrender himself to the Santa Monica Police Department immediately.”

The encounter began around 7:25 p.m., when Johnson approached Dr. Dre for an autograph and began punching him several times.

“As private security persons attempted to control Mr. Johnson, several males attempted to assault him,” Butts said. “Two uniformed officers attempted to intervene and they themselves became victims when unidentified men threw chairs at them.”

James was stabbed in the chest and suffered a collapsed lung. He was rushed to a local hospital and is in stable condition, Butts said.

James, who is on parole, has not yet been interviewed, nor has Dr. Dre. “We have a call in to him, he has not responded, but we will interview him at his earliest convenience,” Butts said. “This investigation is continuing and we are in the process of identifying several other assault suspects. We have a lot of people to interview.”

Butts said he has no idea what sparked the assault and made no connection between Johnson and Suge Knight, a longtime Dre rival who attended the awards.

Initially only two officers intervened, but Butts said 56 officers were on the scene within minutes, including more than 30 who were patrolling the Vibe Awards. Metal detectors were used at the doors, Butts said.

Young Buck has several arrests in Nashville on his record for minor offenses, Butts said. A spokesperson for the G-Unit had no comment.

YOUNG BUCK VIBE AWARDS STABBING VIDEO CLIP

The second annual Vibe Awards, an evening meant to honor hip-hop and R&B, was disrupted by a melee Monday night (November 15).

Reports are sketchy, but according to eyewitnesses, as Snoop Dogg and Quincy Jones were getting ready to

present Dr. Dre with the Vibe Legend Award, Dre was attacked near the stage.

Witnesses said Dre was standing next to his wife when the man approached in a friendly manner, and then all of a sudden began throwing punches at the rapper/producer’s head.

When bodyguards and people with the G-Unit jumped in to protect Dre, things quickly got out of control. While there were some reports that a man with the G-Unit’s entourage was stabbed, a spokesperson for the group had no comment on the matter.

After the dust settled at least 10 minutes later, the show went on. Dre picked up his award and told the crowd he wouldn’t let incidents like that one slow him down. Later, the audience at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, was treated to a performance of “Drop It Like It’s Hot” by Snoop with Pharrell Williams. Jadakiss also performed and was joined by Anthony Hamilton and Common.

The Vibe Awards are scheduled to air Tuesday at 8 p.m. on UPN.

The rap artist O.D.B., who lived a life as wild as his lyrics, collapsed and died inside a recording studio Saturday, his record label said. He was 35.

O.D.B. had complained of chest pains before collapsing at the Manhattan studio, according to a statement from Roc-a-Fella records.

O.D.B., also known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Dirt McGirt or his legal name of Russell Jones, was a founding member of the hit rap group the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 1990s. With his offbeat, unorthodox delivery, he segued into a successful solo career and released several hit singles.

But he was frequently in trouble with the law, mostly for drug possession.

In February 1998, he crashed the stage at the Grammy Awards and hijacked a microphone from singer Shawn Colvin as she accepted an award, apparently upset over losing the best rap album Grammy to Puff Daddy. He complained that he spent a lot of money for new clothes because he thought he was going to win. The rapper later apologized. Later in 1998, he was wounded in a shooting during a robbery in his apartment.

In 2001 he was sentenced to two to four years in prison for drug possession; plus two concurrent years for escaping from a rehab clinic. He was released in 2003 and immediately signed with Roc-a-Fella.

O.D.B. would have turned 36 on Monday.

Murphy Lee was arrested on Halloween on charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs.

The rapper and St. Lunatics member had been pulled over on October 31 near St. Louis for an expired license plate when police found marijuana in his Mercedes, according to The Associated Press.

Lee was arrested for possessing less than 35 grams of marijuana and driving under the influence of drugs after Sheriff’s deputies allegedly smelled marijuana in his car. He is expected to appear in court next month.

An attorney for Lee, born Tohri Harper, told the AP that the rapper expects to plead not guilty.

The ‘breaking news’ reports on some web sites concerning the shooting of New Jersey rapper Chino XL are completely false.

After checking into the story, it seems one site posted it; and since most of these kind of ‘fan’ sites copy and paste news with out looking into the source, the story just spread

The story indicates that rapper Chino XL was shot in the chest 3 times in Pomona California by a young, 19 year old suspect from California, who reportedly screamed “thug life” as he opened fire. Police are looking at the possibility that the feud between Chino XL and the late Tupac Shakur lead to the shooting.

This is just another example of web mis-information and how ‘copy and paste’ news can spread on the web even if it is false.

Reputable and reliable web news sources post a source for their news and check out things before they post them. That is something to keep in mind.

It never happened…

R&B singer R. Kelly was kicked off a tour with rapper Jay-Z Saturday, one day after Kelly walked offstage during a performance and allegedly was blasted with pepper spray by a member of Jay-Z’s entourage.

