When I read the other day that R. Kelly is planning to publish a memoir, of course I thought to myself, how in the fuck is R. Kelly gonna write a book, when everyone knows he can't read? Yeah, I know all of these celeb as-told-to autobiographies are written by journalists, who interview these people a few times, and cobble together whatever they come up with in first person, as if the celebs themselves were saying it. Or in the case of Neil Strauss, author of the Game, which I need to read one of these days to figure out how ...

My personal trip down memory lane continues. I’ve already recapped the first half of the rap in the millennium in parts one and two, now ...

How did we arrive at a point where Rolling Stone lists the Blueprint as the fourth best album of the decade, right behind Kid A, ...

There were a couple Negro Pleasings in the queue for today that came to a screeching halt in favor of yesterday’s breaking news. Apparently this ...

I've known about Kanye for a long time. Like way back going to 1996, maybe 1997. I used to work with Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, also ...

Picking up from where we left off yesterday, here’s the next chapter of the past decade of music as I remember it. 2003 Hands down, 2003 was ...

I understand a TI's thought process to well to think that there would be all of these stories on MTV News about Eminem calling Adam ...

Propers to the homie DJ All Day for the alley-oop on Nas’ response to having “beaten” his Georgia DUI. The best part of the video is ...

With end-of-the-decade lists dominating conversations on the blogsphere, I figure it’s a good as time as any to get mine out the way. Instead of ...