WOW...Even having the face of a decomposing old hag can't stop Madonna from ruling the charts...

Madonna's album was released yesterday to some of the best reviews of her career. I brought the album, and I have to say, I actually really like it. Especially the jam with Kanye West and one called "The Devil Couldn't Recognize You" or some shit like that. Either way, get this album. There is even a rumor flying around that granny will be on BET's 106 & Park. How fun is that?

Right now her album is expected to hit number 1 in the states with a little under 300,000 sold. A far cry from Whoriah's uninspired album, but sexy neverless.

Holla

TAZ

Drama: At the Penguin Club/"Messy of the Week"

Notice I added the slash in the title in honor of the Penguin Club's multi talented employees.
LMAO

Any hoo. Here's what happened last nite.

First of all I'd like to say the owner is off the hook.

This dude is crazy.

First he begged us to let him drum for our set, and I'm like "I don't know you. Hell no"...

Then the amp breaks and he has to borrow it from a band that was playing...

Then a couple of rappers get on stage. Not that they weren't good, but every word coming from their mouth was "nigga this" and "nigga that" and "I shot that nigga...I fucked that bitch." This was a mostly white establishment, and they looked shocked that people wasn't necessarily feeling them. And fellow emcees, lets at least take out the lead vocals in the tracks when we are performing, especially on the same ticket as bands that are playing everything live. You lip sync/rapping along with your completed song isn't that sexy to the crowd that is used to live music. Needless to say, half the crowd hauled ass.

Then the bartender/violinist, and that guy with the guitar and the owner's sister get on stage and chase the other half of the crowd away singing a long ass thousand hour set. It wasn't that they weren't good, but you know after around hour nine hundred, it was time to move on.

Then the band demands the amp so that they can leave and Mister Owner wants to argue with them.

Then he looks at us like we were going to perform with a broke ass amp. Hell no. We are out.

Everybody that works there is a slash person. Bartender/violin lady. Cook/guitarist, etc. and at any moment they are ready to pounce on stage and live out their rock and roll dreams at the expense of your set.

Another thing, the owner figured it would be sexy to do an impromptu comedy skit between acts. He thought wrong. They wasn't even short skits. They was like 10 minutes of drawn out blah blah blah.

Crazy...but certainly entertaining.

I can't wait for next week.

If you want to make an impression in hip hop in 2008...You gotta get you some steriods.

And the best part is you can get them online from the same place Nelly gets his. Check the before and after. That bitch looks like Iron Man around the jaw just in time for the movie.

http://www.raproids.com/.

I've placed my order.

TAZ

LMAO

So Alicia Keys wasn't enough, now 50 Cent attacks Missy Elliott for fucking Olivia!

He must have a record coming out soon. Is he mad he couldn't hit and Missy had the swag to pull Olivia?

Taz

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The famously outspoken rapper 50 Cent is now blaming rapper/producer Missy Elliot for the loss of his protege Olivia from the G-Unit record label. The The Vitamin Water mogul was disappointed when the promising R&B singer was dropped last year, after releasing only three singles with the label.

Now 50, real name Curtis Jackson, is making claims that Olivia's relationship with his operation went sour after the singer collaborated with Missy, and that the "Get Ur Freak On" hitmaker's sexuality is to blame.

"She went to work with Missy and it got kinda crazy like. It got crazy because Missy was trying to own her a little bit... I think Missy hit that," said Jackson."I made so many sacrifices based on people I brought around. I need to take a page outta Jay-Z's book because he don't (sic) compromise himself at all for them," he added.

Rumors that Missy Elliot is a lesbian have been swirling around the entertainment industry for years, but the artist consistently refuses to comment publicly about her sexuality.

Lets talk Sean Bell, I got some shit on my mind!!!!

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Sassy Mariah Carey may or may have not been throwing darts at a few pop divas....What do you think?

First Mimi disses the one bitch that I'm loving right now, Leana Lewis(I think that's her name), and now she is going for her Madgesty, also known as hip hop granny, also known as Madonna.

If you ask me, Mimi's ass is still salty about Madonna rough housing her for the grammy performance when she was so called having the biggest comeback in music history. Whatever Mimi.

