Police are seeking suspects in an early morning shoot-out on the set of a Busta Rhymes video shoot in Brooklyn, New York.

Israel Ramirez, 29, was shot once in the chest and was pronounced dead a short time later.  

Rhymes, who was in the studio at the time of the shooting, was not injured.  

Rhymes was shooting a full length remix video for his single “Touch It,” on Green Street in Greenpoint, known for it’s thriving artistic community.  

Last week, Busta Rhymes released three all-star remixes to “Touch It.”  

The video will feature Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, DMX, Papoose, Rah Digga, Lloyd Banks, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Winky Wright, Garry Sheffield, Raekwon and others. Read the rest of this entry »

“Chuck” Taylor, aka The Game, is angry. He’s angry with his former labelmate 50 Cent and his G-Unit clique, and he’s so angry with his one-time comrades that he spends the majority of this mixtape’s running time showering them with some of the most vicious disses since Hov and Nas collided. Indeed, should a copy of You Know What It Is Vol. 3 reach the headquarters of Mr. Cent I’d wager that he might regret labeling his scorned protégé ungrateful and booting him from his Unit.Beginning with the sweeping “300 Bars” Game verbally assaults 50 (“You sell records, but a G-G-G-U-Not!”), Lloyd Banks (“I’m a G-Unit toy soldier, on ‘

’ doing voice-overs”-in a rather distinct vocal impression), while the street credibility of Young Buck and Tony Yayo are placed under question. Game also remains shamelessly adamant that the First Lady of G-Unit, Olivia, is actually a man. At fifteen minutes, the cut inevitably lags in certain places but Game’s lyrical barbs are nonetheless rewind-worthy and some classic instrumentals serve as the cut’s backdrop. Read the rest of this entry »