LL Cool J, Akon, Mos Def, Young Jeezy and T.I. are among the acts who will celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama in Washington D.C. next week.

T-Pain and Akon might want to update their résumés. If 2008 was the year hip-hop remade "Paper Planes", 2009 is shaping up to be the year rappers get their hooks from Santogold. Sampling the same track as Jay Z's Kanye West-produced "Brooklyn Go Hard" (presumably due for an official release this year), Memphis' Three 6 Mafi...

E! Online - Akon is indeed sorry and do blame it on him.

Akon has pleaded guilty in Fishkill, NY to second-degree harassment, a violation - and also later apologised to the fan he threw off the stage during a performance in the town in June 2007.

Akon pleaded guilty Wednesday to harassment for tossing a fan off stage