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Shatner: To be or not to be.

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I must recommend William Shatner’s new album Has Been, it’s a series of spoken word/songs with guest appearances by the likes of Henry Rollings. I first heard about the album, which was produced by Ben Folds, while I was at a Henry Rollins show last winter. Rollins went into a whole spiel on how weird it was putting down some tracks with Bill Shatner.

The album has some good tracks starting with Common People, where Shatner goes on on about how bad it is to be a common person. Also the title track Has Been is a look into how society views an former star. Shatner closes the song with insight:

Has Been implies failure, not so. Has Been’s history.
Has Been’s… was, Has Been… might again.

The wrong vibe.

A fight broke out last night at the Vibe Awards Ceremony when Snoop Dogg took the stage to present Dr. Dre with a Life-Time Achievement Award. As chairs began to be fly and punches were thrown Dr. Dre reportedly leapt into the action protecting his life time of achievement:

Witness Frank Williams told a local Santa Monica television station that Dr. Dre was involved in the brawl. “I saw Dr. Dre fighting somebody,” Williams said. “I don’t know if he was fighting back. But there was a guy taken out basically bloodied.”

Dre was there to receive the all illusive Vibe Legend Award for his lifetime contributions to hip-hop which seemed to continue during the show. CNN says Vibe magazine focuses on urban culture and entertainment. The awards are voted on by music journalists and “regional tastemakers.”

Suge “I’ve killed more people than Ray Lewis” Knight calmed the masses with this token:

“It’s really important that we don’t take a negative incident like this and do away with the awards”.

I think somebody said something bad about Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Dr. Dre defended ODB’s honor by beating the shit out of somebody.

R.I.P. ODB.

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Ol’ Dirty Bastard formerly of the Wu-Tang Clan passed away earlier today in a NYC recording studio. ODB has dropped out of site recently but he will be widely remembered for the time he took all of us (and MTV) along with him and several of his children to pickup food stamps at the NYC welfare office in a limo. This is what CNN had to say about the life of ODB:

O.D.B. — also known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Dirt McGirt, Big Baby Jesus or his legal name of Russell Jones — was a founding member of the seminal rap group the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 1990s.

With his unorthodox delivery — alternately slurred, hyper and nonsensical — O.D.B. stood out even in the nine-man Clan, which featured such future stars as Method Man, RZA and Ghostface Killah.

The Wu-Tang blueprint was for each member to pursue solo projects, and O.D.B.’s were among the best.

Here’s to you Dirt McGirt…Big Baby Jesus, here’s to you.