Eight Items or Less: Snoop Signs With MTV & Kanye Takes Back the Rainbow

1. Snoop Dogg has signed a worldwide recording and TV deal with MTV. His next album, Malice In Wonderland, is scheduled to be released later this year and a weekly televised talk/variety show, Dogg After Dark, premieres February 17.

2. Kanye West discusses gays and rainbows with The Guardian: "I think as straight men we need to take the rainbow back because it's fresh. I mean how is that a gay thing? Colors? Having a lot of colors is gay?"

3. Fifty-six of the 110 Grammy awards went to independent artists and labels. (via Hypebot)

4. Ladytron and The Faint with DJ Figo will be at Webster Hall on April 10 and 11. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 13.

5. The price of a first-class stamp goes up to 44 cents on May 11.

6. Brooklyn photographer Frank Olinsky posts his shots of dogs waiting for their owners outside of coffee shops and delis.