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Lil Boosie is a free man, according to Baton Rouge's CBS affiliate WAFB. The Louisiana rapper had been in jail since 2009 on drug charges, and his release has been widely speculated in the past few months. According to WAFB, the news was confirmed by Angola State Penitentiary Warden Burl Cain, and Boosie was transferred to a Sheriff's office in St. Fra...

Yesterday it was reported that Lil Boosie, the Baton Rouge rapper who has been in prison since 2009 on drug charges, will be free this August. Today, his brother has told the Times-Picayune in New Orleans that that date is not accurate. ...

As XXL reported earlier this month, incarcerated Nashville rapper Struggle Jennings sparked a local stir when he released a music video filmed from behind bars back in October. The hard-hitting “Black Curtains” video contains 2012 footage of Jennings inside the Davidson County, Tenn., correctio...

Nashville rapper Struggle Jennings reps a city not exactly known for its gang violence, so the level of brutality unleashed in his new video “Black Curtains” may come as a bit of a surprise. When considering family tradition, however, it may not—Jennings is the grandson of late country music legend Waylon Jennings, one of the notorious godfathers of the rough and raw “outlaw country” genre. Jennin

Lauryn Hill completed her three-month sentence at Danbury Federal Prison for tax evasion this morning, and dropped a new track to celebrate her release. Ms. Hill, who was convicted of failing to pay about $1 million in federal taxes between 2005-2007, entered prison on July 8...

Fat Joe is the latest artist to head behind bars on the dreaded tax evasion charge that has been spreading like crazy through the hip-hop universe in the past decade. After being sentenced in June to 4 months in Federal lockup, he reported today in Miami to begin doing his time, according to TMZ...

Sources have confirmed that Chief Keef will be released from the Illinois Youth Center later today. In a recent Tweet from the GBE rapper's Twitter, it was confirmed that Keef will be released sometime today, Thursday March 14th. Although the Tweet has since been deleted, XXL has obtained a screen grab of the announcement, which was posted last night at 9:14 PM...

MMG rapper says prison made him focus on priorities

Just over a month till his October 12 release from prison, the former Cash Money rapper earns his high school diploma...

The former G-Unit rap star starts 18-month prison sentence on weapon charges...

Weezy proclaims that skateboarding has become a lifestyle for him and addresses B.G.'s 14-year prison sentence...

The former Cash Money rap star says this is just "another chapter" in his movie-like life...