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For college students eagerly waiting for their chance to see Young Money's golden child they're in luck.

Right before his commander in chief leaves for jail, Drake is announcing a 25 date college tour around the country.

His first solo tour dubbed the “Away From Home” tour will be part of the 5th Annual Campus Consciousness Tour.

The tour produced by Pretty Polly Productions and non-profit environmental organization Reverb promotes eco-friendly tours around the country.

In support of the cause Drake will

T-Pain was added to the mix last night of the top rated Super Bowl commercials. Check out his Bud Light ad below:

The life of a rapper is a hustle and there must never be an opportunity missed to make money to build on an empire.

For rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, the promotional machine behind his VitaminWater has landed the rapper inside a truck handing out burritos to his hungry “fans” during the X games recently.

Even a man at such a caliber of 50 has no problem in getting his hands a little dirty for a common cause: A bigger paycheck.

Always willing to come from the ground up, Jackson apparently has no boundary lines when it comes to exposing himself.  It's a surprise that the burrito didn't come with a copy of Before I Self Destruct.

“Reality hasn't set in that he has to go to jail yet.  He shouldn't have to go to jail”

After pleading guilty to gun possession charges back in October 2009, Lil Wayne will now have to report to the court February 9 to receive his one year sentence at Rikers Island.

Leaving his imprint and featuring himself in as many video's, songs, etc as possible before the bid, Wayne is making sure that his time will not heavily effect his fans and will leave them with enough material to soak up until his release.

Stating that he will make sure that he will have an iPod to go through beats, a source within the confines of the cell assures the fact that the rapper will not actually be entitled to such luxuries.  Coinciding with other stipulations, the rapper will see his dreadlocks

The case of the fatal shooting of T.I.'s assistant and best friend Philant Johnson has officially come to a close.

Prosecutors have sentenced the last man responsible for the shooting, 41-year-old Padron Thomas.

As previously reported Thomas pled guilty to manslaughter after receiving a lesser sentence for testifying against his brother.

He appeared in federal court Friday where has was sentenced to

Always known to drop street anthems, rapper Fat Joe has kept New York moving with smash hits like “Lean Back”, “Make It Rain” as well as his assistance to DJ Khaled and the Miami movement.

Bouncing back after the lackluster response to his 2009 album Jealous Ones Still Envy 2, Joey Crack is back to bring back his gritty side with the upcoming project The Darkside: Volume 1 set to drop later within the year.

The New York native already unveiled some of what is in store by teaming up with Young Jeezy for the street single “Slow Down (Ha Ha)”.

"Slow Down (Ha Ha)"

Coming back harder than ever, Joe was able to

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Slip N Slide's Baddest B*tch recently teamed up with Diddy on the set of her new video for “Million Dollar Girl.”

Trina's new single features Keri Hilson and the Bad Boy CEO decided to step in to lend a cameo to the visual.

In this video clip Diddy speaks on making Trina an “official Ciroc girl” and his new partnership with the Diamond Princess.

Peep the video after the jump...

Jamaica's annual concert to commemorate musical legend and Rastafarian icon Bob Marley, has been canceled for the first time in 18 years.

The event scheduled for February 6 in the city of Negril was called off after promoter Clive Pringle was denied a permit.

Police report that Pringle's birthday bash for Marley was canned because it was notorious for

While many still remain stunned over the performance of the Indianapolis Colts last night, others are waving their flags to celebrate the New Orleans Saints and their Super Bowl win.

Showing his commemoration for the Louisiana team, Young Jeezy decided to drop the visual for “Who Dat” once again to show all the doubterss exactly who the Saints are.

All those Colts fans out there, time to work those extra shifts to pay those gambling debts.

Peep the video and more after the jump...

“It's funny how things come full circle.”

In light of The Game still working on his R.E.D. album, he's making an unexpected move in the New Year.

Jayceon Taylor is going  back to his roots and is officially announcing his return to Aftermath Records.

Game was previously associated with the record label founded by Dr. Dre but moved to Geffen Records in 2006 after a reported fallout between himself and the legend.

Obviously completely over the beef and ready to return home, Game

Jigga opens up Super Bowl XLIV with performance alongside an opera.

“In NO way did i ever think that this was some cruel insensitive joke on behalf of Jeff Zucker and his comrades at NBC…”

After Roots drummer ?uestlove posted a picture on Twitter showing NBC network's dinner menu in honor of Black History month, the Internet was up in uproar with cries of stereotyping and profiling.

As previously reported the menu in question offered fried chicken, collard greens and jalapeno cornbread in “honor” of the month and according to the chef who cooked it, Leslie Calhoun, not meant to be offensive.

Standing up for Calhoun ?uestLove says the picture of the menu he posted was meant to be “all in fun” and released a statement saying,

“Give me mine back motherf*ckers….”

If you haven't heard already, Diddy lent his vocals to a remix of Waka Flocka Flame's hood anthem “O Let's Do It.”

In the remix the Ciroc Star makes notable quotables about being richer than them “white folks” and only touching “J. Lo's.”

SMH.....he's so disrespectful.

Check out the video for his verse below.

Shyne Po can't get a break.  After riding for Diddy, doing damn near a ten year bid, and coming home only to be exported to his native Belize, the one-time Bad Boy lieutenant has now been denied entry into the U.K.

According to reports, Shyne was headed to London via Cancun, Mexico since he can't enter the U.S. but was denied because of his travel paperwork.

Shyne and an entourage were headed to the United Kingdom to record tracks for his