Dame Dash’s ex-girlfriend Linda Williams filed a complaint with the New York Police Department, alleging the mogul roughed her up over the weekend.

Williams said she went to pick up their 12-year-old son in Harlem over the weekend. Dash allegedly refused to let the boy leave.

When Williams attempted to take the boy, Dash and a bodyguard allegedly knocked her to the ground and took the boy away in a limousine.

Police are investigating and no charges have been filed. According to the New York Daily News, the incident may lead to a court appearance for Dash, as Williams is going to court today seeking custody of the boy.

A lawyer for Williams stated frankly that Williams wanted custody of the child and that she was going to court today to regain custody of the 12-year-old because of the incident.

According to published reports, Dash has hired a video crew to follow Williams, in hopes of gaining information for their upcoming custody battle. It was not immediately known if any videotape of the alleged incident exists.

Dash was awarded custody of the boy in September of 2002. Dash and Williams have been fighting over visitation rights.

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Jermaine Dupri is expanding his So So Def empire and the mogul is working on several new business ventures to expand the So So Def brand name.

Dupri, 32, is working to open the “Def Café,” which will be a 24-hour café in Atlanta, Georgia’s Buckhead section.

In addition to the eatery, Dupri’s So So Def TV is working on a television pilot that Dupri described as his version of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”

And last but not least, the mogul will try his hand in the toy world, as he is developing replicas of himself, Da Brat, Bone Crusher and the So So Def “Afro Man” logo.

In an interview with The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Dupri likened himself to a young Berry Gordy.

“When I got into this business, it was to have the biggest record company ever," Dupri said. "The business of records has and always will be my first love. And youthfully, I'm trying to build my company just like Berry Gordy's, where it is all about the young artists coming with new records and singles."

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The RZA will be animated and placed in a cartoon as part of an upcoming promotion for Wesley Snipes’ “Blade: Trinity,” The third installment of the “Blade” series. RZA, who scored the movie, will fight gold-fanged vampires in the three minute feature, which was conceptualized by ImajiMation Studios, the same company behind the “Blokhedz” comic book series. The animated cartoon will be released as a DVD in the accompanying soundtrack to the movie. The soundtrack hits stores November 23rd, while the movie is in theaters December 10th.

Special Ed is teaming up with his original producer "Hitman" Howie Tee to release a new album, Still Got It Made. The album features guest appearances from Daz, Soopafly, Teddy Pendergrass, Snoop Dogg, Cash Money’s Gotti, Young Rascoe and others. Still Got It Made is the debut album from Ed’s new record label, Semi Records. Howie Tee produced Special Ed's seminal 1989 debut Youngest In Charge,

Coo Coo Cal, who at the moment is best remembered for his single “My Projects,” recently launched a record label, In Da Trunk Records and inked a distribution deal with Sony. On Friday, Cal started production on a video for his latest single “We Got That” featuring Juvenile. The single is from Cal’s upcoming release, What’s Your Hood Like. In addition to “We Got That,” Cal shot two other videos for songs on his album including “Lapdance,” which will be aired on BET’s late night video show, “UnCut.”

Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summit Action Network joined New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey and Trenton, New Jersey Mayor during the New Jersey Hip-Hop Summit last week. More than 2,000 high school and college students attended the summit at the War Memorial in Trenton. In addition to the students in attendance, the Hip-Hop Summit was also web streamed to more than 800,000 young people across the state of New Jersey, including many of New Jersey's high schools, universities and community colleges.

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Namco America has filed a lawsuit against rapper Lil’ Flip and Sony Music Entertainment for copyright infringement, over the rapper’s hit song “Game Over.”

In a lawsuit filed in US District Court, Southern District of New York, Namco alleges their copyright was infringed upon, when sounds from the game "Pac-Man" and "Ms. Pac-Man" were included on “Game Over” and the remix to the song.

Lawyers for Namco were tightlipped about the details of the case.

The lawsuit alleges the sampled portions of the songs were never cleared and cited that the song contained references to guns, drugs and profanity.

Sources stated that Namco is seeking millions in damages, with some stating the amount could be as high as $10 million dollars.

“Game Over” is taken from Lil’ Flip’s platinum selling double album U Gotta Feel Me.

The lawsuit was filed months before a federal appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio ruled that artists should pay for every sample included in their work, including short snippets, whether they were distinguishable or not.

