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POPEYE'S RUNS OUT OF CHICKEN, CUSTOMERS GET UPSET & REPORTERS EXERCISE POOR JOURNALISM

I know I haven't blogged in a bit because I've been on my writing grind, but I just received this in my inbox, and I HAD to bring this to your attention.

I'm not sure if this occurred all across the country, but last week Wednesday, customers flooded popular fast-food chicken franchise Popeye's in order to take advantage of their "8 for $4.99" campaign. (Yeah, I thought it too... what, no watermelon smoothie on the side?)

Watch this video to see how reporters in Rochester, New York covered the event. Notice anything wrong?

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Yes, if you can't sense the covert-yet-obvious-as-daylight racism in this news package, then you're out of your mind. Now, I'm not mad at Popeye's or the consumers. We are in Recessive times, and families SHOULD take advantage of any opportunity to feed their kids. Kudos to Popeye's for providing that. However, I do have a problem with the reporting. First of all, reporters CHOOSE the soundbytes to include in their stories. Do you think it was really appropriate for the reporter to depict Black people as if we're going to ABSOLUTLY DIE IF WE DON'T GET THAT BUCKET OF CHICKEN?! (Come on now, it's not that serious). Secondly, only Black people eat Popeye's? I work in downtown Manhattan, and whenever I do stop in a Popeye's, the crowd is always racially mixed. I'm pretty sure if the cameraman and reporter had dipped harder in that drive through line, they would've found some irate, rosy or olive-hued faces in their cards demanding chicken as well. Or maybe they DID find them, and chose not to include them in the clip? Hmmm...

Think about it, and get back to me with your comments. -- Crys Breezy

News: Up And Coming Rapper Convicts Himself Via Song

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Are rappers better off being studio gangstas? After reading this story, you might tend to think so. Come up rapper Rico Todriquez Wright has been sent to prison after telling on himself via his own song.

TRL Goes Out With a Bang: Carson Daly Bids Adieu to "TONY BANKS"! LMFBAO!!

I'm sorry.... this is too, too, funny.

Why is it during the final taping/airing of MTV's Total Request Live (Good riddance!) did your boy, the original host, Carson Daly, refer to 50 Cent's dickswallowers  lackeys  goons  yesman G-Unit members Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo AS ONE PERSON!?!? You gotta watch it to believe it... I know Game and Buck are somewhere DYING off of this one...

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On a crazy note... did Kid Rock go Kramer on us and drop the N-Bomb? Dude, I don't care if you think that sh*t is hot/acceptable? You thinkbecause industry assholes stay giving DJ Khaled a pass in saying this word, you think you're good money? We ALL know you have a half-Black son, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?! Please tell me I heard wrong.

Leave comments below. Man.... ruined a good laugh for me... (almost).

[VIDEO] Babs and Lady Luck on Why Amil's Not Down With Their New Group

Sigh... It's like almost 3am, I'm tired as hell, and I really wanna go to bed. I wasn't planning on blogging anything, until I came across this video. Now those of you who know me, know that I am PASSIONATE about women in hip-hop, so you know this sh*t really disturbs me. For those of you who don't know, Lady Luck, Babs (from the very first batch of Diddy rejects  the frontwoman for "Da Band", and some chick I ain't ever heard of named Uneek are supposed to be forming a female supergroup with The Lady of Rage. Yeah I know. I laughed when I heard this too. It didn't work for Jacki-O, Remy, Shawnna and Trina so why should it work now? Unless Rage is really gonna sit in the studio and teach these dumb bitches (THATS RIGHT I SAID BITCHES) something, this shyt ain't gonna work.

But then these broads got the nerve to diss Amil. Wow... now I ain't a fan of Amil's AT ALL, not even whe she was on the Roc, but damn... Babs should be the last one talking about someone's career.  Ok, so Amil may not be on a different  road like you said, but at least the chick ain't sell out and walk across a f*ckin bridge  to get some damn cheesecake. I think she would've been smart enough to take the D train!  

Sigh... and this is why us ladies are always accused of having the "Crabs in a Barrel" syndrome. Seriously, this is one of the most chickenheadiest (LOL) interviews I've watched in my life.  At the end of the day: NONE OF THESE CHICKS CAN REALLY RHYME LIKE THAT. Luck and Uneek really need to fall back, like, 1,000. That's all I can say about that.  Lady Rage is gonna have a time on her hands.

Sidebar: DID BABS SHAVE HER HEAD?! Good... no more f-cked up looking weaves then!

Hit me with your comments...

Peedi Crakk-- "Have You Seen Him?" [VIDEO]

I'm sorry, y'all... normally I don't like to perpetuate hip-hop beefs but this shyt was a lil' high on the "WOOOOW" factor, I just had to blog it.

Mind you, I'm not the biggest Peedi fan in the world, but you say Jay crossed you and it's Camel Huntin' Season... okay, my dude, we feel you. But... you're kinda coming off like a scorned ex-lover rather than a former rapper-put-on-back-burner. Seriously, why waste all this energy making a diss track that really doesn't diss him? NOW, you're just being a Jay-Z stan, just like the 3.5 billion others that exist in this world. I say, let that anger go and focus on YOU as an artist instead of a Roc-A-Fella castaway. (At the very least, do some more hot joints with The Roots.) I'm just saying. 

