• Rapper Tony Yayo’s road manager Barja Walter’s house was riddled with bullets and Molotov cocktails in an incident early Tuesday morning. No one in the house, which included Walter, his wife and three children, were hurt in the siege. The incident comes almost nine months after Yayo’s mother’s house was shot up in a similar fashion. Meanwhile, Yayo is due in court tomorrow to face charges stemming from allegations that he slapped the fourteen-year-old son of a rival music executive.

• In Britney Spears news, reports surfaced today that Brit was hit with a emergency temporary restraining order during last Thursday’s confrontation with police. Spears faces jail time if she comes within one hundred feet of her kids. In other news, the paparazzi member that Spears has been spotted with is reportedly seeking to sell semi-nude photographs of the pop star to tabloids. Finally, Spears’ ex-bodyguard Fat Tony is dishing about his former client to TV show Extra.

• A day after rapper Prodigy went to jail on gun possession charges, the Mobb Deep member was rushed to a hospital and later released due to a flare-up of his sickle-cell anemia. Because of the relapse, the recovering rapper has been granted a thirty-day stay from going back to prison.

• Perhaps fed up with seeing his top talent bolt from the label, EMI music chief Tony Wadsworth announced that he too would be leaving the imprint after twenty-six years of service.

• While there is no new Pixies album on the horizon, frontman Black Francis (a.k.a. Frank Black) will release a new mini-album, dubbed Svn Fngrs, on March 3rd. The seven-track disc was written, recorded and mixed in six days.

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