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A few weeks ago, Bartow, Fl rapper Riskay was in town making a video. She's the hilarious female MC that made a name for herself via the web when her song "Let Me Smell Yo Dick" caught the eye of Perez Hilton, the New York Times, and a gaggle of bloggers around the world late last year.
Needless to say, she's been capitalizing off of her new fame and attention.
Fresh off of a gig at SXSW opening up for N.E.R.D. and scoring a couple of record contracts, one with Glass Note in the U.S. and a U.K. label whose name escapes me right now, Riskay was in good spirits when she showed up in South Florida a few weeks ago to shoot the video for this song. I was at the shoot and let me tell you, it was hilarious.
Anyways, here's the video.
I don't know where the rapper gets her name from??

--Jonathan Cunningham

It looks like McDonald's is going after the urban crowd with this one.
"Cha cha now y'all."

-- Jonathan Cunningham

Just when you thought Snoop Dogg didn't have any creativity left.
I don't know why this song gets stuck in your head so easily. Even though Snoop's T-Pain approach gets annoying after a while, the video makes it all worth it.

-- Jonathan Cunningham

I don't know why I'm a sucker for love lost and found but I'm pulling for Edgewater producer Diplo and London via Sri Lanka MC M.I.A. to get back together. Despite the fact that they make great music, after watching this video below, it's hard to argue that they aren't adorable as well. Work it out y'all.

- Jonathan Cunningham

Pregnant chicks are cool, I guess, because they eat like stoners and can hold your beer on their stomach while you play Halo. But I still feel mildly weird about these pictures of Xtina trying to look all uber-slutty with a small human inside her stomach, I guess because a lot of girls my age are having babies and none of them look like her. Maybe I should just knock up hot girls and kill two birds with one awesome leather and denim covered stone. -- Craig Hlavaty

The sometimes West Palm Beach resident Killa Cam'ron has a new mixtape out today.
I'm not going to waste a lot of time loving it or hating on it as I've only heard a few tracks which didn't move me in either direction. But here's a funny post from the folks at Oh Word that I recently rediscovered which pokes fun at Cam in comical fashion. -- Jonathan Cunningham

Rumor has it the new Spank Rock and Benny Blanco CD, Bangers and Cash got pulled from the shelves of Best Buy this week because management just noticed its x-rated cover art.
Apparently, this is all about the back cover where a partially obscured dildo can be seen in the background. Not sure how they missed that.
Then again, if all the fuss is over the dildo, I guess they missed that pink butt plug on the left as well.
Go figure.

--Jonathan Cunningham

Witness Sigur Ros talking to Luke Burbank, in advance of its upcoming release, Hvarf / Heima. Or, rather, witness Sigur Ros really not sure what to say to Burbank's line of questioning -- a phrase I use loosely. The video is linked here.

Now, commenters have been lashing out at Sigur Ros for being aloof or whatever, but I take umbrage at the whole lack of proper preparation. Yes, radio interviews are supposed to be shorter and briefer, and perhaps might cover more banal topics. But Burbank needs a refresher course in Journalism 101, for the following three reasons:

1. He sounds as though he has never heard Sigur Ros before. Ever. Case in point:
"Did you start out playing this kind of music? Or did you start out as a more 'regular-sounding' band?" Um, read the band's bio, dude, before you talk to them.

2. The banality of the questions -- "How do you create your tunes? Does one person start playing an instrument, and everyone adds in to that?" -- doesn't exactly lend to stimulating conversation. Sigur Ros are notoriously reticent anyway; and how does one respond to a question like that, exactly?

3. The awkward self-deprecation that pops up about halfway through, where the interviewer jokes about "interviews like these." Yes, he could tell that the conversation was reaching trainwreck proportions at that point. But the band can really do nothing but agree -- thus creating a black hole of awkwardness from which no one can recover.

Sure, I've had some shit-tastic interviews myself -- and made a fool out of myself in front of people. (Trust me.) But dear lord.

-- Annie Zaleski

In the South we're all about Soulja Boy, but up in New York City, a girl named Tokyo Diva and her crew are showing us how the '80s babies do it on her block -- in neon leggings, big-print t-shirts and thick, gold dookie rope chains. In part, the style seems like a new new rip off of the Cool Kids but whatever. It's at least fun for the moment. --Jonathan Cunningham

Not sure if this is true or not, but can't help but post this link I found on Craigslist today. Someone from Poison is looking to get laid. If you need Craiglist to get the job done, that might be a sign that you're washed up. --Jonathan Cunningham

Due to the success of Soulja Boy’s hit single “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” and it’s accompanying dance -- which hit #1 of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart this September -- everyone from the whitest of uncoordinated white boys:

to Maury Povich guests:

have been caught on YouTube with their personal renditions.

This includes Miami Southridge Senior High School’s principal Martin T. Reid, who surprised students at a pep rally last week with a "Crank That" dance-off. FCATs, you’ve been served:

-- Elyse Wanshel

Is everyone doing the Soulja Boy these days??
The dance is kinda fun. Kinda.
Looks like Beyonce's even worked it into her routine. --Jonathan Cunningham

If you want to learn how to do the Soulja Boy Crank Dat dance...watch and learn: )

This lil dude is too funny! Apparently, Weng Weng was a real Philipino TV star in the 70s and this viral video below has a bunch of clips from that lovely, "miniature" televisions series. Weng Weng's popularity has seen a recent resurgence thanks to this remix by the Chuds, which shows that Weng Weng was much cooler than Mini Me and was more of a mack with the ladies too. --Jonathan Cunningham