Nike has been teflon when it comes to bad publicity. No matter what people say or any negative news coverage they get, shoes keep flying off the racks and money keeps piling in. Read the rest of this entry »

Mondays tend to go in of two directions: extremely fast or slower than molasses. The rap world didn’t take long to get started this fine Monday morning when Mobb Deep’s Havoc sent Twitter into an uproar by calling his longtime friend, group member and PNC Prodigy gay. Unusual as hell, but nobody wanted to rush in because celebs, entertainers and athletes always fall victims to hackers and snooping, viscous exes who get into their accounts.

I was all “Nah, nah, thun thun. It had to be a hack, kiko” (which Havoc’s account asserts that it wasn’t) and expected the tweets to be deleted. The deletion didn’t happen and, in fact, they’re still up at the time of this writing. Yet, I was in disbelief or at least cautious about proceeding until Devi Dev tweeted “Sway text’d Havoc, asked if the tweets were real. Havoc responded back ‘Very Real.”

Let the record show that Dev and Tech are good, stand-up individuals. If they say that’s how it happened, I believe them. That said, the whole incident seems odd because…

1. Havoc doesn’t tweet much, but decide to use it today to air this material?

2. These two have been together since they were young rowdies. Been through beefs, label changes, P’s jail time and probably other situations we’re unaware of. But now P’s gay and Hav’s telling the world?

So, what happened? When Raj interviewed them a few weeks ago, the two seemed fine and P actually sounded at peace. I have the world’s worst/weakest gaydar and don’t really keep track of the gossip that well either. Right now, I feel like a bad parent who missed all the telltale signs that my kid was abusing crack and meth on the weekends.

The situation calls for not one, but two face ratings to the highest degree.

For good measure, here’s Prodigy saying there’s a future genre and fanbase for gay rappers. Make of that what you will.

Update: In a statement to Rap Radar, Hav claims to have left his phone at a gas station. According to Hav, everything is “business as usual! It’s Mobb Deep all day!!! My twitter account @THEREALHAVOC will be down until further notice. The only other real account is @PRODIGYMOBBDEEP. Ignore the rest. One!”

Update #2: On Tuesday morning, Havoc called into NY’s Power 105 to speak with The Breakfast Club, after they played a phone recording that sounded very much like Hav asserting everything previously said on Twitter in addition to saying that he smacked Prodigy at SXSW. During the call-in, Hav…well, listen and judge for yourself. S/O to YN for the audio rip.

Havoc Calls Power 105′s The Breakfast Club

Jimmy Kimmel’s a huge fan of Twitter–maybe too huge of a fan. He’s made it a habit it to craft entire skits out of Twitter happenings, whether it involve Kanye West’s Think Tank or a duet with Drake. However, he recently ventured into new territory Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s begin with this: I don’t dislike LeBron for leaving Cleveland. He was a free agent and well within his rights. I don’t even judge him for “The Decision” special. It was a dumb mistake fed by a 26-year-old ego. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Now Larger Than Entire US Newspaper Industry [Forbes]

More Than 20,000 California Teachers Pink-Slipped [SF Gate]

10 Artists Who Should Have Never Blown Up [The Urban Daily] Read the rest of this entry »

“With his future on the Patriots in question, Chad Ochocinco is trying to do good by anyone he can — in this case NYC — dropping nearly $8,000 on a massive fried chicken dinner last night Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama Picks North Carolina To Win The NCAA Tournament [With Leather]

Apple And Netflix Become Streaming Video Transformer [Uproxx]

Jackie And Doug Christie To Produce Porn Films [News One] Read the rest of this entry »

Every Friday around 5pm the TSS e-office gets bombarded with emails from Tinsley about his ensuing late-night debauchery. After he’s spent three hours making sure his fitted matches his throwback and matches his DaDa’s, Tins is gone for the night to enjoy…$3 Long Island Iced Tea specials. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been more than two years since we interviewed J. Cole in Atlanta during our second year at A3C. His star power at the time was merely a glimmer. “Lights Please” was the closest thing he had to a single, but it was buried in a 22-track mixtape that was getting a moderate amount of love from the blogs & very little love from the industry. The hopes for Jay’s apprentice were looking a little Bleek Read the rest of this entry »

Men’s Fitness:

“You may be craving a cigarette break or after work drink, but the allure of Facebook and Twitter is even harder to ignore. A new study shows that texting and social media are more difficult to resist than having another beer or mid-day smoke. Read the rest of this entry »

Six GIFs Of Jeremy Lin, The Most Surprisingly Exciting Player In The NBA Right Now [Buzzfeed]

The Most Vilified Sports Wives And Girlfriends [Forbes]

College Has “Morning After” Pill Vending Machine [News One] Read the rest of this entry »

On Saturday night, baby Blue Ivy Carter* reportedly emerged from Beyonce’s womb in a dramatic fashion only fitting for the offspring of the man who goes by Jay Hova. She was born in New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital, where Jigga spent $1.3 million renting out the entire fourth floor to ensure complete privacy. Read the rest of this entry »

For the better part of 2011, Kanye West’s Twitter account remained unusually silent. This was probably because of that little Throne project he and BFF Jay-Z completed and the tour that accompanied it. His tweets became social networking’s Haley’s Comet, flashing across the Internets rarely but spectacularly.

So it was inevitable that once the Chicago native finally had some free time he’d unleash his unfiltered thoughts, ideas and general concerns upon the Twitter-verse. Read the rest of this entry »

Nick Cannon Hospitalized: What Causes Kidney Failure? [Healthland]

Nicki Minaj Becomes The Most Followed Rapper On Twitter [HustleGRL]

Saints of Style: Zack Morris [Madbury Club] Read the rest of this entry »

At least that’s the report being shared by the Charlotte Observer anyways. Thankfully, Davis took to his Twitter to let fans know everything’s okay with “his Goldmember.” Read the rest of this entry »