was held for 11 hours in British customs yesterday before he was allowed into London to perform at the Orange RockCorps charity concert. Busta was being refused entry because of his convictions in the U.S. for carrying weapons and assault. Ludacris was flown in to replace him, but in the end Busta was allowed into the country.
Atlanta rapper Ludacris' pool house burned down last night. Luda was not home at the time of the blaze and no one was hurt.
Fulton County Fire Department spokesman Gregory Chambers says a relative was in the basement of the main residence when the fire started and was not injured. Chambers says the fire was put out within 30 minutes but destroyed the pool house, which he says is larger than most homes.
During his performance at the benefit "Dream" concert for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington D.C., Ludacris neglected to delete the word nigga from his rhymes.
Ludacris's Boston concert was cancelled because of low ticket sales. Luda was due to perform at the Eastern States Exposition on 30 September, but the show had to be called off because only 700 tickets for the 61,000-capacity arena had been sold.