TAZ

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From Perez:

Mariah Carey recently did an interview for Spain's Shangay Express magazine. And she took a few not-too-subtle digs at the one and only Madonna!A reporter from the magazine flew to New York to interview Miz. Carey and witnessed the divaness first-hand. First, the album listening that was scheduled for 6pm was postponed ’til 9pm. The interview, which was supposed to take place at 9pm was posted to midnight. Then after hours of waiting, at 2:30am, they cancelled the interview since Mimi was too tired. The next day, the reporter was invited to attend an MTV TRL taping. In total, Mariah had 11 people surrounding her, consisting of bodyguards, assistants, makeup peeps, label reps and wardrobe assistants. Now that's the way to travel!Finally, the reporter gets the interview, with 3 hours left to spare before their flight departs.Some of the highlights from the interview include:

- When the reporter asks if Mariah's obsessed with portraying an unreal image of herself via photoshop, Mariah denies the claim stating that everyone uses photoshop in the business. Everyone.

- When asked about Madonna (how dare that reporter mention that name infront of Mimi!!!) and how she feels about her Madgesty recording an R&B album, Mariah responds that it's "interesting." Then pauses, and continues, "It's very interesting."

- When the reporter mentions that Madonna worked with Pharrell (who also worked with Mimi), she asks if Mariah gave her some indirect inspiration. Carey responds, "I don't know, I don't have any idea about her intentions. I'll just say that it's very interesting."

- When questioned about creating her own clothing line, Mimi responds, "I'm working on my own collection of lingerie, darling. Why shouldn't I dedicate myself to under garments?"

- And when asked if her "diva demands" get worse over time, she responds, "What is over time? What is a diva? I know a lot about divas because it's a word I've heard ever since I was a little girl, because my mom is an opera singer. Diva demands? I don't think I have any. I'm a person who can take care of myself, you believe me, right?"Riiiiiiiiiight.You be starting a girlfight, Mimi!

50 Cents attacks Alicia Keys...

All I gotta say is, "dude get a fucking life. If your music isn't part of the solution, its part of the problem". Case closed. Dude out there trying to save whales while his music sinks a generation. Own up to it, and keep making your money.

Maybe Alicia and Young Buck will do a diss track together. LOL

TAZ

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What did you think of Alicia Keys’ comments regarding gangsta rap in Blender?

50 Cent:“I don’t like Alicia Keys no more.”

She clarified the comments, though.

50 Cent:“If she thinks what they consider to be gangsta music is made to bring black people down then I think my shit falls into that category. I don’t like people who don’t like me. I don’t like her then because that’s what provides the life for me.
I think if you ask Ice Cube the same shit, he’ll tell you, “Fuck Alicia Keys” for even saying that. Because the success he’s had as an actor and a businessman, there was no opportunity for that shit without N.W.A. But I don’t think that her classical shit is cool. I don’t give a fuck if you can classically play the piano. I haven’t been classically trained, because my upbringing, nobody put me in front of a piano at that time. If they did, I would know how to do it as well as she does. I could learn how to play the piano if I was passionate about it right now.
That’s obviously my perspective evaluating what she does, and I could fucking care less about the shit. So she don’t like the music that embodies the harsh realities because they’re not her realities. She hasn’t been subjected to the same things.”

I don't know who wrote this poem, but its definately true...

When I was in college, I was around a supportive team. I basically was one of the leaders of a group of positive, supportive people. Somewhere after college I began to deal with demons of my past, and I lost that part of me, and then I died, and now I am reborn. In the death stage, my cast was miserable and so was I, and I started bringing others in with me, and turning others off based on my negative aura.

Now I feel like I have been reborn, and am that person I remember in college or at least on my way to be. Once I do complete the journey of self discovery I will be unstoppable, and I can't wait.

Enjoy the poem,

TAZ

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If you want to be miserable, then get yourself around other people who are miserable.

If you wish to be joyful, successful and fulfilled, put yourself around those who live with positive purpose.

The more energy you put into complaining about how bad things are, the more things you'll have to complain about.

The more intensely you visualize how good things can be, the better they will become.

You are naturally drawn to whatever you focus upon.

You will see precisely the opportunities and possibilities that you prepare yourself to see.

Each day is filled with so many choices and directions that you cannot possibly connect to them all.

