Yesterday afternoon, TMZ reported that Georgia rapper 2 Chainz was arrested at LaGuardia Airport in New York, after a four-finger ring that resembled brass knuckles was discovered in his carry-on bag. If the TSA is cracking down on 2 Chainz for his fancy ring, other rappers must be subjected to the same level of scrutiny. What then, are the top 5 accidental weapons in hip-hop today?

It was recently revealed that LittleMonsters.com, a brand new social networking site created by Lady Gaga and her team, is in private beta testing, and would you look at us, we got our hot little hands on an invite to the site. Being the curious and inquisitive kind, we thought it best that we take a look around this new website, and see what all the fuss is about. Paws up!

This Sunday, Lady Gaga joined the likes of Tony Bennett, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, *NSYNC, and the Baha Men through being immortalized on The Simpsons. She even performs a song specially written for this episode called “You Are All My Little Monsters.” To celebrate the long-standing tradition of celebrity cameos on The Simpsons, here are a few of our other favourites.

When Jay-Z posted a cryptic trailer for something called Made In America on YouTube, we thought it was going to be a Watch The Throne concert DVD, which would have been exciting enough. When it became clear that Jay-Z was actually curating his own music festival, it freaked our minds Criss Angel-style. Being the unofficial mayor of New York, Young Hov certainly has enough favours to call in to make Made In America one of the biggest festivals of the year.

At the end of each week, #Top40Tweets lists a cross-section of artists on the current pop charts and puts their tweets on display (along with their current chart number) for your enjoyment/scrutiny. This week, we look at 5 artists on the Billboard Music Charts.

She’s barely old enough to have completed a post-secondary education, but Taylor Swift now has a school named after her. The sugary-sweet singer-songwriter plunked down four million dollars to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for the creation of the Taylor Swift Education Center, which will open its doors in 2014.

The Neptunes are one of, if not the most ubiquitous hip-hop producers of the last 15 years, and trying to sum up their prolific career with just a few short paragraphs and some mp3s is a daunting task, but let’s do our best at sampling the best of the Neptunes’ stripped-down synthesized funk for this edition of the Friday Mixtape.

Pop Hunter is re-capping the grotesque display of culture that is American Idol all season. Here’s what you need to know from this week’s round, which aired May 16th and May 17th.

Since 1999, Forbes Magazine, your go-to source for business information and monocle reviews, has released their annual Celebrity 100 list, which ranks the most powerful celebrities of the year. And taking the top spot for 2012, beating out Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry and last year’s #1 Lady Gaga, was… Jennifer Lopez?

SAMPLED is a recurring column that examines the skeletal production of a contemporary Rap/R&B/Hip-Hop or Pop song. From what song did the loop, sample, or chopped up vocal providing the backbone for a new interpretation originate? This week, the sample in question is from, believe it or not, the Farrelly Brothers’ film Stuck On You, starring Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon.