After spending close to six months in prison for possession of a forged passport, G-Unit’s Tony Yayo was released from a New York correctional facility earlier this week, reports SOHH.com.

Last January, Yayo was incarcerated again only one day after being released from time served on a gun possession rap.

Heads are already anticipating Yayo to hit the mixtape circuit in the coming weeks.

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DJ Scratch, longtime DJ for EPMD & general turntable wizard, is working on a “scratch-umentry” about his 20 plus years behind the turntables.

“THE DJ: THE DJ Scratch Story” contains a long list of people that I have worked with & DJ’s that I have inspired,” Scratch explained to AllHipHop.com. “Plus there’s never-before-seen footage of me cuttin’ s**t up.”

Interviews with Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Redman, EPMD & others are featured on the DVD which drops this fall.

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Barely a year after his last release, Kris Styles, KRS-One is returning with his 13th LP entitled Keep Right.

The LP will mark Kris’ first release on independent Grit Records.

The album features “The I,” a collaboration with long time affiliate Mad Lion and a spoken word from Afrika Bambaataa.

Keep Right is scheduled for an early summer release.

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Suge Knight’s Death Row Records was ordered to pay $162,000 to a man that claimed Knight and a crew of bodyguards attacked him at a recording studio three years ago.

The verdict was issued last Tuesday by a Jury in Los Angeles that did not hold Knight personally liable for the attack, but ruled that Death Row was accountable for the actions of the security guards they employ, reports AllHipHop.com.