(AllHipHop News) Iconic Peanuts cartoon character Charlie Brown has officially become a rapper. ABC is running commercials featuring Charlie Brown rapping  to a Hip-Hop beat promoting the special, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” During the commercial, “Charlie B. and the Peanuts Posse” raps: “Raking leaves and rolling on a pumpkin/Trick or treat then get the party pumpin.” “We just thought it was a great opportunity to really kind of do something different,” Marla Provencio said. “We’ve had this franchise for a long, long time…How many times can you do the traditional straightforward sell?” The updated commercial for the special, which was released in 1966, is part of an update the Peanuts franchise. “We opted to do something that was relevant for our time, that would maybe bring in a whole different audience and would be just attention-getting,” Provencio said. “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” airs tonight (October 29th) at 8:00 PM on ABC.Young Money rapper Lil Twist will release his new mixtape The Takeover: Carte Blanche Edition, on October 29th, 2010. Starting at midnight, fans of Lil Twist will be able to download the mixtape for free, via Lil Twist’s official website, www.liltwistthetakeover.com. The first single from the mixtape is titled “Wind It (Shut the Club Down),” which was produced by K.E. Lil Twist is currently putting the finishing touches on his official Young Money debut, The Take Over: Carte Blanche Edition. The album has confirmed appearances from Drake, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Sean Kingston, Lil Wayne and others.  Ebro Darden has been named Vice President of Programming for Emmis NY, making the executive responsible for the programming of three stations, including Hot 97, 98.7 Kiss FM and 101.9 RXP. The promotion is a part of the restructuring of Emmis’ top three performing stations. “This is very exciting and I’m very grateful to our SVP, Alex Cameron, for giving me this tremendous opportunity to lead the entire Programming Team here at Emmis NY,” Ebro Darden said in a statement. “Our priorities will be programming efficiency in PPM, growing our digital properties and keeping our brands focused on being culturally significant for our audiences…these are powerful brands and with the talented team here we’re going to continue to do some serious damage – lets go!” Ebro started with Emmis in 2003, after 13 years in radio in Sacramento, California. The promotion is effective immediately.

(AllHipHop News) A highly anticipated performance in Australia featuring Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad has been canceled, after the promoter of the event was scammed by a phony booking agent. In August, Peace Music made announcements for the performances, which was to feature the two Tribe Called Quest members for a date in Sydney on November 27th.Peace Music said they were victims of a scam artist who has already duped three other promoters throughout Europe. “It has very recently come to light the agent for the tour has grossly misrepresented the artists involved, and misappropriated payments made to him on behalf of the artists,” Peace FM said in a statement. “Despite meeting with management in Australia in August, the fact that the tour dates were little more than an elaborate scam did not come to light until very recently. On further investigation Peace discovered that the ‘agent’ in question, one James Richardson of Abstrakt Visions Entertainment, had defrauded three different European promoters in connection with misrepresenting Phife earlier in the year, and that he appeared to be little more than a career con man.”Peace Music said that despite their best efforts, they could not negotiate a legitimate date with the pair’s management, so the decision was made the scrap the date, which will be replaced with a performance by Pharoahe Monch, Jean Grae and Boogie Blind. The new show will take place at the Metro Theatre in Sydney on November 26th. Ticket holders to the Phife/Ali Shaheed Muhammad show are being offered a free refund, or a two-for-1 deal to the new show featuring Pharoahe Monch and company. “Peace would like to express our most sincere regret to all those who purchased tickets in connection with this tour and look forward to presenting some of the world’s best hip hop artists this summer, including De La Soul and Mos Def,” the company said in a statement.

(AllHipHop News) Detroit rapper Eminem is back in the recording studio with super producer, Dr. Dre. Em made the revelation on his Shade 45 channel on Sirius Satellite Radio during Angela Yee’s popular “Lip Service” show. “I’m in the studio right now, still working,” Eminem said during the interview. I would just say I’m in the studio with Dre right now, I’ll just say that. He’s in the next room. There’s nothing going on right now, but pretty soon he’ll play a beat and I might rap to it.” It is speculated that Eminem was laying down vocals for a track on Dr. Dre’s highly anticipated fabled album, Detox. While Em is planning a third single from his blockbuster album Recovery, the rapper stated that he was “taking a break” for now. Eminem is celebrating the six-year anniversary of Shade 45 with DJ Whoo Kid this Saturday (October 30th) at 5:00 PM. Also making appearances will be Akon, Tom Green, Lloyd Banks, Denise Richards and others.

(AllHipHop News) LimeWire, the decentralized peer-to-peer file trading service, was ordered by a federal to shut down on Tuesday.

The company, Lime Wire LLC, had been in a legal battle with the major labels including Arista, BMG, Sony, and Warner Bros.

LimeWire’s demise represents a victory for the music industry’s ongoing battle against internet piracy.

The presiding judge ordered LimeWire to shut down all versions of the software as of Wednesday. The exact terms of the shut down include”the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality.”

If the company were to resurface, it would have to implement a copyright filter.