Summer 2007

Israeli fashion house Irit has these photos up for their Summer 2007 campaign. The chick in the middle is Bar Refaeli, Leo DiCaprio's new main chick.

(Black Folks)

Ray J Celebrates Release of Tape with Kim Kardashian

Ok, didn't Ray J sell his tape for $1 million dollars? Kim Kardashian just settled for $5 million. Look at his dumb self. Standing up there being sold and smiling like its is cute.

?uestlove Detained At Buffalo Airport

Ok, I didn't write this account of what happend to ?uest. I got it off a message board, but how am I supposed to credit "Piano Man" from some random board? It was Urban Chocolate.com.

Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, the drummer for The Roots, was detained by the DEA sometime last week while attempting to board a plane at a Buffalo airport. ?uestlove wrote about the altercation on his MySpace blog, which he described as “possibly the most humiliating hour of my life.” The incident occurred when ?uest purchased his plane ticket 24 hours before the flight, automatically placing him in a special security line. When his luggage was checked, authorities found with a Louis Vuitton bag containing money from various countries. “Thing is, I absolutely forgot that I was carrying around all of my post Roots show DJ ?uestlove gig money,” he wrote. “It was there they discovered my DJ money stash from countries all around the world.” ?ueset claims he forgot to deposit the money before boarding the plane and was subsequently transferred from the airport security to the DEA. Authorities then questioned ?uest about his bag full of “$100,000 in China money.” When the heavyset drummer tried to convince security he was a Grammy award-winning artist, they picked up an issue of XXL out of his luggage and asked, “Where are you in this magazine? You said you were in a rap group, huh? How can a rapper not be in a rap magazine?” Security then forced ?uest to remove his pants, which he describes as “single handily the most embarrassing moment of my career.”
To read all of ?uestlove’s story, visit http://myspace.com/questlove.

I For One Hope The Monica / Rocko Hill Break Up Rumors Aren't True

Because dammit, I can't take another tattoo cover-up situation from this girl. Remember that C-Murda tattoo she used to keep covered on her shoulder? This crap is almost as bad as Brandy tattooing Quentin Richardson's face on her back. Oh, and maybe it's not such a good idea to have a party for your baby daddy at a strip club. I mean, it does give the impression that it's, you know, Ok to mess with strippers. I'm just saying.


UDATE: I'm guessing Sandra Rose's picture of the day is saying YBF don't know what the F they talking about. But hey, it ain't gossip if you don't spread it around!

T-Pain Got Arrested Last Night And Young Buck Caused A Shoot Out

T-Pain got arrested because he was closing out the show at the Radio One Springfest in Miami and they told him he had to cut his set short, even though the crowd was chanting for him to continue. Baller Status got an eyewitness who said: T-Pain ignored requests to cut his performance, continuing to put on his show, all while the backstage area began to fill with police officers. They said T-Pain's manager ran off stage, pushed down a female police officer while trying to make his way to the DJ booth, which is when he was surrounded by authorities before running back to the stage. While this was going on, other officers argued with event organizers backstage to shut down T-Pain's show, but the singer continued on. When the singer finally broke into "Buy You A Drink," his latest single, T-Pain's music was finally cut. He then tossed his mic and became furious, jumping up and down, while throwing middle fingers at the police and screaming "f--- you." Anyway, T-Pain and his people left the venue followed by police who pulled them over and arrested everybody.

I don't know what to say about Young Buck. He had a concert in a local club in Kennewick, Washington last night, and after it was over he invited the whole club back to the Hilton Garden Inn for the afterparty. 50 people showed up and at 2 am guests reported running and hollering in the hallways and shots fired. One person got shot and 9 people got arrested. Not sure if Buck got arrested or not.

Monica Shuts Down Critics

What's the big deal about the way Monica dresses her son? She loves to claim the hood, so why would she dress her son anything but? Anyway, Monica gettin' real tired of all the negative comments she reads on the Internet regarding her baby, Lil' Rock, and she dropped a message for all you smart mouths on Sandra Rose's page:

How do we constantly find negative when only positive exists? Is it a problem with the world or people in general? My son is being raised by strong black men, so therefore, when I dress him, I dress him as one. Not as a thug, not as a hoodlum. How he dresses reflects nothing that I teach him. Morals and values are instilled in our home and in our lives. And for those that choose to speak negative, I simply must say take a look at self and dissect the problems within before you try to look at my life and dissect mine. My son is loved, blessed, favored by God and supported by many.

Oh, and YBF is saying Monica and her baby daddy, Rock Hill, broke up over a stripper. Maybe that birthday party she threw for Rock at the Body Tap was a bad idea.

