Coolio is currently residing in the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother house, where he is proving to be quite an accomplished shit-stirrer. But that’s not all he’s able to stir, oh no! Soz.
Last year he hosted his own online cookery show, Cookin’ With Coolio. Now, over Christmas I watched a bit of Rick Stein cooking some king prawns on a barbecue, and I have to say that five minutes of Coolio barbecuing prawns (or shrimp, as they say over there), while possibly not as culinarily informative, is a lot more entertaining.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 10:25 am

Following in the footsteps of Diddy, who entertained us last year with Blair Witch spoofs aimed at Sarah Palin, Lil Wayne has hopped on the vlogging bandwagon of late.
Well, I say of late - he started back in June 2008. But since the number of updates he’s managed hasn’t yet topped half a dozen, you don’t have to worry about having missed too much from (here’s that title again) the self-proclaimed greatest rapper alive.
And although it’s nice that Mr Weezy is taking a little time out to address the fans, the content of his dispatches isn’t especially compelling.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Layzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone and Flesh-N-Bone, what have(n’t) you done?
OK, we’ll let Flesh-N-Bone off because I think he was in the clink at the time, but the rest of the Bones are being straight up suified for allegedly not showing up for a performance in Washington last year.
The law suit has been brought by a basketball team, with some people called the Jazz of Tacoma claiming that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony:
- RECEIVED payment for their scheduled performance in April 2007
- DONE a runner
I’m not sure what “injunctive relief” is, but the Jazz are after a bit of that, alongside $280,000 compensation.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday December 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am

Looks like Global Radio have been taking a leaf out of the BBC’s book. Multi MOBO-winning DJ Steve Sutherland has been suspended after some listeners to his networked Galaxy radio show complained after he aired Busta Rhymes’ “Arab Money”.
“Arab Money” is just another blingalicious number really (also, it takes a fair amount of “inspiration” from Erick Sermon’s “React”), except instead of namechecking east coast / west coast locations it mentions Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Iran. One can imagine problems may arise when Busta breaks out lyrics like “Sittin in casinos while I’m gamblin with Arafat”, and referencing “cameltoe bitches”. Oh, and pronouncing “arab” as “ay-rab” isn’t going to help, either.
Meanwhile, just saying the words “Iran and Iraq, Saudi Arabia!” is enough to get some folk riled these days.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 11:45 am

My favourite bits?
“Yo, where do I put it at?”
“Yabba dabba do!”
“This smell gooood, what is this again?”
“You using white pepper? Step yo’ game up!”
“I wanna taste yours. I don’t trust mine.”
Check it out over the page.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 11:23 am

I suspect the bulk of Roll Deep’s new video had already been recorded when the list of BNP members leaked, but that hasn’t stopped them adding a scrolling list of names and locations below a figure with the head of a superimposed Nick Griffin.
It’s a pretty cheap alteration to the video really, and it gets their point across with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. And with many people claiming that the whole BNP list furore goes against the basic principles of democracy, it risks being seen as a spot of cynical witch-hunt bandwagon-jumping.
Having said that… er, check it out after the jump.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 11:25 am

I suppose if you record a rap song called “Girlz Gone Wild”, about girls going wild (by which I don’t mean feral), there’s a fair chance it’s going to come to the attention of the folk behind “adult” DVD series Girls Gone Wild (link NSFW, duh).
And so it is with someone called Lil Goonie, who should surely be spending his time recording sample-heavy tracks with titles like “Hey You Guyyyys!” and “It’s Wet Ain’t It? Drink It!”.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am

There’s a big punching match tomorrow night, with Joe Calzaghe from Wales heading over to Madison Square Garden to do some boxing on Roy Jones, Jr. In return, Jones will do some boxing back. That’s how the sport of boxing works. Rappers don’t get much more naughty than men who hit each other in the face repeatedly for the entertainment of the masses.
Jones has released albums and singles previously, but this tune seems more like an ad for HBO’s fight coverage than a single in itself. Since it’s a hip-hop tune you’d be within your rights to expect some mega-dissing to be in order, but actually it’s very respectful to Calzaghe. Is that what happens when older people rap? A little decency enters the equation?

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Friday November 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am

There are naughty rappers, and there are naughty rappers. In the scheme of rap naughtiness - which tends to run from overdoing the drugzngunz to all-out murderation - doing a poo while spitting a little flow is pretty small beer.

Nevertheless it is not the kind of thing my mum would like me to do, I’m fairly sure.

Kid Famous, in this video entitled “What I Wrote When Taking A Shit”, tells us that he has opened for Nas and written for Jay-Z; so assuming he’s not a big fat fibber he clearly has a bit of pedigree. And he does seem eager to be understood: “Do you understand the words that are coming out my mouth?” is as plaintive a plea as you are likely to hear today, I’d imagine.

I suppose the angle here is: “Hey you! Look what I can come up with while dropping a few brown bombs on the porcelain shore! You couldn’t do this even with your bum clean and pants up!”

Adjudge whether the Kid is as good as he reckons over the page…
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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 11:00 am

Rap types like to harp on about how much champers and whatnot they knock back, but this is the first instance I can think of in which one of them has chucked up in the manner of a teenager necking White Ace on a park roundabout.

To be fair to Jermaine Dupri (left, click image to enlarge), it was his birthday. And if you can’t blow chunks over a Jackson on your 36th, when can you?

Apparently he’d been a-sipping on Jay-Z’s Ace Of Spades champagne and a fair bit of tequila when the vomitus occurred.

Should point out here that Janet Jackson is Jermaine Dupri’s girlfriend, and that’s why he was sat next to her - it’s not like he just spotted her across the room and decide to ralph over her because he didn’t like Damita Jo.
[source: Digital Spy]

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Tuesday September 30th, 2008 at 9:59 am