The law previously allowed for some flexibility in regards to sampling, but that was struck down, when federal laws were passed to curb piracy of digital recordings.

The court ruled those laws applies to digital sampling.

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Method Man is a mad rapper. Not in the same sense as the playa-hating Mad Rapper character made famous by Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie. Meth is upset about the lack of respect he's been getting from the media, his record company and producers of his TV show. "That's all me being vocal enough and not being phony and listening when they tell you, 'You're gonna be a big star,' " Meth said of all the rumblings coming from Tinseltown regarding his comedy "Method & Red." " 'Here's your executive producer credit. You're the boss.' I'm not listening."

Almost as soon as the sitcom starring Johnny Blaze and partner Redman debuted on FOX in the spring, stories appeared in the press about strife on the set. Many of them painted Meth as a whiner, and some even said he got into fights with the staff. Meth denies any physical altercations, saying he only fought to maintain the show's integrity.

"I'm not complaining about money, I'm not complaining about promotions," he said. "I'm complaining about 'Where are they trying to go with these storylines?' I'm a grown-ass man, I shouldn't be at a kid's birthday party [on TV]. Me and Redman, what we didn't realize when we came into this and tried to do this television show, [is that] we already had a audience. We was bringing an audience to FOX. They had us feeling like we was going to broaden our audience. See, the audience we brought to FOX, they alienated them off top if you ask me.

"I'm not badmouthing the show, 'cause for real, if me and Redman wasn't on that show, it would be great," he added. "The writing was not bad, it just wasn't for me and Redman. If Keenan and Kel was on there, it would've been funny. But me and Redman, based on [our past, our fans] already see us as hardcore, stoners or whatever — then they look at the show and they us speeding stuff up, using sound effects like 'boiiiing.' They look at this like, 'What in the hell?' I'm looking at it the same way. ... I appreciate FOX for giving us the opportunity to do it, it just wasn't a good marriage. We had to divorce."

Although the show's star talks about "Method and Red" in the past tense, there still is hope that the program will get an overhaul. Meth said the show hasn't been canceled, but that he and Red are on a long hiatus. In the interim, Meth wants to sell more albums. He's still heated about the love — or lack thereof — he received for Tical 0: The Prequel.

"Critics been trying to tear me down," he said. "I knew that was coming, because it was so much time in between albums. People think they know you, but they could never figure me out. That's why I said in my first song, 'Method Man,' 'You don't know me and you don't know my style.' Don't try to figure me. As soon as you try to figure me, you lose me."

Though Tical 0 debuted at #2 in May, Meth said Def Jam was unwilling to support him. "The album went gold by itself with no promotion or nothing," he said. "After that, nobody paid attention. I don't mean the fans didn't pay attention, I mean the label, radio, BET, MTV, nobody wanted to pay attention. Do you know Def Jam didn't even want to give me a second video? If an album goes gold with just a street single and I've been with you eight, nine years loyally, I can't get a second video?"

Meth did recently complete a split video for "Show" and his album's intro. While the Ticallion Stallion can't stand anybody beating him down with their words or pens, he'll take a joystick-induced butt-whippin' any day of the week. He's one of a plethora of hip-hop personalities featured on the new "Def Jam: Fight for NY" video game.

"I still don't have the ill-ass move," he said of the game, laughing. "It's never gonna be what I want it to be. There's a lot of dudes on there that do have the ill-ass move. Now you can use your whole environment to your advantage. You use speakers, walls, trains. Based on the fact they took it outside the ring, its not just wrestling, it's really like a fight club thing. You'll spend a couple of hours just spending everybody's moves out. The game is pretty cool. I can't even front."

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Mase was a no show at his own Hot 97-sponsored Welcome Back show at Nassau Coliseum this past weekend.

No reason was given for the cancellation. Though the concert was billed as Mase and friends, thousands of fans sought refunds upon learning that the headliner wouldn't be present. Instead, Elephant Man, Fat Joe, Mobb Deep, Cam'ron, Dipset and Lil' Flip took the stage in front of a sparse crowd.

The no show fueled speculations of a heightened tension between Mase and Dipset. Before leaving the stage, Harlem's finest took gratuitous shots at the reformed Bad Boy stating, "the reverend ain't here but it's aight we here."