• 50 Cent, Universal Music Group, its subsidiaries and a member of the G-Unit were sued for promoting a “gangsta lifestyle” by the fourteen-year-old son of Jimmy “The Henchman” Rosemond. Rosemond’s son was assaulted by G-Unit’s Tony Yayo in March 2007.
• Cedella Booker, the mother of reggae icon Bob Marley, passed away from natural causes in her Miami home on Tuesday. She was eighty-one.
• Snoop Dogg reached an undisclosed settlement in a lawsuit with Priority Records over the label’s release of a compilation without the rapper’s permission in 2006.
• Is the newly engaged (to Pete Wentz) Ashlee Simpson responsible for leaking the new Mariah Carey album? Reports allege that Simpson’s father Joe leaked new Carey tracks so that his daughter would face less competition when her new album Bittersweet World comes out a week after Carey’s E=MC2.

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