[Ed. Note: As of May. 28, 2014, this piece has been updated with the recent news of Busta Rhymes. Enjoy.]

Well it was reported earlier that Busta Rhymes owes the IRS north of three quarters of a million dollars in unpaid federal taxes. According to documents they have obtained Bussa Bus has been hit with tax liens of $611K for 2008 and additional $178K in 2012. The grand total comes in at $789,577.90.

Busta is not the only rapper that has run into major problems with the Internal Revenue Service in recent years. An unfortunate trend in hip-hop has found that many rappers are failing to pay their taxes and it's costing them in both their bank accounts and in many cases, their freedom. XXL is looking back at the rappers who are failed to settle their bill with the Tax Man.

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MC Hammar

MC Hammar owes the IRS $1.4 million dollars for penalties and interest on the 1996 tax delinquency. Hammer filed for bankruptcy in 1996 and thought to have cleared his $7 mil dollar debt when he paid in 2007. Hammer feels that the IRS is out to get him and has filed legal docs asking a judge to block the IRS from collecting.

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Lil Wayne

Lil’ Wayne owes the government just about $12 million in back taxes. For 2011, he owes a whopping $5,843,952 and $6,311,132 for the following year.

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Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill went to prison for three months at Danbury Federal Prison for tax evasion, failing to pay about $1 million in federal taxes between 2005-2007, entered prison on July 8 2013.

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Fat Joe

On August 28, 2013, Bronx rapper Fat Joe turned himself into federal custody after pleading guilty to charges of tax evasion. Joey Crack was sentenced to four months in prison after failing to pay over one million dollars in taxes between 2007 and 2008 to the federal government. He is scheduled to be released from prison in December.

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Ja Rule

Queens rapper Ja Rule was recently released from prison on May 7, 2013 after serving almost a two-year bid for weapons and federal tax evasions convictions. After being initially pleading guilty in 2010 to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and being sentenced to 20 months in prison, Rule was slapped with an additional 28-month sentence for failing to file his income tax returns in New Jersey. The "Always On Time" rapper reportedly owed over $3 million dollars in earnings from 2004 to 2006.

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Mystikal

While serving six years in prison for his role in a videotaped rape of a woman, Mystikal was hit with an additional year in prison for attempting to cheat the federal government out of $271,000 in taxes on January 12, 2006. Mystikal plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts of failing to file a tax form for failing to file tax returns in 1998 and 1999.

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Lil Kim

Over the years, Lil Kim has had major problems paying her taxes, going back almost a decade. In 2012, TMZ reported that the Queen Bee owed a debt to the federal government that totaled a whopping sum of $1,026,862.42. Apparently, Kim had owed money to the IRS from every year from 2002 to 2009.

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Jermaine Dupri

So So Def Chief Jermaine Dupri might  hip-hop's biggest serial tax evader in history. In 2008, the federal government placed a tax lien on Dupri's assets that totalled 3,095,004.64 that the Atlanta kiddie rap mogul finally paid off on January 18 of this year. However, that was only the first of multiple liens placed on Dupri as he was slapped with a second lien in 2012 for $500,000 in Georgia. That was not the end of his tax troubles as in June 2013, it was reported that Dupri owed $798,692.3 in taxes for 2012.

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Master P

In February 2004, Master P copped to a tax evasion rap after his company, Bout It Incorporated, failed to pay $2.3 million from his first year of his company's business in 1996.

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Nas

Over the years, Nas has had one of the biggest, bloating tax liens in hip-hop. In 2009, it was reported that the Queens rapper owed the IRS $2.3 million dollars in back property taxes from his homes in Queens, NY and Eagle's Landing, GA dating back to 2006. By January 25, 2011, the number had ballooned up to an astronomical $6 million.

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Beanie Sigel

In August 2011, Beanie Sigel plead guilty of failing to file tax returns from 1999-2005, save for one $10,000 tax bill in 2001. The Internal Revenue Service had asserted that Sigel had failed to pay up his fair share of $2.2 million in taxable income and owed $728,536. In July 2012, Beans was sentenced to 24 months behind bars, which he is currently serving at a federal detention center in Philadelphia.

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