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Producers Dr. Dre and will.i.am opened up the new Beats by Dr. Dre pop-up store in New York City.

Dr. Dre showed off the brand’s holiday lineup which includes the new wireless beats by Dre headphones and celebrated with a cake in the shape of a headphone.

The Black Eyed Peas frontman was also in attendance as he could possibly be working with Dre as he works on his new solo album.

Public Enemy’s Chuck D has filed a class-action lawsuit against Universal Music Group in U.S. District Court, alleging that the label didn’t pay fully its artists and producers in licensing deals for digital downloads and ringtones.

The suit claims UMG owes its artists “hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties” because of the discrepancies.

According to the suit, Universal’s artists and producers are entitled to 50% of the net receipts from digital downloads and ringtones. Problem is UMG has treated digital sales like sales of physical product and billed their artists for deductions like CD packaging, which aren’t part of the cost in digital downloads.

Reuters also reports that Chuck D claims under UMG’s current method of accounting, artists and producers receive $80.33 for every 1,000 downloads, when the correct amount should be $315.85 per 1,000.

On the ringtone side of things, the discrepancy is even more drastic. The suit claims that UMG’s current accounting method yields $49.89 per thousand downloads, as opposed to the $660 per 1,000 that the suit claims is actually owed.

Chuck, who claims breach of contract, is demanding a jury trial.

Evelyn Lozada, star of VH1’s #1 Hit Reality Series, “Basketball Wives” which is set for an explosive fourth season, has just signed a multi-platform six-figure deal with Cash Money Content for literary and feature film projects.  Lozada is the girlfriend of Chad Ochocinco.

Music moguls Bryan “Baby” Williams and his brother Ronald “Slim” Williams are founders & CEO’s of Cash Money Content, the publishers that are overseeing the book deal.

The first of the projects is Evelyn’s book series, “The Wives Association,” co-authored by novelist and former Law & Order: Criminal Intent writer, Courtney Parker, which will follow Evelyn’s alter ego, character Eve Inez-Landon and will fictionalize aspects of real life events that have come from years of dating a professional athlete.

Although the books are not considered “tell-alls”, Evelyn reveals they will be an exciting mix of her own experiences and that of other athlete wives and girlfriends.

“The stories that you hear- what goes on in these relationships, and just being in that circle- I decided to let everyone experience a piece of it for themselves by writing this series of juicy novels,” said Evelyn.

“We will support Evelyn’s project, 100%” said Cash Money Founder and CEO, Williams.

“By partnering with Baby and Cash Money Content, we have the potential to turn these ‘novels’ into a full-fledged brand,” Lozada explains. “Everything Baby and CMC touches turns to gold, and our brands together will be magical.”

Cash Money Content is a groundbreaking partnership that pairs the Cash Money Records brand with Atria Books, a division of the publishing powerhouse, Simon & Schuster.

The hip-hop world is buzzing with theories over who may have murdered a man who allegedly assaulted Compton, California rapper Game, but investigators say he is not a suspect.

Jomo Adoula Zambia aka “RoseMo,” was shot and killed in Inglewood on Wednesday, November 3. RoseMo died after he was shot in the torso.

He crashed his car into an unmarked police cruiser and eventually died in a nearby hospital. According to the Los Angeles Times, the officer had to be extricated from his vehicle. He was released from the hospital after suffering minor injuries.

RoseMo was killed just two months after he posted videos of himself bragging about knocking out Game during a confrontation at the Fox Hills Mall, as the rapper was shopping with his son.

RoseMo, who was associated with 1017 Bricksquad, was once again involved in a Twitter feud with Inglewood rapper Boskoe. CTE affiliated rapper, 2Eleven, filmed Boskoe being attacked by RoseMo, resulting in Boskoe receiving a broken arm and other injuries.

Although the RoseMo and Game also sent threats back and forth over Twitter, investigators say the rapper is not a suspect as of press time.

“Our investigation is leading us in a different direction,” Police Detective Gabriel De La Torre told the Los Angeles Times.

RoseMo’s murder is the second high-profile death involving a rapper in Inglewood, in the past several months. In May, Montae “M-Bone” Talbert of the group Cali Swag District was gunned down in Inglewood. In that unsolved murder, a suspect drove up to M-Bone as he sat in front of an Inglewood liquor store and shot him twice in the head.

As of press time, police are seeking suspects in the death of RoseMo and M-Bone.

McDONOUGH, Ga. — Music producer Shawty Redd has been found not guilty of a murder charge that stemmed from his 2010 New Year’s Day arrest.

Redd, whose real name is Demetrius Lee Stewart, was accused of shooting 35-year-old Damon A. Martin of Detroit during an argument at Stewart’s home in Hampton, about 30 miles southeast of Atlanta.

Henry County District Attorney Tommy Floyd says Redd was cleared of the murder charge Thursday after Judge Wade Crumbley determined that the producer acted in self-defense.

Redd became known for producing tracks for Rick Ross, Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane. His breakthrough came when he produced Snoop Dogg’s 2007 single “Sexual Seduction.”

Kanye and Jigga finally have their first #1 off of their Watch The Throne album.

According to Billboard’s The Juice, Jay-Z and Weezy’s “Ni**** In Paris” landed at the top of Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, knocking off Lil Wayne and Drake’s “She Will” for the position.
“Ni**** In Paris” is the first No. 1 single off of Watch The Throne, after the album’s first single “Otis” peaked at No. 2.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are currently on a Watch The Throne national tour.

Samuel L. Jackson has been named the highest-grossing actor of all time by The Guinness Book of World Records, according to the New York Daily News.

Jackson, 62, has made over $7.42 billion over the span of his entire career. Jackson got his big break in 1991 in the Spike Lee film, ‘Jungle Fever.’

Daytime television may have a new talk show on the way.

According to reports, Will and Jada Smith are looking to bring a new talk show hosted by Queen Latifah to daytime TV.

The show will be produced by Sony Pictures Television, Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment, and Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment. The show is planned to debut in the fall of 2013.

No other details have been released as of yet, but lets hope this show does better than The Queen Latifah Show, which ran from 1999 to 2001.

FOX is bringing back its groundbreaking 1990s sketch comedy series In Living Color  with the series’ creator and star, Keenen Ivory Wayans, on board as host and executive producer.

FOX has ordered two In Living Color half-hour specials to air as part of the network’s 25th anniversary celebration in midseason with a series option behind them, meaning that in success, the reboot will join Fox’s schedule as a regular series next season.