Wanda Sykes Supports Gay Marriage

Wynda Sykes admits to being gay, and discusses her support against proposition 8.

"You know, I don't really talk about my sexual orientation. I didn't feel like I had to. I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life," said Wynda at a rally in Los Angeles protecting proposition 8 which prohibits gay marriage.

"Everybody that knows me personally they know I'm gay. But that's the way people should be able to live their lives," she said before noting that she married her partner in late October.

J. Period Scores Tony Hawk Game

DJ. Period has hosted mixtapes and done movie trailers, however, now he has landed a deal with Activision to score Tony Hawk's new game Tony Hawk's Motion.

"I am thrilled to be part of the Tony Hawk’s Motion project,” said J. Period. “I was truly honored to be given the responsibility of crafting the entire soundtrack for game play—exclusive tracks.“

Activision gave a statement concerning their new deal with J. Period.

"J. Period has meticulously crafted an incredible collection of exclusive and original tracks that capture the essence of the Tony Hawk experience,” said Tim Riley, Vice President of Music Affairs at Activision, Inc.

Tony Hawk’s Motion hit stores yesterday exclusively for Nintendo DS.

T-Pain Gets Auto-tune Love

During an interview with Rasphody.com T-Pain discusses how he never created his synthesized style of singing.

"I brought it back. I didn't start it," T-Pain explained to Rhapsody. "I didn't invent the damn thing. People think that I feel that way when I say that I should get respect or recognition for bringing it back."

Now that T-Pain has become successful from using the vocoder sound, artists such as Lil Wayne and Kanye West have added it to their music. In fact, Kanye's new album "808s & Heartbreak" uses the vocoder on every track.

T-Pain recently released his third album Thr33 Ringz this month.

Notorius B.U.M. Part II

The Notorious B.U.M. aka J. Slash has been spotted on Youtube again. This time Slash was filmed in a neighborhood performing his popular hit "Kick It On the Floor". The camera man gave Slash the cue to rap, then he started rhyming with so much charisma and intensity.

The Notorius B.U.M. who is known for beatboxing and rapping at the same time, followed up his original performance at a Wendy's restaurant with more spin moves and parts of his lyrics were remixed.

His camera man even sang along with Jay Slash and this made the video even more of a Youtube moment.

Def Jam and Katrina Give Back to High School

Def Jam has joined with New Rochelle High School in New York to bring thing the annual New Roc Rhapsody fundraiser.

The concert will be headlined by 17 year old Def Jam artist Karina Pasian. Pasian is Quincy Jones goddaughter and she's become popular with her song "16 @war" which discusses issues young women deal with in society.

The fundraiser will help support the three-time football team which has endured severe financial losses.

Lil Wayne Discusses Family, and the Future

Hip hop juggernaut Lil Wayne is all over every mixtape, and has the hottest rap album of the year.

Wayne announced he will re-release his platinum selling album the Carter IV (however he's changing the title of the ablum, and it will include newer tracks).

Weezy also is expecting another another addition to his family (a son).

Lil Wayne won the Best Rapper of the Year award at the BET Awards show in October.

T.I. Expected To Testify In Murder Trial

According to Local 12 WKRC-TV T.I. is expected to testify in court for the May 2006 murder of his assistant Philant Johnson.

Johnson was allegedly murdered two years ago by Hosea Thomas, after a fight occurred at Roselawn club. Thomas and his brother are accussed of opening fire on T.I.'s van, injuring four people and killing Johnson.

On November 17 the jury was selected, and on November 18 the opening arguments took place.