JAY-Z goes Classical, kinda. Before the kickoff of Super Bowl XLIV this Sunday, there will be a music video pairing JAY-Z and The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. The Maestro (Kynan John) describes the song as “outside the mainstream of Classical music.” How next level is that? Read the statement here.

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LIL WAYNE on the cover of Rolling Stone. Does this make his Rock Star persona official? RS says, “For a decade, Lil Wayne has been hip-hop’s great unstoppable force, a 24-hour-a-day recording machine without an off button. But on February 9th, Lil Wayne will have to stop — for 12 months, when he reports to prison to serve a sentence for gun possession stemming from a 2007 arrest in New York City. Rolling Stone stays up all night with Weezy as he prepares to get locked down in our new issue which is on sale at newsstands today.