Sean came clean about the meaning behind Halls Of Fame: Memoirs Of A Detroit Player recently. The G.O.O.D. Music rapper spoke to Hypebeast about his sophomore drop, which features production from Kanye West, No I.D. and KeY Wane.
“I feel like anybody who does what they love to do or is trying to do with their lives that works hard, they’re trying to get to their own hall of fame in they own way, you feel me?” he said.

Miami rapper Bizzle, whose real name is Robert Labranche, was killed in a shooting outside a Miami car washing business Monday night (October 15), witnesses have told NBC 6 South Florida. Labranche was 37 years old. Police say the murder occurred Monday night at around 7:30 PM at 770 NW 54th St. “He would not let you starve. He would not leave you in the street,” one of Bizzle’s neighbors, Rod Parker said, noting that the slain rapper would always try to help absolutely anyone in need.

Flavor Flav was arrested early this morning in Vegas after allegedly assaulting someone in his house with a deadly weapon, TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, Flav — real name William Drayton Jr. — allegedly got into a heated verbal argument with a teenager in his house, as well as his fiancee. His fiancee then called 911.

Tyga INSISTS … he’s not some broke-ass squatter who’s refusing to pay rent on a Malibu crib — in fact, he claims he just bought a $6.5-million mansion 20 miles away. A Malibu landlord named Gholamreza Rezai sued Tyga, claiming the rapper is screwing him on the $16,000-per-month rent … but continues to live in the home. But a rep for Tyga tells Gutta World the lawsuit is 100% B.S … insisting he gave the landlord the necessary 30 days notice before he left … and everything should be square.

By day, he’s a geeky Microsoft honcho, but by night, Michael Angiulo got on stage with Too Short and rapped about fucking 2 bitches at the same time … and TMZ has the video. Mike’s wife threw a bash for his 40th birthday at a Seattle bar, and hired Mike’s hero, Too Short, to perform for the reasonable price of $25k.

When hip-hop legend Knowledge B. Born headed to the stage to finally receive his Hip-Hop Lifetime Achievement Award, he clutched in his right hand a speech written in graffiti that he had wanted to deliver for years. He planned to put the entire audience of rap superstars on blast for destroying the culture he helped create. But, when he looked into the faces of a room full of rich kids half his age, who were either half asleep or busy textin’, he just crumbled up his notes, said “Ya’ll keep doin’ your thing,” and left the stage. Leaving the crowd whispering amongst themselves, “Who was that old dude…”