CURREN$Y COVERS JENESIS MAGAZINE'S 50TH ISSUE

Beginning with its first issue in 2007, JENESIS Magazine is now set to release its 50th Issue. JENESIS is also celebrating its five-year anniversary, so they decided to grab Curren$y to hold down the cover for this commemorative edition.  Over at their site, you can read the entire interview.

VIDEO: LIL' WAYNE FOR MOUNTAIN DEW

DeWeezy! 

Mountain Dew’s new TV spot featuring Lil Wayne, Mac Miller, Jason Aldean, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Paul Rodriguez Jr., Theotis Beasley and Danny Davis. Featuring music from Lil Wayne (“Right Above It”). This How We DEW!

VIDEO: A FABOLOUS WAY PRESENTS - 3RD ANNUAL URBAN PROMISE FUNDRAISER

A Fabolous Way, a foundation based in NYC started by Multi Platinum recording artist Fabolous, hosted the 3rd Annual Urban Promise Fundraiser. Funds were raised to help send 45 inner city youth from Camden, NJ on a week long educational spring break trip to Maryland, where they will go camping, zip lining, canoeing, rock climbing and on tours of our nations capital Washington DC meeting with local senators and congressmen. Present were Fabolous, Emily B (@EmilyB), Hot 97, XXL and more.

CBS NEWS SITS DOWN WITH 9TH WONDER TO DISCUSS HIS COURSE AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

If you didn't know, along with Professor Mark Anthony Neal, 9th Wonder is a co-teacher for a entrepreneurial course at Duke University. In the course, 9th Wonder shares his knowledge of music and provides multiple lessons on music '"sampling," and also teaches the role of African American music and its relation to the Civil Rights movement. If I attended Duke I would definitely be enrolled in this course.

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VIDEO: KANYE WEST FASHION SHOW IN PARIS

The "n*gga in Paris" Kanye West tookhis talents to the Halle Freyssinet in Paris yesterday to unveil his Fall 2012 collection for his DW women's clothing label.  As expected, the show was filled with guest celebs of all sorts; from Waka Flocka to Cassie to Alicia Keys.  Check out some of the highlights above.!

54TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS WINNERS

Here is a list of the winners from last nights 54th Annual Grammy Awards festivities.  As you can tell, Adele shat on mostly everybody there, followed by Kanye West and Skrillex.  These are just the "need-to-know" winners but if you want a full list of all categories, check out the Grammys website.

Record of the Year
Adele – “Rolling In The Deep”

Album of the Year
Adele – 21

Song of the Year
Adele – “Rolling In The Deep”

Best New Artist
Bon Iver

Best Pop Solo Performance
Adele – “Someone Like You”

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Tony Bennet & Amy Winehouse – “Body And Soul”

Best Pop Instrumental Album
Booker T. Jones – The Road From Memphis

Best Pop Vocal Album
Adele – 21

Best Dance Recording
Skrillex – “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”

Best Dance/Electronica Album
Skrillex – Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Tony Bennett & Various Artists – Duets II

Best Rock Performance
Foo Fighters – “Walk”

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
Foo Fighters – “White Limo”

Best Rock Song
Foo Fighters – “Walk”

Best Rock Album
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light

Best Alternative Music Album
Bon Iver – Bon Iver

Best R&B Performance
Corinne Bailey Rae – “Is This Love”

Best Traditional R&B Performance
Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona – “Fool For You”

Best R&B Song
Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona – “Fool For You”

Best Rap Performance
Jay-Z & Kanye West – “Otis”

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie – “All Of The Lights”

Best Rap Song
Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie – “All Of The Lights”

Best Rap Album
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

YOUNG JEEZY ANNOUNCES "HUSTLERZ AMBITION" TOUR

With TM: 103  still being one of the hottest albums out of the last few months, Jeezy reveals his upcoming Hustlerz Ambition tour.  Check to see if your city will be a pit stop for the Snowman...

March 3 - Washington DC (Fillmore)

March 4 - New York, NY (Irving Plaza)

March 5 - Boston, MA (House of Blues)

March 6 - Hartford, (CT The Dome)

March 8 - Philadelphia, PA (Theatre of Living Arts)

March 9 - Cincinnati, OH (Bogart’s)

March 10 - Detroit, MI (Fillmore)

March 11 - Cleveland, OH (House of Blues)

March 12 - Indianapolis, IN (Egyptian Room)

March 13 - Chicago, IL (TBA)

March 20 - Las Vegas, NV H(ouse of Blues)

March 21 - San Diego, CA (House of Blues)

March 22 - Los Angeles, CA (House of Blues)

March 24 - San Francisco, CA (TBA)

March 27 - Seattle, WA (Neptune)

March 28 - Vancouver, B.C. (Gossip Nightclub)

March 29 - Edmonton, Alb. (Edmonton Events Centre)

March 30 - Calgary, Alb. (Flames Central)

March 31 - Saskatoon, Sask. (The Odeon Theatre)

April 1 - Winnipeg, Man. (The Pantages Theatre)

April 5 - Toronto, Ont. (Sound Academy)

April 6 - Montreal, Que. (Olympia Theatre)

Sidenote: Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition has been officially inducted into the golden club.  The album has surpassed 500,000 sales, giving it the Gold status it deserves.  Congrats, Snowman.

