50 Cent Loses Suit Against Nigerian Author Over Movie Title, a famed Nigerian author won a recent legal battle against 50 Cent to court over the title of his film "Things Fall Apart."It looks like things are falling apart rather quickly for 50 Cent's upcoming football flick Things Fall Apart. After being sued for $200,000 for unpaid services on the film, the Queens rapper recently lost a major legal battle against famed Nigerian author Chinua Achebe over the movie's title.

According to BroadwayGhana.com, 50 Cent was recently forced to change the name of his upcoming film Things Falls Apart over a copyright dispute involving the title. Upon learning of the film's title, Chinua Achebe, who wrote the iconic 1958 novel of the same name, threatened to sue Fiddy and the film's backers over a violation his celebrated book's copyright. 50 and company attempted settle out of court with the African author's foundation, offering them $1 million to use the title. Ultimately, the Chinua Achebe Foundation refused the offer, and the film's producers persuaded the G-Unit general to change the title to All Things Fall Apart to avoid a more serious legal battle.

Mos Def, real name Dante Terrell Smith, feels the Mos Def name has run its course and it’s time for a fresh beginning. “I’m retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I’m actually doing it. Yasiin. That’s it. Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it’s a name that the streets taht me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I’ve done quite a bit with that name and it’s time to expand and move on. Also, I didn’t want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.”

Snoop Dogg is back at acting again and this time he’ll be staring in a family sitcom. He’s been working with Don Reo on the project in which the rapper/actor will play the role of the father, reports Deadline.com, right now the show is still in production mode at Warner Bros. TV and has not found a network home yet, but the show might seem reminiscent of his days on E! reality series “Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood.” In the meantime, he’s working on another project. As we reported earlier, he was cast for the title role in the biopic “The Legend of Fillmore Slim.

Now long ago, rapper Game got into a brawl with Rass Kass for the second time, stating he two pieced him and knocked him out unconscious, well what goes around has come back around. Rumors are swirling about the incident that happened at Fox Hill Mall in Houston, Tx, the alleged artist is supposely signed to Brick Squad's own Waka Flocka, over a Twitter post.

Game was walking around the mall with his sons and JoeMo @rosemo700 rolled up on him with disrespect but seeing his son's there with him he kind of played the situation cool, yet not the Compton superstar he ask for the fade and got faded out! video here

Young Mel, is Jay'z nephew from his sister and is taking charge of following in

his famous uncle footsteps with his own label entitled Natural Born Hustlaz Ent.

after losing his cousin a couple of years ago (Colleek Luckie) he made it his

effort to pursue music even harder. Check out his music at this link here

50 Cent is named in a lawsuit filed by a woman who was allegedly attacked by one of his employees in his Connecticut mansion. The suit says that Dwayne McKenzie ordered another woman to beat Vasti Ortiz down after she tried to leave the house because he was being “graphic” and “sexually vulgar.” She says she’s suing 50 because he should have known that McKenzie is a criminal with a past history of violence. –Rahim Wright

Diddy was, once again, featured by Forbes this week, as one of their picks for the "Future 400" richest in America, estimating his net worth at around $550 million.The financial mag says Diddy is on track to become hip-hop's first billionaire, beating out heavyweights such as 50 Cent and Jay-Z.Some of his most profitable business dealings include his stake in Ciroc vodka, which is valued at close to $1 billion, alongside his ownership stake in fashion lines Sean John and Enyce, his marketing company Blue Flame; and, of course, Bad Boy Records.

While many in the hip-hop community are in awe of Diddy's business achievements and others congratulating him, some don't see it that way. They see it as competition ... and even argue that Forbes has it all wrong.YMCMB's Birdman is contending that he and Lil Wayne should be in the conversation of future billionaires as well.

In fact, he says YMCMB will be the first billionaire brand in hip-hop, period."I think Young Money Cash Money would be the first billion-dollar brand in hip-hop," Baby claimed, in an email to Forbes. "We strong and growing every day as a brand and fast. Within the next few years we will be billionaires."