While you were out celebrating New Years, your favorite celebs were also poppin’ bottles at events around the country. Rap-Up cover star T.I., who performed “Whatever You Like” in a pre-taped segment for “NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly,” hosted a party with actress Chloë Sevigny at the Gansevoort South Hotel in Miami Beach.

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Mario was in Atlanta earlier this week working with producer Tricky Stewart (pictured right) on his fourth studio album, set for a March 2009 release. The former “Dancing with the Stars” contestant has also been in the studio with Babyface, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Stargate, KP & Malay, and Polow Da Don.

Mario is calling this the “most personal, colossal album of his career.” It will combine an old school R&B influence with a modern pop sound.

“R&B is back,” at least according to Joe and Mario. The two R&B crooners have collaborated on “Last Sip,” a new joint off Joe’s upcoming album New Man. Listen to the B. Cox-produced joint below.

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Mario gets on the remix to Keyshia Cole’s “Heaven Sent,” which has been No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for 9 weeks! Listen below.

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