According Newsday, Farmington police say a 22-year-old New Britain woman called cops to the mansion claiming 27-year-old Dwayne Mckenzie choked her and struck her with a belt during an argument.

McKenzie has been was charged with assault, strangulation, breach of peace and unlawful restraint. He was released after posting $10,000 bond and is due back in court on July 15th. 

Mckenzie was already on a conditional discharge after he was arrested late last year in Hartford for allegedly pistol-whipping a nightclub promoter.  

According to reports, that disagreement allegedly began when Allison refused to announce an after party to be held at Fif's house.

Reportedly, McKenzie drove up to Allison and asked him to promote the after party.

Allison then told McKenzie, "You don't call someone up threatening to smack them because they don't big you up in the club."

McKenzie allegedly then jumped out of his Cadillac Escalade and hit Allison in the chin and again in his right eye with a pistol.

The lawsuit stemmed after Star, real name Troi Toraine, was briefly charged with child endangerment and fired from New York's Power 105.1 after making sexually charged comments towards Hot 97.1's Dj Envy's daughter and offering listeners $500 for information about the child's school. Torain also used a racial slur to describe Envy's wife, who is part Asian.

Toraine then filed suit against John Liu after he called him a "sick, pedophile" claiming defamation of character. The suit was thrown out causing Torain to appeal the ruling. 

The  federal appeals court says the councilman did not defame the dj noting that under New York and federal law, expressions of pure opinion rather than statements of fact are protected by the Constitution.

The appeals court said a reasonable listener of the statements could not have believed that they were intended to convey objective facts in the context they were made.

Though details are scarce, the album, tentatively titled "Back 2 Back" will feature appearances from Juelz Santana, Hell Rell, and other members of Byrd Gang. The Runners, Chink Santana, and Dj Khalil have all reportedly contributed productions.

"His new album, I think he might have come up with a classic, and that's me saying that," said Damon Dash regarding Jone's first album under a major record label.

Back 2 Back will be released via Columbia Records and is scheduled to his stores on August 19th.

For fans of the Harlem Diplomat who can not wait for the new album, Jones along with his fellow Byrd Gang members will be releasing M.O.B. (Members Of Byrd Gang) on June 24th. 

It seems that the rapper was realizing the impact that the title of the new album was having and in an interview last week with MTV News he said, "Everybody is trying to stop the title.... Record stores are gonna have a problem in this day and time selling a record with that title. Who knows what's gonna turn out and be on that title? Who knows what that title will be?"

Knowing that this album has been long-awaited by many fans, Nas said "It's important to me that this album gets to the fans. It’s been a long time coming. I want my fans to know that, creatively and lyrically, they can expect the same content and the same messages. It's that important. The streets have been waiting for this for a long time. The people will always know what the real title of this album is and what to call it."

Las Vegas Promoters Offer Suge 1 Mil To Fight

We know you're on the edge of your seats for this one. Former Deathrow Records founder Suge Knight might get a chance to redeem himself after being knocked out this past weekend.

According to TMZ, Las Vegas promoters are looking to put on a Pay Per View "rematch" between Suge Knight and the guy that knocked him out in front of an L.A. night club.

The rematch would be a bare knuckle cage fight scheduled to go down on New Years Eve and would net the winner $1 Million.

The only problem?...The one punch wonder is nowhere to be found. 

Lil Kim Awarded 500k In Lawsuit Against Lil Cease

Rapper Lil Kim was awarded half a million dollars yesterday in a lawsuit against one-time rhyme partner, Lil Cease, real names James Lloyd.  

According to the New York Daily News,  Manhattan federal Judge Jed Rakoff found that Lloyd  and his company, Ground Zero Entertainment, used Lil Kim's name and likeness without her permission for a DVD about Junior Mafia.

Lil' Kim originally had filed a $6 million suit against Lloyd, who had testified against her in a criminal trial that ended with her conviction for lying to a grand jury.

Also leading the pack in nominations is vocoder wizard, T-Pain, who leads with five nods for his solo works as well as his numerous collabos on tracks with Chris Brown ("Kiss Kiss"), Kanye West ("Good Life") and Flo Rida ("Low"), he was also nominated twice in the video of the year category.

 The BET Awards will be presented on June 24th, in Los Angeles.

Nelly and Usher are among those expected to announce the nominations on BET's "106 & Park" later today (Thursday).

Usher is also set to perform on the live June broadcast, as well as Lil Wayne, Blige and Mariah Carey.

Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and newcomer Flo Rida received a pair of nominations each, while R&B singers Estelle and Raheeem DeVaughn received one nod each.

