DMX was arrested at London's Heathrow airport yesterday (May 13) for allegedly verbally abusing the cabin crew on a flight to England.

According to police, DMX, born Earl Simmons, refused to button his seatbelt as the plane started its final descent.

After the plane had landed, the 35-year-old rapper continued a verbal tired aimed at the flight's crew.

The captain alerted police, who arrested DMX when the flight landed around 12:00 pm.

"Heathrow Police were called at 12.05pm on Saturday to reports of a passenger causing a disturbance on an inbound aircraft," a Scotland Yard official said in a statement. "The plane landed at approximately 12.15pm and a 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being verbally abusive to cabin crew."

Police said they released the rapper with a caution.

DMX has a well known history of arrests.

In 2004, he was arrested at JFK Airport in New York after a road-rage incident involving a parking space.

The rapper subsequently violated the terms of his probation in the JFK case, when he was cited for driving 104 mph in upstate New York, as well as another incident where he struck a car, which in turn struck a police cruiser in the Bronx.

In Nov. of 2005, DMX was sentenced to serve 70 days on Rikers Island for the infractions.

The rapper was released from the prison on Dec. 30 for good behavior and credits he accrued while previously incarcerated.

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MC Breed has been sentenced to serve a year in state prison for failure to pay over $200,000 in child support.

On Thursday (May 11), Genesee Circuit Court Judge Richard Yullie ordered 34-year-old MC Breed, whose real name is Eric T. Breed, to prison for violating his probation in lacking to make payments for child support.

Breed pleaded with the Court, saying that he is broke.

"I'm in so much debt right now that it makes my head spin every time I think about it," Breed said.

The judge however, showed no mercy for Breed's plea of being broke claiming that records show that his case dragged on for an extensive amount of time.

Yullie also noted that Breed had previously pleaded guilty in the fall of 1999 to attempted no support.

"Someone looking at this file would ask me why did I give Mr. Breed so many opportunities?... You have not met your obligations you have in respect to supporting these children."

Before being sentenced by Judge Yullie, Breed faced another judge for a separate child support case.

Genesee Circuit Judge Archie Hayman also sentenced Breed to serve a year in confinement in the county jail, with the provision that he can participate in the work release program if he could find a job.

But Judge Yullie's judgment to a year in prison without the work release program supercedes Judge Hayman's ruling.

Before Judge Yullie rendered a judgment, Breed apologized for all of his "inconsistencies" and said that he'd given up on his pursuits of the rap game.

Additionally, the rapper also had outstanding warrants in the Detroit area for failing to a pay speeding ticket and operating a vehicle with a suspended license.

But these extra penalties were waived since he was heading to prison.

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After numerous delays, the OutKast film "Idlewild" is now slated to arrive Aug. 25 in U.S. theaters, three days after the release of its LaFace soundtrack. The first single from the album, "Mighty O," leaked online earlier this week. The cut features OutKast's take on Cab Calloway's famous scatting from "Minnie the Moocher."

Andre 3000's verse finds him resisting easy categorization: "The damsels in distress but they a mess / They only like my armor and that I'm a performer/ They read one magazine and want to think they're getting warmer / They're only getting colder."

Big Boi, meanwhile, reasserts his dominance over other rappers with lines like "Intended for anyone filling out this application / An estimate is needed for your underestimation / I'm firing on the spot, go back and check your calculations." Later, he threatens, "I'll hurt you like the president's approval rating by serving you're a** with words, fool."

Written and directed by Bryan Barber, "Idlewild" is set in the 1930s around the music and business of running a speakeasy. While it will fit the film's context, Big Boi told Billboard.com last year not to expect period music.

"It's hip-hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years," he said. "Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD [OutKast's 2003 album "Speakerboxx/The Love Below"]. It was like, where do we go from here?"

Recording artists Patti LaBelle, Macy Gray and Fishbone's Angelo Moore also appear in "Idlewild," along with actors Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Ben Vereen and Cicely Tyson, among others.

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D12 may be down a man, but the rap group is not out. A month after cofounder Proof was gunned down, the Detroit hip-hop collective that also counts Eminem as a member says it will forge ahead with plans to record a new album, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Denaun Porter, aka Kon Artis, told the newspaper that D12 will head back into the studio in June once another member, Swift, is released from jail, where he's serving time for violating his probation for drunken driving.

"If people think that because [Proof]'s not here we're not going to keep doing what we're doing, then they're wrong," said Porter.

On Apr. 11, the 32-year-old Proof (born Deshaun Holton) got into a heated dispute with 35-year-old Keith Bender over a pool game at the C.C.C. nightclub situated along Eight Mile Road.

Witnesses at the scene said the rap star pistol-whipped Bender, an Army veteran, then shot him in the face. Proof in turn was shot several times in the head and chest by the bar's bouncer Mario Etheridge, who's also Bender's cousin.

Proof was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital while Bender was hospitalized in critical condition and died several days later of his injuries. Etheridge eventually surrendered to police, saying he shot the rapper in self-defense. While not formally charged with murder, he is facing charges for carrying a concealed weapon and discharging a firearm in a building, which carry a five-year prison term.

D12 first topped the charts with 2001's Devil's Night. The follow-up, 2004's D12 World, also debuted at number one. The albums have sold more than 3 million copies.

According to Porter, the new record will feature some of the last rhymes written by Proof, as well as appearances by Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, G-Unit and Busta Rhymes.

"We're just taking the record to the next level," Porter told the Free Press. "We had some songs recorded already. We got a song called 'Holding Our Own' that we recorded and Proof is on that song."

Aside from the upcoming D12 disc, Proof's second solo album, Time Will Tell, is slated to hit stores later this year.

In related news, prosecutors this week shut down the C.C.C. nightclub for one year and slapped the owners with $600 in fines for a series of violations from operating illegally after hours to underage drinking, armed robbery and several shootings, which culminated in Proof's death.
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Alicia Keys is hitting the big scrren. Oddly enough, one of R&B's biggest sensations isn't taking her most known attraction to film.

Her first appearence on-screen will be alongside Ben Affleck in Smokin' Aces and fans want to know: Why doesn't she have a song on the soundtrack?

Her next movie, The Nanny Diaries most likely won't feature Keys on the soundtrack either. Is she giving up singing? Not quite.

"I think later on I'll try getting into acting as well as doing the entire soundtrack. But right now I want to focus directly on the acting,"
she says.

Fans of her music should not fear as Keys promises a new album with new preparation. This time, expect 100 percent of Alicia Keys.

"I'm in the studio now," she told MTV. "I'm actually taking a different approach for this album. I'm taking the approach of writing everything first, kind of old-school style. Before cats stepped in the studio, the song was written, the music was done — that kind of thing. The idea of it was already developed. I want to do that," she added.

Later, the singer/actress explained that she hoped to work with a wide variety of artists including John Mayer, Linda Perry and John Legend.

Although it may take awhile to hear her new music, fans can still catch her at the movies.

Look for Smokin' Aces soon.