The ones you do connect with are the ones that most closely resonate with your view of life. Fortunately, you can choose to view life in whatever way you wish.

Those who find the best in life are those who continually remind themselves that all the good and valuable things are most certainly there.

See your life as a grand opportunity for love and joy, achievement and fulfillment.

And that's exactly what it will be.

Always remember that- "Character is not made in a crisis—it is only exhibited."

"The Art of Communication"...

I honestly just don't get people. Communication is the key to any relationship whether a romantic one, a friendship, a business, or a relationship at the workplace. Whats especially annoying is when people refuse to tell you how they feel, but then get mad when your actions aren't in line with what they would have wanted. If you would have told me what you wanted, I would have tried to accommodate you. If you would have told me what I did wrong, I would have tried to do better.

Communication is the key. If you aren't communicating, you become part of the problem. If I am doing something wrong at the work place, and you know it, don't talk behind my back about how bad I am, tell me. If someone is telling you things that I supposedly said or did, and you are my friend, don't believe the hype, ask me if I did it. You might be shocked.

Anyways, that's my beef for the day. On a positive note, the album will be available April 23rd, 2008, so brace yourselves, and most of all peeps, don't be afraid to communicate your opinions on it when you hear it. I ain't scurred.

Peace.

TAZ

Move over Jay Z and Beyonce, Bow Wow and O are the new hot hip hop couple and to honor them we present all things gay...LOL

Everything gay starts with Bow Wow and Omarion...Canada is calling boys, set a date already!

Then there is former boxers turned cross dressing fem-fighting machines. Get it Oscar.

John Legend. Yeah bitch, I'm still mad about your antics at the grammy awards... I know where you live motherfucker.

Grown ass men pretending to be in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc....You lucky it wasn't my lovely sorors of Zeta Phi Beta bitches or I'd whoop all your asses.

This whatever it is has the intentions of winning the crown of gayest thing ever...

Anybody who likes Cher has got to be gay...

This bee stung catsuit is gay, thought its fierce regardless...TYRA MAIL!!! LOL

Michael Jackson's sassy new weave is super gay and quite the "thriller"

Make love boys not war, being in another man's personal face, I mean space, looking like you want a kiss, is gay Kanye and 50 cent. But 50 kissed the Game as well, so I guess thats his thing.

Mario Lopez getting cheeky at a party is gay. Saved by the bell? Keep the bell, we would all be saved from the cheeks if he put some mother fuckin pants on right about now. LOL

Thats it for "all things gay", and its also your wedding gift Bow Weezy and O. So don't expect a blender from my black ass at the wedding.

CHOW

TAZ

"Boys will be Boys" O and Bow Weezy, Hollywood's hottest new couple.

Omarion brings Bow Wow on stage and serenades him publicly. That's right fellas, cast the shackles of oppression that bind you, and if the governator won't let you do it in California, run to Canada and get gay married.

Taz

Mess of The week...Khia Thug Mistress VS. Wendy Williams Beef

How Khia still getting attention trips me out, but anyways, she ripped Wendy a new asshole on her blog. LOL

Anyway, I actually like Khia cause when I send her a message on myspace, she actually responds. But then, what else does she have to do?

Get it Khia!

