Black artists have spent generations creating valuable music catalogs, but ownership has often been complicated. T-Pain recently sold his publishing catalog and master rights to HarbourView Equity Partners for an estimated $100 million. He explained that streaming devalued music from a dollar per song to fractions of a cent per play without artist consent, so selling secured his family's future. This trend includes Tina Turner, Future, and Dr. Dre selling catalogs for substantial sums. While selling represents a personal business decision, the broader conversation should focus on ensuring artists have knowledge and power to control their created work and benefit from their legacy.

Federal prosecutors say they have recovered a signed release document and a cellphone video that support allegations that Pooh Shiesty orchestrated the armed kidnapping of Atlanta veteran rapper Gucci Mane to get out of his record deal.

For a show about dragons and rich white people arguing over inheritance, House of the Dragon has somehow become one of the Blackest shows on television. A Black father is trying to hold his family together. Black men are dealing with the reality that they are the sons of their father's Black mistress while he was going home to his white wife.

Chris Brown is fighting his former housekeeper's efforts to redirect his profits from his tour with Usher into her pockets as she tries to collect on her nearly thirteen million dollar judgment from a lawsuit Chris lost. Maria Avila is attempting to have all of his present and future income assigned to her including tour money and royalties until the debt is satisfied. Chris filed court documents objecting to these moves claiming the effort to grab all of his current and future income is way too broad and well beyond what she can get under the law.

Offset clapped back at Rylo Rodriguez after the Alabama rapper appeared to mention his rumored gambling troubles on a new song. Rylo's album S.K.A.T.E., released July 3, includes the track "Eliza (Bless Me Up)," where he raps, "Freebandz, I'm locked in with Casino, but I'm not Offset."

In yet another tragic loss in Mississippi following the death of Nolan Wells near Horn Island, a Black woman was found hanging from a tree on Monday. After Mississippi authorities identified her as 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, detectives began investigating her death alongside other high-profile cases involving tree-hangings in the state this past year.

The money trail connected to an alleged million-dollar sports scheme was supposed to lead to answers and accountability. Instead, the story ended in tragedy after one man at the center of shocking allegations was found dead. Mohamed Coulibaly was accused of running an elaborate online investment scheme that allegedly targeted former NFL players. His body was found floating in a backyard pool in New Jersey, and investigators are still searching for answers.

Cam'ron's not playing around with a member of Cardi B's team anymore, demanding money he feels he's owed from a studio session and using alleged NSFW messages as leverage. He's threatening to reveal sexual messages and photographic evidence if he doesn't get payment soon for work on an unreleased track.

Snoop Dogg's company is asking a judge to sanction eight members of Drakeo the Ruler's rap crew nearly $5,300, arguing they failed to respond to discovery requests in the lawsuit over the rapper's 2021 killing. A hearing has been scheduled for September.

Next month marks the 30th anniversary of rapper Tupac Shakur's untimely death. Now, three decades of conspiracy theories, cold leads, and rumors have come to a head, as the murder trial for Duane "Keffe D" Davis officially kicks off on Aug. 10, bringing the late rap legend's unsolved murder back to the headlines.