Cash Money CEO Bryan “Baby” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams appeared in a Kingsport, Tennessee courtroom yesterday (October 17), where they pleaded no contest to possession of marijuana charges.



The Williams brothers and 12 of the 13 other co-defendants entered into the same plea, which stemmed from a November 2007 incident, in which a pound of marijuana was found inside their RV.



The charges were allowed to be dropped to misdemeanors, because prosecutors believed the pound of marijuana was for consumption and not redistribution.



Prosecutors dropped the charges to misdemeanors citing “Bonnaroo cases,” a reference to a popular musical festival in the area, that frequently finds fans in possession of various drugs, for personal consumption.



“You’re in the same situation, or the state wouldn’t be willing to reduce this, but you’re a little bit different, because you have the at least, in my view, have the ability to influence young people…I hope that you discourage them,” Judge Toohey told Bryan Williams.



The Williams brothers were sentenced to 11 months and 29 days of unsupervised probation.



If they avoid any legal trouble, the charges will be expunged from their records, because they were free of any prior convictions.



“If you get in any trouble and the state finds out about it then your subject to having this probation revoked and you could serve 11 months and 29 days in jail,” Judge Toohey warned Bryan Williams.



Two of the Williams brothers’ entourage failed to show at yesterday’s hearings, resulting in each man being issued two separate felony failure to appear warrants.

From BallerStatus.com -- Travis Barker is finally our of a Los Angeles burn center where he was being treated after surviving a plane crash last month that took the lives of his assistant and bodyguard, and two pilots.

The drummer and producer was released Friday (October 17) from the Grossman Burn Center, according to the Associated Press, where he has been being treated for second- and third-degree burns since September 29.

Barker has been giving fans updates via his MySpace blog on his condition. Just this week, he said he'd be coming home soon.

"I think I'm getting out of the hospital soon. I can't wait to get out of here and be home with the babes," Barker blogged from the center, also posting pictures with friends and family by his bedside, including the Game and Skinhead Rob. "The doctors say I'm healing up quickly, and I'm gonna be out of here b4 you know it."

Reps for the burn center said that Barker, 32, isn't fully recovered, but will continue receiving treatment from his home. However, he is expected to fully recover in the next few months.

Barker was initially treated in Georgia following the plane crash in South Carolina, but was released and admitted to a center in Los Angeles at the end of September.

DJ AM, who was also in the plane crash that took place in South Carolina, was released over two weeks ago. He performed alongside Jay-Z this week during the re-opening of Hollywood's Palladium Theater.

Source: http://www.ballerstatus.com/article/news/2008/10/5651/

Tony Yayo's hope isn't too different from a lot of hip-hop fans out there — who wouldn't like to see the Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit triumvirate come back together to smash the game?

"This is my dream," Yayo said to MTV News on Tuesday while taping a segment for Mixtape Monday. "First 50 Cent, then Eminem, then Dr. Dre ... or 50, then Dr. Dre, then Eminem, because they'll both do a million, first week, behind the anticipation. [Before I] Self Destruct, last album [for Interscope] — that means a big bag of money might be coming from somewhere. ... Eminem, he's like Jesus overseas. He's like Elvis overseas. Then Dr. Dre drops. Then a G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath tour."

"All that snapping, all that prancing is gonna stop and hip-hop is back," DJ Whoo Kid added. 50's DJ then said he had a more authoritative word on how Interscope Records is going to unleash its "three-headed monster."

"My reality is 50, then Eminem, because I know that's definitely coming out next [after 50]," Whoo Kid insisted. "Then iffy on the Dre. But Eminem is definitely coming out.

"I heard four joints, and I tried to Bluetooth it, and I got caught at the door," he added with a laugh. "There's no way to get an Eminem joint unless they officially leak it. Them mutha----as got FBI on the computer."

Whoo Kid didn't speak in depth about the material he heard from Em but did promise that everyone would love it.

"Oh my God!" he exclaimed. "You're gonna be wilding. Eminem is definitely next. You heard it from my f---ing mouth. That's that. I wish I could play it out my head right now."

"I been hearing the talks through the building," Yayo offered. "50 album and an Em album and a Dre album. That's like the focus. Them three dudes shut down the building. But 50 is the point man. He sets it off."

50's album is set to drop December 9. There are no official release dates for Eminem's upcoming album and Dr. Dre's long-awaited Detox.