Astrid Stawiarz, Getty Images After securing a gold-selling debut album ('Cole World: The Sideline Story') and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, J. Cole reached another milestone today (Feb. 22): he accumulated two million followers on Twitter. In celebration of that social-media feat, the 'Work Out' rapper released a free downloadable track called 'Grew Up Fast.'
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Tasos Katopodis, Getty Images J. Cole is going to back to school. Well, sort of. The Roc Nation rapper has teamed up with green company REVERB for his Campus Consciousness / The Sideline Story Tour this spring. Besides performing songs from his latest album 'Cole World: The Sideline Story,' Hollywood Cole will also teach students how they can save the environment.
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YouTube "The revolution will be televised!" Those are the first words Sean "Diddy" Combs uttered as he went on YouTube to formally announce the launch of his new cable network Revolt TV. The Bad Boy Records CEO previously described the network as the "music news channel with an urban skew.”
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Kevin Winter, Getty Images Much like their celebrated single, 'N----s in Paris,' Jay-Z and Kanye West will ball so hard across the pond on their European leg of the Watch the Throne tour.
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Kevin Winter, Getty Images A musical play based on Whitney Houston's 1992 film 'The Bodyguard' is currently in the works, reports The Guardian. Producers from the Adelphia Theatre in London are developing the stage production about a blossoming relationship between a popular singer Rachel Marron and her bodyguard (played by Kevin Costner in the film).
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Getty Images Since Whitney Houston's death, her life has been an open book in the media and on gossip blogs. Now a rash of digital books about Houston's music and life have hit the Internet.
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Ethan Miller, Getty Images It may be hard to believe, but Justin Bieber is working on his second book. The 17-year-old pop sensation is ready to publish his "second official photographic book."
Called 'Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started,' it is the follow-up to his first tome 'First Step 2 Forever: My Story.' The title is expected to hit bookstores in September.
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Scott Heavey / Paul Zimmerman, Getty Images Latin pop siren Shakira has inked with Jay-Z's Roc Nation for management services, reports XXL. The Colombian singer is a powerhouse in the music world with two Grammy Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards and twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards under her belt. Her last album 2010's 'The Sun Comes Out' sold four million copies worldwide.
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Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images Now this is a little creepy: Whitney Houston's black velvet dress and earrings she wore in the movie 'The Bodyguard' will be up for auction next month. Auction house Julien's Auctions has put up the items for bidding as part of its Hollywood Legends auction event on March 31 and April 1.
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Vimeo Before Nicki Minaj was the queen of hip-hop, she was a tough, baseball cap-wearing spitfire from Queens, N.Y. Evidence of that recently surfaced online in an unearthed video called 'Dirty Money.'
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