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Joe Budden on Bol: "Fuck him too" (nullus)

Remember when I mentioned the other day that one of Joe Budden's militant e-stans claimed that they'd been calling up and mentioning me on satellite radio? Well, some guy with my email just hit me up with audio of one such instance.

In this clip, Budden is on some show on Shade 45, and they're taking calls from listeners. One of the Internet Soldiers calls up to inform Budden that he'd die for him (nullus?), and that there's this guy on the Internets - Byron Crawford - talking shit about him. Cleary, he was unaware that Joe Budden and I used to work together over at XXL.

And by work together, I mean that I was writing shit that people might actually like to read, while Joe Budden mostly revealed himself as being the equivalent of that guy in your high school who sat at the back of the class, embarrassed that he never learned how to read. Then he dropped out, and then a few years later you heard that he was dead, and you thought to yourself, Damn, if only he'd learned how to read.

I guess there's always web video.

Checkit: Joe Budden on Bol: "Fuck him too" (nullus) [zSHARE]

Mixtape: Mic Terror - King of the New School

You fruits already know what it is: Mic Terror is one of the few hipster rapper that's actually worth a shit, and hence is one of the less popular hipster rappers. Last year, he was involved in an hilarious beef with that guy Mazzi. A few weeks ago, I posted his video for "Definition of a Freestyle."

I've heard some good things about this, his new mixtape. But I will point out that yesterday I got a chance to listen to a song from it called "Snow Globe," with the guy from the Gym Class Heroes, and I found it to be as teh ghey as a three dollar bill. The only way Mic Terror could redeem himself is to shoot an uncut video for it, but I'm not sure if he has the budget.

Checkit: Mic Terror - King of the New School [zSHARE via Fake Shore Drive]

?uestlove, meet your new pretend girlfriends

“there is a new BA girl i named “tits” and she is awesome…. and so are her tits.” -- Joanna Angel, from her Twitter, 1/3/09 9:15 p.m.

At the risk of coming off as a petty loser with an overinflated ego, which you guys know I'm totally not, I'd just like to point out that I was covering pr0n stars on Twitter weeks and weeks before it was all trendy. The other day, Coed Magazine posted a list of 10 pr0n stars who Twitter. I had my shit up way back in December, i.e. last year. And I had a post on Karrine "Superhead" Steffans, the otiginal hoo-er of Twiiter, so long ago I can't remember when it was. But it was a long time ago.

To their credit, Coed Magazine put a lot more effort into their post than I put into mine. Whereas my post focused primarily on the lovely Sasha Grey, they've come up with a list of 10 different pr0n stars on Twitter, along with huge pictures of each of them, in case you don't recognize all of them by name. Also, I made the mistake posting a picture of Sasha Grey with Joanna Angel (also on the Coed list), having failed to realize that Joanna Angel is one of those broads that I enjoy that I probably couldn't make much of a case for. I actually her stuff more than I enjoy Sasha Grey, despite the fact that she looks like she could be Sasha Grey's deformed twin, catching a warm one.

Checkit: 10 Porn Stars Who Twitter [Coed Magazine]

Alex Jones and KRS-One discuss Obama

via Illseed Blog

Parts 2 through 4 after the jump.

UPDATE: If listening to over a half an hour's worth of audio via YouTube videos strikes you as asinine, you might wanna try this mp3 (zSHARE), courtesy of hiphopscholar.net.

There is no case for Israel

According to Last Week's Poll
I was researching the Israel Lobby the other day for a post I was doing about Peter Rosenberg, and I noticed the similarity between the cover of the book The Israel Lobby, by Mearsheimer and Walt, and the cover of The Case for Israel, by Alan Dershowitz.

I've often noticed the Dershowitz book on a shelf at the Borders I go to, when I'm looking for new books on contentious political issues, which is what I'll often do when I get tired of pr0n (for the evening), and it's occurred to me: Why would anyone even bother writing a book called The Case for Israel, unless there was no case for Israel? You don't see people writing books called The Case for a Ham Sandwich, now do you?

Last week's poll has to do with whether or not there's a case for Israel. Check the results.

Is there a case for Israel?

1. No (57.1%)
2. Yes (42.9%)

Total votes: 406

As it turns out, there is no case for Israel. Er, at least according to a majority of the people who voted in this poll, there isn't. Someone alert the United Nations.

No but really, if Kosha Dillz or somebody wants to chime in and explain the case for Israel, they're certainly free. I'd read the book, but who's got that kind of time? Plus, I heard it was plagiarized, and I don't trust information from plagiarists.

