Lupe Fiasco x Hewlett Packard. Lupe Fiasco, Kenna and Alexandra Cousteau are featured in this new HP commercial which also spreads awareness for Summit on the Summit. Lupe is doing some good for the world with his involvement with the Summit on the Summit program and he is getting paid some of that Silicone Valley money in the meantime.

A&E announces the Jackson Family reality show just in time to correspond with This Is It. Official name of the show is “The Jackson’s: A Family Dynasty.” No word yet on when it will air.

50 Cent x The 50th Law. The BBC interviews 50 Cent during his “50th Law” book press tour. It gets pretty deep though as 50 covers everything from drug dealer intimidation tactics to his own dealings of growing from hood star to global star.

Despite the rumors, the sequel to Smokin Aces will not star Common or Alicia Keys. In fact, the sequel will not even have a theatrical release as Universal Pictures will be releasing Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball straight-to-DVD. In its defense the movie was always planned as a straight-to-DVD. Trailer still looks theatrical quality though and definitely some of the signature sex and violence that we have come to expect. Movie hits stores January 19, 2010.

Jay-Z x Eminem x DJ Hero. The marketing and media for DJ Hero is now in full swing. Here is the new TV ad featuring Eminem and Jay-Z.

Talk about a new marketing tactic. If this were any other artist it would be considered pretty morbid but since this is Lady Gaga we are talking about, well….it’s fitting. Iovine and friends over at Interscope have announced the official Lady Gaga re-release of her album Fame Monster with a deluxe version priced at a hefty $99.98.

But as we just mentioned, for this low low price you get a real lock of Lady Gaga’s hair. Not to mention you also get an official Lady Gaga paper doll collection, picture books, 3D glasses and a poster. Oh yea…and the album. Let’s just hope Jimmy doesn’t convince Diddy to use the same tactics for his upcoming album. I don’t think anyone wants a curl of Diddy’s hair.

Chris redeems himself to some point with this video. Hate to compliment the guy but this is pretty creative. Optimus Prime would be proud.

The official album art for Rihanna’s “Rated R” which is set to release November 23rd. We like the barbed wire better. She looks like Grace Jones meets Mad Max in this. Via: PopEater