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By Investigative Reporter Dennis Byron | Hip Hop EnquirerSeptember 29, 2026 Michael P. Desronvil, the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, has spoken on camera as the case heads back to a Massachusetts courtroom Tuesday. After weeks of scrutiny over the jury’s deadlock, his message was to turn attention to the children at […]

By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop Enquirer Music Cardi B and Kehlani put hip-hop on the winners’ board at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards. Their collaboration, “Safe”, won Best Hip-Hop at Sunday night’s ceremony in Los Angeles, topping a field that included Drake, Megan Thee Stallion, Travis Scott and Tyler, the Creator. Madonna led […]

By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop Enquirer Manuel Seal, the songwriter, producer and musician whose work helped define an era of R&B and hip-hop, has died at 66. His longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri announced his passing on Sunday, September 27. A cause of death has not been publicly disclosed. Hip Hop Enquirer spoke with Seal’s […]

By Hip Hop Enquirer Staff Remy Ma has a new project out, and the title alone is enough to make the group chat sit up straight. The Bronx rapper surprise-released Alimony, an EP led by “Why I Get Married?” featuring Keke Wyatt. The song has a new video, too. But if that title has fans […]

By Hip Hop Enquirer Staff | September 28, 2026 Jay-Z is taking his legal fight with attorney Tony Buzbee back to a California appeals court. After a woman who once accused the rapper of sexual assault formally withdrew her allegations, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter asked the court to reconsider its ruling against his extortion and defamation […]

By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop Enquirer | September 26, 2026 Lil Durk won a sweeping verdict on September 11: a federal jury in Los Angeles found the Chicago rapper, whose legal name is Durk Banks, not guilty on every charge he faced in his first trial over the 2022 shooting that killed Saviay’a “Lul […]

A Jackson County, Mississippi, grand jury has declined to indict anyone in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. The decision has intensified calls for answers from his family and supporters because the central question remains unresolved: How did Nolan die?

Reporting by Dennis Byron A Los Angeles jury has delivered a historic verdict against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube, finding both tech giants liable for designing “addiction machines” that damaged a young woman’s mental health. In the bellwether case, K.G.M. v. Meta et al., jurors awarded 3 million dollars in compensatory damages to a […]

Two former Atlanta USPS mail recovery clerks admitted to stealing cash and gift cards from the mail and fraudulently obtaining $36,402 in PPP loans for a fake business. Reporting by Dennis Byron for Hip Hop Enquirer.

In an era where producers often remain in the shadows, Ashwin Gane is stepping into the spotlight — not just as a beatmaker, but as a global architect of sound. From Detroit to Mumbai, from drill to R&B, Ashwin’s fingerprints are stamped across a catalog that reads like a cross-continental blueprint for modern hip-hop dominance. […]

Reporting by Dennis Byron/Hip Hop Enquirer Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shermela J. Williams has resigned from the bench while facing possible removal over a series of misconduct findings, ending a tumultuous term that drew national attention to Fulton County’s judiciary. Fulton County judge steps down amid ethics firestorm Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shermela […]

In a split that’s set both timelines on fire, Hip Hop Enquirer has learned that hip hop megastar Cardi B and New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs have officially called it quits — and the fallout is messier than a Twitter thread after midnight. Sources close to the former couple say tension had been […]

Bloomington, MN – A federal contractor who conducts background checks for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies has been arrested in a Bloomington prostitution sting, raising new questions about who is vetting the very agents tasked with enforcing U.S. immigration law, Hip Hop Enquirer has learned through reporting by Dennis Byron. Federal […]

Gwinnett County, Ga. — February 2026 Reporting by Dennis E. Byron A newly filed civil lawsuit against Star Ventures Autos, LLC is drawing renewed scrutiny to the Lawrenceville used-car dealership, as court records show the business has previously been the subject of adverse judicial findings in Gwinnett County. As previously reported, Augustine Kanenge has filed […]

Reporting by Dennis Byron /Hip Hop Enquirer ROME, Ga. — A Rome, Georgia man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison after admitting to making explicit threats to kill Donald J. Trump, according to federal prosecutors. Jauan Rashun Porter, 30, was sentenced by William M. Ray II, to three years and […]