Oh, and speaking of Rihanna…

Above is the official trailer of T.I.’s new video for “Live Your Life,” featuring Rihanna. The video’s set to premiere next Tuesday on BET’s Access Granted, but us bloggers are a bit more quicker on things like that. Expect for it to show up on GOT by the weekend!

T.I. & LUDACRIS PERFORMING TOGETHER AT THE 2008 BET HIP-HOP AWARDS

ATLANTA // SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18TH 2008 »
AIRDATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD 2008 ON BET @ 8 PM EST. Hold up! Is that T.I. and Ludacris performing? Together? On stage? In front of people? Apparently the 2008 BET Hip-Hop Awards were full of surprises: from T-Pain replacing Katt Williams as the host at the last minute, all the way down to T.I. and Ludacris sharing the same stage. And from the looks of it, the show looked to be pretty good. Be sure to catch it when it airs on BET this Thursday - October 23rd - at 8 PM.

Follow the break to check out photos of Nas, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, and more performing at the 2008 BET Hip-Hop Awards.

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COMMON & T-PAIN GIVE EACH OTHER DAP ON THE RED CARPET AT THE 2008 BET HIP-HOP AWARDS

ATLANTA // SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18TH 2008 »
AIRDATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD 2008 ON BET @ 8 PM EST. The 2008 BET HIp-Hop Awards went down in Atlanta over the weekend, and here you can check out the photos from the red carpet. If you haven’t heard yet, Katt Williams was nixed from his hosting duties, and T-Pain filled in for the comedian at the last minute. BET made up some bogus story talking about how Katt bet T-Pain he couldn’t beat him in a break dance battle, and how Katt’s hosting duties were up for grabs to whoever won. It later came to light that Williams had been arrested on the morning of the show. Sound familiar, anyone? *Cough* T.I. *cough* got arrested *cough* last year *cough* and he was *cough* supposed to perform. I’m just saying…

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US Weekly was on the set of T.I. and Rihanna’s new video for “Live Your Life,” which is currently the #1 single in the United States.

It’s good to be T.I. again. After an arrest last year, the hip-hop star, 28, is taking charge of his life. He claimed two #1 spots on the charts - for his CD Paper Trail and single “Live Your Life,” featuring pop princess Rihanna, 19. US went behind the scenes for an exclusive look at the spot, premiering the last week of October.

THE CONCEPT:
The part-time actor (he had a role in American Gangster) plays two characters: himself as a successful artist and his street thug alter ego, T.I.P. The most memorable scene? “I get beat up!” he tells US.

THE FOOD:
T.I. made his own sandwiches from deli meat and gulped Starbucks caramel macchiatos!

THE DANCE-OFF:
While Rihanna got glam, boyfriend Chris Brown, 19, engaged in an impromptu on-set dance battle with a crew member.

THE SLAP:
During a dance scene, T.I. accidentally hit Rihanna. No diva antics for her: “She just laughed, rubbed her face and rejoined the singing,” an onlooker reports.

Chris Brown needs to chill with the random dancing. It’s getting kind of weird…

LOS ANGELES // MONDAY, OCTOBER 6TH 2008 » Rapper T.I. was all smiles as he was spotted by the paps Monday night in Los Angeles as he left Beso Restaurant. And he has all the reason in the world to smile right now, seeing as “Whatever You Like” is sitting pretty at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100! Take that Jim Jones!

PHOTO: WENN

T.I. graces the November 2008 cover of Giant Magazine. In this issue T.I talks about his new album, Paper Trail, The 2008 Presidential Election, and his recent legal problems. This issue also features Barack Obama, Megan Good, Ludacris, and John Legend.

NE-YO ON R&B MUSIC AND SEAN GARRETT »

I don’t wanna name any names right now. You’re gonna get me in trouble. But you know what I’m talking about. There was an era when R&B wasn’t hot. … The whole hip-hop/R&B era just kinda threw me for a loop. Around early 2000 when every song kinda sounded like (one note repeated). Like for real, one note the whole song? That never made sense to me. ‘Cause like, if you’re gonna rap — rap. If you’re gonna sing — sing. Don’t try to do this combination hybrid of the two of them that sounds like (garbage). I didn’t dig it. I just never got into it

…Everybody was very much hip-hop/R&B. Everybody was very much Ciara- and Sean Garretted-out. No disrespect to Sean Garrett (writer of Ciara’s debut single “Goodies”), but I think he kind of fathered that era.

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LAILA ALI GIVES BIRTH TO FIRST CHILD » Female boxer Laila Ali and former NFL star Curtis Conway welcomed the first child together into the world yesterday morning. Curtis Muhammad Conway came into the world weighing in at 6.8 pounds, measuring 19 inches long, which is no surprise seeing as his mom and grandpa are boxers and his dad is a football player. This kid definitely has an athletic future ahead of him!

Conway already has three children - 13-year-old twin boys and a 9-year-old daughter - from a previous relationship.

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