As far as the case against Israel, the strongest case, as far as I'm concerned, is the most obvious. That being that a) It was stolen out from underneath the people who were already living there; and, perhaps most importantly, b) They either didn't have the sense, or they didn't have the wherewithal to ethnically cleanse all of them, only a veritable shiteload of them. So, now the rest of the world gets to suffer.

The United States got our country from the Indians in a way that definitely didn't work out as well for them. But at least we've gotten to the point where most of them are out in Oklahoma, where they're free to gorge themselves of firewater and gamble in casinos. Worst case scenario, one of them might kill you on the highway out there, but why would you be on the highway in Oklahoma anyway? You could fuck around and get chased down the street by a Tornado, like in that movie Twister.

Rappers, watch out

From today's Guardian.

via Fat Lace Magazine

America's Biggest Loser

$habooty has the entire article about Artie Lange from the new Rolling Stone, along with a recap of the discussion of the article on the Stern show the other day, and Rolling Stone's response to the discussion of the article on the Stern show the other day. The whole thing makes for an interesting, but I thought the Rolling Stone article, in particular, was especially good, even though I felt like I'd already read most of it.

There's a few genuine revelations, like the fact that his mom decorated his apartment for him, in a style that could be described as Crate and Barrel Masculine; some discussion of the business aspect of his career in greater detail than I'd heard before (like how much he makes a year from Stern); and the fact that one of the hoo-ers he does heroin with once shot him up while he was sleeping, the result of which he describes as 12 hours of euphoria.

There's also some fascinating insight into Artie's comedy. The girl who wrote the Rolling Stone article compares Artie to David Sedaris, which struck me as interesting, in that a) there's another hidden point of confluence between This American Life and the Stern show, which I know had been a topic of discussion in the comments section either here or over at XXL (I know, how sad); and b) it makes you wonder if Artie's aware that Sedaris is a fudge. Probably not, since he bragged on the show about the comparison.

Finally, I'll point out that, the other day, while I was out dealing with the kind of issues you have to deal with when you blog for a living, I read the Artie Lange book, Too Fat to Fish. I'll spare you an in depth review, since that hasn't been my m.o. for a while now, and since the book doesn't really call for it, other than to note that it's a lot like listening to Artie tell stories on the show. If you're into that sort of thing, you might want to have a look, but it's a bit too lightweight to give the full-on recommendation.

Checkit: Rolling Stone Artie Lange Article [Shabooty.com]

Bachelor Cooking 101 With Aria Giovanni - Tomato Sauce

Could it be that Aria Giovanni and/or the people who come up with these videos have been reading my site? This week, they've increased the degree of difficulty of the recipe - no more of this cracking an egg into a skillet bullshit. There could be as many as six or seven ingredients involved, even though the main ingredient is just a can of tomato sauce.

Now, if only we could get her to do some pr0n that involved more than just holding a sex toy near her nether regions. Yeah, she's a little bit older and a little bit chubbier than she used to be (notice the way her cans spill over the edges of her dress), but what are you gonna do?

Fleece "Booty Warrior" Johnson

If they showed this once a day at elementary schools in the ghetto, I'm sure crime would drop precipitously.

Mr. Cheeks ruins my childhood 15 years after the fact

Let it be known: If you're a rapper, and you put out a video of yourself and an attractive enough naked hoo-er, I'll probably post it on this site, or at least on my Tumblr.

In the NSFW video after the jump, Mr. Cheeks brings up to date on the state of his career. I wasn't paying attention to what he was saying, but it looks like he's spent the past 10 years or so sitting around smoking weed. He's up in Canada, his lips are all black, he's got a shiteload of weed on the table in front of him, and he's got some naked hoo-er standing there in the background. Is that Mos Def's estranged wife?

As was the case with today's news re: Natalie Dylan, however, I'm not sure if I believe that weed and that hoo-er belong to him. For all we know, he could have borrowed that weed from his dealer. Most weed dealers I've ever met seem like the kind of guys who'd let Mr. Cheeks borrow their stash, for a video. Cheeks probably only paid for the stuff he actually smoked.

As for the hoo-er, he should have somehow sexually assaulted her, just to let us know that he could. If all he did was give her a few hundred dollars to stand there naked, I'm not sure how cool that is. One thing I will say, though, is wow, will you look at her body? It just goes to show what I was saying the other day about how World Star is changing the standards for naked women in hip-hop-related videos. On the one hand, you've got the emergence of this woman Pinky, who's just... a mistake. But on the other, here's a girl who could actually be in Penthouse, if not Playboy.