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Punch Anyone In ‘FaceBreaker’ Boxing Game

In the nearly three years since EA’s Fight Night Round 3 revolutionized boxing video games, we’ve been starving for another console puncher to hold us down until Round 4 drops in ‘09 (sorry, 2K, but Prizefighter was trash). This week, Facebreaker (360, PS3, Wii) steps into the ring, and unlike the Fight Night series, it’s a simple button-mashing cartoon brawler, not a boxing sim. That’s good news for all of us who heavily fucked with Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! and Ring King back in the day.

Like in Punch-Out!!, the comical characters in Facebreaker play on stereotypes (the brute Russian, the Latin lover, etc.). What’s especially cool is the Photo GameFace feature, which allows you to upload real-life photos to create new characters and share them online. Looks like it’s finally time for that 50 Cent vs. Joey Crack fight to pop off. Check out the brand-new Kimbo Slice Facebreaker commercial below…

The Unauthorized History of Hip Hop Chain Snatching

Middle-aged white guys buy snazzy sports cars and flaunt them as if they’re chrome, fuel-injected, super-charged effigies of their now flaccid cocks. Rappers, on the other hand, buy gaudy medallions attached to equally gaudy links and rock them as if they’re platinum-and-gold-plated, diamond-encrusted effigies of their now flaccid cocks. So you can imagine how emasculated your favorite rapper feels when another rapper, or local stick-up kid, comes along, takes their shine, and leaks a picture or youtube video. It’s like they’re holding their penises (¡NH!) fully exposed for the world to see! Ay Carumba!

In any case, the latest incident of manhood snatching befell poor widdle Yung Berg while the diddy-bopper cruised the mean streets of Detroit (what he was doing wearing jewelry in the D, we don’t know either). Needless to say, Berg is probably somewhere licking his wounds. But cheer up, lil’ buddy! You just entered a club whose members include hip hop’s elite.

To boost Berg’s gloomy disposition, Complex combed the annals (ayo!) of hip hop history (along with rumors and allegations as well) to compile an authoritative list of the most notorious chain snatchings ever. To be fair to the victims and the vickers, we rated each incident by how emasculating it was to their careers, as well as the probability that the snatching actually happened (since almost none of the incidents can be verified by police reports) . If you don’t read this blog, you’re just robbing yourself.

Click here to start the snatchin’!

The 10 Worst Rapper Commercials Of All Time

“Memph Bleek is…Reinforced Active Fruit Concentrate.”

Perhaps it’s a sign of web video overload that the release of last week’s hilariously awful Garner Fructis shampoo ad with Memphis Bleek went largely unnoticed—either that, or Bleek really is that irrelevant these days.

But in his defense, you can’t really eat off the rap game any more. And besides, Memph man is far from the first rapper to embarrass himself while endorsing a product (he is the first MC to shill for women’s shampoo, so throw up the Roc for that). We went deep into the archives to dig up the worst-ever ads featuring rappers. See our cringe-inducing collection, as well as Bleek’s awesome ad, below

The E-Beef Between 50 and Fat Joe Continues To Sizzle

Curtis continues his assault on rival rapper Fat Joe via Thisis50.com. The most recent jab from Fiddy’s camp comes in this new video where it’s revealed G-Unit will drop a mixtape March 11 (the same day Fat Joe’s forthcoming “Elephant In The Room” drops) entitled “Elephant In The Sand.” Watch the video after the jump to see a preview of what looks like a hilarious mixtape cover, as well as Fat Joe’s response to E-Unit’s sub-par Photoshoping skills.

Fat Joe Leans Back With Chelsea Handler

Although Chelsea Handler is usually too obnoxious to even try and stomach watching, this interview she did with Fat Joe is pretty entertaining. Joey CRACK briefly talks about how he never wins a Grammy because of the “backpack mafia” and his ongoing beef with 50-Cent, claiming “this guy’s as real as the WWF.” Good stuff.

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Rap Sheet: Staying Ahead of the Game

• Versatility: Talib Kweli on how Hip Hop has changed, “It’s a different competition these days: Who is the best businessman? Who’s got the best swagger? Who can be the coolest? At the time I came in, it was almost about not being cool. It wasn’t about looking the part. It was really about bringing it. The best MCs, like Lil Wayne, aren’t the best because they can rap; it’s because they understand that.”

• Therapeutic: Erykah Badu spoke to a crowd in Tel Aviv, Israel and announced her support for Palestinian Hip Hop. Rocking an ‘Out of Iraq’ t-shirt, the singer expressed why she admires about it, “They use (hip-hop) as a form of liberation, as a form of pre-resistance, as a form of therapy,” she said.

• L’chaim!: On the stranger side of Rap news, Pharrell was driving past an orthodox Jewish wedding in Miami and ended up stopping to take pictures. Guests then invited him to join the service and bless the groom. Then he played this card, “He kept asking people: ‘Don’t you know who I am? You don’t know (hit song) ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot?’ But he was having fun.”

• Taxing: Fat Joe claims his monies are in order in light of reports that he owes back taxes, “I definitely pay my taxes, I’m straight upwith it. The first thing I ever learned in the entertainment business is you gotta pay the IRS. First thing. Before I take a dollar, before I buy me a bag of potato chips, I pay those people.”