A songwriter and music producer claims pop star Lady Gaga squeezed him out of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up with her stage name and helped her get a record deal.

Eminem's record company says the mega-selling rapper will release not one, but two new albums this year.

Snoop Dogg has quit his record label.

Rap superstar 50 Cent has vowed to sit back and relax after the release of his forthcoming album - he will only return to the music scene when he is "missed" by the public.

The first person to be convicted of illegally downloading music said today she was “devastated” after being fined more than £100,000 (€142,733).

AN American woman has become the first person to be convicted of illegally downloading music and fined $220,000 (€156,000).

An American woman has become the first person to be convicted of illegally downloading music and fined $220,000 (€156,000).

US rapper Kanye West’s Graduation album trounced rival 50 Cent’s Curtis in the much-hyped showdown with nearly a million copies sold in its first week.

Interscope Records bosses have slammed reports 50 Cent's label G-Unit Records is to part ways with its distributors, despite moderate sales figures for artists on the rap roster.

Eminem is returning to the big screen in an updated version of a 1950s television Western.

Proof, a member of the rap group D12 and a close friend of Eminem, was killed in a shooting at a Detroit nightclub along Eight Mile Road this morning.

Rapper Eminem has remarried his ex-wife a month after he announced they were getting back together.

50 Cent wants to buy Interscope Records - because he claims he generates most of the labels income.

A man was shot in the leg yesterday in the lobby of a New York radio station while rapper 50 Cent was making an on-air appearance.

50 Cent has been given his own radio show by a digital broadcaster in the US.

Eminem and his record label have been sued by a French composer who claims the rapper stole one of his tunes.