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Dr. Dre And Oscar De La Renta Team Up To Design Headphones

This is one collaboration that we would never have dreamt up. Dr. Dre is expanding Beats by Dre, his ubiquitous brand of headphones and loudspeakers. The Doctor has gone high fashion and teamed up with designer Oscar de la Renta to create a limited edition pair of headphones called, what else but Beats by Oscar de la Renta which you can see on the right. These can be yours for a mere $695, which we know you just have lying around in spare change. For that tiny amount of cash you will have the luxury of silver fox fur lining your ‘phones, much like ear muffs. Silver fox fur headphones for $695. Hey, Oscar. PETA called, and they’re pissed. The economy called too, and it said — WTF?

[Photos: WENN/ Oscar de la Renta]

Snoop Dogg Celebrates His 40th Birthday With A Forty Cake

Snoop Dogg turns the big 4-0 today, and to mark the occasion he got a cake shaped like…a forty. The rapper celebrated at Hollywood’s Rolling Stone Lounge last night with a cake featuring a bottle of Colt 45 malt liquor made out of fondant icing. Some sparklers also adorned the top, because something had to be blazin’ on his cake. We hope he washed it down with some gin and juice. Fellow guests include hip hop luminaries like Dr. Dre and Bootsy Collins. Check it out in the gallery below!

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Dr. Dre To Perform Live At The Grammys With Eminem

Dr. Dre has been a background player in the music business for the better part of the last decade, choosing to act as producer rather than performer during that time. But Dre has announced that he’ll be performing live with Eminem at the Grammy Awards this Sunday, his first television appearance in over ten years and his first Grammy performance ever. Maroon 5‘s Adam Levine is also reportedly joining the pair during their performance. Dre’s appearance is just one of many in the pretty amazing Grammy night lineup—dare we say that the scheduled performances are actually a pretty good representation of “cool” music this year, with acts like Mumford & Sons, Florence And The Machine, Cee-Lo, Lady Gaga and Arcade Fire taking the stage.

The Grammy Awards air this Sunday, February 13 on CBS at 8 p.m. EST.

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Dr. Dre Walks Out On Ice Cube Without So Much As A Goodbye

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In the words of Stephanie Tanner, “How rude!” The scenario could not be more different from the Tanner household, but the sentiment is the same: Ice Cube was ditched by Dr Dre midway through a recording session. This obviously caused some major problems because they had to scratch the whole track they were working on for Ice’s new album I Am The West which drops today. Says Cube, “We did the records, but we didn’t finish them. So, I felt like I didn’t wanna put them out unless they was finished. Or what’s the use? I’ll get ‘em finished sooner or later, and put ‘em out.”

We’re not talking about a “I’m just heading out for cigarettes” walkout, either. We’re talking a call-the-F.B.I-’cause-he’s gone scenario. The abandoned rapper explained, “Dre went M.I.A.; I don’t know where he at. If y’all find him, tell him to give me a call.” And we gotta say he’s being most gracious about it to, probably because he knows he’s not the only one to get that treatment. Ice Cube added, “It’s cool, he went M.I.A. on Snoop [Dogg] too. Everybody wanna work with him, so it’s up to him on who he wants to work with, who he don’t wanna work with.”

Ice reckons that there’s frost between them ever since he left N.W.A in the late ’80′s. (We still have the Straight Outta Compton album lying around somewhere, FYI). He revealed, “It’s a distant relationship. It’s been distant ever since I left N.W.A., so I don’t expect that to change. We all went our separate ways back then, we was youngsters. We’re grown now.”

Point made, but Dre going M.I.A still seems totally sketchy. You don’t just walk out of a project without so much as an explanation. Call Ice, Dre!

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Rap’s Top 20 Richest Artists Revealed

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First things first: Do people still say the word “bling”? Or is that term a relic of a bygone era? Either way, it’s no secret that there is a lot of money to be made by becoming a global hip-hop icon these days. So much so, in fact, that a normally hoity-toity magazine like Forbes has been putting together lists of the Top 20 Hip-Hop Cash Kings since 2007. To that end, the high-falutin’ magazine is putting its fawning coverage of Wall Street robber barons in a temporary holding pattern as they focus their efforts on counting down which rappers are making the most cheddar in 2010.

While you most certainly won’t be surprised to find out that Jay-Z currently holds the title as hip-hop’s wealthiest mogul — he raked in some $63 million last year, no big whoops — you might be surprised when you hear that Lil Wayne places fourth on the list, this despite the fact that he’s been behind bars since March. Hilariously, Weezy’s actually on track to earn more money this year ($20 million) than he did last year ($18 million).

Check out our gallery below to find out who else made the list (and how much they took home). Only one question remains: If hip-hop’s wealthiest don’t spend money on “bling” anymore, what do they spend it on?

Birth Dating: Who’s Older? Matt Dillon Or Dr. Dre?

In 1989, Matt Dillon played an edgy junkie in Drugstore Cowboy and Dr. Dre played an edgy gangsta with N.W.A. In 2009, Dillon will be seen with rapper T.I. in the crime thriller Bone Deep. And if we’re lucky, Dre will include his collaboration with actor T.I. on his long-awaited album, Detox. Both men were born on February 18th. Which one is older?

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Further Tests Ordered For Dre’s Son

A toxicology test has been ordered after the autopsy of Dr. Dre’s son, Andre Young Jr, has proved inconclusive. The rap star’s 20-year-old son was found unresponsive in his bed around 10 am Saturday after having been out with friends the night before, and was declared dead shortly thereafter. Capt. Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner revealed, “We don’t know yet why he died. There were no signs of trauma or foul play. We’ll be doing toxicology and other tests, which will take up to six weeks.” [Source: People.com] [Photo:Forat Electronics, PR]

Dr. Dre’s Son Curtis Mistaken For Late Half-Brother Andre, Jr.

Photos of 26-year-old Curtis Young, also known as Hood Surgeon, have been mistakenly used in several blog posts concerning Andre Young, Jr., Curtis’ 20-year-old half-brother, who died on Saturday. Andre, Jr. is pictured above in a pr photo for Forat Electronics.

[Photo: Forat Electronics, PR]

Dr. Dre’s 20-Year-Old Son Found Dead

Andre Young, Jr., son of rap legend Dr. Dre, was found dead in his Woodlawn, CA home on Saturday morning. Young, who came home at 5:30 AM, would not respond when his mother checked on him four and a half hours later. The cause of death is unknown, pending a toxicology report.

If Young’s death was caused by chemical misadventure, his passing could plausibly effect the release of Dre’s upcoming Detox album, as well as the line of spirits (including cognac) Dre has announced to promote the release. [LA Times]

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Dr. Dre’s Long-Awaited “Detox” To Be Celebrated With Cognac

Pals like Snoop Dogg have hinted that Dr. Dre‘s long-long-long-awaited album Detox may come out by the end of the year, but the strongest evidence of this comes from Drinks Americas Holdings’ proud announcement of a new Aftermath Cognac line, named after Dre’s label. Really, what better way is there to promote an album named Detox than with alcohol? The booze is planned to arrive on shelves sometime in the next two months, hopefully joined by new music from Dre and an exceptionally awkward “Dr. Dre and Detox urge you to drink responsibly!” tag on the ads. [Idolator]

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