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Defari's best interview since 2003

Are we gonna talk about the album? Or are we gonna talk about college, man? *** Madison, WI Bureau Chief Hastings Cameron writes: This site has already run a rather magnanimous review of Defari’s Street Music. Feel free to check... Read more →

How to rid the world of crack babies

New Rule: Pregnant women with drug and/or alcohol problems should be punched hard in the face and then driven to the nearest Planned Parenthood. In recent months, pregnant cluckers in South Carolina, New Mexico, Arizona, Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, North... Read more →

The Killers - Sam's Town: Album Review

The Killers, Sam's Town (Island, 2006) This follow-up to the Killers' 2004 mega-smash Hot Fuss is said to have been influenced by the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. I thought the lead single "When You... Read more →

Screech administers a "dirty sanchez"

You'll recall that Dustin Diamond a/k/a Screech from Saved by the Bell has been going on talk radio shows for the past couple years now trying to raise money to keep the bank from foreclosing on his house. I guess... Read more →

Lupe Fiasco grows desperate

There was a famous incident at my high school back in, maybe, 1996 when this Russian kid named Ilya tried to disprove the Pythagorean Theorem. While introducing the topic, the teacher happened to mention that you couldn't possibly have a... Read more →

King of the free newspapers

I'll keep this brief, because I'm sure many of you are growing tired (read jealous) of reading about how famous/desirable to women I'm becoming. If you're in the STL, you can catch me in the new Best of St. Louis... Read more →

Tragedy at Run's house

I never got into Rev Run's MTV reality series Run's House. As much as I enjoyed staring at his daughters' boobs, the shit was way too sappy for my liking. Plus I found their accents grating. But apparently his wife's... Read more →

Terrell owens ODs on pills

Suicide, It's a Suicide Admittedly, I know next to nothing about sports. Sorry. I once considered trying to learn more about them, so that I could be the next Bomani Jones, but I figured that would take way more time... Read more →

Ludacris - Release Therapy: Album Review

Ludacris, Release Therapy (Def Jam, 2006) As I've mentioned before on this site, Ludacris seems especially desperate upon the release of this, his fifth album in about as many years. His schtick was already wearing pretty thin back in the... Read more →

Shittier comedian: Carlos Mencia or Dane Cook?

Researching today for a story I wrote about HBO's god-awful Def Comedy Jam, I came across this list of the 12 worst comedians of all time at Maxim, a site I should probably be "reading" more often. Of course they... Read more →