the shuffle. [12/02/06]

Get fly tonight.

Another umemployed week, but I actually pulled in some cake via PayPerPost and Associated Content. If you like to blog or just want get your work published and get paid for it, check those sites out. I'm talking damn near $50 for some old articles. Yessir. And another $22 for 2 blog posts.

So I have a bottle of Olde English and Disc 1 of this Next Level 2 compilation going on right now. Dutty combo. Friction is the man though, he has such an ear for what tunes work together. All my junglists stand up! I wanna shout out Perpetuum each and every, that's one down ass cat forreal. Shouts to Neil @ HMG on the marriage, congrats on that. Big up to J Funk of Saburuko for the beats and the opportunities. Oh and shouts to Miss Inaya for the ill pic of Young Geezy. Lovin' how he's grabbin' that brim. Big it up.

You guys ain't here for that though.. you're here for me to roast this week in news. Let's get it going, seen?

01/This just in: Lindsay Lohan is officially a drunk. I think it's kind of funny that Fire Crotch's parents were all about keeping her drinking under wraps ("she's exhausted" excuses could only go on for so long)... but what will this do to her image in the eyes of young America? I mean, many 20+ heads know she is a party girl and whatever else you might believe, but she was in a fucking Herbie movie. She was still marketable... this might fuck it up, though! And after she did her first love scene in Bobby. Good job, Fire Crotch.

02/Speaking of drunks, I was surprised my unemployed ass missed Danny Devito being a drunken idiot on The View. He went on and on trying to make us laugh at him dissing Dubya and the White House, but he just made himself look like one of those midgets who drank a bottle of Patron. George Clooney finally admitted that he was out with The Penguin drinking that night. Danny says he was in bed by 11:30PM and woke up at 7AM still drunk. LITTLE PEOPLE, do not try and drink with the big boys... you cannot hang like we can!

03/So after 4 months of marriage, Kid Rock & Pam Anderson called it quits. I figured, OK they got married to quick, they weren't ready, but then I heard that Kid Rock was pissed over her "role" in the new Borat film? I mean, he called her a slut and everything... like he didn't know that?! You only marry Pam Anderson for a few things, and her cookies ain't one of them. How you gonna trip out over her on screen -- she must have heard his "albums", and she still decided to marry him.

04/Your boys over at Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records camp have been run-running off at the mouth. First off, Busta Rhymes is working on a new album. He wants it done by the Spring of 2007; he says he doesn't like long gaps. I think he doesn't like short money -- The Big Bang, despite getting good reviews, from this blog and other websites, didn't do well at all. I seriously didn't think he would even go gold, and I'm very suprised he ONLY went gold stateside. A nigga like me can only hope that the shit that came out of the Timbaland episode of Diary is on the album. That's not the only thing though: 50 Cent has been running his mouth all week. This nigga would first like to have you believe that just because he admires Smokey Robinson and Motown greats, his new album is going to be more "soulful". I read that as being more "Ja Rule" like. He also exposes his inner bitch -- this nigga, the one who got famous for being shot 9 times, let it be known that he was shook when he went out to Iraq to perform. Nigga, all this "ready to die", I ain't scared come get me shit, and you shook over in Iraq? You ho ass fucker, go get a new rep. You got rich and started cryin'. Finally, lil man got the nerve to call Oprah "black on the outside/white on the inside", when this dude is the same one who doesn't care who he performs for. Nigga, she knows where he money comes from. And the fucked up part is, she said she doesn't like what rappers stand for, but "In Da Club" is on her iPod. You are a fucking fool, "Fiddy". Fuck you and the Ja you rode in on...

05/Speaking of the G-Unit, Young Buck might have gone and fucked up his chances of Buck The World doing big numbers down south. Story goes that he was performing at a club when Game's "It's Okay (One Blood)" was dropped by the DJ on the decks, DJ Will. Word is that Buck was tired of it and made some comment like "if you disrespecting me, play the record again" and it got played, so Will got his shit pushed in. Buck told SOHH that it wasn't him nor his people, but really, this is the same cat that stabbed a nigga with a dining utensil during the taping of the VIBE Awards! Your "excuse" is pretty null/void, dog. I applaud the DJs sticking up for Will and trying to let these bitch-ass MCs know that you need to get a movie role if you wanna perp. No need to steal on niggas who help you get exposure. Ban that nigga 'til he flops. And how come no one has heard how Game feels about this situation?

