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Rap Sheet: A Whole New Ball Game

• Ballin’: Rapper Chuck D and beat maker Just Blaze will be getting down with the audio production for Midway Games’ NBA Ballers: Chosen One. Chuck will play the role of announcer and Just Blaze will be providing instrumentals. ‘Ballers’ will be ready to ship this Spring for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation3.

• Enter the fray: Despite reports to the contrary, Snoop claims the Brits have agreed to let him back into the UK following that drama at Heathrow airport back in 2006. From the Doggfather, “I was wrongfully accused and now I’ve been accepted back in. The judge overturned it. He looked at the evidence and looked at what I’ve been doing, just checked my character out and found me to be innocent and now I’m able to go back out there. So everybody in the U.K., big Snoop Dogg will be back to come give you all what you want.”

• No laughing matter: Hip Hop impressionist Aries Spiers—who’s made quite a name for himself by doing spot on imitations of rappers like DMX, LL, Jay-Z, and Snoop—was arrested for groping a woman at the Comix Comedy Club in Manhattan.

• Your own worst enemy: Is it really a surprise that 50 and crew would leave Young Buck off a new mixtape when he shows up on stage with arch rivals Cash Money?