Despite Diddy’s more than aggressive marketing efforts, his latest album “Last Train to Paris” continues to be a slow roll out. Last week when it debuted, “Last Train…” sold 100,000 units at #7 on the Billboard charts. This week things didn’t get better with a more than anticipated drop off to #44 selling a paltry 30,000 units. At least Diddy’s marketing talents can’t be blamed…but maybe his music talents these days can be to blame for.

T-Pain made his millions with Auto-Tune under Akon’s Konvict Muzik record label but looks like change might be on the horizon. According to this video of Cash Money’s official jeweler Gabriel Jacobs, T-Pain is heading to the land of Lil Wayne and Drake. Jacobs states that he is making a new, purple and black, oversized, diamond and ruby encrusted Young Money pendant worth over $100K. No official word yet on this but for now you can choose to take Jacobs’ news with a grain of salt.

Finally. It’s here. The official music video to Kanye West’s “Monster.”

As you can see from our wonderful ads, Jay Electronica is the new face of Mountain Dew’s Code Red ad campaign. In case you haven’t clicked on the actual ads here is the Mountain Dew x Jay Electronica vid that highlights Electronica’s performance in New Orleans. Nice to see a non-mainstream artist getting some mainstream publicity and exposure.

Flavor Flav jumps on the hip-hop book bandwagon as he prepares to release his autobiography simply called “Icon.” Book is set to release March 1, 2011 and is already available for pre-order via Amazon. Props to RR for the find.

Producers Cool & Dre provide the music track for Charles Barkley in this new T-Mobile commercial.

Swizz Beatz discusses investing in art and the pieces in his personal collection from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Keith Haring.

Here is Lupe’s first official music video off of the album Lasers which is set to release March 8th, 2011.