Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An admitted gunman in the murder of Memphis rap star Young Dolph has testified that Big Jook, Yo Gotti’s brother, ordered the hit ...

The past 12 months in Memphis music have featured plenty of fascinating stories, subplots and revelations. In 2024, the biggest local music developments didn't just take place on records or on stage.

Rarely does it happen that the word 'serendipity' hovers over a song. In the case of “Really” by German producers Lucry & Suena, rapper Bonez MC, and the tragically departed Young Dolph from Memphis, ...

On the opening day in the murder trial of Young Dolph in Memphis on Monday, Cornelius Smith, one of the main suspects, admitted to shooting the celebrated rapper, whose legal name was Adolph Thornton ...

Memphis, Tenn. – Justin Johnson was found guilty of murder in the death of rapper Young Dolph on Thursday after the jury heard testimony from a co-defendant that the killing was part of a feud between ...

Key Glock takes the stage in Houston for just the second show of his Glockaveli Tour. Credit: Photo by Sean Thomas “Long live Dolph” chants erupted and echoed through 713 Music Hall as Key Glock’s ...

On Monday, Shelby County prosecutors alleged in court that Anthony “Big Jook” Mims, the late brother of rapper Yo Gotti and a key figure in Gotti’s CMG record label, put a $100,000 hit out on fellow ...

Young Dolph at WGCI's Big Jam in Chicago (Photo by Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) Jermarcus Johnson received a six-year diversionary program sentence for his role as an accessory in rapper ...

New testimony on an alleged murder-for-hire plot, with one of the admitted gunmen claiming that Big Jook, brother of Yo Gotti, was behind the deadly order that killed Young Dolph. On Monday, August 18 ...

Update 1/11/22: U.S. Marshals have captured the suspect wanted in Young Dolph’s murder. UPDATE 1/5/22: Police identified the suspect in the killing of rapper Young Dolph on Wednesday, January 5th.

It’s been two years since masked assailants gunned down celebrated rapper Young Dolph, whose legal name was Adolph Thornton Jr., as he shopped near his boyhood home in South Memphis. For two years, ...

Hernandez Govan, the man accused of orchestrating Young Dolph’s murder, has been found not guilty. The verdict was announced Thursday afternoon, nearly four years after Young Dolph—born Adolph Robert ...