Even though T.I. is still on house arrest, he is still working. He recently talked to MTV News about his new album, Paper Trail. Although he doesn't know when it will be released, he seems ready to get it going, "It's a lot of bullsh-- out right now," he told MTV News. "I'm not gonna front. I feel it's definitely about time for somebody to come back out and kick this thing back in gear. The rotation is suffering right now. I intend to do something about it. It's just a matter of when." Back in December TIP told his fans via a video sent to his social-networking site that he was 30 percent done with the new album, but obviously he has been working a lot since then....more>>

Rumors and testimonials about the NYPD’s hip-hop taskforce have been a fixture on the rap music scene for the last 10 years. But after a friend of Fabolous’was killed in a club last November, and Prodigy was convicted on weapons charges (for which he is about to begin a 3 1/2 year sentence), these two rappers have increasingly been at the center of the debate.

Now, with a pair of cover stories under the headline “Cops Vs. Rappers,” weekly New York paper The Village Voice follows around and profiles the lives of these two MCs in the hopes of better understanding their woes with the law. .....more>>