TAZ

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Khia attacks Wendy Williams in her most recent Myspace blog. “Now you know what????? I have to be the baddest, realest, smartest bitch ever….. Because all these dumb silly Drag Queens love to promote me….. I have been on covers, four page spreads, radio and TV and I didn’t have to spend a dime!!!!! Come on people…..I now see that some of us was born out the pussy and some of was born straight out the asshole…….LOL!!! I mean come on………. Why wouldn’t I want to be on VH1’s prime time television, their official website and on The Wendy Williams show!!! Promotion people!!!!!! Because after this reading…I know that drag queen is going to call to try and clear up a few things…… Okay Wendy….. I know its been some undercover hatin going on!!! How many times have I been on your show and seen you in person!!! Gurrrrrrrl….. Were you high??? Or was that rat’s nest weave on your head too tight?????? Aren’t you and your husband under investigation for sexual harassment?????? What happened?????? Bitch why you worrying about my titties sagging. You need to worry about your husband fucking them young girls at your radio station, with yall being swingers and all…….I’m sure he would looooooooove these titties in his mouth and I am sure that you would have loooooooved to watch….. To bad I don’t swing or do cocaine!!!!! LOL!!!!!! You 50 year old coon!!! With your nasty ass!!! You done had a face lift, breast implants and tummy tuck and u still look like a man. At least, mine are real!!! Bitch…… Your pussy walls is so lose, you done had 9 miscarriages…….You cant’ even hold the baby….. Was it the drug addiction or the lose walls???? Clarify this….. Because I don’t understand…….Why you worrying about me, you need to figure out how you gone dig Johnny Cochran out his grave to fight this case!!! You and your nasty ass husband locking bitches up in rooms with whips and chains……. You ugly bastard!!!!! Where do you shop at???? Petite Patton or the Big and Tall store…. Cuz your mouth and your hands looks like it could grip a basketball without a problem!!! Tranny, you and your and husband be trading places…. I heard you like to strap on!!! I’m gone have your job in a minute!!! Cuz u 50 years old and u still tricking at the radio station….. Ohhhhhh….. I forgot P. Diddy ended that!! No more powdered dick-kabobs for youuuuuu!!!! Once a junky always a junky!!! still pawning that cheap ass jewelry?????? U getting old Wendy….Pass the baton… I like to gossip and interview stars too……. I’m a baby Wendy Williams!!! Always giving the truth but the only difference is, I wont get dragged by my wig like you!!!! I’m not gone get addicted to cocaine like you, Me and my husband not gonna have sexual harassment charges like you!!! We not gonna have several miscarriages from dick abuse and drug abuse like you!!! Nowwwwww, my titties are sagging because I have two beautiful healthy children…. What’s your excuse for your face and all the surgeries you had that didn’t work???? With that deep ass voice!!! Did you get that Adams apple removed toooo???? Didn’t you have a show on VH1 that flopped???Why is your husband always cheating on you ???Is it because them young girls look better than you??? Is that why your husband have a pending sexual harassment charge??? Stand by your man Wendy!!! Yall are in it together!!!Swangers!!!!You wrong for that with that lazy eye and head full of mangled tracks!!!!! Bitch you aint no diva!!! You won best radio personality in 1993.… Bitch it’s 2008!!! Your time is up and you are used up and dat pussy is wrinkled for sure!!! With your decrepit ass!!! Don’t Wendy look like the junky in the hood, that thinks she still got it???? Bitch you washed up and over the hill!!! You finally met your match!!!! I am the future!!! Bitch …….choke off the next dick that goes down your throat, No….No wait a minute…. Sprinkle some powder on it first, because I know you will suck it even faster, theeeen!! Now run and tell that!!!!!”

Drama: At the Workplace...TAZ is Pissed!!!!

So after my smoking a black and mild outside in the parking lot, and making a quick stop pass the lottery line, I am walking back to my cubicle when I notice a couple of plus sized older chicks playing Spades and laughing loudly like harpies. So I looks at my watch and it ain't no where near break time, and I notice one of them was a bitch that wins countless awards for great service every year.

So I looks at her and I says, "what are you doing bitch? You can't be playing Spades all times of the day when your old ass should be working". And she looks at me and says, "bitch I know your lazy ass ain't talking walking from the damn lottery line smelling like some damn black & milds". So we jump in each others faces and are about to fight when I say, "how the fuck you be winning all them awards when all your old ass does is play spades?" That's when she went off on me and in between the 'fuck you's' and 'bitch ass motherfuckers' I was able to piece together her angle. Basically its not about what you do, it is about who you know, so I have decided to take the rest of the week and walk around and shake people's hands and kiss their asses so that they 'know me'.

Anybody got any hand sanitizer for your boy?

Taz

"Chain Email Drama" with John McCain

Maybe its real, maybe its not, but either way John McCain looks like a prime candidate for the asshole of the year award.

Do me a favor, read through this and if you don't like what you see, click onto the sexy link at the bottom of this posting and join the cause because do we really want another 4 years of republican drama? I sure as hell don't.

TAZ

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10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.

4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."

5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5

6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.

7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."

10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.

John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:

http://pol.moveon.org/mccaintruth/?id=12407-8644876-gzYoTL&t=232

Fitty Cent kicks out baby momma!!!

