Don Imus, the radio personality who was famously called members of the members of Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" and was fired for the privilege, doesn't hate black people. He is just a curmudgeonly old guy with a weird sense of racist humor. Also: He hates everyone! Or so his crisis management team would have you believe.

And some people believe it!

When Nashville record producer Tracy Gershon decided to make a country western benefit album in support of Imus' kids-with-cancer ranch foundation, she rallied famous leftists like Willie Nelson to lay down tracks. Of course, this was before Imus was fired from MSNBC and CBS Radio for his sports fashion critique and become a bastion of bad publicity. Except not one of the artists signed on for The Imus Ranch Record backed out of the obligation. And, Don got a strange new supporter: a black man.

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Snoop Dogg's new "country" music video, an ode to Johnny Cash, is a team up with Willie Nelson. The song is called "My Medicine," and you do not need to stretch your imagination to know what Snoop is referring to. Watch the video here.

This is totally unconfirmed, and from a blog we have never, ever, heard of … but, it's Friday. And pictures of huge bags of weed which may or may not belong to Willie Nelson are oh so very fun. (Plus, The Smoking Gun has it, so we think we're safe.)

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As you know, Nelson's bus was searched Monday at a routine traffic stop in L.A. The cops confinscated over a pound and a half of marijuana and over three ounces of 'shrooms. Country boy hippies, man. They never quit.

EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: Willie Nelson's stash [Bloom Ideas]

We always thought Johnny Knoxville was a stoner and a jackass. Turns out, he's just the latter.

Smoking a laced joint with Willie Nelson qualifies as "one of the worst things" the magazine cover boy has ever experienced. Point of the story: Willie's got the hook-up … and Rush & Molly don't approve of these extra-curricular activities.

The duo also doesn't approve of whichever obnoxious word Knoxville used to describe Angie Dickinson's hoo-hoo, while explaining why he couldn't just say no.

"I'm not a weed person, but when Willie Nelson passes you a joint, you don't say no," the "Jackass" star tells Playboy. "That's like Angie Dickinson passing you her [sexual organ] and you saying, 'No, no, no.'"

Sexual organ? Uh, ew. We are a bit perplexed as to why anyone would run this pointless quote, let alone run it they had to sub out the language. But running the quote and replacing "vag" with "sexual organ?" It's actually more awkward than just coming out and saying "cooter."

Side Dish [Rush & Molloy, Daily News]

• Are these producers serious? Someone should show them a YouTube clip of a certain episode of Saturday Night Live. [Much Music]

• Bob Dylan’s assertion that new recordings suck may be due to the fact that he’s listening to his own voice, which no modern technology can improve. [Hollywood Reporter]

• Nothing ruins a good Lance Bass Stereo House party like a moldy pool tarp. [Page Six]

• Snoop Dogg takes a break from pimping himself out to the highest bidder and actually makes music. [NME]

• Willie Nelson (yeah, the guy from Half Baked) thinks those darn foreigners should stop killing and eating our horses. He then proceeded to carve himself up a nice steak. [Jam!]

• (We know we put this item in this morning's round-up, but Intern Zack made us pee our pants with his commentary, so we're reiterating.) If you're walking down the streets of Lower Manhattan and you see an androgynous pop-star in a Big Bird outfit cleaning litter, don't be frightened. It's only Boy George. [NYDN]

• The great thing about washed-up rockers is that when one falls ill, there's always going to be another one right behind him ready to take the stage. Lindsay Lohan should really get herself a few of these. [NME]

• Willie Nelson is surprised that his comments about President Bush didn't draw more criticism. We think it's because people are surprised he hasn't OD'ed or something yet. [AOL]

• Leave it to Kevin Federline to do something incredibly original for his first music video: feature a fat girl. [Mollygood]

• Like a typical 25 year old on her birthday, MTV will mope around at home lamenting about it's glory days. [Y!]

• "Cracked out", "deluded", and "slightly retarded" are some of the terms that come to mind when thinking of Britney Spears. But "not nice?" Now that's just mean. [MSNBC]

• Madonna is almost 50, but she won't stop prancing around and throwing her legs over her head. Even if a hernia kills her. [Page Six]

• Willie Nelson may not have written the Brokeback-esque anthem "Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)", but he sure feels comfortable singing and backing up its sentiment. The cowboy community might be outraged … you know, if they weren't too busy trying on assless chaps. [AP]

• Pedophiles beware, Cam'ron is taking the law into his own hands. He is coming, one by one, to find you, set up a meeting with you under false pretenses, interrogate you, probably beat the crap out of you, and then sell the footage on a DVD. [PitchforkMedia]

• Nas and Jay-Z are thinking about being responsible, grown men. Just, you know, considering the option. [MTV]

• Gorillaz will deliver their own "Queen's Speech" (whatever that is) on Christmas day. If you just can't wait until then to hear it, here's the full transcript. Thrilling we tell you. [NME]

• While her career is sort of dying, Pink herself is still very much alive. And what better way to remind the world of your existence than to record an album entitled: I'm Not Dead?
[MTV]

• Ryan Adams and Willie Nelson are planning to cut a record. There's just never enough booze and ponytail holders to go around, is there? [Product Shop NYC]

• Like anyone wants to know what John Mayer's offspring will look like. Oh, Cityrag, you always give us nightmares. [Cityrag]

• Looks like David Letterman isn't the only one who needs a restraining order. His band guy Paul Shaffer's wiggin' out now too. [Page Six]