Check it out for yourselves and hit me about what you think.

I mean, if you gonna go up against Goliath, AT LEAST ATTEMPT to "Ether" the n*gga. Sheesh.

THIS MUTHAF*CKA IS AT IT AGAIN: No One On The Corner Has "Swagger Like Puff!"

WOOOW!!  

OVERLOAD! DIDDY F-CKING OVERLOAD! 

Not only does this n-gga proceed to further rape M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" just as his cohorts did earlier this month, but... how, how, HOW does one go from stealing "Swagger Like Us"... to dyckriding that AutoTune sh-t.. to basically JOCKING JAY-Z... and then goes "A Milli" on these cats? Who the f-ck this dude thinks he is, Lil' Wayne?  Dammnnn....I am speechless. I can't lie y'all... Diddy took three of the wackest joints to debut this year and made something of 'em, even if it is (like everything ELSE he does) dripping in self-promotion (Sidebar: THANK GOD HE DIDN'T DEEM HIMSELF CIROC OBAMA AGAIN!) I don't know whether or not I want to slam this or congratulate Diddy's ghostwriter for finding a way of not being a victim of "downsizing" at Bad Boy (MAKE THAT MONEY, BOO-BOO!) Hmm... I'll let y'all call this one.

WAAIIIIIT... I got a new name for Puff... Gator from Jungle Fever!

He could never come have breakfast at my house doing that shyt. HELL MUTHAF-CKIN NAW!

THE COOL KIDS-- "Delivery Man" (VIDEO)

Because we love us some hipsters....

Um, yeah. I ain't order that... but it's what I got served anyway.

By the way... the shorty's head over the shoulder is not "original" or "groundbreaking"... it's just weird.

Kanye West - Love Lockdown (New Version)

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Sidebar Note from Crys Breezy: Wow, he couldn't have come up with a better cover?

Welp, here's the "new" version of Love Lockdown. He allegedly re-sung it and re-did some of the drums, but no word on if he changed the fundamental problem with the song (aka the weirdo effects on his vocals).

Now, I haven't had a chance to download it and take a listen so somebody let me know if this is any better than the god-awful original version released last week.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/36ov68

More links after the jump!

LIL' WAYNE "GETS MONEY" WITH HORRIBLE SNL PERFORMANCE

Oh my God. Thank you Mary, Joseph, Jesus, Allah, Osama Bin Laden that I missed this... The talent booker for Saturday Night Live should be tarred and burned. Well... at least it’s slightly better from the sinful rendition of “Lollipop” he also performed during this broadcast.

I daresay that the young Carter is stepping up his stage persona, but I ain’t letting him off the hook until he a) stops speaking gibberish and b) leave the Auto-Tune alone. For real, how long can this sh*t remain hot for? I say we make it a Hip-Hop Resolution for 2009: All rappers must cease and desist ALL Auto-Tune machines and vocoder usage as of December 31, 2008, or we won’t listen to them. Who’s with me?!

DIDDY IS BUGGING THE F-CK OUT

Listen man... I'm tired as hell, just came from a family BBQ and have had one of the worst weekends of my life (except for the the Black August concert at B.B. Kings I attended on Sunday night, shout out to Immortal Technique, Rebel Diaz and their fly a*s femcee who was rhyming with him but her name escapes me right now, Shandia, Bilal and Homeboy Sandman as well as my fellow EQ co-hosts Ms. De la Leu and Dre Oba -- more on this event later) but I was perusing on the Web when I came across this random Diddy rant. Now, if you read my MTB4 recaps, then you know I'm always making note of the fact that this dude DESPERATELY needs an IV Ritalin drip in his life.

But this sh-t, this sh-t right here, makes me cringe...

And the fact that he calls himself "Ciroc Obama" makes me throw up in my mouth.

Now let me make something CRYSTAL "CRYS BREEZY" CLEAR: I am by no means a McCain supporter, but goshdamnit... this just set us WAAAY BACK. Props to Sean for that one! ::insert Diddy bop:: I mean, you don't see me going off about how I think Sarah Palin looks like she should be a gynecologist do you? (I don't know, I saw her photo and I thought, "I bet she can do a painless Pap Smear if you asked her to"... oops, I guess I did). Back to Diddy... sorry, but it doesn't matter what YOU think of McCain's choice... just Harlem Shake your ass to the polls on Election Day and we'll be straight. And stop that "Ciroc Obama" shyt. That's HORRIBLE SELF-PROMOTION AND EVEN MORE REASON WHY I WILL NEVER DRINK CIROC [GREY GOOSE ALL THE WAY]! THANK YOU!

Sidebar: If Obama's daughters' were 17 and pregnant, I don't think America would be so embracing of the "We're going to work through it together" vibe given off in Gov. Palin's press release acknowledging her daughter's expectant status... Hmm... ::SMH::