This is pretty amazing, reminds of of the good ole Aerosmith / Run DMC days. The best part about 50 Cent and Fall Out Boy playing shows is going to be the diverse crowd. So often we go to shows and we look around and see the same people, this will be a chance for  diverse audience to come together and enjoy both types of music – Hip Hop and Pop/Punk. 50 Cent asked Fall Out Boy if they wanted to do some shows this month – He came up with the idea, and we were like, ‘Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Why not?,” front man Patrick Stump said.  Fall out boy has been on tour with Paul Wall, so this is not too new to them. However, 50 Cent has never toured with a rock group before. Some Fall Out Boy fans are pretty disgusted with the whole idea of it, but why? I guarantee you all those Fall Out Boy fans will walk out new 50 Cent fans.

We don’t have exact dates yet but news tells us that 50 Cents first tour date with Fall Out Boy is scheduled to be April 14 at Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, CO.

“The rock shit just comes from what my life is now,” Lil Wayne, 26, says. “I’ve grown into this person.” Wayne says he got tired of living the rap life-“I just got — I’m not going to say ’so good’ at what I was doing, but it became such a regularity for me that I got tired of it. And then I said, ‘You know what? I’m not going to rap on this one.’ ”

We’ve only heard one song from Lil Waynes upcoming rock album, will the others follow this pattern?

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As we told you a few days ago, T.I. was sentenced to one year in jail. The above interview with CNN is likely to be his last inteview before he hits the can. During the short interview his leg monitor goes off and they tell him he needs to change his battery. My only question about this situation is – how will jail be for TI? Will he be treated like Henry Hill from GoodFella’s or will it be more like Edward Nortons charactar from American History X? Do celebrities get perks in Jail? I have no idea, someone please fill me in.

Buy TI’s latest Album Paper Trail

T.I. and Rihanna – Live Your Life Music Video

Meaning of the song “Dead and Gone” By TI Featuring Justin Timberlake

T.I. was recently sentenced to a year in jail

Buy TI’s latest Album Paper Trail

Paul Wall is back at it again with his new single featuring Webbie- Bizzy Body . The single is from his new album Fast Life, which is due out in early May.

When  word came out that Lil Wayne was coming out with a rock album everyone was a little shocked…and then it happened. The first single leaked – “Prom Queen”. Some of us were happy, others in disgust. At the end of the day it is what it is, Lil Wayne is simply broadening his horizons by doing this. Check out the official music video above.

This song primarily deals with the change that T.I. has gone through over the past few years. From living the rough life to fortune and fame, T.I. has grown a lot as an artist and a human being-“The old me is dead and gone”.  At the beginning of his music video you’ll see a bible verse proving this:

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put childish things away. – 1 Corinthians 13:11

In the  first verse T.I.  reflects on how his old days were. He uses it to express how people make stupid decisions all for nothing and how this is childish behavior. He makes a pledge at the end of the first verse that he will no longer have anything to do with this lifestyle.  In verse two he brings up his best friend Philant Johnson, who was killed in 2006 in a highway gun fight after T.I’s show. This is a tough topic for him, and he still blames himself for Philants death.

The hook is a medaphor about him looking in all directions and those old people he used to hang with not being there for him anymore.

T.I. was recently sentenced to a year in jail.

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T.I. is a known drug dealer and he always has 50′s, or so the song goes (Top Back – TI). On Friday the rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was sentenced to one year in jail for federal weapons charges. He was looking at 10 years to begin with, so it really could have been a lot worse. He has already completed over 1,000 hours of community service, talking to kids about how guns are bad and trying to help them avoid the same mistakes he made. For those of you who are wondering that is 41 days of community service all together, which is unheard of for a full time rapper.

“Today I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to all,” the rapper told U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. at the 1 and 1/2 hour session.

Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young told the judge – “He’s been able to do the work I’ve been trying to accomplish for so long in stopping violence in this country”.

T.I. said fear was one of the reasons that he tried to buy the illegal guns, as his best friend Philant Johnson was killed at a post party in 2006.

[Via Billboard]

Well, leave it to Rolling Stone to give us 500 top albums. I’ll give you a sneak peak at the top 5, it’s not a shocker who dominated the list…

1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles

2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys

3. Revolver, The Beatles

4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan

5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles

Of course, the Beatles dominate, they are the greatest rock group to set foot on the earth. Is that statement  a little over the top? Tell me how it is below…

View the full list here.

1. Social Networking

Yeah, We are positive you’ve heard this before, but it’s not about where your music is at its about how hard your pushing it. Are you adding 100-150 friends a day? Did you know that most major record labels will ask you how many friends you have on MySpace, how many plays you have, and other questions about your social stats. I know for some it seems hard to believe that, but it is 200% true. The Labels want to make sure people like your music and that the band is marketable. Some social networks that would be good to promote your bands music on are MySpace, Facebook, Buzznet, Purevolume, YouTube, and many others. The good thing about social networks is that they are all free! How’s that for convenient when your scraping gas money to get to the next city and amaze more fans?

2. Give Away Free Stuff

What’s this guy talking about, free stuff? I can’t afford that…SELL SELL SELL. It is so powerful to give away free stuff and to partner with small companies. Let me give you an example: Kyle from the band Neverset called us right before a tour they were going on and asked to help them out by making some wristbands for them. They agreed to let us put our website on the back and their logo on the front of the wristbands. They did not sell these wristbands, they threw them out after every live show, and guess what you seen when you went to our website? A Neverset banner linking to their MySpace. That is just one example of something you could do.  It’s important that when your giving away free stuff that it is unique and has your website on it. This way people can get back to you, instead of thinking what was that cool band that came to town??

3. Get a Manager – Now we are talking big leagues… Not really. A manager comes in handy because while your making the music and working on your live performance your manager is making connections that will get your name out. They take care of the business aspect of your band, which really scares some small bands because they like total control. This is not a very good mindset because even if your band is small now, when you are big you will eventually get a manager. You might wonder, where do i find one of these….band..managers? It’s important to pick someone that is not only good at it, but someone you can talk and relate with as a band. There are different managers for different aspects of your band, however some do it all. You have management, press, and booking. Here is a great article to help you get started.

4. Get Your Band a Blog

Whether you know it or not you have a blog built into almost any social networking site that your band is on. However, if you want to really reach out i would go with something a little bit more professional like a free WordPress blog. The difference is profound when it comes to presentation. Your WordPress blog is like your bands homepage and your MySpace blog is like a homepage, within a homepage, within a homepage news. You should use both for the best results.

5. Make friends with other bands – This is what separates the boys from the men, the girls from the woman, and the chimps from the apes. You should be socializing at every event and setting up shows with other bands. You should want those fans to like your band as much as they like the band you set the show up with (what a mouth full). I’m not talking about stealing fans (yes i am) I am talking about getting your bands name out to everyone and their mom. I’ve known bands that are really egotistical, that’s not going to get you too far these days. Get out of your comfort zone and talk to everyone at your shows!

All in all its going to take a lot of work, but if your in for the ride, it is also going to be a lot of fun. If you have anything you want to add comment below! People are always looking for new ways to market their music.