Looks like Wendy Williams has two replacements for her recently departed WBLS afternoon show. Salt-N-Pepa’s here! Yup, the greatest female rap group of all-time have gone from reality TV to on-air radio disc jocks. Think I can speak for most in my circle and say I have zero interest in listening to this. Love her or hate her, Wendy’s an institution and I can’t see either one of these hip-hop legends filling up her high heels. FAIL.

Spotted: WoooHa via Bossip

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.866690&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] I’m a grown-ass man. 38, to be right and exact and I can admit I like this joint a lot. LOL smiley face. LOL smiley face, nigga. You got a problem? Here’s a lil’ taste of it live from a few nights ago. This Trey Songz kid is startin’ to grow on me. Especially if Kells disappoints… Props: Sermon Sidebar: Wonder if Mr. Folarin got that track yet.

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Now this is startin’ to get controversial. With the NYPD concerned about safety, Mayor Bloomberg addressed 50 Cent’s planned event on Aug 30 in Queens. Curtis told His Honor he may be in attendance, but he’s not performing. Now that’s a change of heart (no Game) for those who heard the War Angel mixtape.

{mp3}12 mixtape outro{/mp3} 

Props: Politicker NY

Sidebar: As far as we know 6 Flags is still on for the day before. MJ’s born day.

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.866691&w=425&h=350&fv=] “You got diapers? How much are diapers?” “Ah man, 15 for a stack.” “Alright, let me get that, man.” Whoa. This is incredible. Bread trucks, son? Ha! I gotta get all this Pap content up before B.Dot touches down. Say it with me, 1-2-3: Papoose. Pa-Poose! Let the children sing!

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The latest in D-Nice‘s excellent series features the lead MC of Cypress Hill breakin’ down their breakthrough hit, “How I Could Just Kill A Man”. Didn’t know the lyrics were originally from 3 different songs merged into one. B-Real also breaks down Latinos fight for respect in rap, the enduring power of hip-hop and the current status of his crew. Keep doin’ ya thing, Derrick.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2oogDXYVOc] 

Before the canceled Canadian dates (wait now Weezy’s claiming the sniffles?), AMW rolled through Concord Cali Saturday night. Jeezy continued to get his Ed Sullivan on and brought out the ambassador with the colorful language. It was only right. Fo’ shizzle.

Sidebar: Two men were arrested outside the concert that night. Oops.

Last night me and a gang of media folks paid a visit to R.Kelly’s pad on the outskirts of Chicago. As Miss Info stated, Kellz’s crib looks more like a fortress than a humble abode. Camera’s and cell phones weren’t permitted inside (how’d ya do it Minya?!) but as you enter his his living room, there’s a stage adjacent to his music awards.

After several minutes, Kelly emerged and encouraged us to make ourselves at home. Once dinner and drinks were served, he premiered his new video with Keri Hilson. Before playing the album, he jumped on his coffee table and proposed a toast. With a cigar in his left hand, he hoisted a glass of his concoction “Sex In The Kitchen” and said “May the best part of our past, be the worst part of our future”. Right on cue, Untitled began.

Sonically, the album is more rump shakin’ than baby makin’. Kellz means well with cuts like “Elsewhere”, “Echo”, and “Be My Number 2”, but falls short elsewhere with Auto-Tune (“Crazy Night”) and sluggish songwriting, (“Text Me”). Don’t expect “Bangin’ The Headboard” to wake up the neighbors.

Once the LP was complete, I confronted him about the direction of the album. I can’t front, I was a lil’ disappointed. He snickered and admitted to making his kids to his own songs. He said that he felt like [Muhammad] Ali and that this album was just “a jab”. He promised me that his follow up, Zodiac would be a reversion of 12 Play and TP2.com  *crosses fingers*

Before our depature, he gave us a tour of his in-house studio. With platinum plaques lining its corridor, he talked about working with Michael Jackson and his creative process. In case you ain’t no so, Kellz writes with the hand that don’t write too. In parting, he said that on Untitled he really did his homework. Where’s a hungry dog when you need one.

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.866692&w=425&h=350&fv=] Ain’t no party like a Meth and Red party cuz a Red and Meth party don’t stop! The blunt brothers tore down Cali’s Mezzanine a coupla nights ago. No UGK? It’s ok, they got it poppin’! Props: Know The Ledge

As if 60 Minutes wasn’t enough, Russell Rush got M.V. to cry out to the Black folks who don’t watch the television news magazine. Grab your hanky, here he goes again. 

“Sitting in a prison cell didn’t make me feel remorse.  It was meeting so many animal lovers, speaking with them and looking them in their eyes. Staring at them.  Looking so deep into their eyes that I began to feel their pain. Allowing that pain to enter into my body is when I started to understand how bad it really was.   I have been trying hard to connect with people who feel this pain,because for my whole life I was disconnected from the suffering of animals.  And you might say, “come on Mike, how could you do those things to those dogs?”  And you’re right…I ask myself those questions every day.  What kind of person does this?  How does a human-being treat dogs or any animal with such pain and cruelty? And the hard part for me is the answer to these questions. Because the answer is ME.”

Well Played: Global Grind 

Personally, YN is on his Chocolate Milk shit.

Update: You’re a fake?

All of a sudden, the Pied Piper is everywhere. Here’s the R. Keri video. Plus the final official tracklisting. And fuck it, get your tickets to the fall tour. Not to mention the flossy festivities that went down last night in the Chi where all the Internet and magazine kings and queens were stripped of their phones and flip cams and invited into Kells’ mansion to hear the new album. Hopefully B.Dot won’t be too jet lagged to share his […]