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Don't Sweat The Technique...

LIL WAYNE VS JAY-Z??

So the industry is all buzzin about Lil Wayne's verse on Freekey Zekey's Beat without Bass which includes this supposed Jay-Z diss:

"You old ass rappers better stay on tour/ You like 44/ I got a 44/ I'm 24/ I could murk you and come out when I'm 44."

And while Weezy never comes out and explicitly calls out names, it doesnt take much to put 2+2 together...plus, the pot has been bubbling since the December '06 issue of Complex Magazine in which Weezy flat out said "I'm better than (Jay-Z)...I'm 24 years old. ... I'm 13 years deep with five albums and 10 million records sold." He went on to say ""I don't like what he's saying about how he had to come back because hip-hop's dead and we need him...What the f--- do you mean? If anything it's reborn, so he's probably having a problem with that. You left on a good note, and all of the artists were saying, "Yo, this is Jay's house. He's the best." Now he comes back and still thinks it's his house... It's not your house anymore, and I'm better than you."

so will this be S.Carter Vs. The Carter II?? who knows....frankly I'm not sure if I even care yet based on the fact that weezy SO OBVIOUSLY has a ghostwriter ... might still make for good entertainment though...and whatever gets people's minds temporarily off of snap music and/or coonish dances is cool with me..............

CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATE (Jay-Z's response, plus audio!)

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'Lil Cease dances naked for his boys...WTF?

what do you make of this craziness??  and why are the men chanting "Anaconda!"?????

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MY FAILING LESBIAN RELATIONSHIP

So recently I found myself once again defending my love/hate relationship with rap music to a friend who doesn’t listen to it. I made her read the lyrics to Common’s “ I Used to Love H.E.R.” to help her comprehend the music’s evolution, and consequently, the complexity of most people’s feelings towards it. She began to understand…but not fully…so, naturally, I decided to blog. (Side note: if rap music, according to Common, is a H.E.R…does that make me a lesbian??...Only on select weekend nights at the club I guess…what is this, college again??...kidding...)
Loving rap music is like being in an up-n-down-emotional-rollercoaster-verbally-abusive relationship. You know, the type of topic on Dr. Phil episodes, and everyone in the audience is yelling “then just leave H.E.R!” …but they are looking from the outside…they don’t know H.E.R like I do…they simply can’t relate. She didn’t always treat me like this, but the older we got, the more she turned her back on me. She was the outcast girl in school who suddenly found popularity and became an asshole. She went from being humble and self-aware to being outwardly abusive; contradicting everything she once claimed she was against. So, I considered leaving H.E.R. After all, It wasn’t like I didn’t have other options; I had been fuckin wit this chick Jazz for a minute now…plus some others on the side too. But my problem was that I could never make a clean break. You ever try to break up with a girlfriend but you’re still close with her mom, brothers etc? You know they aren’t the problem, so why take it out on them? But then…they eventually start to talk about her…about how good you were for each other…and you start to believe it all over again. Point blank, we were too involved with each other’s family to ever truly leave. She continued to chill with my three older brothers and countless members of my crew, and I couldn’t leave her fam alone either. How could I possibly expect to leave rap when I still loved Hip Hop?
So the cycle continued. But I got smarter and started to recognize how she was playin me. She would basically give me just enough to keep me wanting more. She would act up just till the point at which she saw I was getting serious about leaving…then she’d start telling me all those sweet things she used to tell me… and like a fool I fall in love all over again thinking she would finally start to change. And what once was a healthy relationship in which we listened to each other and talked about things that actually mattered, turned into being a fling. An occasional booty-call on the weekends. We tell concerned mutual friends that it’s “nothing serious” and we are “just having fun”, not realizing how badly we’re demeaning our relationship. And the cycle continues. I still chill with her (at the club mostly). Usually, I decide to end the night early because I can’t stand to listen to H.E.R talk and talk without ever really saying anything. She bores me. I’d much rather look through old (photo) albums of how she once was. Damn she looked good back then…raspy voice, complex background, and H.E.R. body (of work) was straight BANGIN….I want H.E.R back…because despite all the bullshit I still firmly believe, in true abusive-relationship fashion, that we can make this right.

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PARIS HILTON ORDERED BACK TO JAIL

Paris Hilton sent back to jail screaming, calling `Mom!'

