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Elliott Wilson: Privacy is for TIs only

A few weeks ago, I posted a screencap of an email exchange between Elliott Wilson, his boss, Eminem's manager Paul Rosenberg, and his male secretary, Brian "B.Dot" Miller. In the screencap, Elliott and Brian's email addresses were obscured, but Paul Rosenberg's wasn't.

Elliott emailed me and asked me to take Paul's email down, and I did. I took it down and replaced it with a version where you couldn't see it. This is all well documented. If you read this site on a regular basis, you probably remember when it happened. I joked that Rosenberg was gonna sic Mossad on me.

Yesterday, I checked Twitter and I saw that B.Dot, butthurt over RapGaydar, had posted Rafi's home address. The fuck? I thought we weren't posting people's personal information? So, I posted Paul Rosenberg's email and told people to let him know they don't approve of B.Dot threatening people.

A huge, embarrassing kerfuffle ensued. Maybe you saw it at the time. If not, you're certainly free to dig through the archives. I'll admit, I got a little bit insensitive with the jokes about his wife, especially since she's going through a rough time in her career.

Below is Linda Tripp-style audio evidence that Elliott went around begging people to take down massa's email address, courtesy of Bucky Turco from ANIMAL.

The lesson here seems to be that it's important not to post people's personal information on the Internets... if that person's a tall Israeli. Otherwise, you can go fuck yourself. Someone shows up to Rafi's house and fucks with his kids? So be it. As long as Eminem's manager doesn't get too many emails.

As Elliott himself mentioned last night, someone sent me his the number to his cell. I've been debating putting it out there, just so people can call and let him know the error of his ways, but I'm not sure if I will What do you fruits think?

Checkit: YN Ether Remix: Hypocrisy Volume 1 [zSHARE]

My arch nemesis and my dream woman

Fortunately, I'm pretty sure he didn't hit it. I mean, he couldn't have, right?

Spencer Pratt: "9/11 was an inside job"

We might need to get him on a track with KRS-One.

Part 2 after the jump.

(Note: This is different from the one the other day. That appearance went so well, Alex decided to have them back.)

Did Drake just pull an Asher Roth?

Salty black women are pissed! They want to know why Drake, who's half-black and half-Jewish (that's why he gave himself a record deal), didn't cast any black women in his video for "Best I Ever Had," which features nothing but hispanic women.

Check the following email Sandra Rose received from one of her readers (emphasis mine).

Sandra as a woman I am offended that this is all Kanye West, the director, could come up with for one of the hottest songs of the summer. He should be ashamed of this depiction of females. This video in a nutshell basically says a woman’s beauty is defined by how big her boobs are and light her skin is. And Kanye being a black man raised by black parents and Drake being bi-raicial (half black and half white) why are they only showcasing ALL Hispanic girls in this video? I don’t get it, they couldn’t get ONE pretty chocolate sister up in the video like Lanisha Cole, Jessica White, or Natasha Ellie to be in the video alongside the Hispanic girls? Why is it the black men have a problem showcasing their beautiful black sisters? You never see all non-white models in popular White rock artists videos. Only with black rappers does this occur. Drake’s career is slowly but surely going down the tube especially after this video gets out on tv. EPIC FAIL on both Drake and Kanye’s part. You have failed your own women and race by this video please be ashamed.

Aww dang!

Note that I have no idea how they went about determining that all of the girls in the "Best" video are hispanic. The first thing I thought when I saw it, last night, was how come they couldn't have cast a few white chicks? But you guys know there were a few problems with my upbringing. (If it's any consolation, I really am ashamed.)

Also, I'll go ahead and point out that, for what it's worth, Drake has been known to date black women. Some of his best lays have been black chicks! This one girl he was dating, Bria Myles, isn't just black - she's as dark as the back of Forest Whitaker's neck, and built like a Mack truck.

Checkit: FanMAIL: Outrage at Drake’s new video [Sandra Rose]

Related: Best cans I ever saw [XXL]

Previously: Is Drake the new Asher Roth?

RapGaydar > RapRadar (Updated!)

Props to whoever put together this parody of RapRadar, called RapGaydar.

I have an idea who might have done it, but it's just a hunch. I honestly didn't have anything to do with it, and hadn't even heard of it until just now. You guys know I wouldn't even put that much effort into my own site.

Even though RapGaydar is modeled after Elliott Wilson's site, it seems mostly concerned with kicking dirt on the late, great Vibe magazine, which really should be remembered as the rap magazine for lames and flames. Hip-hop is a little bit straighter for not having it around anymore. I might expand on this in a post for Gawker this weekend, similar to the one I did on Asher Roth, but we'll see.

Checkit: RapGaydar (via)

UPDATE 1: Yep, it's Rafi, the guy from Oh Word. He registered the domain under his own name. Also, I just got an email from TAN - there was a change of plans and I'm not gonna be able to "eulogize" Vibe in Gawker this weekend. Damn.

