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— EDWARD TEDDY RILEY (@TeddyRiley1) May 9, 2013

What was I thinking?

I also did not mention Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative," but that's because I have always felt uneasy about that tune. "Prerogative" is not a nice word. It has nothing to do with American youthfulness or self-empowerment but the power of kings and lords. The king, for example, might have the prerogative to fuck my wife—meaning, the right to do so, and neither she or I can do anything about it. Bobby Brown is singing not that he has self-determination but the exclusive right to do "what he wants to do."

But it was a long time ago, and so there's no sperm competition involved in this claim...

The human penis, with a relatively larger glans and more pronounced coronal ridge than is found in
many other primates, may function to displace seminal fluid from rival males in the vagina by forcing it back over/under the glans. During intercourse the effect of repeated thrusting would be to draw out and displace foreign semen away from the cervix. As a consequence, if a female copulated with more than one male
within a short period of time this would allow subsequent males to “scoop out” Semen Displacement as a Sperm Competition Strategy in Humans semen deposited by others before ejaculating...

A sober Talib Kweli claims he is the greater rapper that ever lived; a stoned Snoop is nice enough to agree with him. Altogether, it is a warm and entertaining conversation between two hiphop fathers, two hiphop legends...

His thinking: Like lots of Americans, he grew up admiring the power of guns; but when he started owning guns, he also noticed they killed a lot of people; and now that he is older, he doesn't need guns because they do nothing but cause him and his family stress...

Africa Is a Country reports:

Whatever Jay-Z and Beyonce were expecting when they went to Nigeria in 2006, they can’t have seen this one coming.
If the document New York-based muckrakers Sahara Reporters have published is authentic, then they have just scooped one of the news stories of the decade. No doubt about it. It is alleged that in 2006 the most powerful man in African media, Nduka Obaigbena (known for hobnobbing with celebrities from Lil Kim to Colin Powell to Henry Kissinger) paid for the Knowles-Carters’ Nigerian visit by successfully soliciting $1 million of public money from none other than the current president, Goodluck Jonathan, when he was governor of Bayelsa State. And the kicker? In the letter they’ve published that money appears to have been paid out directly from the state’s “poverty alleviation fund”.

I heard I'm day late on this one, but in case you too "ain't up on things"....

The homophobic rapper is Lord Jamar. He has not done anything interesting since the days of Brand Nubians.

The has-been Tweets...

DMX Calls Drake a Girl

What comes out is his sensitive side...

A cab picked us up outside our Sydney hotel on our last day in Australia. The driver—a self-described cross of Pablo Escobar and Ron Jeremy—asked if we were a band. When we answered in the affirmative he mentioned that he had driven an American musician to the airport a couple of months prior. This wasn’t particularly interesting news; there’s no shortage of American artists touring Australia at any given time. I assumed it was one of those artists whose name you vaguely recognize but aren’t actually familiar with. So we were a little surprised when he asked if we were familiar with a guy named Mark Kozelek.

Sun Kil Moon and Kozelek’s solo records get a decent amount of play in the tour van, so yes, we’re familiar with the man. Familiar enough to know the guy also has a reputation for being a bit standoffish. Or perhaps you could just say that a lot of people describe Kozelek as being a dick. Though to be fair, the few examples I’ve heard of his dickish behavior are usually kind of amusing. My favorite example is his supposed habit of setting up his mic stand in one corner of the stage prior to his performance so that all the diehard fans congregate on that side. Then when he actually goes on, he takes the mic and sets it on the opposite side of the stage, where he performs his set. It takes some balls to snub your biggest fans, and I couldn’t help but wonder how a guy that writes such sentimental music has such an antisocial streak.

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