

Might escalate into all-out war between rappers and journalists, former Nation of Islam minister Conrad Muhammad-who now heads a group called A Movement for CHHANGE (Conscious Hip Hop Activism NecessaryĪnd offered to mediate “this craziness.” Muhammad, dubbed In January 1997, while on tour promoting her first solo album, Ill NaNa, with the Lost Boyz and Camp Lo, Brown was arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, for allegedly spitting on two Holiday Inn employees and threatening to whack one with a fish bowl after she asked for an iron and they said they couldn’t provide one. Sources say that Brown, upset over an article in the December/January issue of Vibe with a cover photo showing the gangsta coquette practically nude, confronted Smith and struck her. The incident comes on the heels of another allegedly violent confrontation between teenage rap sensation Foxy Brown and Danyel Smith, editor-in-chief of Blaze‘s parent publication, Vibe, an r&b/hip hop magazine founded by Quincy Jones. Of attacks in the wake of last week’s brazen assault on Jesse Washington, editor-in-chief of the Manhattan-based hip hop magazine Blaze.ĭeric “D-Dot” Angelettie, a member of rap mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs’s posse of producers known as “The Hit Men,” was arrested

Hip hop journalists, under fire by rappers for portraying them as arrogant, real-life hoods and scantily clad The Mad Rapper: Deric Angelettie surrenders to police.
