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The President of Uganda's Hot Rap Single

Max Read · 02/18/11 01:10AM

Who is the Chet Haze of Uganda? Possibly Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who is considering releasing "quite a big album of the classics." A big rap album, he means! This may seem ambitious for a man who once said, "today these young people taught me about this 'rap'. I was not following what they were saying," but his single "You want another rap?" (listen above) has, according to Reuters, become a "smash hit," after a somewhat unorthodox recording process:

LIVE: American Idol, Season 10, Episode 10

Matt Cherette · 02/17/11 07:00PM

Hello again! Tonight, American Idol is back—at 8:00 PM ET on FOX—with another Hollywood Week episode. So, stop what you're doing, get in front of the television (and your computer, duh), and join us for our live-blog!

Patriarch of Piano Prodigy Family Charged with Sodomy, Sexually Abusing Daughters

Richard Lawson · 02/17/11 12:43PM

Keith Brown, the father of the popular classical piano quintet The 5 Browns, has been charged in a Utah court with "one first-degree felony count of sodomy on a child and two second-degree felony counts of sexual abuse of a child," according to the AP. While the actual court records don't name the victims, a spokesman for the 5 Browns has confirmed that the case involves Brown's three daughters Desirae, Deondra, and Melody. The alleged abused occurred on several occasions over a period ranging from 1990 to 1998.

LIVE: American Idol, Season 10, Episode 9

Matt Cherette · 02/16/11 07:00PM

Hello again! Tonight, American Idol is back—at 8:00 PM ET on FOX, and for two hours!—with another Hollywood Week episode. So, stop what you're doing, get in front of the television, and join us for our live-blog!

Students Promote the "Pursuit of Jappiness" in Kid Cudi Cover Gone Jewish

Lauren Soroken · 02/14/11 11:45AM

Some University of Michigan students turned their rendition of Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness" into the "Pursuit of Jappiness." Repping scooped out bagels with lox, straightened hair, and "Jappy swag," these guys are asking "what you know about Birthright?

Bieber Fans Attack Esperanza Spalding's Wikipedia Page

Max Read · 02/13/11 11:06PM

If you were just Googling "Esperanza Spalding"—tonight's surprise winner of the Grammy for Best New Artist—you may have been surprised to learn from her Wikipedia page that "SHE IS F****** REATARD," or that her middle name is either "Justin" or "Quesadilla," or, for that matter, that she beat out "Nominee and gay favorite Justina Bieber" for the award. Well! Far be it from us to cast aspersion on the accuracy of a user-edited font of knowledge like Wikipedia, but it certainly seems possible that fans of losing nominee Justin Bieber (or, perhaps, people who like to throw poop around the internet) may have been "vandalizing" her Wikipedia page, adding possibly-untrue facts like:

Andrew W.K. Apparently Crashed 4chan by Partying Too Hard

Max Read · 02/13/11 09:00PM

What's musician/party god Andrew W.K. doing for the Grammys? Crashing anarchic image-board 4chan by "partying too hard"—that is, hanging out and answering questions, apparently. W.K. popped by the site's music board /mu/ (bearing a site-standard identity-verifying photograph) and answered a few questions over two different threads, in the process slowing the whole site down and causing brief outages. The first one, which was locked is here; the second is here.

New Single Reveals Lady Gaga Still Sounds Like Madonna

Adrian Chen · 02/12/11 03:50PM

Sure, her new single, "born this way," sounds a lot like Madonna's "Express Yourself." But it is absolutely unnecessary for people to create YouTube videos exposing the similarity via dramatic, side-by-side comparison. As if Lady Gaga and her team of evil geniuses were planning on scamming the listening public, confident no one would realize that Gaga's new single was rehashing a bunch of old Madonna songs—just like every Lady Gaga single. But then: The music detectives strike with their Youtube Videos of Justice!