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Dr. Dre Donates to Freeway Rick Ross Benefit Event

Dr. Dre has donated a few of his Beats by Dre headphones for a community dance competition, organized by L.A. street legend Freeway Rick Ross. The Freeway Enterprise Presents: L.A. Can Dance event will benefit grade school and high school students in the South Los Angeles area.

Since the event’s creation, Dr. Dre and Slim Da Mobster have stepped in to support with time and money in the hopes of giving back to their community. This year, Dre has donated a signed pair of his headphones to be given as one of the prizes. Other prizes have been donated by Aftermath, Interscope, Streamline Records, MJZ and FreewayEnterprise.Com.

Freeway Enterprise Presents: L.A. Can Dance will take place August 27 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Chuco’s Justice Center in Inglewood.

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The Game Scares Kids Off Tattoos

Rapper The Game is trying to scare his young kids off the idea of getting a tattoo by warning them their skin will “melt” if they go under the needle.

The hip-hop star, who has a variety of skin art designs all over his body, including his face, admits he has become addicted to tattoos, but he doesn’t want his three children to follow in his footsteps.

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Mac Miller Rounds Out MTV Jams’ 2011 Fab 5 ‘He’s a 19-year old rap phenomenon from Pittsburgh who enjoys life and enjoys making music

Who is Mac Miller? Hip-hop’s next rising star has an answer for the uninitiated: “He’s a 19-year old rap phenomenon from Pittsburgh who enjoys life and enjoys making music every day and working very hard for everything he gets.”

Well, all that hard work has paid off. Miller has been named one of MTV Jams’ 2011 Fab 5 artists.

This year, MTV Jams, MTV News and Sucker Free will bring you 2011’s hottest new hip-hop upstarts, including Big Sean, Future, Meek Mill, Big K.R.I.T. and now Mac Miller.

The Pittsburgh MC toiled in the local underground, releasing mixtapes under the name Easy Mac until he signed with Rostrum Records and broke out with his 2010 tape K.I.D.S. (Kickin’ Incredibly Dope Sh—). ”My grandpa started calling me Mac when I was born, so it stuck. It’s cool; my grandpa was a huge Mack Maine fan,” the rapper joked about his name change.

K.I.D.S.was led by the Lord Finesse-sampling “Kool-Aid and Frozen Pizza,” which quickly became a fan favorite and helped grow Miller’s faithful following. “Kool-Aid” alone has since registered 13.2 million views on YouTube, and TreeJTV — the YouTube channel Mac uploads all his footage to — has more than 111 million total views.

From there, Mac landed a spot on XXL magazine’s 2011 freshmen cover in April and dropped his K.I.D.S. follow-upBest Day Ever, which in turn led to a national tour.

Mac is now putting the finishing touches on his independent debut album Blue Slide Park. ”Blue Slide Park is a park in Pittsburgh we grew up at,” Miller told MTV News of the album’s title. “Being 2, going down slides, and then being 6, playing Little League and hanging out there, then being older coming back there to drink and smoke and party, running from the cops. And now going back there just to chill out and drink a beer.”

Tune in to “RapFix Live” on Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET to see a recap of all of MTV Jams’ 2011 Fab 5 inductees: Big Sean, Future, Meek Mill, Big K.R.I.T. and Mac Miller.

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Will.I.Am to Produce Back-to-School TV Special

Black Eyed Peas front man Will.I.Am is teaming up with inventor Dean Kame to produce a back-to-school TV special. The hour-long program titled “i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll” will promote science, education and technology. 

Viewers will also get a peak at the 20th annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championships, a worldwide science and robotics competition for students in kindergarten through high school that was founded by Kame in 1989. 

“As families across America are preparing to send their kids back to school, ‘i.am FIRST – Science is Rock and Roll’ will entertain as well as get viewers excited about robots,” Dean Kamen told AllHipHop.com in a press release. “Find out just how cool technology can be as the top robot teams face off in competition.”

The special will air Sunday, August 14 at 7 p.m. EST on ABC. A list of celebrities including the Black Eyed Peas, Snoop Dogg, Britney Spears and Willow Smith will be appearing throughout the event to talk to the students.

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New Snoop Dogg football league starts in August

Rapper, actor and hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg is in Chicago launching a new youth football league. Chicago’s Snoop Youth Football League will begin play with six teams competing from six different parts of the city. In addition to playing football, the league aims to broaden its participants’ experience and life-skills through corporate partnerships. The man behind the league says it has proven to be an effective way to combat youth violence. “If we don’t give these kids nothin’ to fight for, they’re gonna die for nothin. I wanna give them something to fight for. Sometimes in life you gotta understand the small things like football and teamwork and organized community work goes a long way with these kids,” Snoop Dogg said at a press conference. Snoop Youth Football League has already been operating in Los Angeles since its founding back in 2004.

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Waka Flocka Shows Love to The Kids

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