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Snoop Dogg will be picking up trash and cleaning toilets in an Orange County park as part of his sentence for weapons possession after trying to board a plane with a collapsible baton in his luggage. While Snoop was able to choose his community service option, he was restricted from any choices where he would be “glorified in the eyes of children,” according to the district attorney.

Madonna is set to close a ginormous deal with concert promoter Live Nation, in what is being called the first agreement of its kind. The new contract, reportedly worth $120 million, includes payments for three albums as well as tours, and all of this is after she finishes out her contract at Warner, whom she still owes a new album and greatest-hits package. That’s a lotta Madonna.

Portishead’s irascible Geoff Barrow apparently disagrees with Radiohead’s recent decision to allow flexible-priced downloads of their new album. He wrote on Portishead’s website, “If you can get our album for nothing or very little, does that mean I can get my boiler fixed for free?” You’re in Portishead, don’t you get everything for free? He also revealed that the band are in the mixing stage of their long-awaited third album, and you’ll get free plumbing with every copy.

Kanye West has announced he’s been working on music with Michael Jackson, saying (somewhat defensively) to the London Sun that “If I like…what a person brings to the table then I’ll speak to them,” and then, one can assume, adding, “even if they’re a creepy alleged child molester.” Jackson recently sent a letter to his European fan club telling them to anticipate “exciting and surprising news.” Like anything could surprise us at this point. You can bend spoons with your mind?