A24-year-old man was shot in the lobby of Manhattan radio station WQHT-FM Monday night while rapper 50 Cent was making an on-air appearance to promote his new album, "The Massacre," police said. The injured man, reportedly a member of the rapper's entourage, was shot in the leg. He was rushed to the hospital, and early yesterday doctors listed him in stable condition. According to Newsday, the shooting occurred shortly after 50 Cent announced he was dropping his (former) protege The Game from his G-Unit clique. Police are investigating the incident, and no arrests have been made . . .
The radio station, Hot 97, was also the site of a 2001 shootout involving rapper Lil' Kim's entourage and for which her bodyguard was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Lil' Kim's own trial -- she's accused of lying to investigators about the incident, in which one man was wounded -- began this week . . .
Coldplay's long-awaited follow-up to 2002's "A Rush of Blood to the Head" will be out in June, the band said yesterday as it announced plans for a world tour and a string of dates in the United Kingdom. The group will be on this side of the pond March 12 to perform a benefit concert for Los Angeles public radio station KCRW at the Hollywood Bowl, but no other U.S. dates have been posted . . .
The Backstreet Boys are back: In support of the group's forthcoming album -- their first in five years, due in July -- the Boys will do a handful of club shows, hitting the District's 9:30 club on March 30. Tickets go on sale Saturday at Tickets.com.
-- Compiled by K. Wilcox,
from Web and wire reports
