Some of the other celebs who walked the red carpet of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards — hosted by Hip-Hop veteran LL Cool J — included Adele, Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, Diana Ross, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Levine, Flo Rida, Miranda Lambert, John Legend, Birdman, Tyga, Nicki Minaj and more.

Check out 50+ pictures from the red carpet of the 2012 Grammy Awards below:

Lil Wayne was spotted showing off his unique sense of fashion (a grey Odd Future “Earl” hoodie, animal print shorts, tan Nike Air Yeezy sneakers and a black Kiss fitted cap) as he sat and laughed it up beside Young Money president Mack Maine and actor Adrian Brody at the Miami Heat vs. Atlanta Hawks basketball game in Florida.

Guess it’s safe to assume we’re going to be seeing Weezy wear lots of crazy outfits at more basketball games throughout the remainder of the season.

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Nicki Minaj turned 26 years old Wednesday (Dec 8) and celebrated the occasion with a birthday party the very next night at TAO nightclub in Las Vegas.

A few of Minaj’s closest industry friends and associates all came out to help her celebrate her 26th birthday Thursday night (Dec 9), including her bosses Baby and Lil Wayne, along with labelmate Mack Maine, as well as Cassie and her BFF Amber Rose. The Young Money femcee was presented with two pink Barbie cakes (one, a mini convertible) later in the evening as bottles of Ace of Spades champagne were passed around.

Happy Birthday Nicki! 10+ pics below…

The first single from Lil Wayne‘s highly anticipated Tha Carter IV album could drop within the next few weeks, according to Young Money president Mack Maine! The track, titled “6’7,” is due for release before the end of the year and will feature a guest appearance up and coming rapper from Cory Gunz, the latest edition to the Young Money crew.

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“We definitely dropping it before the end of the year,” Mack told Sway from MTV News. “We ready to go now; we getting it mixed.”

An official release date for the “Tha Carter IV” wasn’t discussed, but Mack Maine had this to say about the project:

“[Wayne]‘s talking bananas. Some of the rhymes were actually written in jail. First time you all are gonna hear Wayne write in a minute,” Mack revealed. “He actually sat down and wrote this time. It’s amazing.”

New music from Weezy before the end of the year? Can’t wait!

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Shanell from Young Money performed at Lux Nightclub in Miami Friday night (Nov 12). Her bosses and labelmates Lil Wayne and Mack Maine, along with radio personality Kenny Burns, came through to show support and catch her performance.

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All you Lil Wayne fans out there get prepared for new music on the way!

Young Money president Mack Maine recently revealed during an interview with MTV that The Carter IV or C4 will drop on November 5th…the same day Weezy is scheduled to be released from prison.

“Tha Carter IV plans we had and still have are to put Tha Carter IV out the day he comes out [of prison]. He had so many songs for Tha Carter IV, we said let’s just put these 10 songs out [on I Am Not a Human Being] and double-back for Tha Carter IV. He has more songs for Tha Carter IV that are still strong.”

Wayne will also be dropping his I Am Not a Human Being EP on his birthday September 27th. We’ll see if the C4 comes out the date as planned.

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Rapper Lil Wayne has high hopes for his protege Drake! In a clip from the Nino Brown Story Pt. 3 DVD, Weezy talks from prison to Young Money president Mack Maine about the number of album sales he needs Drizzy to pull off with his upcoming album Thank Me Later.

“A million in a week? I need him to do more than Tha Carter III. Like 2 million in the first week. I need him to do 2 million the first week, straight up.”

Weezy went on later to add that he wanted Drake’s album to sell 10 million copies overall:

“I need [Drake] to do diamond. And I try to top that. I need him to do that. He’s gonna sell.”

Drizzy may be doing his thing right now, but 2 mil the first week??? Now that’s a good joke! LOL

Rapper Drake recently performed at Club Nokia in Los Angeles with a few of his Young Money family members in tow. Drizzy took the club by storm and later brought out his label mate Nicki Minaj to spit a couple of verses from her features in “My Chick Bad” and “Little Freak.”

Afterwards, the two were accompanied by Tyga, Mack Maine, and  Lil Twist to perform the Young Money collab single “Bedrock.” Notice in the video how Nicki completely forgets her words at the beginning of the performance, but recovers slightly at the end once Drake reminds her. Guess she was daydreaming about all those titties she was going to sign after the show (LOL!)

