MTV’s Top 10 hottest mc’s in the game:

1.  Lil Wayne
2.  T.I
3.  Game
4.  Andre 3000
5.  Kanye West
6.  Young Jeezy
7.  Jay-Z
8.  50 Cent
9.  Common
10.  Jim Jones

Hip hop blogger’s and forum goers worldwide are currently weighing in on the list. I personally reckon they’re pretty much on point as far as who’s in the top 5. I would have thought T.I would have edged out Wayne at the present moment though due to his album jus dropping and him being omnipresent. But perhaps the fact it was disappointing pulled him down the list. I probably would have had Kanye at Game’s spot too.

>update: Lil Wayne - Outstanding ? (Apparently produced by Dr Dre and from the Carter 3 but I dunno. Seems unfinished, I like it though)

The homie Ron Isley a.k.a Mr Biggs is in some serious shit due to being convicted on 5 counts of Tax evasion and one count of ‘failing to file a tax return’ at the end of last year. Apparently he’s due to start serving a 3 year prison sentence on August 7th.

Def Jam arent having it and are urging all Isley fans to email and fax the White House immediately in an effort to get Bush to give him a pardon, similar to what he did for that aide of Dick Cheney’s. I dont know how exactly you go about wording a letter to the White House, but im sure an introduction and a ‘Free Isley’ will suffice. Wonder how long till those t-shirts appear ?

Def Jam info on lending your support to Ron Isley 

p.s Anyone who has a link to the Ron Isley - ‘Busted’ video.. post that shit up!

>update: GOAT Video

At the time of writing, Giants slugger Barry Bonds was 2 homers shy of Hank Aaron’s all-time record of 755. There’s no doubt he’s gonna pass the mark but many will (and already are) questioning the legitimacy of him breaking the record. In light of all this Upper Playground have designed a tee that sums it all up real nice:

Props to Slam Hype, the spot where I first spied the t-shirt.

Is it just me or does Chamillionaire look one of them old troll toys?

On that note here’s two cool new vids from him, ka pai…

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After trying in vain to listen again to T.I vs T.IP, T.I’s follow-up to the excellent King, it only confirmed my intial feelings of when I first heard it a few weeks back… its wack. It got me thinking though, most great rappers have fallen off at some point. So heres my personal Top 10 Worst Follow-Ups to Classics…

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EDIT: and now Kelly Rowland’s collapse…

Walk it out…

Was anyone else aware that the chick goin ‘oaahahahawooaaah’ on this song is from Aussie group Sneaky sound system ? I was not. I didnt know Dj Toomp co-produced this either.. makes sense though. Anyway here’s the remix, Snowman has a verse and Kanye has a new verse too so it’s on like Donkey Kong.

Kanye west feat Young Jeezy - Cant tell me nothin remix

These two flicks are shaping up to be 2007’s “Blair Witch-Snakes-on-a-Plane-World-Wide-Web-Created-Hype-Blockbusters” (yes, that is a technical movie term).

“BE KIND REWIND”

This one is directed by the visual mastermind Michael Gondry and stars Jack Black and Mos Def. In the ultra endearing premise, both leads work at a video store, and when Black gets bad headaches he decides to sabotage the power plant he suspects is causing them. His antics end up making his brain become magnitized and when he returns to the shop he inadvertently erases all the tapes. Their only customer is an elderly woman who has lost touch with reality and religiously rents the flicks, so not having the heart to tell her theyre gone, they decide to re-create them all with a handicam. They include The Lion King, Rush Hour, Ghostbusters, When We Were Kings, Back to the Future, Driving Miss Daisy, Robocop and Boyz In The Hood. The idea alone of Jack Black and Mos Def posing as Dough Boy and Tre has garunteed my ticket purchase.

“CLOVERFIELD”

Produced by JJ Abrams (brainchild of the tv show Lost) this one is a giant monster movie set in New York, and is said to be filmed totally on handi-cam (handi-cam is the new good cam!). Paramount Pictures has released little to no information on the film other than this trailer, which was shown at the beginning of Transformers in the US. And to add to the secret squirrelness, Cloverfield is not the real name of the film, there is no name! This website has random pictures you can flip around, and there are blogs set-up everywhere talking about a “prophet” named Ethan Haas. The monster is being reffered to as The Parasite, though there has been much speculation as to whether its a remake of everything from Godzilla to Voltron. I bet the guy that sat next to me at The Matrix Reloaded and yelled “Go Neo!” at one point, is salivating at this nerdness. Cant say Im not intrigued though.

EDIT: Ethan Haas blogs and sites are all kaka.

Though NZ enjoyed some success over the weekend in various sports codes, the US is enduring much darker times and the Fed’s is watching!

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick (who carries better than most running backs) has been indicted on federal felony charges involving dog fighting. Seems Vick and his boys had been getting on some Chucky and Fresh in his backyard since 2001. He has maybe the most raw talent ever in the NFL but, killing dogs is rough.

NBA Commisioner David Stern got a call from the FBI to inform him that one of his refs is involved in match fixing. The homie Tim Donaghy has allegedly been putting wagers on games for the last two seasons, including his own. For anyone who watched the Spurs vs Suns series (the real finals), this dude reffed game 3 and made a bunch of dodgy calls that handed San Antonio the game. So all you Spurs fans, your championship will forever be tainted! HA!

In what would normally be celebrated as one of sports greatest milestones, Barry Bonds is about to break the all-time MLB home run record. The fact that Bonds allegedly shot steroids in his ass since 1998 though, has everyone doing the Marge catch phrase “Hhhmmmmm!”. A federal grand jury is investigating whether he lied to a previous grandy jury four years ago about roid raging, and his best mate and trainer is in jail for refusing to talk.