Florida Sentinel Bulletin

DeAndre Cortez Way a.k.a Soulja Boy was arrested Tuesday morning for drug possession.

The rapper was reportedly taken into custody by Temple Police Department officers in Temple, GA at 3:15 AM He is currently still being held in Carroll County Jail.

Law enforcement sources say Soulja was in a car with 4 other men, which was originally pulled over for a traffic violation. Police report that they found a”substantial amount” of marijuana and cash inside the vehicle” and Soulja and the 4 other men were all arrested.

Guns were also found in the vehicle although it’s unclear if any of them had the proper licenses to be in possession of the firearms.

A source reports that around $70,000 worth of drugs and cash were found.

Waka Flocka was forced to cancel a concert in Toronto, Canada after he was denied entry into the country, according to a report by RumorFix.com.

No official reason has been given for the “Round of Applause” rapper’s denial. However, at least two rappers have been turned away attempting to enter our northern border to do shows.

In April, rapper, Game, was denied access by customs agents because of his record and reported via his Twitter account that he had to spend two weeks in detainment.

The same month, Canadian authorities threatened to deny Lil Wayne entry based on his criminal record and the rapper was forced to cancel two Canadian stops on his I Am Music II tour.

Waka reportedly spent the night in Detroit, Michigan instead and is scheduled to perform at Club Underground in Tampa, Florida on Saturday.

MIAMI — Rapper Rick Ross was reportedly hospitalized in Alabama on Friday night after suffering a medical incident aboard a Memphis, Tenn. plane, the second time in six hours that a plane carrying the performer had to be diverted because of concerns about his health.

Ross was scheduled to appear at a University of Memphis basketball event on Friday night, and had even tweeted “Memphis here I come” after a medical scare hours earlier had prompted a Delta Air Lines plane to return to Florida so that Ross could be taken to the hospital.

But the 34-year-old Ross never made his scheduled appearance at an event called “Memphis Madness” on Friday night.

Memphis coach Josh Pastner told the crowd on Friday evening that a private jet carrying Ross made an unscheduled landing in Birmingham after the singer had another medical problem.

“On his way to Memphis,” Pastner said, “he had to make another emergency landing, in Birmingham. He got really sick again, and they had to rush him to the emergency room.” Ross suffered a second medical seizure and had been hospitalized.

LOS ANGELES – Stand-up concert film Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain continued its extraordinary box-office run this weekend, passing $7 million in revenue since its September 9 release.

The R-rated film, from Codeblack, a distributor of content targeting mostly African-American audiences, debuted explosively on September 9, grossing more than $1.9 million for its opening weekend at only 98 locations.

Playing 188 locations this weekend, its sixth in release, Laugh at My Pain grossed $276,000, bringing its domestic total to nearly $7.4 million.

Featuring documentary-style footage of comedian Hart on stage, as well as at home in Philadelphia and goofing a bit in a send-up skit of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Laugh at My Pain was produced for only around $750,000.

It is, by far, the most successful film this year for any release that never went out wider than 300 theaters.

DMX says he has finally kicked the drug addictions that kept him behind bars for years — and he has his children to thank.

X said, coke was his greatest demon after his latest prison release in July — “Everyone was taking advantage of me with my finances, trying to put me in the direction to fail. I have 10 kids. I have to drive them in the right direction, so I let the cocaine go.”

The rapper — real name Earl Simmons — says God also helped him through … telling us, “I am on a spiritual road to do right in my life. I am leaving out all negativity and going to stay on the right road to positive.”

Chris Tucker is no stranger to tax problems. The funny man’s $6M home in Orlando, FL, has fallen into foreclosure.

Tucker apparently owes more than $4.4M on the home and the government has taken out an $11.5M lien against it for his back taxes. Tucker stands to lose the 10,000 sq. ft. home that boasts five bedrooms, three fireplaces and a spa. The mega pad also contains a refinished basement made up to mimic a pirate ship… complete with a sail.

MIAMI — Grammy-winning OutKast rapper Big Boi has reached a deal on drug charges that allows him to avoid jail time.

Big Boi appeared in a Miami courtroom Thursday as prosecutors outlined the deal that includes three months of drug testing, community service and $2,000 in donations to charities.

The 36-year-old rapper’s real name is Antwan Patton.

He was arrested getting off a cruise ship in August when a K-9 dog alerted to drugs Big Boi was carrying. The substances included ecstasy, a cigarette roller with marijuana residue and the ecstasy ingredient MDMA.

Big Boi had faced two felony drug charges. Prosecutors say if he remains drug-free after three months of testing, those charges will be dismissed.

The Atlanta-based group OutKast has won six Grammys and made six platinum-plus albums, including Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

NEW YORK— Denzel Washington has donated $2.25 million to Fordham University, his alma mater.

The university said Monday that Washington has given $2 million to endow the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre, and another $250,000 to establish a scholarship for a minority undergraduate student studying theater at Fordham.

Phylicia Rashad, who played Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has joined the school’s faculty as the first Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre. Washington cited the late Bob Stone, who was a theater professor at Fordham, for inspiring him.

Hip-Hop ruled supreme as the 2011 BET Hip-Hop Awards aired Tuesday on Black Entertainment Television. The big winner of the night however wasn’t a professional MC but R&B singer/part-time rapper Chris Brown.

Breezy’s Look At Me Now, took home “Best Hip-Hop Video,” “Reese’s Perfect Combo Award” and “Verizon’s People’s Champ.”

Lil Wayne took home two awards for “Lyricist Of The Year” and “Best Live Performer.”

Other notable winners including Nicki Minaj who won “Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip Hop Style)”, Lex Lugar, who took home “Producer Of the Year”, and Kanye West,  whose My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, won “CD Of The Year.”

LL Cool J was also awarded the “I Am Hip-Hop Icon Award” for his contributions to the game as Nelly presented him with the prestigious honor.

The awards also were a coming home show as DMX and T.I. respectively murdered the stage with their comeback performances since being set free from the bing.