UPDATE 2: Elliott says he's gonna send Rafi a cease and decist. Really? Stop snitching, Elliott.

Further proof Mexicans hate black people

Oh hell no!

It looks like I've been mentioned in another book, and they may have spelled my name wrong. Would this have happened to Michael Eric "Cornholio" Dyson?

The good news is that a) I've been quoted as one of the leading detractors of reggaeton, and b) of course they try to suggest this might be due to some beef I have with latinos. (Don't they know my beef is with the Jews?)

From the introduction to Reggaeton:

In a January 2006 article published by the Village Voice, Jon Caramanica ended a largely celebratory piece on reggaeton with a somewhat sudden, cryptic remark: “Fuck a Slim Shady,” he quipped, “Hip-Hop’s race war begins here.” Caramanica thus suggests that the most prominent “racial” tensions around hip-hop are not between African Americans and whites (represented by prominent white rapper, Slim Shady, a.k.a. Eminem) but between African Americans and Latinos. Similarly, blogger Bryan Crawford’s tongue-in-cheek March 2006 post for XXL magazine’s website, “Ban Reggaeton: Fight the Real Enemy of Hip-Hop,” makes one wonder how exactly -snide and enigmatic remarks aside - the perceived rivalry between hip-hop and reggaeton is informed by extramusical tensions between African Americans and Latinos.

I only started working for XXL in March of '06. That must have been like the third post I wrote for them. Wait until someone writes a book about Pimp C!

No but really, it could be that they spelled my name right in the book, and it was just misspelled by whoever transcribed this excerpt. I might try to flip through a copy, the next time I'm in a Barnes and Noble, to see if I need to contact the publisher, and to see if I'm mentioned elsewhere in the book.

Checkit: Quoted: Reggaeton and Race [Racialicious]

And since reggaeton is the topic of discussion, after the jump is one of my favorite videos of Andressa Soares. Even though I've been informed that the music she dances to isn't reggaeton per se, but some other form of obnoxious latin music. In related news, I've just received word that the eskimos have 100 different words for ice.

Aesop Rock, Stern super fan

The estimable $habooty did an interview with Aesop Rock in which he got him to comment on all of the people from the Stern show.

An example, for your reading pleasure:

artie lange - just unfunny at this point. he’s a shitty stand-up who, for a while, was a nice addition to the show. At this point he is one of two people on the show that can make me change the channel. I would not flinch for a second at the idea of a replacing him.

[...]

miss howard stern – classic. classy. this whore amazes me. she has a daughter named beyonce.

And there's a bunch more where that came from.

Someone from Howard 100 News must have seen it and decided to do a segment on Aesop Rock. $habooty has exclusive audio of the segment, which aired the other day. If you're a fan of both Aesop Rock and the Stern show (I'm looking at you, Melissa), you're gonna want to have a look.

Checkit:

• Aesop Rock on Howard 100 News – Sirius XM (Shabooty Exclusive)
• Aesop Rock’s Portal to the Howard Stern Show Universe (2009)
  

Previously: Jedi Mind Tricks: Huge fans of Howard Stern

And after the jump is a video of Miss Howard Stern, in case you aren't familiar. Unfortunately, I heard she got into a car wreck the other day and damn near died.

Drake "Best I Ever Had"

If Drake keeps making videos like this, he's gonna make me forget that there isn't anything interesting about him in the least bit. I wouldn't put the clip for "Best I Ever Had" on the same level as the legendary "We are not robots," but it's in a similar vein. If you know what I mean...

It was actually directed by Kanye West, and you guys know I've had my share of issues with him. No fishsticks. But something tells me the two of us could see eye to eye on some things. Remember when he accidentally left that suitcase full of interracial pr0n on the set of one of his videos? I bet those were the best DVDs evar.

Previously:

• Is Drake the new Asher Roth?
• Drake motivational poster
• Diabolic: "Drake is a studio gangster"

Charles Hamilton is probably not okay (Updated!)

How do I know he isn't? There's a cryptic message on his website saying that he is.

And I quote:

Charles has been going through a plethora of changes both professionally and personally. He's watching and listening in the midst of learning how to smile again though, and we do ask for your patience and understanding during this time.

And it goes on from there.

His Twitter hasn't been updated in three weeks. I checked his blog, and it hasn't been updated in about as long. Wasn't his album supposed to be coming out at some point in June?

I wonder what happened. Heroin overdose? Dropped like a bad habit from Interscope? Distraught over the death of Michael Jackson, who executive produced his new album? He better hurry and say what's going on, before people start making shit up.

But I'm sure his handlers are adept at avoiding a PR clusterfuck...

Checkit: He's Okay [Workinonit! (The Charles Hamilton Blog)]

UPDATE: Word on the street is that he got dropped from Interscope a couple of weeks ago, like a bad habit. The Dilla clusterfuck was the final straw.

We are not robots > We Are Lasers

Needless to say you're gonna enjoy this more than the new Lupe album. You're gonna enjoy this more than pretty much anything.