Jeff Sharp, a contractor with tour promoter Atlanta World Wide Touring, confirmed that Kelly had been removed from the tour, but would not comment on the reason.

“The fans deserve better than this,” Kelly said in a statement. “I’d like the show to go on. It’s really disappointing that Jay-Z and the promoter don’t.”

Jay-Z and R. Kelly were in the midst of a 40-city “Best of Both Worlds” tour, scheduled to run through Nov. 28. The tour has been beset by canceled shows and reports that the feuding performers weren’t even on speaking terms.

Sharp said Jay-Z would perform shows planned for Saturday and Monday at Madison Square Garden, but he did not know if the rapper would finish the tour as a solo act, or if the tour was simply finished.

The pepper-spray incident happened about an hour into Friday night’s show, when Kelly walked on stage and said he saw two people in the audience waving guns, said Kelly’s publicist, Allan Mayer. Kelly abruptly stopped his set around 9:30 p.m. while arena security employees searched for weapons.

Finding none, guards told Kelly it was safe to continue performing, Mayer said. But as the singer was making his way back to the stage, a man in Jay-Z’s entourage — apparently miffed that Kelly interrupted the show — sprayed him and two of his bodyguards in the face, Mayer said.

“I’m pretty sure Jay didn’t realize what was going on,” Mayer said.

All three men were treated at St. Vincent’s Hospital and released, he said. Jay-Z performed for another 45 minutes after Kelly was sprayed.

Jana Fleishman, publicist for Jay-Z, said Saturday that the rapper’s entourage knew nothing about the incident because it occurred while Jay-Z was performing. Jay-Z “did not attack R. Kelly in any way, shape or form,” Fleishman said.

In a radio interview on Hot 97 FM radio Friday, Jay-Z said he couldn’t understand why Kelly left the stage.

“You can’t get a gun inside Madison Square Garden,” the rapper said. “If people give me love he can’t take it.”

Mayer said Kelly’s lawyers were filing a criminal complaint against the man who allegedly sprayed him and also were considering legal action over the decision to remove the singer from the remaining tour dates.

“We’re considering all possible ways of protecting Robert’s interests,” Mayer said.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported discord between the two performers after Kelly showed up more than two hours late for a show in Chicago and walked off the stage mid-performance in St. Louis this month.

Three shows on the tour were canceled because of “technical difficulties” suffered by Kelly, Fleishman said.

As you know I spend alot of time on the road and every now and then I hear a song that I feel sounds a little different than the normal bullshit thats being produced. So when I heard “Used to love U” from John Legend’s debut album Get Lifted I said “Damn that was decent, I gotta pick that up.”

Unfortunately the album “Get Lifted” wont be available until December 28, 2004.

Listen to the track (Windows Media Format) Used To Love U From John Legend

So Im listening to XM last night on the way home from the strip club and who do I hear? Shawnna, I was wondering when they were going to start playing this chick. She flows pretty well, I aint going to front tho’ – Jackie O from Poe Boy got her beat, but still Im happy to see her getting some face time. I hope she does better than Rasheeda…

Here are a few wallpapers of Shawnna

So I finally get a chance to watch this video that is supposed to be sooo bad and so insulting to Michael Jackson today and the verdict is in. I think the video is just like all his others, he brings in some controversial content to make people TALK ABOUT IT. In all seriousness I do think the video is that bad, MJ’s hair did catch on fire, he does have problems with his fake nose, he is caught up in the court case about the shit with the kids… Basically he brought that shit on himself. You cant complain when you fuck up and people call you on it. Grow a damn backbone and deal with it.

Rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced to a year in the slammer Friday on a gun-possession charge stemming from a traffic stop.

Things could have been much worse for the former Jay-Z protege–prosecutors were pressing for Sigel to do over three years in a Federal facility, but a Pennsylvania judge felt for the newly charitable Sigel.

“It is clear that the defendant has made a substantial effort to change his life,” said U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick.

Sigel praised Surrick for his leniency Friday, saying he wanted to thank the judge for “giving me the second chance, the chance to turn my life around. I know now the situation I was in was a reckless and dangerous situation.”

Sigel, who counts Jay-Z, Beyonce, Damon Dash and several other hip-hop heavies amongst his supporters, was on trial for a 2002 incident in which Sigel jumped from his car and ran after a random police pullover. The hip-hopper allegedly tossed a loaded gun during the ensuing chase, and cops seized a veritable drugstore of prescription drugs and marijuana in Sigel’s customized Escalade.

The South Philly rapper pleaded guilty to the gun charge in April, hoping to avoid a lengthy sentence (Sigel has had numerous run-ins with the law and boasts a long rap sheet).