Rihanna and her guitar rocked out to her new single for the first time last night on American Idol. Pretty electrifying.

Now that Jay-Z’s BP3 tour is all wrapped up, Billboard Boxscore reports that within a two week span (March 11-24) Jigga’s traveling circus pulled in $9,731,218. The second tour to promote the album included Jeezy and Trey Songz, kicked off last February and made eight of the top 35 shows this year. That’s big business. The Boom Box

It’s Wednesday and if you’ve been keeping up, you know what that means. This week, Russell and, um, Russell take a ride in the Maybach. You want an autograph? Previously: Ep. 1 l Ep. 2 l Ep. 3

DMX’s estranged wife, Tashera Simmons comments on her upcoming memoir, Strength Of A Woman. She insists the book isn’t a traditional tell-all, but rather “inspirational”. Judge for yourself this September. Chuck Creekmur

Featured in this week’s US Weekly is a picture of Christina Milian and The-Dream’s daughter, Violet. The singers welcomed her back in February. She sure does ‘semble like her daddy. Necole Bitchie via Hello Beautiful

Robin was absent from Alicia Keys’ Freedom tour last night in L.A., but for good reason. The R&B singer and his wife Paula Patton welcomed their first child Julian Fuego. That name’s fire! The Life Files

Now that would be crazy. In other news, the Funk Doc released two new tracks via his Twitter account last night. Better grab these now since they won’t be featured on his upcoming album, Reggie. Big Girlz get your bounce on with your stinkin’ asses. “Big Girlz 2010” “Gilla House Bounce”

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.933180&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D500910%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A500910] Backstage during last night’s show, Drizzy talks to MTV about the collab he has with Weezy on Thank Me Later, titled “Miss Me”. He explains the song’s concept is pretty much self-explainatory. No Afrika Bambaataa shit.

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.933155&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D500938%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A500938] T.I. is onboard for The-Dream’s second single, “Sex Intelligent,” off his album,  Love King The Radio Killah also reveals that he had a chance to hear some material of Clifford’s new material as well. “Every record he played me, I was like, ‘Wow.’ I could just feel it. It wasn’t about judging it. It wasn’t about, ‘Is this a single or is this that?’ It was just, ‘Wow, where have you been? Where’d you go?’ It was just elevated, and […]

Ride ’em cowgirl! Ci Ci is saddled up in the upcoming video for her collaboration with Ludacris. No Luda in sight, but who cares. That’s one lucky mechanical bull. More snaps on the other side. This Is R&B