• It’s really all Janet Jackson all the time around these parts. []

• Wesley Snipes catches a break. Not a tax break, it’s important to note. [SP]

• Will.i.am has trouble fielding the tough questions. []

• This just really doesn’t look like any check-up I’ve ever seen. [C&D]

• It’s the old “wrong address” defense. Good one. [MTV]

I wish that Lil Wayne hadn’t gotten arrested in Boise, Idaho this weekend on a felony fugitive charge issued in Georgia for allegedly possessing a controlled substance. It doesn’t seem like a great place to be imprisoned, and the reason for his imprisonment seems suspicious. But I’m no lawyer.

I also wish that he had wiped the corner of his mouth before his mugshot was taken.

[MTV]

Quote of the Week

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A year after Rabbit was gone, I was on tour like crazy with Cash Money, and my momma said she was bored, alone, and scared in the house by herself. She was like, ‘Why don’t you just have a baby with somebody? Just tell the little girl’s mom I’ma take care of the baby, don’t worry about that.’ I was like, ‘I don’t have nobody I like like that!’ She was like, ‘Just find somebody! You don’t like Toya?’ I was like, ‘Alright, I like her then.’ Toya was 14 when she got pregnant, and I was 15 asking 14-year-olds. Toya’s the only person that agreed outta all the ones I asked. I said that my momma wants a child. And they was like, ‘That’s your momma’s problem!’ So Toya was like, ‘Shiiit, when we due, boo?

[via C&D]

• I ddin’t feel like this woman didn’t deserved her own post, but she’s clearly gotten what she wanted all across the blogosphere. Check out Adrianne Curry, aka the first winner of America’s Next Top Model, rage against Black History Month. [YBF]

• They really thought a DNA test was necessary to verify James Brown is this woman’s daddy? []

• Of course, Jim Jones had to wait until the cameras were rolling and his reality show producers were trying to talks business before he decided to count his money 25 times. [SOHH]

• Lil Wayne does his best Gollum impression on the cover of the November Vibe. [C&D]

• O.J. Simpson’s armed robbery accuser is clearly not an asset to the prosecution. []

• A rare exhibit of African American art (including Romare Bearden’s “Memories of High Cotton” ) is in the works in DC. See it if you can. []

• Black voters are kind of “eh” about John Edwards. Don’t tell Danny Glover that! [CO]

• Keith Murray was robbed while working in a South African studio, although I can’t imagine the guy keeps very much on him in the way of money. [IOL]

• Lil Wayne’s Morgan State “makin’ it rain” case gets another plaintiff. [DR]

• Is racism still alive in Southern schools? Uh, are you kidding? [OS]

A DC-area woman is suing Lil Wayne, Universal Records, Cash Money Records and Young Money Touring for $1 million dollars for injuries she sustained at a Morgan State University concert a year ago when Lil Wayne threw money into the crowd and caused a stampede.

At some point, are athletes, rappers, and any other group that enjoys carrying around stacks of bills and throwing them into the air, going to learn that making it rain — in the traditional strip club setting or at a crowded concert — might be a public safety hazard?

[NBC4]

There is nothing more mystifying than when a rapper like Fat Joe plays the diva card and brings an entourage of 30 people to a less-than-top-tier awards show like the Ozone Awards, and then insists that the red carpet be shut down while he makes his way down it. We all know Fat Joe probably doesn’t move very fast.

At Monday night’s Second Annual Ozone Awards at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, Fat Joe and Lil’ Wayne insisted that the event’s organizers meet their wacky demands - or they would leave. “Fat Joe commanded that the red carpet be shut down for him while he and his 30-strong entourage walked down it, and Lil’ Wayne was adamant about getting hot girls to personally fan him as he walked down the red carpet - but he didn’t want to take any pictures,” our source sighed. “They got what they wanted, since it was down to the wire. Both Fat Joe and Lil’ Wayne had at least two performances and had to present major awards as well. It would’ve messed up the show entirely if the organizers didn’t comply,” the insider said. A representative for the event declined comment.

As for Lil Wayne, he seemed to have wanted hot girls fanning him for his own personal pleasure and comfort, since he also requested not to be photographed. This private female servant request is just as troubling as it would be if he had done it solely for the cameras, but more confusing. At least they weren’t on leashes.

[NYP]

It’s fitting that a character like Kanye West would use a divisive sports figure like Barry Bonds as the inspiration for his newest song. He teamed up (ha! get it?) with the ubiquitous Lil Wayne for the new track.

The chorus goes, “Here’s another hit, Barry Bonds.”

As he’s been doing on “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” its remix and “Stronger,” West uses “Barry Bonds” in part to proclaim his continued evolution as one of the top lyricists in the game.

“You should go ‘head and bow so hard that you knees hit your fo’head,” he raps over slow synths. “And the flow just hit code red/ Top five MCs, you ain’t gotta remind me/ Top five MCs, you gotta rewind me/ I’m high up on the line, you could get in behind me/ But my head’s so big, you can’t sit behind me.”

In regards to the last line — knowing is half the battle.

[MTV]

MTV recently unveiled their 10 MCs in the Game list, for which the network’s hip hop journos took into account the rappers’ work in the past 6 months to a year. Even though this isn’t about career-spanning accomplishments, the list barely makes sense: The Game is No. 3? Jim Jones is on the list at all? Lil Wayne, in a triumph I’m sure will please a few Stereohypers and infuriate 50 Cent, took to the No. 1 spot. Here’s what he had to say.

“I saw the preview [of the show], and if I’m lying, I’m flying: I was like, ‘Who won?’ … I’m glad I won. Yaaa dig! Don’t stop believing in me. They say I’m the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.”

I guess that means he’s happy?

The interesting top 10 and MTV’s honorable mentions after the jump.

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• Will Smith and Tom Cruise roll out the red carpet for the UK’s foremost “honorary black man.”
• Ja Rule and Lil Wayne go above and beyond the call of duty to promote their new song, “Uh Oh.”
• All the people working for ridiculously low wages are now working for wages that are only slightly less ridiculous.
• Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown outs Eddie Murphy’s “lifestyle” in a cryptic, yet highly effective, fashion.
• Francois Girbaud? He doesn’t really want us wearing his clothes. Trust us, F.G., that won’t be a problem.
• Producers of We Got To Do Better should show a clip of the show during its next episode. You know, to illustrate the title.
• Lindsay Lohan messed with the wrong doofuses.