Playboy Bunny Arrested In Drug Bust

Miss December Kia Drayton and her "trainer" Otis Story got busted after they smuggled a brick of cocaine from Atlanta to North Charleston. Police say they left the brick in their hotel room safe and that the cleaning lady found it. Ok, what the heck was the cleaning lady doing in the safe? She claims she thought they'd checked out already. Umm hmm, yeah. Anyway, she called the cops and they set up the bust. Along with the brick, the cops found two hand guns and a bullet proof vest. Kia and Otis are being held on $2 million dollars bond each.

(Live5)

Russell Back Tracking On Bill O'Rilley

Tale Of The Tape

Yesterday The Post did a piece on Damon Dash and his holdings. They didn't paint a very rosey picture, but I was still impressed. Anyway, they said he's struggling to remake his empire a year and a half after splitting with Jay-Z. They broke it down saying, Dame's CEO clothing line has yet to take off, his reality TV show "Ultimate Hustler" aired for one season and bombed in the ratings, his foray into Hollywood with the movies "State Property" and "The Woodsman" did not produced box office hits, though DVD sales fared better. Plus they say Dame pulled the plug on his State Property sportswear line and fledgling record label Damon Dash Music Group. They also said, while the line of designer clothing by his wife Rachel Roy has garnered critical acclaim, and a higher profile after Roy appeared on "Oprah," it has yet to turn a profit, and that Dash's biggest win so far has been Pro-Keds, a sneaker brand he licensed from Stride Rite in 2004 and which, according to industry estimates, has more than doubled sales in the past year to exceed $22 million.

Anyway, it started a little debate on my favorite message board and reavealed some things about Jay Z that I didn't know.

The first person was like:

….Dash needed and needs Jay period.

Then this other one said:

…..Jay is an employee. Jay didn't own Roc-A-Wear, doesn't own the 40/40 Club but he is good at endorsing products. It's a whole lot different when you're the entrepreneur as Dame is.

So then this anonymous poster said:

….Listen ***** or Dame Dash intern, U are dealing with smart folks here, ok.
1. Jay Z owns 50% of 40/40 brand ( NY, NJ, LA, Vegas, Singapore, Tokyo)
2. Jay Z owned 50% of Rocawear (25% + Dame Dash's 25% which he bought in 2005)
3. Jay Z owns Spotted Pig restaurant and he also bought the building.
4. Jay Z owns a portion of NJ Nets
5. Jay Z owns 50% of Rocafella records
6. Jay Z owns 50% of the company that manufactures Rocawear todate
7. Jay Z is paid $2 million per yr as Rocawear CEO
8. Jay Z is paid $3.3 million per yr as CEO of Def Jam
9. Jay Z owns part of Steve Stoute Translation company
10. Jay Z owns a part of Carol's Daughter
11. Jay Z owns his publishing ( This brings a ton every yr)
On top of all that he gets money from RBK, Coke, Budweiser, HP, PoloNow that article about Dame Dash explained clearly that Dash has no venture making money period. He gets just a little licensing money from Pro Keds but that is it. How can U be a businessman and fail this much while Jay who U want us to believe is not a businessman succeed in so many ventures??

Then just to be funny they added:

We don't believe U, U need more people.

House Owned By Michael Vick Raided

Altanta Falcon Michael Vick's little cousin bout to get him in trouble. Police in Virginia were conducting a drug investigation on Mike's cousin, 26 year old Davon Boddie, and raided his house, only it's not his house, the house is owned by Vick. And to make it worse, they found 60 scarred and emanciated dogs. Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, said they've "heard troubling reports for some time that Michael Vick has been involved in organized dog fighting, and we fear that this investigation may validate that very disturbing allegation.''

(Comcast)

There's A Market For Niggaz

Nobody Wants Snoop

For the second time this year, Snoop Dogg was denied entry to a foreign country. This time the country that don't want him is Australia. Snoop was scheduled to fly into Sydney this week to host the MTV Australia Video Music Awards but officials nipped those plans in the bud by cancelling his visa.

"This man has been a member of a Los Angeles gang - and is still associated with it apparently - that has been involved in murder, robberies and drug dealing," Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews told Sydney's Macquarie Radio.

"He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country."

Didn't Australia start out as a penal colony?

(Brietbart)

Eve Crashed Her Maserati And Got Arrested

E-V-E ran her maserati up on the median on Hollywood Boulevard last night and she must have smelled like alcohol, cause after the cops got there they put her in cuffs. Of course TMZ was there to catch all the action. Poor Eve. One of her boys tried to help by cussing out the camera man, but that only made it worse. Check out the video here.

UPDATE: TMZ says E-V-E posted a $30,000.00 bail and was released. 30 Gs!? Was it a person pinned under that car? See the footage here. Oh yeah, they say Eve's alcohol level was double the legal limit.

Who Really Runs Hip Hop?

Yesterday Russell Simmons proposed a ban on the words Ni**er, H*e and B**h on rap records, but does he really have the power to censor hip hop? I read a very interesting diatribe on my favorite message board about who really runs shit in the music industry.

Wanna read it? Here it go...