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Rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs has bid farewell to prison-bound Lil Wayne, insisting he'll miss the rapper's "energy" while he's behind bars. The Lollipop hit-maker is due to be sentenced to a year in jail on Monday after he was convicted of weapons possession, stemming from a 2007 arrest. Lil Wayne has recorded new tracks and filmed music videos to be released while he is incarcerated, but fellow hip-hop star Combs maintains he will be greatly missed. And he hopes Wayne will use his jail term to better himself and serve as an example to those who look up to him.
Combs tells MTV.com, "I think we gonna (sic) miss a certain energy that Wayne has. The beauty about it is, he'll be back, and hopefully he'll come back a better person. Whenever we get in trouble, we're in the public spotlight. So hopefully there's a lot of kids out there who could learn from any mistakes that we may have put ourselves in, even if we're not guilty of the crime sometimes. We are human. People have to learn: 'Make sure you know where you're going, who you riding with, what the situation is.' We're targets. I'm just happy he doesn't have to do a lot of time and that he'll be out, and hopefully he'll use the time wisely and use it in a positive way."
Wayne was initially expected to be sentenced in a court hearing last month, but has been granted a string of postponements.
Singer Keyshia Cole is a first-time mom - she has welcomed a baby boy with her fiancé, basketball star Daniel Gibson. The Last Night hit-maker, 28, gave birth to Daniel Hiram Gibson Jr. on Tuesday.
Cole confirmed long-running rumors she was pregnant with the Cleveland Cavaliers player's baby in January, revealing the couple is also planning to wed after becoming engaged on New Year's Eve.
The delivery comes a month after Cole was admitted to a Cleveland hospital for a "false alarm," sparking rumors she had gone into labor early.
However, a spokesperson for the couple insists Cole had a healthy delivery, telling Usmagazine.com: "Both mother and baby are doing great."
Snoop Dogg has won a legal battle to gain entry to the U.K. - three years after government officials banned him from Britain. The hip-hop star, real name Calvin Broadus, incurred the wrath of immigration officials in 2006 when he was arrested following a fracas at London's Heathrow Airport.
The following year, he was denied entry into the country, with authorities arguing his previous convictions for drugs and firearms offenses made him a threat. Broadus battled against the ruling, launching a legal challenge and urging stars including David Beckham and Paul McCartney to help get the ban overturned.
It was lifted in 2008, but government officials took the case to the Court of Appeal, where it was decided the judge who reversed the ruling may have "misinterpreted the test of exclusion." Broadus refused to give up and the case went to a U.K. Asylum and Immigration Tribunal on Friday, with the star's lawyers urging officials to take into consideration his work as a high-school football coach and appearances on family-friendly TV shows including The View and his Father Hood reality series.
And The Drop It Like It's Hot hit-maker was finally successful - two senior immigration judges decided border authorities were wrong to deny the star entry. The ruling was released to both parties on Monday and has paved the way for Broadus to return to Britain.
Rapper T.I. has made his first public appearance since he was jailed on weapons possession charges - he supported his fiancée at a charity fundraiser on February 24th, 2010.
The Live Your Life hit-maker, real name Clifford Harris, Jr., was transferred from a prison in Arkansas to a halfway house near his home in Atlanta, Georgia in December, after serving seven months behind bars.
He is living out the remainder of his 366-day sentence in more comfortable surroundings at the Dismas Charities Atlanta West facility, where he is allowed out to work during the day.
T.I. has now shown his face in public for the first time since he was sent to jail, stepping out with partner Tameka 'Tiny' Cottle on Monday and joining her onstage at Alzheimer's event For The Love of Our Fathers at Atlanta's Opera venue.
And the star was glad to be out in public again, saying, "I am very well, very happy to be seen."
Alicia Keys avoided the temptations of drugs after becoming famous, because she saw so many lives ruined by addiction while she was growing up in the Big Apple.
The Fallin' superstar spent her childhood in the impoverished Manhattan neighborhood of Hell's
Kitchen, and lived in the same apartment building as addicts and prostitutes.
Upon escaping the area after hitting the big time, Keys knew she would avoid the negative trappings of fame as she had already seen the dark side of drugs.
She said, "I always make sure I stay connected to the real world. The way I avoid temptations, what did it for me, was that I grew up around drugs, sex, alcohol and death - and I think that when you see that in your life, you know what it does to you and have no desire to do it."
Prison-bound rapper Lil Wayne spent his last weekend as a free man partying with friends and family after they threw him a special going away bash in Miami, Florida.
The Lollipop hit-maker, real name Dwayne Carter, Jr. is due to appear before a New York judge on Tuesday, when he is expected to be sentenced to a year behind bars for weapons possession.
However, Wayne is refusing to let his impending jail time get him down, instead making the most of the time he has left to enjoy the company of his pals on Sunday.
The hip-hop star was presented with large white and blue iced cake to celebrate his final days of freedom and wish him well with a message that read: "Keep ya head up Weezy! We love u!!!"
Christina Milian and music producer The-Dream are celebrating after the singer gave birth to the couple's first child together.
The R&B stars welcomed little Violet into the world on Friday, and report the baby already has "a full head of hair".
Milian announced her pregnancy in October, just weeks after secretly marrying the producer/singer in Las Vegas.
Violet is Milian's first child, while The-Dream, real name Terius Nash, already has a four-year-old daughter and three-year-old twin sons from his previous marriage to singer Nivea.