Young Money rapper Short Dawg sends one out to all the strippers in his recent music video release “Come Down the Pole.” The track features President of Young Money/rapper Mack Maine and is off of DJ Ill Will‘s Southern flame Spitta Mixtape Volume 3.5.

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Lil Wayne brought along his Young Money crew to BET’s “the Mo’Nique Show” and introduced everyone to Mo and her viewing audience.

In the interview, a very subdued Nicki Minaj explained mixtapes, talked about her upcoming project and talked about how nervous she was the first time she met Wayne. She also talked about why wayne calls her “the Mistress (aka Nikki Lewinsky)” and told Mo’Nique how territorial she is when the late night TV host joked about becoming a part of the Young Money crew.

In Wayne’s interview, he discussed his work ethic (he says he gets NO sleep) and why he started Young Money. He also talked about what he’d be doing if he weren’t rapping:

“School. I’d probably be in school studying Law.”

After everyone was introduced and appropriately interviewed, Young Money brought out Lloyd and took to the stage to perform their latest single “Bed Rock.” Continue reading to check it (and the interviews) out!

YOUNG MONEY ON THE MO’NIQUE SHOW

YOUNG MONEY PERFORMS “BED ROCK” W/ LLOYD

Young Money premiered their new music video for their latest single “Bed Rock” featuring R&B singer Lloyd on BET’s 106 & Park Monday afternoon.

Formed by rapper Lil Wayne, Young Money Entertainment is a label imprint of Cash Money Records and is distributed by Universal Records. The artists on the roster currenty include Drake, Nicki Minaj, Shanell, Tyga, Gudda Gudda, Jae Millz, Lil Chuckee, Lil Twist, Mack Maine, Short Dawg and of course Weezy himself. Their debut album, We Are Young Money, is set to be released on December 21st (the same day Wayne’s Rebirth album drops).

In the meantime, continue reading to peep their new music video and to check out their appearance on 106 & Park!

“BED ROCK” MUSIC VIDEO

106 & PARK (PT. 1)

106 & PARK (PT. 2)

Shout out to Rap Radar for the 106 & Park clips!

Above is the official album cover and below is the supposed official track listing for Lil Wayne‘s forthcoming “Rebirth” album, due in stores December 21st, nearly a year after its original scheduled release date. There’s no telling how this album will do since everybody’s been anticipating it for almost a year and it’s been pushed back a bazillion ka-gillion times.

01. American Star
02. Prom Queen
03. Ground Zero
04. Da Da Da
05. Paradice
06. Get A Life
07. On Fire
08. Drop The World
09. Runnin
10. One Way Trip
11. Knockout
12. The Price Is Wrong

One album out of the Cash Money/Young Money camp we’re definitely looking forward to is Young Money‘s “We Are Young Money” album, also due in stores on December 21st. Continue reading to peep the official album cover and track listing for that! And be on the look-out for their new “Bedrock” music video (pics from the shoot here and here), which features R&B singer Lloyd (who would make a great addition to the Young Money fam!).

01. BedRock (f/ Lloyd)
02. New Shit
03. Pass Me the Dutch
04. Wifebeater
05. F**k the Bullsh*t (f/ Birdman)
06. Ms. Parker
07. Target
08. Sacrifice
09. Every Girl
10. She Is Gone (f/ Pleasure P)
11. Girl I Got You
12. Gooder
13. Roger That
14. Steady Mobbin’ (/ Gucci Mane)

Former Danity Kane member D. Woods (born as Wanita Denise Woodgette) spent this past weekend celebrating her 25th birthday at three different venues in Miami. Talk about partying it up right for your b-day! Above, she’s pictured with Lil Wayne, her sister Shanell and Young Money rapper Mack Maine outside her party Sunday night (Jul 5) at Ahnvee Restaurant & Lounge in South Beach. The celebrities who came out to help D. Woods party it up over the entire weekend were Willie Taylor from Day 26, Vivica A. Fox, NFL footballer Thomas Jones, rap artist Ace Hood and more. Continue reading for all of the photos!

D. WOODS’ POOL PARTY AT GANSEVOORT HOTEL

D. WOODS’ B-DAY PARTY AT CLUB DREAM (JUL. 4TH)

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