If 50 had a little girl is this what she would look like?....that's a question for another day. So 50 baby momma says that he is kicking out her and her son knowing that they have no place to go...boo-hoo-hoo. I say if 50 don't want you and your boyfriend mooching off him no more then that's his decision. You a grown ass woman why don't you have your shit together? I don't usually agree with 50 Cent on anything, besides smart buisiness moves, but I side with him on this one. How you not stacking paper lady? I'm sure even the child support checks you get is enough for the child, rent or a mortgage somewhere! I mean 50 is worth like a trillion dollars right now. She getting broke off pretty nice. Maybe if she wasn't doin dumb shit with her money she wouldn't be so desperate right now. Only thing I hold 50 responsible for is messing with a chick named Shaniqua. You shoulda known you had a hood rat on your hands....what a mess!!


Krizz



50 Cent Sued by His Son's Mother
April 3, 2008, 4:10 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- Grammy-nominated rapper 50 Cent is being sued by a former girlfriend who says the hip-hop superstar is trying to evict her and their 10-year-old son from their multimillion-dollar home.

The single-page notice filed by Shaniqua Tompkins accuses 50 Cent of breach of contract and unjust enrichment. Her lawyer says this means he broke a promise to give Tompkins and son Marquise a home.

"This was a house that was promised to Shaniqua up until the closing," said Tompkins' lawyer Paul Catsandonis. "Then he decided not to put it in her name. Now he's trying to put her out of the house. This would mean evicting his own son."

The rapper's lawyer, Bret Kimmel, did not immediately return calls for comment Thursday.

Catsandonis said the 32-year-old rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, paid about $2.4 million for the house, one of the largest in the Long Island neighborhood of Dix Hills. He said 50 Cent, who was shot outside his grandmother's Queens home in 2000, had told Tompkins, 32, he wanted her and their son in a safe and secure place.

"This is somebody who was with him when he was shot and who nursed him back to health," Catsandonis said, adding that Tompkins met the rapper when she was 15. "I think what he's doing is horrible."

The rapper was sitting in a friend's car when he was shot on May 24, 2000. Bullets hit him in the hand, arm, hip, legs, chest and face, and he spent 13 days in a hospital.

The shooter reportedly was killed three weeks later.

Tompkins' lawsuit was filed Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. It asks the court to declare that she has a right to live in the house. She already gets court-ordered financial support from 50 Cent for their son.

The rapper has been nominated for 13 Grammys, including nods for the song "In da Club" and the album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'." In 2005, he starred with Terrence Howard in a semi-autobiographical movie based on that album.

He also starred in the 2006 film "Home of the Brave" as a soldier returning home from the Iraq War.

Album release date revealed...April 23rd, 2008!!

We will be performing new songs at the Penguin Nite Club. Come check us out. See this crazy ass blogspot come to live LOL

Taz

"Bmore 10 Freestyle Battle" May 9th, 2008 @ The Turntable Club

Yo this is gonna be fiyah, and best of all...Weez the Host. Holla at me. Tix only $5.00

Taz

PS. We'll also be premiering our new album "the Mysterious Messy Revolution" live on stage. Don't miss it.

In a week of broken records, Jay Z set to sign biggest recording deal ever...

I also hear from the little birdies that him and Beyonce are about to get married. But who knows.

Regardless, Jay Z wins everytime and is going to no doubt keep on winning.

TAZ

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Taken from Yahoo news

Jay-Z is on the verge of a deal with concert promoter Live Nation worth about $150 million that rivals the biggest music contracts ever, the New York Times reported on its Web site on Wednesday.

Jay-Z was said to be planning to leave his longtime record label, Def Jam, for a package with Live Nation, which includes financing his own entertainment venture as well as recordings and tours over the next decade.

The deal, which sources told the newspaper should be finalized this week, comes after Live Nation earlier this week announced a 12-year agreement to handle the merchandising, digital and branding rights and touring of Irish group U2.

Live Nation, which unveiled a $120 million deal with Madonna five months ago, has been expanding its business model to develop more far-reaching and deeper relationships with artists beyond just handling their touring as CD sales plunge.

No one at Live Nation was immediately available to comment on the Jay-Z report.

