Ron Burkle, BFF of Hill and Bill, is set to acquire AMI, which owns Shape, Star, the National Enquirer and Men's Fitness. GQ’s advice to the editors there: stay out of the Clintons' way. [WWD]
Yesterday, we told you Nas' scandalously-named, yet-to-be-recorded album is back on track! Today, we're hearing his girlfriend Kelis (a fellow hip-hop musician best known for her hit "Milkshake," a single entendre meaning "unsolicited blow jobs") was dropped by her own record label. The reason? "She's a different kind of artist."
Sadly, not the kind of sells records, though. Or the kind who comes up with clever publicity stunts to generate preemptive hype for her nonexistent new rap album.
Remember when we told you Nas' new album would involve some incarnation of the N-word? And then we told you it wouldn't? And then we sheepishly told you it would? Well, according to the latest reports, the album whose name we can't pronounce (because we're white/Jewish) is back on track!
Which is to say record execs have "replac[ed] the “a” with an “er,” thereby making it 82 percent more awkward for white fans to inquire about at Best Buy."
And thus, 100 percent more awesome.
Apparently the Dallas city council has officially decided they're sick and tired of those baggy pants wearing, underwear-showing hip-hoppers. So they've decided to hire the world's worst black rapper to write a crappy song and anti-hip-hop campaign about it out of protest!
Unfortunately, the protest campaign is currently under protest by our homosexual friends over at Queerty, who are hopping mad over the billboard which reads:
"Pull your pants up! It's rude, not cool… Walkin' around showin' your behind to other dudes."
• Drew Carey officially takes over for Bob Barker as the host of The Price Is Right; purists quickly object to Carey's stubborn refusal to sexually harass the spokesmodels.
• Republican attempt to show their sense of humor about taking away children's healthcare fails and copyrights infringement.
• Wired editor accidentally crashes a four-ounce Styrofoam plane into the side of a Berkeley laboratory. Lab security responds by saying, "I think, post-9/11, when we see an event that is out of the ordinary, those are things that gain our interest. The greatest thing right now in the war on terrorism is prevention." Yep, glad to see everyone's keeping this in perspective.
• The baggie pant culture war wages on. If only more youths had a proliferation of belts, surely crime rates would plummet….
• Network nightly news are still cash cows, even if Katie Couric's own daughters would rather be watching Gossip Girl.