NEWS: FACEBOOK TO GO PUBLIC (STOCK MARKET)

We all knew he'd eventually get around to it: Mark Zuckerberg is expected to finally bring Facebook public. The company is reported to be preparing to file for an IPO -- initial public offering -- through which anyone will be able to buy shares of the social networking company on an open stock exchange.


This news my seem totally irrelevant to you, however, in my opinion, this is probably the best news Facebook has announced since Zukerberg started the social media platform in his dorm, at Harvard. Essentially, this means that the company will (finally) be ran more business-like, which means no more up-dating the look of the site every 25 seconds (if Facebook ever switches my profile to timeline I'm deleting my profile.) However, most importantly, this news means that Facebook will now be available in the open market exchange, which means savvy investors (hopefully like myself) will be able to get their hands involved in this cash-cow we all know as Facebook. 

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VIDEO: FREDDIE GIBBS - EDUCATION THROUGH IMAGINATION

The Artists that LRG supports have gained their success by being visionaries and pursuing their dreams, by moving against the crowd. As we support the independent and underground culture, in 2012 we are spreading the influence of innovative essence to our supporters. We are taking what LRG artists and riders have used to get where they are today and giving you an Education through Imagination.

VIDEO: 50 CENT - SK ERADICATION HUNGER (COMMERCIAL)

50 Cent continues his fight on hunger with this new ad to his Street King campaign.  Remember, every purchase will provide a meal for those in hunger across the seas.  Support the movement!

NEWS: MARK WAHLBERG TALKS POSSIBLE REAPPEARANCE OF 'HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA'

In a recent interview with GQ, Mr. Wahlberg discussed the cancellation of 'How To Make It' after two seasons and the possible reappearance of the show on a different network.

"Well, the wheels are always turning and we've talked to the networks and we may pair it up with another network. You know, you can only have so many shows on the air [at HBO], but we're talking about putting it elsewhere. One of the great things is also that we have a couple of things that are really geared toward guys that we've been developing that [HBO] feels are really close to going."

If your a frequent viewer of RTF you know we fully supported the show, so hearing the news of a possible return from one of the producers of show makes me as giddy as a little school girl. But until official news breaks of the show coming back and airing on a different network we'll just have to sit and wait; catch Season 2 here on RTF while your doing so.

THE-DREAM SAYS RIHANNA'S "BIRTHDAY CAKE" WILL BECOME A FULL SONG

They listened to our pleads.  The "Birthday Cake" track's writer and producer The-Dream tells Boombox that the Talk That Talk  track will  be turned into a full track––finally.  Of course Rihanna Navy would've killed you if you didn't Mr. Terius Nash.  Peep what he said about it, and listen to the original minute and 18 second-track here.

I was just talking to Rihanna about that, because she [originally] made an [just an] interlude.  I was like, "Your fans are going to be so mad at you."  As soon as I said that, I got back, and I guess she released a piece of it, and they saw how long it is.  Man, they tore me up on Twitter!  So I hit her on the phone.  I was like "Yo, your fans, they're going crazy on me right now, like I could make you do something."  So 'Birthday Cake' is on there.  It's going to turn into a whole song because the fans are ganging up on me, and I don't want to be murdered by the Rihanna Navy!


There's another record I did with her called 'Red Lipstick,' and another song called 'Do Your Thang,' which is probably [one of] the more lighter songs on there.  I was more called in to fill in the blanks.  SHe's just so great at putting her records in.  She did a great job utilizing what [songwriter] Ester Dean does, who is like my little sister, for this album.  I think she has six or seven records on that album.  Dean is locked in to what Rihanna's doing at this particular moment, which is great.  I'm at a place where you can call me in as a songwriter, but Ri calls me in as a friend that's going to make an unbiased decision, not just because I'm trying to get on the record.  If it doesn't need me on the record, I'm not going to get on the record. - The-Dream


"Red Lipstick" and "Do Your Thang," which are among some of my  favorite tracks on the album, are on the deluxe edition.  Talk That Talk  is in stores now.

Source: Rihanna Daily