Eminem x The Punisher. Slim Shady is pulling out all the stops with his recent marketing campaign. In a first, Slim is collaborating with Marvel Comics’ “Punisher” comic as an actual comic book character. Highbrid Nation had the details with part one of the comic available yesterday in issues of XXL Magazine and part two available at the official Marvel x Eminem site as a digital comic.

Official synopsis as follows: Who’s killing whom? With Punisher, Slim Shady and Barracuda all armed to the teeth and gunning for each other, expect plenty of bullets, blood and betrayals in PUNISHER/EMINEM: KILL YOU by Fred Van Lente and Salvador Larroca.

Could this be the first of many hip-hop and comic book collabs? Wu-Tang and the Avengers? Wolverine and Busta Rhymes? Kanye West and Cat Woman? The possibilities are endless.

Eminem x Apple. Eminem’s marketing team should get some awards for everything they are doing for “Relapse.” First the Marvel promotion and now this full blown iPhone game. Slim released this screen shot of the game on his Twitter account. No details yet on costs or release date. From the pic it does look like you play Eminem and beat the crap outta zombie doctors.

Nelly x Apple Bottoms. Nelly is set to take his Apple Bottoms franchise to the next level with the announcement of the new Apple Bottoms Fragrance. Nelly’s company will partner with Romane Fragrances and according to the press release is “designed to be the perfect compliment to the lifestyle of the Apple Bottoms woman,” celebrating the “beauty and the curves we see in our core female demographic.”

The Apple Bottoms perfume will also launch with a series of beauty products including body washes and lotions and will be available this Fall in major department stores. Let’s just hope it doesn’t smell like ass.

50 Cent x Twelve. 50 talks about his upcoming movie Twelve in this interview with MTV. You can also check 50 in pics from the movie here.

Street wear company UNCRWN has released this series of tees commemorating artists De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Prince Paul. Tees combine the artists’ famed album covers with UNCRWN’s signature basketball street wear look. More pics after the jump… Continue Reading…

Soulja Boy x The View. Soulja Boy is following in the footsteps of Lil Wayne and will be performing on “The View” with Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, etc. I wonder what all the moms who watch this show really think of these rappers showing up.¬† Soulja Boy will be performing “Turn My Swag On” on May 25th.

Kanye’s shoe collabs with Louis Vuitton and Nike have both received tons of hype and press this year but apparently Kanye still is not satisfied. Infact, he is sounding a bit disgruntled at the fact that both Nike and LV will not give him a deal to launch an entire shoe line under Kanye’s own label. He recently told Complex:

“I wish Nike would give me a deal, I wish Louis would give me a deal. Since that hasn’t happened yet, I am in the process of making my own company from scratch to put out to my people.”

Is Kanye talking about his much-anticipated Pastelle clothing line? That clothing line has been more elusive than Bigfoot and the Lochness Monster combined but maybe it will now have a footwear component to it. Who knows but Kanye clearly is working on something. Get your kicks here.

T-Pain x Aqua Teen Hunger Force. T-Pain will play the infamous Frylock in the live-action season finale of Adult Swim’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” This will be the first time that the animated show will go live action and T-Pain gets the honor of playing the wise-cracking box of french fries by adorning a french-fry yellow top hat. Entertainment Weekly dropped the story:

“Pain is a huge fan of the show (he often wears an Ignignokt pendant around his neck and actually did the voice for the ‘Die’ ventriloquist dummy for the ‘Dummy Love’ episode) so he was more than happy to wear his signature stovepipe hat in french-fry yellow for the part.”

This should be one really interesting episode. Check it out on Adult Swim May 31st. Via: Highbrid Nation