A Brooklyn rapper is being held without bail in connection with last week's fatal shooting at a popular Manhattan concert venue.

Rapper 50 Cent has been sentenced to three years probation after pleading no contest to vandalism after an alleged fight with his ex-girlfriend.

A lawyer for Tony Yayo of the hip-hop group G-Unit told a judge in the US today that he has a witness who swears the rapper is innocent of slapping and punching a rival’s 14-year-old son.

Busta Rhymes was arrested on a drunken driving charge in New York early today, police said, marking the latest in a series of recent legal troubles for the US rapper.