According to the source, who works closely with the Queens veterans, tension has been building between Havoc and Prodigy for some time now. Prodigy was locked up from 2007 through 2011, serving a three-and-a-half-year gun charge sentence, and was determined to stay out of trouble when he came home; he stopped drinking and smoking and hit the gym. “While he was up there, 50 Cent came to visit a couple times,” the source said. “And 50 had came to him and said, ‘Listen, man, when you come home, I wanna sign you as a solo artist.

I’m gonna give you a $500,000 advance check, but I’m not fuckin’ with Havoc because Havoc has been dealin’ with alcohol issues for years. Since you’ve been in jail, he’s checked in to rehab a few times.” Mobb Deep had previously been signed to G-Unit from 2005 through 2009. With three months to go in his sentence, Havoc still hadn’t visited Prodigy, and though the G-Unit offer was enticing, P was willing to give Mobb Deep another chance if Hav visited him before he was released.

“A week before [Prodigy] comes home, Havoc finally shows up,” the source continued. “[He says], ‘Yo, listen, I’m sorry, man. I’ve been battlin’ alcohol again. I just came out of rehab. I really wanna work again. Let’s get money.’” Prodigy was open to getting back to work with his longtime comrade. He was released in March 2011, and the next month dropped his autobiography, My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy. P and Hav hit the studio a few times—even releasing the Black Cocaine EP in November—but the two rarely interacted. “The only time Prodigy would see him was before a show—at the airport or however they’re gonna get there,” the source said.

Citing one instance in particular, the source says Havoc spent $20,000 at a casino, but didn’t remember the next day because he had been drinking heavily. “When he went into the account, the money was gone,” the source recalled. “He forgot because he has these little blackout moments when he’s drunk—that he spent all the money gamblin’. He accused Prodigy’s manager [of] stealin’ the money out of his account. So he knocks on Prodigy’s door, he smacks Prodigy across the face, Prodigy wrestles him down, beats him up a little bit. After, he remembers that he was gamblin’, so he comes back to Prodigy and apologizes and all that. But at this point, Prodigy is already tellin’ me and my other friend, ‘Yo, this is the last Mobb Deep tour. When I get back to New York, I’m gonna disappear. I’m not fuckin’ with H no more.’”

Havoc referenced an altercation on Twitter earlier this week, writing, “I had to smack P, ask him.”

The Infamous Mobb hit SXSW in Austin for the first time last month, and though they performed multiple times, the tension was continuing to mount. “When he got back to New York, Prodigy kept his word,” the source said. “He stopped takin’ Havoc’s calls. He wanted to be out that whole situation.” The source also denied accusations that Havoc questioned Prodigy’s sexuality, and said it’s highly unlikely that the two will work together again. “To be honest with you, there’s 120 percent certainty that there will never be another Mobb Deep album again,” the source concluded. “How do you come back from that?”

Article Written By Adam Fleischer (@AdamXXL)

no real clarification on what’s going on. but read what prodigy had to say below

of course it was throughout his set. so this isn’t the whole set, just the main parts of him talking about clue. i don’t know what this whole beef is over. egos? a nicki minaj record? or just rival stations. do you think this is good for radio? what’s your take on this whole thing? who do you listen to? flex or clue? do people even listen to the radio anymore period? speak on it! listen to the audio below!

A Delaware father says a feud, fueled on Facebook, is to blame for his son’s murder.
Larry Parks, Jr. was gunned down in broad daylight Saturday afternoon.

The shooting happened in the 300 block of New Castle Avenue in Wilmington.

Larry Parks, Sr. says he knew words were exchanged through social media, but his son never felt threatened.

“He was having fun. I guess this other person or whosever involved, he wants to take it somewhere else; that’s what he did, for no reason. He’s gone. He’s gone,” Parks, Sr. said.

The 17-year-old from Bear was a student at Pencader Charter High School.

Counselors were brought in today to talk with Parks’ classmates.

Wilmington police are still searching for the shooter.

just blaze recently went on mtv with saigon and said cam’ron disrespected him one day. cam’ron caught up with mtv to respond to just blaze allegations. hit the jump to see the video!

i’m not sure what exactly we were supposed to see here.

but hit the jump and see for yourself!

Bill Cosby told Russell Simmons to “get the [bleep] out of my face” at the Jackie Robinson Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria when Simmons tried to apologize for their ongoing beef.

The two have been sparring since 2009, when Cosby launched his “State of Emergency” campaign promoting socially conscious rap music without lyrics celebrating violence, sex or the degradation of women. At the time, Simmons heavily criticized the effort, but tried to make amends with Cosby at the dinner on March 7. “I wanted to find him to apologize, to tell him I was sorry about my statements and to tell him that I loved him,” the rap mogul now writes on his blog, Globalgrind.com.

But instead, according to Simmons, Cosby said, “Get the [bleep] out my face!” Simmons also writes that Cosby “walked by me and bumped me with his shoulder as I walked offstage after presenting my award to Sean [Combs, who was honored at the event] . . . I then loved him even more.” Through a rep, Cosby responded to Page Six, “I don’t want to discuss it.”

Superstars PRINCE and MADONNA have ended their decades-long feud after the MATERIAL GIRL turned up to one of his recent New York concerts and cheered him on from the crowd.

The pop idols were close friends throughout the 1980s and briefly became lovers before teaming up to record the track Love Song, from Madonna’s 1988 album Like a Prayer.

But they suffered a mystery fall-out and their relationship turned bitter as they took shots at one another through the media.

In subsequent interviews, Madonna blasted Prince as a “little troll” and criticised his refusal to eat during one dinner date.

She said, “He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don’t eat. They annoy me.”

Their spat continued throughout the years and Prince most recently took aim at mother-of-four Madonna at a concert in London in 2007, when he quipped, “I got so many hits y’all can’t handle me. I got more hits than Madonna’s got kids!”

But the old pals now appear to have put their differences to rest – according to UsMagazine.com, Madonna was spotted in the audience at Prince’s Madison Square Garden gig on Tuesday (18Jan11), singing and clapping along to the soul star’s hits.

And Prince even acknowledged Madonna’s presence by giving her a special shout out from the stage, after joking about the high-price of their concert tickets.

Nicki Minaj sat down with the New York Times for an in-depth interview recently. She spoke about different topics including her various personalities as well as her thoughts on how Lil Kim going in on her is actually making it harder for women to win in Hip-Hop.

Peep what she had to say below:

That brings up an interesting point because I would be pretty remiss not to mention your spat with Lil’ Kim. When she badmouths you and others doesn’t that just make it even harder for female rappers?

It does, it does. But the thing that I want to promote is that if you see someone doing their thing, give them their props. We all have it hard and face the same challenges as female emcees. Show some mutual love and respect for each other so that it doesn’t get nasty. And she can be a nasty character.

Read the rest of the interview here.