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LL Cool J - Around The Way Girl by kaz1988

Funny and said and sigh-worthy all simultaneously : Sarah Palin will host "Real American Stories," a Fox News special debuting on Thursday. For the premiere episode, which will air at 10PM, the show will include guests ranging from entertainers LL Cool J and Toby Keith to former GE CEO Jack Welch and a Marine Medal of Honor recipient. The episode will pre-empt "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" and re-air Sunday night at 9PM. Maybe since he is apart of NCIS, that she could ask him "How the Navy is?" It wouldn't surprise me. Update : Haha, LL Cool J responds : What a surprise, isn't it? Since the interview is probably their property, he probably would have no chance if he considered bringing it to court. But damn, it shows how desperate this clown network is for the ultimate of clown figures.

The music thread. Photo from AP's Jason Decrow This whole Eminem-Apple case is the latest example with how artists better understand how the music industry at day's end doesn't give a damn about them at all. Your music is theirs, simple as that. And if you don't like it, SUCKS for you, no matter how you are. And that is further magnified if you are in hip-hop, no question. LL Cool J could go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also nominated were Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Kiss . DJ Roc Raida's sad death on Saturday was result of a heart attack . Lil Boosie is going to jail for two years . And again, of course it was . Expect a second music thread later in the day.

Classic....from 1990. One of the best love rap songs ever.

The Runthrough....Let's go. Yes, Guitar Hero 5 is coming out he first couple of weeks of September are going to be a banner time for music video games. On September 9 (09/09/09), the much-anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band will hit store shelves, just eight days after Guitar Hero 5 gets its chance to rock living rooms everywhere. With the Beatles game, it's easy to imagine long lines and huge sales figures. After all, this will be the first time that any of the recent slew of music-oriented video games will feature any Beatles songs, let alone dozens of them. But with Guitar Hero 5 (see video below)--has so much time gone by already that there could even be five Guitar Hero releases?--one has to work just a little bit harder to envision the big bucks that its publisher, Activision Blizzard, surely is hoping to bring in. LL Cool J's tribute song to Michael Jackson released today. Now he didn't even need to boast for MJ at the end of the track. That was unnecessary, no q...

Photo from VHI.com Michael Jackson's death is further highlighting the fact that people still will buy CD's. Now, of course, this is a very different case form the norm, because of people rushing to buy his albums posthumously instead of him being alive at the moment. But people want the raw copies instead of just burning the MP3's and making them into their own CD's. And so, surprisingly and wonderfully as I have highlighted before, for Maxwell too. 316K and No. 1 for him . Whitney is back . Only in this profession can this person turn from this to that , and be respected . But who am I to judge. LL Cool J is returning to NBC . A must read from Shareem Reid on Drake . Really, it is. And if I'm saying that about music journalists and music artists in this day and age, it is a must read . Hell, I'll give an excerpt. "When I was going through the creative process for So Far Gone, I was actually at a pretty dark place in my life," Drake explained. "...