#1. R. Kelly

June 5, 2002 – R. Kelly was arrested in Florida after an investigation of a videotape recorded between November 1997 and February, allegedly showed Kelly having sex with an under aged girl. He was charged with 21 counts of child pornography and illegally engaging in sexual acts with a minor.

#2. DMX

On December 24, 2002, DMX, born Earl Simmons, was charged with unsafe lane changing, failure to signal and possession of a forged instrument.

Other arrest include:
On June 24, 2004 DMX was held in cental lockup in Queens, New York after being arrested at Kennedy Airport’s parking lot after he and another man were allegedly caught trying to steal a car then fighting with the car’s owner. DMX alledgedly crashed through the parking-lot gate, shouting to the parking lot attendant that he was as an FBI agent. He then stopped another driver and tried to force him out of his car, also identifying himself as an FBI agent.

#3. Suge Knight

Suge Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records, was arrested in March of 1997 on violating his probation from a 1992 assault conviction.

Knight received probation in 1992 for weapons and assault charges. He was found guilty of breaking that probation in 1996 after security cameras at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas caught him and a group of other men beating a gang memeber. He was sentenced to nine years in prison for parole violation.

#4. Sean “Puffy” Combs

Sean “Puffy” Combs, CEO of Bad Boy, was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of stolen goods.

Prior to his arrest he and then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez were partying at at a Bronx, NY nightclub, Club New York, when at around 3 a.m. an argument broke out and gun shots were fired. Combs, Lopez, bodyguard Anthony Jones and driver, Wardel Fenderson fled the club in Combs’ Lincoln Navigator. Police stopped the vehicle after Fenderson ran a red light. Police found a stolen 9 mm pistol sitting on the front seat and the four were arrested, questioned and released.

On January 4, 2000, Combs went before the grand jury investigating the nightclub shooting. He was indicted on weapons charges and later for bribery after driver, Wardel Fenderson said Lopez and Jones offered him $50,000 and a diamond ring if he agreed to say he owned the gun found in the car.

On March 16, 2001, Combs, represented by attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr., was acquitted of the weapons possession and bribery charges. The jury also acquitted Combs’ bodyguard Anthony Jones of all charges.

Soon after the trial, Combs’ changed his moniker from “Puffy” to “P. Diddy”, claiming the trial had changed him. “I’ve changed, I’ve matured,” Combs’ told Time. “This whole thing has made me deeper. It’s not what it was about before … I want to sit down and think about it and try and understand it on an intellectual level.”

#5. Jamal “Shyne” Barrow

Rapper, Jamal “Shyne” Barrow is serving a 10-year prison sentence for his involvement in a 1999 shooting at a night club in New York City.

Known in some circles as P. Diddy’s “fall guy”, rapper and one time P. Diddy protege, Jamal “Shyne” Barrow was found guilty of first-degree assault, gun possession, and reckless endangerment in a 1999 New York Club shooting incident.

#6. Tupac “2Pac” Shakur

On November 18, 1993, Tupac “2Pac” Shakur was arrested for sexually abusing a 19-year-old woman, who he met in a New York nightclub, and allegedly sodomized and sexually abused with three of his friends. In 1995, he was sentenced to prison for up to four and a half years, but received an early release after a few months. In September 1996, the 25-year-old Shakur was shot four times in the chest and died from the wounds.

#7. Young Jeezy

Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy was arrested with guns in South Beach, Florida after an alleged shooting took place.

The 28-year-old Atlanta rapper, Young Jeezy (Jay Jenkins) was arrested in South Beach, Florida and charged with two counts of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit.

Jezzy and a group of nine other men were allegedly involved in a fight earlier in the evening. Shots were fired after a bystander who was filming the incident refused to turn over his camcorder to the group.

Jezzy and his group fled the scene in two SUVs, but were stopped shortly afterwards. Police found Jezzy in control of two semiautomatic firearms, one under his seat and one near the armrest.

According to the police, Jezzy has a previous arrest for carrying a concealed weapon.

#8. Snoop Dogg

In August 1993 Rapper and producer Calvin Broadus, also known as Snoop Dogg was charged for being an accomplice to the murder of Phillip Woldermarian. In February 1996, with the help of attorney Jonnie Cochran, Snoop was found not guilty of all charges but voluntary manslaughter, on which the jury deadlocked.

August 2003 – Snoop was named in an affidavit claiming that he and the makers of the “Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style” tape lured two underage girls to take their tops off for the camera by offering them marijuana and ecstasy. The suit was settled in July 2004.

#9. Da Brat

Rapper Shawntae Harris, (aka Da Brat), 33, was arrested on November 1, 2007, at the Studio 72 club northeast of Atlanta after she reportedly hit a 24-year-old waitress with a bottle of rum causing deep cuts on her face and around the eye. Harris was charged with felony aggravated assault and was released after posting a $50,000 bond.

#10. Eminem

Marshall Mathers, III (aka Eminem) was arrested twice in June 2000 on gun charges in Michigan, and was hit last year with probationary sentences in both cases, one in Royal Oak, the other in Warren. The rapper was nabbed by Warren cops for carrying a concealed weapon and assault after fighting with a man he saw kissing his estranged wife Kim outside of a club. He also got popped for brandishing a weapon during a parking lot beef with members of the rival rap outfit Insane Clown Posse.