Friends and family of Ol' Dirty Bastard are scheduled to attend a private funeral in East New York, Brooklyn's Christian Cultural Center today.

After the funeral, a public memorial is expected to follow. Meanwhile, authorities are continuing their medical tests in the rapper's autopsy and results are expected to be revealed in the next few days.

Throughout this week, Old Dirty has been eulogized in award shows and performances. Outkast shouted him out during their American Music Awards acceptance speech earlier this week and Lil Jon did the same during his album release party performance at New York's Club Exit. Roc-A-Fella Records labelmate Nicole Wray, who appeared on Dirty's first record after being released from prison, "Dirt Dog (Welcome Home)," remembers him fondly.

"He was a good guy, a very talented guy. We laid the record down," Wray told SOHH.com. "I'd rather talk about the positive outlook on his life rather than mourning on his death."

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Ron "Gutta" Robinson, manager to Ja Rule, was arrested as part of the ongoing investigation of Murder Inc's alleged money laundering operation.

On Wednesday, a federal court arraigned Robinson for laundering over $1 million dollars between 1997 and 2002. The indictment read that Robison "knew and believed that some of the laundered funds were the proceeds of ... a controlled substance."

Earlier this month, Murder Inc.'s bookkeeper Cynthia Brent was indicted and charged with laundering drug money and structuring cash to avoid federal reporting conditions. In April the Feds attempted to indict Irv Gotti for allegedly running a million-dollar tax evasion scheme through Murder Inc. and his relationship with drug-kingpin, Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff.

Robinson has been released on $500,000 bond.

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As he prepares to unleash his 5th album, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Xzibit recently slammed Hip-Hop's commercialism and pleaded for artists to change their content.

Though he reps the West Coast, traditionally known for its gangsta rap standouts, Xzibit's music has always included political undertones. Now, the rapper believes that Hip-Hop has long abused its violent image and needs to get back to being positive.

"Hip hop went through a total stage of positivity and then it transformed into gangster rap and then it got commercial," X told Reuters. "Hopefully it goes back to that positive side where we can start communicating and saying something through our music."

X also said that Hip-Hop had lost its substance in favor of watered down commercial hits in order to please radio and TV.

"When you can choose to play a record that says pop your ass or a record that has some kind of positive message or knowledgeable subject, it's easier to accept the ignorance than put out something that has some thought process to it," X explained. "The guy who just does ignorant music wins the awards and gets the millions of music sales and that becomes defeating after a while."

Xzibit's Weapons Of Mass Destruction hits stores in December.

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Rumors rapidly circulated about a beef between Fat Joe and boxer Roy Jones Jr. over a lyric the rapper said in Ja Rule’s hit “New York.” But the rumors aren’t accurate, Jones says. In the song, Joe refers to Jones’ knock out losses to Antonio Tarver and Glencoffe Johnson by saying “even Roy Jones was forced to lean back.”

At a party for Ja Rule at Club Exit in New York, the pair spoke, but no beef arose – only a sense of frustration, Jones said.

The former champion told AllHipHop.com, “I don’t think …it’s just that me and Joe were cooler than that so that’s why I asked him, ‘You changed on me now?’” I used to support everything that Joe did and he supported everything I do. People try to make it bigger than what it is.”

With absolutely no beef with Joe, Jones said primary focus was with his present album, Body Head Bangerz.

Magic, rapper with Jones’ BodyHead imprint, agreed. “BodyHead Bangerz is our way of saying, ‘This is what we have to offer to the world.’ We took and put our artists with the best of the best. People are not going to accept new artists when they first come out. We are the truth. In the process of making this CD, we were amazed at what a great of a CD we have made and every song is a banger.”

Still, Jones, 35, remains one of the best fighters boxing has ever seen, if not the best pound for pound. And for those that thought Jones was going to retire, the normally light heavywieght said that he would indeed return in championship fashion - when he's ready.

“Everybody in the world know Roy Jones ain’t gonna go out like [that]. I don’t know when it’s gonna be, but when the hunger come back I don’t care if I am 45 - I will be back,” he said. “And the hunger will be back cause I am a fighter for life.”

Roy Jones Jr. Presents: Body Head Bangerz is available and the first single from the album is "I Smoke, I Drank" features the Atlanta group Young Bloodz,