Like many other performers, Jay-Z -- whose real name is Shawn Carter -- has seen his record sales fall but he has also pursued other business ventures such as a clothing line, Rocawear, which he sold last year for $204 million, and a chain of 40/40 nightclubs.

This has kept him at the top of Forbes magazine's annual list of "Hip-Hop Cash Kings" with estimated earnings of $34 million in 2006.

The New York Times said the deal with Live Nation would involve the concert promoter funding a start-up of a venture called Roc Nation that would be an umbrella for the rapper's outside projects which are expected to include his own label, music publishing, and talent consulting and managing.

The venture would split profits with Jay-Z.

Jay-Z, 38, last year stepped down as president of Def Jam Records, a unit of French media concern Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, saying he wanted to "take on new challenges."

As well as being one of the world's best known rappers who regularly tops the lists of richest hip hop moguls, he is also known for his romance with R&B singer Beyonce Knowles.

People magazine reported this week that the couple had taken out a wedding license in Scarsdale Villge, New York, that is valid for 60 days. But representatives for the couple have declined to comment on latest rumors of an impending marriage.

Reuters/Nielsen

A Janet fan(me) vents on this history breaking week for Madonna and Mooriah....

I'ma about to go on a lamb killing spree.

I can't believe that slutacious bimbo with a super flat ass, Mariah, has went number 1 once again.

I admit it. I am jealous. I am mad and I ain't gonna take it no more.

Moo-riah, I don't want to touch your body, I want to touch your face, with my new timbos...

I haven't been this mad since the old king died.

Join me janatics...Join me on my mission. call all the radio stations and say "you ugly fat bitches. How dare you play Mariah and not Janet". Let 4 and 5 words be your weapons. Attack Janatics...Attack with everything you've got.

We must be avenged!! Janet must be avenged!!

The retarded kid at the front desk of my job is a Mariah fan. So about 11am I snuck in the fridge and got his lunch and ate it in the name of Janet Jackson fans everywhere. And that boy is emotional and plus sized so he started to cry when he discovered he had nothing to eat.

Serves him right. He shouldn't have been humming "Touch My Body" in the hallway last Tuesday

TAZ

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From Billboard

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003784083

Two leading ladies, Mariah Carey and Madonna, leapfrog over Elvis Presley in the Billboard charts record book this week.

As expected, Mariah Carey moves past Elvis Presley and into sole possession of second place for most No. 1s in the rock era, as "Touch My Body" soars 15-1 on the Billboard Hot 100 to become her 18th chart-topper. With her album "E=MC2" yet to hit retail, Carey might equal the Beatles' record of 20 No. 1s before her set runs its course.

"Body's" blast to No. 1 is fueled by a record-setting debut week digital tally of 286,000 downloads. That sum, good enough for the No. 1 slot on Hot Digital Songs, surpasses the 277,000 downloads labelmate Rihanna opened with in the June 9, 2007, issue with her summer smash "Umbrella."

Presley will also be nudged from his standing as the artist with the most top 10s in the rock era, as Madonna surpasses him with her 37th top 10, "4 Minutes." The track, which features Justin Timberlake, clocks a 68-3 jump. Previous to the establishment of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958, the industry standard chart was the Best Sellers in Stores tally, where Presley scored his first 12 top 10s.

Like Carey's "Touch," Madonna's Hot 100 jump is spurred by stupendous download sales. "4 Minutes" shifts 217,000 in its first week of wide release (it had been available as a Verizon exclusive) to enter Hot Digital Songs at No. 2.


This is the first time since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital sales in 2003 that two titles debut simultaneously on Hot Digital Songs with more than 200,000 downloads each. The week also marks the best single-week digital tally in either artist's career.

"What You Seek is Now"

What you seek is now

End the battle within yourself and you will know peace. Cease to separate one thing from another and you experience unity.

Enlightenment is not the accumulation of knowledge or wisdom. It is the full realization of what you already are.

Richness has nothing to do with material artifacts or financial transactions. It is the surrender to an abundance that has no limit.

What you seek is not somewhere else, or this or that. What you seek is now.

The more you look for it, the more it hides from you. Relax, remember the source of your deepest yearnings, and allow yourself to know their fulfillment.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright ©2008 Ralph S. Marston, Jr.