Leave it to Bryan "Baby, Birdman" Williams to make sure that his paycheck, artist/adopted son Dwayne "Lil Wayne" Carter stays in the spotlight. Actually, it's not like Lil Wayne ever really leaves the spotlight, or is in need of extra shine time. Between releasing arguably good songs from equally as entertaining albums, tag-teaming the female population with his heart throb protege Drake, unleashing the latest rapping stripper, Nicki Minaj, on an awaiting… Read More

Everybody and their mom is using this whole Chris Brown-as-Ike-Turner tragedy as an opportunity to snag some ratings, but MTV is a shoe-in for the Biggest "Chrihanna Scandal" Douchebag Award with this right here:  

MTV To Air 'Chris Brown & Rihanna: Love In Trouble,'

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When I saw an announcement saying as much on my TV a few minutes ago, I jumped to the computer to figure out what the hell was going on.    

Viacom's license agreement with Time Warner Cable, which serves 12.3 million homes in the U.S., is set to expire at midnight Wednesday. If no deal is reached,  Time Warner must take the Viacom channels off its cable systems and use alternative programming instead. [...]   Viacom said that it is asking for an increase of about 25 cents per month for the package of channels, which comes to about $3 a year per customer. Time Warner said that could trigger cable networks to demand higher fees… Read More

As much as nepotism in general sucks, I can't knock the Simmons family hustle at all. More black families need to have networks [and paper] like theirs. So I'm actually pretty excited about Vanessa and Angela Simmons getting their own spin-off in January, Daddy's Girls. Even with their parents bankrolling them, it's still impressive that the Simmons girls keep underwear on their hustle game strong and are spokespeople for Girls Scouts. We need less of this (even though it's like a trainwreck I have to look at) and more… Read More

Here's MTV's clip from on the set of the upcoming Notorious biopic. I don't know about you but I'm still preparing to be underwhelmed. This clip shows them shooting a concert scene at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom and everyone on set is like, "wow, I feel like I'm at a real show," as if even the actors involved expected it to come off corny. It's a movie, isn't the whole idea that stuff has to feel real? Even Diddy was surprised. Read More

So Jeezy's one step closer to getting off my shit list. MTV goes behind the scenes of the "My President is Black" video which was filmed in Atlanta's historic Old Fourth Ward. Jeezy talks about how he knew Obama was gonna win months ago and whatnot (mmhmm, right). The boo and I actually heard about the shoot going down a few Sundays ago but we were too lazy to check it out. We shoulda went to see Nas. "She ain't a politician, honey's a pole-itician." Classic, son.