The LP, which is set to hit stores this coming August, is being produced mostly by Organized Noize, who handles a vast amount of Outkast's material including the entire Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik LP and "So Fresh, So Clean" from Stankonia.

"I'm shooting to finish the album by the end of August," Big Boi tells Billboard.com.

"This album is Big Boi to the extreme," he continues. "It's like a recession special. I'm talking about what's going on in the world, with everything from rising gas prices to the election. It's just my insights on life up to this point."

Mary J. Blige, Andre3000, T.I., & Raekwon have all been confirmed to be appearing on the album.

The first single, "Royal Flush" featuring Andre 3000 and Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon has already hit the airwaves with a video in the works directed by Bryan Barber.

The second official single will be "The World is Too Big" featuring Mary J. Blige.

The 26-year old rapper was facing up to 25 years behind bars for assault, weapons possession, and coercion.

According to the Associated Press, Smith was teary-eyed as she heard the sentence. She says the shooting last summer was an accident; an appeal is planned.   

After the sentencing, Smith's fiancee, Brooklyn rapper Papoose, lashed out against Joseph screaming "All you want is money!" in a hallway outside the court room.

"Lock me up! Lock me up!" he then shouted to court officers, who escorted him out of the courthouse. 

So Was Papoose attempting to set his love bird free?  

According to the New York Daily News, that may very well have been the case. The wedding, which was scheduled to take place yesterday Monday , May 12th, at Rikers Island was called off after officials confiscated a skeleton key capable of opening handcuffs from the Groom-t0-be Papoose.

"A wedding was scheduled today and a visitor to that wedding service was found to be in possession of jail contraband so the wedding was canceled," a corrections official told the Daily News. 

"The key that was found today easily opened handcuffs that we and other law enforcement officials use," the official said.

Though Papoose wasn't charged after he voluntarily gave up the key, he was sanctioned by not being able to visit Rikers Island for six months.

Remy is facing up to 25 years in prison at her sentencing today (Tuesday, May 13th) for shooting her friend Makeda Barnes-Joseph in the stomach last July in the Meatpacking District.

According to the International Herald Tribune, Police spokeswoman Lotta Larsson says Lewis was taken into custody early Sunday after a performance with Busta Rhymes in Stockholm, Sweden.

Concert organizer O&P Worldwide says a police drug squad also raided Busta Rhymes' hotel room but found no drugs.

Lewis was released after providing a urine sample to be tested for drugs. If charged with possession, Williams may be punished by fines or can be facing up to six months in prison.

Is there any actual beef between former G-Unit soldier Young Buck and 50 Cent? According to Buck, though there are differences between the two --there's no beef.

After airing out their situation over the past couple of weeks, Young Buck appeared on XM radio this past weekend and dropped his two cents on various situations including 50 Cent--his chain snatching, G-Unit, Sha Money XL and more.

"A lot of this shit that 50's doing towards my situation, I'm just not used to," he tells Mz. Kitti of XM's Raw 66.

"I'm a street nigga, I ain't used to nigga's just saying shit and just doing any of this shit I'm like 'Hold up.' ... I'm focused at this point and I'mma stay this way. I'm more happier than I've ever been in my career. I ain't lying." He continued.

Buck also took the time to reach out to The Game, acknowledging his support but says he hasn't managed to link up with the L.A. rapper as of yet.

"To the homie Game. I'm aware of you reaching out. I haven't gotten on no phone conversations and actually spoke to Game, but he's reached out to a few people that's around me just to show his support like 'Yo Buck, fuck whatever's going on, I just wanna see your well being, as long as you aight.' "

"That's love and I ain't even got that call from Banks and Yayo, and we ain't got no issues with each other. The issue was from 50."

You can check out a part of the interview below including his thoughts on Tony Yayo, Sha Money XL, 50's Chain Snatchin, and Snoop Dogg.

It looks like the "most feared man" in the music industry isn't as untouchable as many have been led to believe.

According to numerous reports, Suge Knight was involved in a physical confrontation on Saturday, May 10th, which left him unconscious for almost three minutes.

Suge was reportedly involved in a heated argument with an unnamed man at L.A.'s "Shag" nightclub.

When things escalated, Suge and his entourage beat the unidentified man to the ground. However, during the scuffle, the man landed a right hook to Suge's chin, knocking him unconscious.

Witnesses say Knight was out cold for nearly three minutes on the pavement, before awakening and stumbling over to an SUV, where he was driven away from the scene.

He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and refused to cooperate with authorities.

Suge is also rumored to have a Reality TV show in the works. You can check out the trailer as well as pics from the scuffle below. 

DMX was arrested without incident at his Phoenix home. He posted bond and was later released.

At approximately 48 hours later, DMX was arrested again on drug and animal cruelty chargers.

According t