West coast Hip-Hop acts will lend their support to the relief efforts underway to aid the island of Haiti, which was destroyed during a massive earthquake on Tuesday (January 12).

Nipsey Hussle, Pac-Div and Strong Arm Steady will headline the “COOL Relief Effort and Benefit Concert” for Haiti.

Organizers are asking fans to bring canned goods, food, clothes, medical supplies or anything that can be sent to benefit the country.

The COOL Relief Effort, which is hosted by Devi Dev and the Lax Paperboys, will also feature performances by 1500 or Nothin, UNI, Diz Gibran, Blu + Mainframe, DOM Kennedy, Tiron and Problem.

DJ Drewbyrd, DJ Bianca and DJ Sean G. have also signed on board to provide sounds for tonight’s The benefit concert takes place tonight at Echoplex in Los Angeles.

Ticket prices are a $20 donation, with all proceeds going towards Wyclef’s www.Yele.org and the Earthquake Alliance.

Rapper Rick Ross is getting involved with the relief efforts today TV by hosting a blood drive tomorrow January 18.

The rapper’s Rick Ross Charities will team with The Community Blood Centers and 24 Hour Fitness to collect blood to order to send to the victims of the massive earthquake, which leveled the capital city of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

According to the latest estimates, the death toll from the 7.0 earthquake will top 100,000 people, while millions of injured and wounded are in desperate need of medical attention and other vital supplies.

Ross is hosting the event on Monday, the same date the U.S. honors the birth of civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“We have to come together to assist Haiti in anyway possible,” Rick Ross told AllHipHop.com. “Give blood, donate what you can and remember the relief efforts for Haiti need to be long term.”

Ross will appear at the blood drive, which takes place from 5:30pm – 10:30pm at 24 Hour Fitness, located at 8385 Pines Blvd, Pembroke Pines. Ross’ charity work in Haiti started before the earthquake ravaged the country.

The rapper performed during the Starfest Multi-Cultural Music Festival, which drew an estimated 500,000 fans in December of 2009.

Rapper Rick Ross is getting involved with the relief efforts today TV by hosting a blood drive tomorrow January 18.

The rapper’s Rick Ross Charities will team with The Community Blood Centers and 24 Hour Fitness to collect blood to order to send to the victims of the massive earthquake, which leveled the capital city of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

According to the latest estimates, the death toll from the 7.0 earthquake will top 100,000 people, while millions of injured and wounded are in desperate need of medical attention and other vital supplies.

Ross is hosting the event on Monday, the same date the U.S. honors the birth of civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“We have to come together to assist Haiti in anyway possible,” Rick Ross told AllHipHop.com. “Give blood, donate what you can and remember the relief efforts for Haiti need to be long term.”

Ross will appear at the blood drive, which takes place from 5:30pm – 10:30pm at 24 Hour Fitness, located at 8385 Pines Blvd, Pembroke Pines. Ross’ charity work in Haiti started before the earthquake ravaged the country.

The rapper performed during the Starfest Multi-Cultural Music Festival, which drew an estimated 500,000 fans in December of 2009.

Wyclef Jean was desperately looking for Jean “Jimmy O” Jimmy Alexandre, but sadly the Haitian rapper was slain in the massive 7.0 earthquake that has devastated Haiti.

Wyclef told CNN, “I urge everyone who’s listening right now that knows how great this kid is in Haiti — I need y’all to verify this information. It would be a terrible loss for us.”

Jimmy O, 35, was a member of Wyclef’s Yele Haiti Foundation.

The rapper died as he drove to Port-au-Prince to work on a mixtape. His body was crushed by rubble disrupted by the quake.

The body was discovered on Friday (January 15) and verified by a passport on his lifeless body.

Jimmy O was very important to the local rap scene as he helped to mentor rappers and contributed charitable work through Wyclef’s Yele Haiti Foundation.

Jimmy O was a married father of three children.

“His loss will be tremendous in Haiti,” said Agent Robert Dominique to CNN.

The Yele Haiti Foundation has raised a total of $2 million as of Friday and the money will be allocated to emergency relief, food and other vital help for the people of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas.

