TUNIS - A Tunisian court has sentenced a rap singer to two years in jail in absentia for insulting the police in a case likely to fuel debate over free speech under the government. The singer, known as Weld el 15, is on the run. Two of his associates, singers Mohamed Hedi Belgueyed and Sabrine ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British rap star Dappy hit the top of the UK single pop charts on Sunday with his debut solo single, the Official Charts Company said. The 24-year-old rapper, who has previously tasted chart fame with grime/hip-hop/R&B outfit N-Dubz, sold over 95,000 copies of No Regrets to ...

RAPPER Aggro Santos, who was a contestant on last years series of Im A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, has been charged with raping two women. The 22-year-old is accused of raping a woman in Chichester, West Sussex, on May 7. He is also accused of raping another in Yeovil, Somerset, between ...

GRAMMY-winning OutKast rapper Big Boi has been arrested in Miami on charges of illegally possessing drugs including ecstasy and Viagra pills. The rapper, whose real name is Antwan Patton, was charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of drug ...

IF you ask MC Kash, hes just speaking the truth. But Indian Kashmirs breakout rappers songs court freedom fighters and could land him in jail. Kash calls himself a freedom fighter who uses sharp rhymes and beats instead of stones or guns to protest Indias rule over the mostly Muslim region in the ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - British rapper Lady Sovereign was fined 400 dollars in an Australian court Saturday after pleading guilty to spitting in a nightclub bouncers face. The 23-year-old, whose real name is Louise Harman, had only been in the country seven hours when she got into a fight in the bathroom of ...