The rapid fire emcee known as Twista is having a New Year’s Eve bash to end all New Year’s Eve bashes.

The event will be held at Club Reunion in Chicago. This event is open to the public with tickets being sold at the club. At the stroke of midnight, $50,000 will fall from the ceiling. Besides welcoming in 2006, the party will celebrate Twista’s latest album The Day After, which recently reached was certified gold by the RIAA.

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Rapper Beanie Sigel is heading back to court for allegedly assaulting a 53-year-old Philadelphia man.

Sigel is facing a misdemeanor charge for beating up Wendell Mathis. According to reports, Sigel called a woman that was conversing with Mathis a “ho.” This led to a dispute between the two men, and Mathis ended up with a broken eye socket.

In September, Beanie was acquitted of an attempted murder charge. He was later jailed for non payment of child support, owing $26,000 past due and $2,000 in fines.

Given the emcee’s prior record, this incident may land Beans back in jail for another year.

R&B artist turned actor, Tyrese, like many other Hip-Hop artists such as his co-star in the 2005 film Four Brothers, was born December 30, 1978.

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All year you’ve probably been nodding your head or shakin’ your thang to his music, but didn’t really know who he was. But he’s definately listening to you and making the music you want. Mr. Collipark (formerly known as DJ Smurf) is the producer behind some of the most bangin’ tracks of the year. To add to that, he’s also the CEO of Collipark Music which is the label of Atlanta’s own Ying Yang Twinz.

Collipark explains his unique sound as: “It’s intimate club music, we passed the raps about shake your ass, drop it to the floor, and all that. This is about focusing on one female. [It’s about] if you could get at her directly, what would you say?”

“Wait (The Whisper Song)” and “Shake” by Ying Yang Twinz ,along with “Play” by David Banner are some of the 2005 hits that made it big for the busy producer.

He’s also producer behind Young Jeezy’s up coming single, “Trapstar.” His tracks are also featured on Jaime Foxx’s new album, Unpredictable (”Warm Bed”).

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Basketball veteran Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is working on an untitled documentary exploring the relationship between Jazz, Hip-Hop and basketball.

He told Hoopsworld.com that the documentary was in the production phase, as producers were filming interviews and locating hard to find archival footage.

“We’re doing a documentary, and hopefully it will have a very strong music element,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today’s basketball stars, is directly related to jazz. When we show that connection we find that things haven’t changed at all.”

The documentary will showcase the relationship between jazz music and basketball in the early days of the sport, when basketball was a segregated sport.

Abdul-Jabbar added, “One of the professional teams that was considered to be the best team played out of Harlem. They played out of the Renaissance Ballroom and Casino, which was a dance hall and a place where prominent jazz musicians played. The Renaissance team would play before the main attraction when they played their home games. They would play one half of the game, then they would have one minor band, then they would play the second half of the game and then they might have Duke Ellington until 3AM.”

No release date was available for this documentary at press time.

Brand Nubian member Sadat X, aka Derek Murphy, 37, was recently arrested for pulling out a gun on three teenagers in a Harlem, NY neighborhood.

According to the New York Post, Sadat X said, “I’m going to kill everybody” as he waived a loaded .40-caliber black Baretta at the teenagers.

When the policed arrived at the scene the rapper attempted to flee but was caught and arrested. He was arraigned on Friday (Dec. 23) on charges of criminal possession of a deadly weapon, resisting arrest and reckless endangerment.

Brand Nubian rap group is known for their 1993 hit, “Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down.”

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R&B crooner Akon is currently in South Africa to record with Grammy Award-winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Akon, who is a native of Senegalese, will also spend some time looking for other local rappers to add to his Konvict Muzik/SRC/Universal Records roster.

According to Akon’s friend, DJ Tbo Touch from South Africa’s Metro FM, scouting other African talent is Kon’s way of reaching out to his fellow African people.

In a statement DJ Tbo said: “As for the recording with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the song is actually a remix of his hit “Pot of Gold,” which has already sold more than seven million copies.”

Akon will join Ladysmith Black Mambozo on Dec. 29 at South Africa’s Westridge Tennis Stadium. Other artists performing include local acts Durban’s Finest, Prokid and Pam Andrews.

Producer/artist Pharrell Williams has teamed up with cable network TNT to advertise for the 2006 NBA All-Star Game.

The game is going down on February 19th at the Toyota Center in Houston, TX.

Pharrell will appear on several commercials to promote the event. They will air on TNT’s network and will feature Williams in a recording studio with various shots from the NBA season displaying throughout the commercials.

The last time the NBA All-Star Game was played in Houston was back in 1989, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played his 18th and final All-Star Game.

The 55th Annual NBA All-Star Game is scheduled to air live on Sunday (Feb. 19) on TNT, and will be broadcast to over 200 countries worldwide.

Ludacris, the Atlanta rap star, was qouted during a trial of the United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit that ended Wednesday, May 4, 2005 for an incident that occurred on May 29, 2003.

“The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch “hoe.” A ‘hoe,’ of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music, misunderstood Hayden’s response. We have taken the liberty of changing ‘hoe’ to ‘ho,’ a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps ‘You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.’” Ludacris is paving the way for the language of Hip-Hop just like the “bling bling” addition to the dictionary.

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Former Cash Money rapper B.G. was arrested on Dec. 18 in Detroit for possession of a concealed weapon and drugs.

B.G., whose real name is Christopher Dorsey, was pulled over on the Lodge freeway for a traffic violation. It was then discovered that he was driving with a suspended license.

The police officers then proceeded to check the vehicle and found a firearm and marijuana.

B.G. relocated to Detroit because of the Katrina catastrophe.

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