Americans’ charitable donations on track to set fund-raising records. Since the first news of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti began trickling out, former Fugees member Wyclef Jean has been urging people to text donations to aid his homeland.

As he flies back to the U.S. on Friday (January 15) after assessing the damage on the ground from the 7.0 earthquake that reduced the capital of Port-au-Prince to rubble, Wyclef can take heart in the fact that his pleas have been heard. As of Friday morning, Yele Haiti had raised more than $2 million from mobile giving, according to Albe Angel, CEO of Miami-based Give on the Go, the mobile-communications company working with the non-profit to coordinate donations.

With a series of urgent tweets on his official Twitter feed imploring followers to text “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to the effort, ‘Clef has mobilized a massive effort on behalf of his homeland, and Angel said that the musician’s goal of raising $1 million a day for relief could be well within reach. “I definitely think we could start seeing that figure,” Angel told MTV News on Friday.

Wyclef spoke to Fox News on Thursday about the utter destruction he saw on the Caribbean island nation that has struggled with crushing poverty and poor infrastructure for decades.

“This is apocalypse,” Jean said of the utter destruction of Port-au-Prince, where first responders were struggling to deal with the reported thousands trapped under mounds of rubble from the worst earthquake to hit Haiti in two centuries.

“The reality here at the airport has nothing to do with what’s going on on the ground right now,” added Wyclef, who began making urgent pleas for help just hours after the quake struck his native country. “We spent the day picking up dead bodies, all day that’s what we did. There’s so much bodies in the streets that the morgues are filled up, the cemeteries are filled up. So we participated in picking up the bodies and finding a place that we could put the bodies.”

MTV is teaming up with Oscar-winning actor George Clooney for a Haitian relief telethon next Friday (January 22). In the meantime, there are numerous ways you can take part in Haitian relief efforts.

The grim situation in Haiti has elicited an unprecedented outpouring of support that could rival the almost $2 billion in private donations from Americans after the 2004 Asian tsunami.

“We’re hearing that this is breaking all records,” Sandra Miniutti of Charity Navigator, an independent group that evaluates U.S. charities, told USA Today. In addition to the more than $10 million raised so far by the Red Cross, Oxfam American has raised $2.7 million and President Obama has pledged $100 million in U.S. aid.

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Multi-platinum selling artist Lil’ Wayne is pairing up with T-Pain for “Freakniks”, an impending cartoon special set to air on Adult Swim. Weezy will be playing the role of Jesus Christ and is rumored to be featured in a parody music video titled “Ghetto Commandments.”

“Basically it was a Black Spring Break that went down in Atlanta and got shut down back in ‘98 or ‘99. So the show is going to resurrect that, and it’s going to be starring T-Pain and Lil’ Wayne and all these other artists like David Banner and some other dudes,” said Adult Swim creative director Jake Escobedo about the show. “It’s all drawn, and T-Pain plays the ghost of spring break, the Spirit of Freaknik. He brings this party back to Atlanta and the artists have done all this music for it, and it’s amazing,” he added.

Outside of playing the ghost of spring break, T-Pain is working on his fourth studio album, Revolver.

“Freaknik” is set to air on March 21.

Source: hiphopdx.com

2009 has been a successful year for hip hop artist, however for some it has also been a difficult one.

Rap phenomenon Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter has without a doubt been the most successful emcee this year. With prodigys such as Drake and Nicki Minaj signed to his Young Money label, Lil Wayne is on the fast track to becoming a music mogul to rival that of Jay-Z and Diddy.

Check out footage of Lil’ Wayne’s Farewell tour with Young Money performing “EveryGirl In The World” courtesy of karencivic.com

On Monday, DJ Scoob Doo gave MTV News a behind-the-scenes preview of his new DVD, “The Nino Brown Story Pt. 2,” featuring Lil Wayne reflecting on his past. Now Scoob graced us with another preview, showing us how Wayne really gets down in the studio.

The Three Amigos is an uncensored real life documentary starring Lil Wayne, Juelz Santana, & Jim Jones as three blood brothers that go at nothing to be the best in the game. DJ Scoob Doo is the man who orchestrates this special edition of streets talk dvd that brings you behind the scenes with Weezy, Capo, & Juelz as three of the top influential people hip hop.