Chris Kelly — one half of the iconic rap group Kris Kross — died Wednesday in Atlanta after he was found unconscious at his Georgia home. He was 34. Kelly was pronounced dead around 5:30PM EST at the south campus of the Atlanta Medical Center.

Lil Wayne’s night in a Miami strip club almost ended with blows — he and Trick Daddy came dangerously close to a Drake-Chris Brown type brawl … and TMZ has photos inside the club. Weezy was chillin’ at King of Diamonds last night when, according to sources inside the club, he started to get a bad vibe from Trick Daddy’s posse. We’re told Wayne decided to cut the night short, and while walking out with the homie Mack Maine … a few of TD’s boys stepped up and threw a lit cigarette in Wayne’s dreads.

Rick Ross just learned a hard lesson about rape and money … you embrace one, you lose the other … because he was just DUMPED by Reebok. As TMZ previously reported … Ross has taken a ton of heat for his song, U.O.E.N.O … in which he happily sings, “Put Molly [Ecstasy] all in the champagne. She ain’t even know it. I took her home and I enjoy that. She ain’t even know it.” Translation — date rape.

Gucci Mane will likely be in an Atlanta jail cell for nearly a month. Reports Wednesday (March 27) confirmed that rapper Gucci Mane was in police custody after evading an arrest warrant for several days. The Warner Bros. Records star was charged with two counts of assault, after allegedly attacking an autograph-seeker with a bottle.

Whatever Sean “Diddy” Combs is going by these days, there’s one label sure to fit the hip-hop mogul: rich. For the third year in a row, Diddy has topped Forbes’ list of wealthiest hip-hop artists. What does it take to be number one, as Diddy’s colleague Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, fifth on the list, might ask? A cool $580 million, at least in estimated net worth.

Lil Wayne said publicly for the first time what we told you about 2 weeks ago … he was near death after suffering multiple, violent seizures. Wayne, during an interview with Power 106 in L.A. yesterday, said he’s an epileptic and prone to seizures. And he said … he’s been having seizures for a long time.