Rap Sheet: Hitting the Right Note

Snoop Dogg / Photo: Chris Tuite

• Versatility: With his hit tune “Sensual Seduction” seducing the airwaves, Snoop Dogg lets it be know that he’s got more range than Diddy, “I think Puffy can just sing alto and tenor. But I can sing alto, tenor and soprano. I can sing any note.”

• Stanfield’s Songs: Take a look at Jamie Hector who plays the aloof, drug game head-honcho Marlo Stanfield on HBO’s The Wire go-to playlist. Dude’s music taste has depth with everything from Jay-Z, Biggie, Nas, Phil Collins and Mary, Mary. Mary, Mary? Hmm, maybe he ain’t all that tough after all.

• Savoir: French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s eldest son Pierre is a Hip Hop producer. He goes by the name of Mosey and even has a MySpace page, “Hey, I’m Mosey, a young Parisian producer, with my crew: Da Crime Chantilly we produced hip hop, soul and rnb beatz.”

• XXS: Elliot Wilson, the long time Editor-In-Chief of XXL magazine, who is partly responsible for its meteoric rise was fired by Harris Publications yesterday. Although there’s been no official explanation for his termination, we’ll take an educated guess and bet that newsstand sales were down. But Wilson will land on his feet, he’s currently penning an authorized biography of Jay-Z and his Ego Trip brand is set to make more crappy programs for VH1.

• Rapped: We interviewed Ice Cube about his upcoming movie, politics, and the good ol’ days. Cube on the rap game, “I feel like you got a different kind of rap. You got real serious rap and you got comic-book rap. And, you know most of them dudes just fall in the comic-book section of this whole thing.”