Jay-Z Mashes Up With Radiohead

Jay-Z was recently combined with Radiohead to create the "Jaydiohead" album. The new album from DJ Minty Fresh Beats combines Jay-Z's "Black" and "American Gangster" albums with multiple albums from Radiohead.
In related news, Jay-Z was also recently combined with Coldplay to create the top mixtape of 2007 titled "Viva La Hova." Other mash-up's from Jigga include the "White" album (Jay-Z combined with The Beatles) and the official album "Collision Course," a mash up with Linkin Park. You can download the new "Jaydiohead" mixtape at jaydiohead.com



50 Cent & Busta Rhymes

50 Cent and Busta Rhymes, Vodka and Cognac

50 Cent and Busta Rhymes have made recent deals between the rappers management company, Viloator Management, and Drinks Americas will have the rappers market a Leyrat Cognac and Sparkling Vodka brands.

Drinks Americas previously signed a deal with Dr Dre to help develop and market a series of premium alcolhol and non-alcoholic beverages, marking the first equal partnership between a music and beverage company. In August, Drinks Americas revealed it would introduce Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Cognac plus a sparkling vodka around the release of Dr Dre's highly anticipated Detox album.

Kanye West's New Louis Vuitton Shoe



Kanye gave a sneak peak of his new Louis Vuitton sneakers to the paparazzi recently. Kanye was spotted leaving a Louis Vuitton store by TMZ cameras and said "I was just showing them my new Louis. I can't show you too much of that, though. These aren't coming out until June." [watch here] Kanye already has a rumored shoe coming out through Nike.

Kanye also commented on his infamous incident with the paparazzi at the LAX airport saying "That airport thing didn't really happen," he jokingly confessed. "It was an optical allusion. That didn't really happen." [watch here] Kanye says he will be focusing on "clothes" in 2009. As previously reported, Kanye stated he plans to step away from music to become a fashion intern.




DMX Home Foreclosed

No it's not more legal trouble, but it isn't good news. DMX's home in Cave Creek, Arizona has been foreclosed. SWAT team raids destroyed the carpets and left windows and doors blown out allowing things to be stollen. "I think people showed up, walked the house and took what they wanted," says Andrew Wheeler, who is in charge of selling the home. The things left at the house were thrown into the pool, leaving the only sign of DMX being an old magazine cover hanging out of a car window.

According to the realtor, the quad-motorcycles DMX was often seen riding on the property, were stolen, along with almost everything else, leaving behind a damaged shell of a once-glamorous home. X paid around $600,000 for the house in 2003 and the bank set the sale price for $429,000. DMX is currently in jail, waiting to be sentenced on animal cruelty, theft and drug convictions.


Dre's Son Died Of Accidental Drug Overdose

Dr Dre's son died of an accidental drug overdose. A toxicology report shows that Andre R. Young Jr. died of "morphine and heroin intoxication" according to Ed Winter, assistant chief of the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

As previously reported, Dre's 20 year-old son was found dead in August at the family's Woodland Hills home. Young's mother found him dead at 10:24 a.m on August 23rd. An initial autopsy was completed a few days later but the results were delayed pending the outcome of a "gamut of tests, including toxicology," Winter said.

A publicist for Dr Dre, Lori Earl, stated "Dr. Dre is mourning the loss of his son. Please respect his family's grief and privacy at this time."


Lil Wayne Talks Acting, Says There Is No One Like Him

Lil Wayne plans on acting more. In a new interview the New Orleans rapper talks about his role in the upcoming movie "Hurricane Season." Co-Starring Forest Whitaker, Isaiah Washinton and fellow rapper Bow Wow, "Hurricane Season' is the true story of a Lousianna basketball team during the Katrina hurricane.

Weezy goes on to talk about recording his "Lollipop" hit, recording with T-Pain and even where he was at when he heard Barack Obama was elected. "I just feel like I'm different," Wayne says, "theres not anyone that does what I do, you don't have anyone to compare it to." Weezy finishes by saying "therefore everytime it comes out, it's new, because no one else does it."




Beyonce Starts 09 At Number One

Beyonce will kick off 2009 with her fourth week at number one. Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" sold another 382,000 downloads last week, up more than 157%. T.I. dropped one spot to number 3 with his Rihanna-backed "Live Your Life" song, while Kanye stays at number 4 with "Heartless."

Beyonce, T.I. and Kanye's other singles ("If I Were A Boy" , "Love Lockdown" and "Whatever You Like") round out the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Beyonce's new album "I Am... Sasha Fierce" was 2008's 10th highest selling album with just over 1.46 million copies sold.