06/Yo, Akon is a polygamist? I mean, OK Muslims are known to take on more than one wife (what? It's in the Koran!)... but this nigga, the nigga who sings "Smack That" and got "Locked Up", he has 3 wives? And wants to put out a reality show exposing this? No wonder Universal is like "shut the fuck up". Talk about jeopardizing your career.

07/Speaking of record labels, Sony's Urban division is no more. This essentially means artists like Bow Wow, Three 6 Mafia, Amerie, Omarion and others are in label limbo. This is good news, I think. I mean, most of them niggas don't have legs to stand on. Is anyone truly on the lookout for the next Amerie LP? Nah, not me... and Omarion's 2nd lp hasn't even dropped yet! I think that's slated for Dec. 26th? What's he to do... damn, son, you got served -- by your record label.

08/LL Cool J came out his mouth and dissed Jay, seemingly saying he is not going to be working for Def Jam for his next album due to the weak sales of his Todd Smith LP. He's saying that Jay is concentrating more on himself, which may or may be true, but just like in the case of The Roots - if your album sucks, no push in promotion is going to make people buy it. These days, you gotta come out swinging. LL came out switchin' on some punk shit for this last album - pure trash. UPDATE: Raekwon spoke out against Jay, and even has a diss track about it -- supposedly.

09/In some scattered Hip-Hop news, here are the newest latest highlights... Snoop got arrested on drug and weapons charges after a performance on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Where the fuck were his weed carriers? And how come no one is talking about his coke charge? Was he dealing or sniffing?... Irv Gotti might have a reality show going on, like people really give a shit about Vanessa Carlton - yawn... Clipse spoke with the Smoking Sessions crew... dope read for those who know... Styles P also sat down for an interview with Format Mag, waxing nostaligic on shit you've already heard from him before. Politics and bullshit... Finally, the boy Swizz Beats sat down with Vibe.com to speak on Cassidy. Word is Cass is recouping well, but plans on releasing that next album are in limbo, whether Cass was gonna care what y'all think is non eof ya business. Shouts to him for doing what makes him feel right.

10/I'm in no mood to dedicate an entire paragraph to these situations, so I will hit them off nice and slowly: Jesse Jackson wants YOU to stop using the word "nigga". Yo, nigga, get Jay-Z to write a song about it, it'd be better received. Jesse does about as much for Black youth as Dubya does... Paul Mooney thinks that Michael Richards needs help, tells some people he's gonna stop saying the word that kep this teeth white. I guess it's my imagination ... I need to stop... I have no words for the mother who allegedly cooked her baby in the microwave -- how disgusting... Cheech has been picked to play Hurley's dad on LOST; no wonder Hurley seems to be stoned all the time. Can't wait for this one!... One subdivision is pissed because their neighbors hung up a red bow; apparently its a sign of the devil to them, making them stop quicker that they booted. What a fucking maroon - there HAS to be something more to this, esp. when people are losing their positions within the community... Tracy Morgan must have felt that being on a hit show wasn't enough; he needed to get his ass arrested for drunk driving recently - for a 2nd time... That new Scarface video game apparently sold over 1 million copies. I don't think people are really into the game being a dope game - they are just into the dope lore of the Scarface shit. I mean really, it looks like a glorified GTA. And I'm really wanting that Sopranos video game anyways - well, maybe not. This 4.2 rating that GameSpot gave is kind of putting me off... And congrats go to Eva Longoria and the Spurs' Tony Parker for reporting their recent engagement. Good man, Tony. Many guys in the US are salivating over homegirl, for good reason.

There is nothing else to this week's shuffle, though. Very tired, time to take it down. Any ideas, hit me up. Enjoy.

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