Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks suffers from dementia and should not answer questions relating to her lawsuit against Hip-Hop stars Outkast, her doctor’s revealed.

Parks, 91, took the rap group to court over their 1998 hit song “Rosa Parks,” featured on their multi-platinum release, Aquemini.

According to her lawyers, her health is failing and she will not be able to take the stand and testify in the case. The civil-rights legend hired powerful lawyer Johnny Cochran to represent her in the case, as well as several other attorneys.

Parks claims Outkast’s song violated her trademark rights and accuses the group and their record label, BMG of exploiting her name. She also claimed that a gospel album she released was impaired by the song and that confused fans purchased the Outkast album, expecting a gospel themed record.

The group claims “Rosa Parks” is protected by the First Amendment.

Parks handlers agreed to release the documents in August, to prove that she was not able to take the stand. She has not been seen in public since 2001, when she was forced to cancel a meeting with President Bush.

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DMX appeared in a Queens, New York court yesterday, to answer charges relating to his arrest at Kennedy Airport in June.

As the rapper entered the courtroom, he bickered with officers, who told him he was not allowed to take off his coat before being screened.

After being riled, he turned his attentions to a lieutenant and implied that a bracelet he was wearing cost more than the officer’s entire salary.

The charges stem from an altercation in the airport parking lot in June, in which DMX allegedly put flashing lights on his SUV, chased a man through the lot, crashed through a toll both and attempted to assault the man, over a parking space.

When police searched the SUV, they found a billy club, a small amount of crack and Depakote, a drug prescribed for people who are bi-polar.

In addition to those charges, a woman from Maryland showed up at the court date to hit the rapper with a paternity suit.

According to Monique Wayne, 24, DMX has acknowledge that he is the father of her five-month-old son even helped name the infant, but he has not provided her with any child support.

The child was conceived during a one night stand after Wayne met the rapper in a nightclub in Washington, D.C. in late 2003.

The criminal case has been rescheduled for October 13.


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Rapper 50 Cent will make his acting debut, when he turns his attention to the silver screen for his “semi-autobiographical” drama, “Locked and Loaded.”

The rapper will play a former drug dealer, who leaves the seedy underworld behind for a career in music.

Terence Winter, who has gained critical acclaim as writer and executive producer of HBO’s “The Sopranos” will write the screenplay.

Interscope founder Jimmy Iovine and Eminem’s manager Paul Rosenberg will serve as producers.

Iovine and Rosenberg also served as producers for Eminem’s smash movie, “8 Mile,” which grossed almost $120 million at the box office.

According to reports, the flick is part of a first-look feature film deal between MTV Films and Paramount.

In May of 2003, the rapper announced that he had signed a book deal with MTV Books/Pocketbooks, to create his autobiography.

The film is slated for a late 2005 or early 2006 release date.