By Linda Deutsch
Associated Press
San Jose Mercury News

Article Launched:06/08/2007 10:24:19 AM PDT




LOS
ANGELES - Paris Hilton was taken from a courtroom screaming and crying
today seconds after a judge ordered her returned to jail to serve out
her entire 45-day sentence for a parole violation in a reckless driving
case.

"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.

Hilton, who was brought to court in handcuffs in a sheriff's car, came
into the courtroom disheveled and weeping. Her hair was askew and she
wore a gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks. She wore no makeup and she
cried throughout the hearing.

Her body also shook constantly as she dabbed at her eyes. Several times
she turned to her parents who were seated behind her in the courtroom
and mouthed the words, "I love you."

Many of Hilton's several dozen supporters outside the courthouse appeared devastated.

"No! No! No!" Jake Byrd of Chino screamed as a court spokesman delivered the news to reporters outside court.

During the hearing on the issue of her early release, Superior Court
Judge Michael T. Sauer was calm but apparently irked by developments of
the morning. He said he had left the courthouse Thursday night having
signed an order for Hilton to appear for the hearing.

When he got in his car early Friday, he said, he heard a radio report
that she would not appear and that he had approved a telephonic
hearing. He said no such thing had been approved by him.

"I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told
him I approved the actions," he said of the decision to release Hilton
from jail after three days.

"At no time did I approve the defendant being released from custody to her home on Kings Road," he said.

The hearing was requested by the city attorney's office, which had
prosecuted Hilton and wanted Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca held
in contempt for deciding to reassign Hilton to home detention despite
the judge's express order that she must serve her time in jail.

A member of the county counsel's staff said that Baca was concerned
with Hilton's medical condition and was willing to come to court with
medical personnel to meet with the judge. The judge did not take him up
on the offer, however the judge took no action on the contempt request.

Assistant City Attorney Dan F. Jeffries argued that Hilton should be
returned to jail and said that was purely the judge's decision to make.

He said that "her release after only three days erodes confidence in the judicial system."

Hilton's attorney, Richard Hutton, implored the judge to order a
hearing in his chambers at which he would hear testimony about Hilton's
medical condition before making a decision.

The judge did not respond to that suggestion.

Another of her attorneys, Steve Levine, said, "The sheriff has
determined that because of her medical situation, this (jail) is a
dangerous place for her."

"The court's role here is to let the Sheriff's Department run the jail," he said.

A former district attorney, Robert Philibosian, also represented
Hilton. He said that the law supports the sheriff in making an
independent decision on her custodial situation.

The judge interrupted several times to say that he had received a call
last Wednesday from an undersheriff informing him that Hilton had a
medical condition and that he would submit papers to the judge to
consider. He said the papers never arrived.

Every few minutes, the judge would interrupt proceedings and state the
time on the clock and note that the papers still had not arrived.

He also noted that he had heard that a private psychiatrist visited
Hilton in jail and he wondered if that person played a role in deciding
her medical needs.

The last attorney to speak was another deputy city attorney, David
Bozanich, who declared, "This is a simple case. There was a court. The
Sheriff's Department chose to violate that order. There is no
ambiguity."

As he made the final pitch for Hilton's further incarceration, Hilton's
entire body began trembling. He had a ball of tissue clutched in her
hand and tears ran down her face.

Seconds later the judge announced his decision.

"The defendant is remanded to county jail to serve the remainder of her 45-day sentence. This order is forthwith," he said.

Hilton screamed.

The courtroom was surrounded with eight deputies who immediately ordered all spectators out.

Hilton's mother Kathy threw her arms around her husband Rick and sobbed uncontrollably.

Deputies escorted Hilton out of the room, holding each of her arms as she looked back.

The frenzy began early Thursday when sheriff's officials released
Hilton because of an undisclosed medical condition and sent her home
under house arrest with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet.

The Los Angeles County jail system is so overcrowded that attorneys and
jail officials have said it is not unusual for nonviolent offenders
like Hilton to be released after serving as little as 10 percent of
their sentences. The sheriff's decision for an early release, however,
was based on a medical condition rather than overcrowding.

Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test
after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what
she said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.

She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.

In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who
discovered her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed
her in Sauer's courtroom, where he sentenced her to jail.

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