It has been five years since the untimely death of Houston native Chad Butler, better known to fans as Pimp C. Pimp C was one-half of the southern Hip-Hop duo UGK.

A journalist showdown took place Tuesday morning after CNN/TVOne analyst Roland Martin went on the offensive following negative comments made by The Baltimore Sun’s TV Critic David Zurawik in a column regarding the “Baltimore Blogger.”

Chicago’s own Young Chop is staying busy. The producer holds claim to many of up-and-coming Interscope artist Chief Keef’s hits, including the club banger “I Don’t Like.”

Trinidad James has jumped into the political arena to endorse one of Hip Hop’s original gangsters for president. The “All Gold Everything” rapper took to Twitter to endorse Snoop Lion for president.

Chicago rapper CashOut spoke against the persona Interscope artist Chief Keef is portraying in the Hip Hop music scene. CashOut, who hails from the St. Lawrence area of the South Side, is setting out to expose the real Chief Keef.

Words have power. So it easily understood how one song could ignite a violent feud.

Interscope artist Chief Keef released the songs “3Hunna” and “John Madden,” which took shots at the Gangster Disciple street crew “Tooka Gang.”

John Coleman, better known by his stage name Swagg, has released his latest music video “Bail In Bail Out.” Swagg paid homage to his younger brother Lil’ JoJo in the video with a sneak peak teaser appearing in the video’s intro.

Though only 22 years old, Chicago rapper CashOut is very streetwise for his age. He knows the rules of the game even though it may be dirty at times.

A Fly Visual Production will soon release the latest music video from slain Chicago rapper Lil’ JoJo. A snippet of the “Sh*t Is Real” video appears in the beginning of his older brother Swagg’s “Bail In Bail Out” official music video.

Fitness guru Shaun Thompson, known to many as Shaun T. for his “Insanity” fitness videos, got married to his longtime boyfriend Scott Blokker in October. Shaun T. came out via a retweet on Twitter soon after his ceremony.

Chief Keef isn’t letting up on his verbal assault of Lil’ JoJo and the slain Chicago emcee’s BrickSquad crew.