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(Spotted over at Crunk & Disorderly)
What the H.E.L.L. is goin on with Jamie Foxx these days?!??? Is he suffering from some illness we don’t know about? or has all his partying caught up with him???Ever since he turned the BIG 4-0 his looks have been steadily declining!? Am I the only one who thinks he is looking more and more like Samuel L. Jackson every day!
Maybe it’s a new role he’s working on or sumthin…let’s hope so!
Has your landline connection been unusually clear these days?? Have you noticed that your cellie’s stopped dropping calls?? Well you can thank the Feds.? Just like you, they’ve been late paying their phone bills and several companies have disconnected their wire taps!?
Washington ? Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.
A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI’s lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000. (Source)
?That’s one step back for the Hip Hop Police…so go ahead and call Lil’?Man bout your “package”… stupid!?
*Thanks SkoolTeacher for the tip!
The more I see Bow Weezy lately the more my head hurts!? Take a gander at this clip from Bow Wow and Omarion’s new BET show “Road to Platinum” and judge for yourself.? Shad’s on some other ish right now….that’s for sure! At one point it sounded like he was channeling the spirit of Lil Wayne and Omarion…talkin like they’re a couple….puttin all their bidness in the street!
Say it ain’t so Bow Weezy….Say it aint so!!!
Meet Benny Herman Allen, III – who was recently awarded the title of Atlanta’s 11 LEAST influential people: No. #10 by Creative Loafing.?? In case you don’t recognize the name or the face, Benny is the “KEN” of the Barbie Bandit scandal that rocked?Cobb County a few months ago.??It’s funny how the “Barbie’s” of the crew?received?so much press and empathy from the public – how everyone came out to say that they were really good kids who just got mixed up with a bad crowd, but no one ever interviewed “Ken’s” parents, who I assume would have felt just as justified in saying that?it was those “white strippers” who corrupted him and not vice versa….interesting, huh????
Creative Loafing coined this list as a?”tribute to women and men everywhere struggling to meet the challenges of life in a modern American city.”??The list is pretty interesting and they are unveiling?one person each day.? The top five will appear in their print edition.???Visit?FreshLoaf?to see the remainder of the list and the winners from last year.??
The hip-hop police has struck again….Check out the mugshot of T-Pain aka Faheem Najm, the next rapper turnt singer to make a trip behind bars this week.??T. Pain turned himself into Florida officials after being “written up” while driving his Lamborghini in Florida.??I may be?wrong, but from what I read, it seems like he wasn’t “stopped” by an officer, they?simply ran the tags of?an expensive vehicle being driven by a black male and it came back registered to a person with a suspended license (who was also a habitual violator).?? Y’all know they watchin…so why not keep your nose clean???
Officers observed T-Pain, whose real name is Faheem Najm, driving a Lamborghini Gallardo in June. At the time, his driver’s license had been revoked for being a habitual traffic violator, officials reported.
The 23-year-old Tallahassee native turned himself in at the Leon County jail and was later released. He was to perform Sunday at the Tallahassee Civic Center.(Source)
Who’s next…?
?Hip Hop is on Trial…and Everyone’s Snitching!? Powerful words….huh?!??? When I read those words for the first time, they rang so true to me that a chill ran up my spine.? Hip Hop has been under fire for a minute now and the war is getting bigger and bigger.?? From Don Imus to Oprah the genre has been blasted and the “hip-hop generation” has had to defend it’s actions and words from every angle.??Rodney Carmichael wrote an article the other day in Creative Loafing addressing the issue:
Though the first chapter in T.I.’s federal firearms case drew to a close with his $3 million bond release last Friday, Oct. 26, the rap industry continues to dodge bullets in a year that has been full of nonstop drama. Perhaps DJ Drama’s arrest on racketeering charges at his downtown Atlanta office was an omen. Since then, everything from violent lyrics and gratuitous sexual imagery in videos to the genre’s prolific use of degrading words like “nigga,” “bitch” and “ho” have come under fire.
Who’s Talking?