Paris Hilton Just Signed With Cash Money Records

Back in the heady days of 2006, when our rabid celebrity culture was in its first violent throes, when socialites could wrangle their party-life infamy into a hit TV series, Paris Hilton released her debut album, Paris. Featuring production from hitmaker of the moment, Scott Storch, it, obviously, divided opinion. As Rolling Stone put it at the time: “As with global warming and the handgun crisis, future generations will judge us harshly for not preventing Paris Hilton’s music career while there was still time.”

It featured the single ‘Stars Are Blind’, which, to be honest, we always found impossible to hate, mainly because it weirdly reminded us of, say, UB40 or the music in Weekend At Bernie’s 2. The video clip was really terrible, though.

Anyway, in the intervening seven years, while Storch was casually blowing through a $70 million fortune and, well, tons of blow, Paris seemed to have turned a leaf. Rather than starring in sex tapes, flashing her genitals to lingering paparazzi or hanging out with douchebags who wandered the Los Angeles nights on missions to humiliate homeless people, the former socialite has been laying low, far from our TV screens, far from the reaches of TMZ and the party girl life she’d made her image on (well, besides that whole insane celebrity DJ side career).

Well, she’s back. Not only has she been using renewed interest in the ‘Bling Ring’ saga to bring her shiny mug back into the media spotlight (Sofia Coppola even shot a few scenes from her upcoming film in Hilton’s actual house, as Hilton told David Letterman the other week, in between giggling over her 21-year-old Spanish model boyfriend), but, overnight, Birdman (aka Bryan “Baby” Williams), head and founder of hip-hop powerhouse Cash Money (and spiritual ‘daddy’ to one Lil Weezy), released the following tweet:

According to reports from the AV Club and Digital Spy, the yet-to-be-titled album is set to feature appearances from YMCMB luminaries Drake, Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne. Paris herself also told Showbiz 411 that it will be “a lot different than my first album. It’s really going to be house music.” Of course it is. To further promote its release, Paris will be taking up a summer residency in Ibiza. Expect a lot more of this in the coming months: