A really big rap tour is exactly what the game needs right now. A rep for Soulja Boy Tell'em told MTV News that the rapper will be joining Lil Wayne on tour this summer, along with Young Jeezy and Wayne's fast-rising protégé Drake. Sources in Wayne's camp told MTV News they are confident that a tour with at least some of the four players will happen.

In May, Drake told MuchMusic about a similar tour that, at the time, was supposed to include Jay-Z.

"God willing, if everything goes according to plan and everybody's schedule is in place, then I will be on tour with some amazing people," Drake said. "One of them being Jay-Z, one of them being Lil Wayne, one of them being Young Jeezy and one of them being me."

Jay has lined up a tour this summer, with Ciara opening up some dates, that kicks off in Las Vegas on July 3.

Thursday night from the Los Angeles Lakers game, Soulja Boy Tell'em announced the tour on Twitter.

"TSA (Twitter Service Announcement) — I'm going on Tour with Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy & Drake this summer! Get ya tickets ASAP!!!!" he Tweeted.

Dates for the tour are still being locked down.

Drake has been working on Rihanna's next album as well as his proper debut album. Soulja Boy has been in the lab recording, as has Young Jeezy. Wayne told us on Sunday that his long-awaited Rebirth album is done. It's now scheduled for an August 18 release, although a new single has not been announced.

"I wanted to grow, and show my growth as well," Wayne said after the MTV Movie Awards. "It's a difference from when you go in a room and come out and you're better and everyone says, 'How did you do that?' So with this album, I wanted everyone to see my growing pains."

Wayne recently wrapped up his I Am Music Tour with T-Pain, Gym Class Heroes, Gorilla Zoe, Keyshia Cole and others.

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DJ AM plans to tell all.

The celebrity DJ has battled substance abuse, used gastric bypass surgery to treat obesity, dated a slew of Hollywood starlets and, of course, most recently fought for his life after that tragic plane crash.

It's no wonder he's planning on releasing his memoirs some day...

"I will definitely be writing a book," AM told us last night at Activision's DJ Hero launch at the Wiltern Theatre in L.A. "I'll work on it when I see the ending in sight. That may be a long time from now, but it will happen."

AM was on hand last night with best bud Travis Barker to open for an invite-only concert by Jay-Z and Eminem.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Usher, lovebirds Ryan Phillippe and gal-pal Abbie Cornish, Matthew McConaughey and Taraji P. Henson were among the boldfaced names hanging in the VIP area.

Even though Kim Kardashian is mocked in Eminem's new music, that didn't stop the E! reality star from having a good time. Also appearing to have a very good time? Ashlee Simpson-Wentz. A wobbly Ms. Ashlee was spotted leaving the VIP area with drink in hand and on the arms of a friend and a bodyguard.

It wasn't until midnight that Jay-Z finally hit the stage, performing snippets of "99 Bottles," "Swagger Like Us," and "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," among others.

Eminem joined him on stage for their 2001 collaboration, "Renegade." Slim Shady then performed a solo set of five songs.


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More than 10 years ago, a slew of young stars hit the pop charts. Although the queen bees were Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, back then, Mandy Moore held her own with hits like "Candy" and "I Wanna Be With You."

With Spears and Aguilera continually reinventing themselves but staying true to what Moore considers their "formula," the singer/actress has moved on with a throwback to a " '70s sort of Southern California pop sound" on her new album, Amanda Leigh.

"I kind of always knew we would all differentiate ourselves from one another," she told MTV News. "Musically, they've stuck to a formula that works for them and, obviously, has always proven successful. I don't think I found that same success singing music that really, at the end of the day, I wasn't happy singing."

But Moore said she wasn't trying to prove anything by jumping off that bandwagon. "It wasn't a bold gesture to try and show that I was an adult," she explained. "I sort of have taken my baby steps to get to where I am today. I feel comfortable singing the music that I'm singing, because it's coming from me, finally."

In fact, Moore helped write all the music on Amanda Leigh, making the album in Boston to stay away from the distractions of her life in New York and Los Angeles. "It's the record I've always wanted to make," she said of the LP, which debuted at #25 on the Billboard albums chart this week. "And I'm excited for people to hear it. It's sort of got a tinge of all the artists that I love and listen to on a consistent basis."

The album — which she said was inspired by Brian Wilson, Joni Mitchell and "maybe even a little McCartney" — was recorded on vintage equipment and with Moore's more mature view of life. Partly thanks to her marriage to rocker Ryan Adams, it is a far cry from the music and themes she sang about back in the day.

"I think I have a lot more information now, be it life experience, discovering new music. ... I know what I'm singing about now," she said. "Everything is really personal now, whereas before, I had no connection to it. It's deeper now. It's a bit more organic, because it's what I want to say."

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