-"Hip-Hop Is Dead is my best album" - NaS. Yeah, whatever. Don't they all say that?

-Lil' Kim to pay tribute to MC Lyte at VH-1 Honors. Now, Kim goes ahead to say that Lyte influenced her. Um, someone help me out here.

-Beyonce's B'Day sells 541,000 to clinch the No. 1 spot on Billboard.

-Hip-Hop Class? Get that sh*t outta here, says a Cincinatti mom.

-Elsewhere in Ohioa math teacher is using hip-hop to help her students learn.

-Speaking of hip-hop, do we need Flava Flav expands his hu$tle. Do we really need another ear pollutant?

-Bobby Brown replaces my favorite white girl on the cover of the October Vibe.