Forget social security checks—old farts in Chile should look forward to receiving free Viagra in the next few days. Mayor Gonzalo Navarette, a former doctor, came up with the idea to give men over the age of 60 the via-yeezy to improve their quality of life after he received complaints from elder males about their poor sex life. The pill-pushing will occur four times a month to every man who’s trying to get some tail—the hard way. If all this old-man erection talk’s got you weirded out, check after the jump for a video by the aptly named hottie Russian/Ukranian girl group Viagra.
Attention retailers, don’t F with Nike! If you try and play them dirty they’ll descend on you with the power of a 1000 nations—ok maybe 300 has been on Cinemax too much this month, but you get the point. Justin Coale found this out the hard way. He’s the owner of a store called Street Wear—he should be punished for that name and obnoxious “Now Open” banner alone—that was charged with selling fake Nikes. After the sneaker giant became aware of the artificial kicks it hired P.I.s who confirmed that the sneakers were not authentic. Police then went in with their own undercover unit. In all they seized over $10k worth of counterfeit Air Force 1s and Jordans that were allegedly bought in NYC—we’re guessing somewhere around Canal Street.
MySpace: Wu-Tang’s Ghostface Killah threatens to quit rap after doing some math regarding December’s Big Doe Rehab: “115,000 friends on the MySpace and I get like 30,000 or something like that in the first week, that’s not good man, ’cause I know a lot of y’all got my sh*t, but y’all just downloaded it man,” said Starks in the above YouTube video. Prizes for actually buying Rehab apparently include a sit-down with the man himself. “Just bring me a CD to the show me and show me you did that, and I”ll sit there and kick it with y’all. We can get goosed out, whatever y’all wanna do.”
You Can Never Go Home Again: The Compton Sheriff’s department has asked the city to ban Suge Knight due to his alleged gang ties. Knight fired back, saying: “This is crazy…I’m a 42-year-old businessman, not a gang member. I don’t even live in Compton anymore . . .”
Stars, They’re Not Like Us: Busta Rhymes walks out of a New York City court with a mere three years of probation after pleading guilty to all kinds of assaults and traffic violations. Said Busta: “I just want to say that I’m very grateful to the judge, I’m very grateful to the system. I believe in the system. It hasn’t failed me personally yet.”
#1: Alicia Keys’As I Am ain’t exactly flying off the shelves, but she’s topped the pop charts for the second week in a row. What does it take to be #1? A mere 61,000 records sold.
Despite Vivid Entertainment’s own chairman claiming he would stop selling the Kim Kardashian-Ray J sex tape over 5 months ago, the porn factory just sent out a release claiming to have more XXX footage and to be on the lookout, all while promoting our on-and-off-again girlfriend’s new reality show: Keeping Up With The Kardashians. [Egotastic] XXL’s December cover is straight ‘Gangster.’ [Nahright]
Details on the “ghetto” X-box have been revealed. It’s gonna coast around $280. [Gearfuse]
Ralph Lauren Purple sunglasses fold like origami. [AcquiteMag]
Tipped off: The ATF executed a search warrant on recently featured Dirty South rapper T.I. He was arrested for trying to buy three machine guns and two silencers just hours before he was supposed to perform at the BET awards. Plus Clifford had more guns in the car. But jail didn’t stop the young rapper from netting two awards anyway.
Reviewing Gotti: Here’s a review of Irv Gotti’s new reality TV series, Gotti’s Way. It follows the rap producer around as he deals with family and business problems from all angles, including an exchange with Ja Rule about making a monster hit.
Naming rights: Crank this. Soulja Boy is being sued for allegedly stealing his name from a member of the 1990’s rap group Mo Thugs, he spelled it Souljah Boy with an “h.”
Bad boy: Diddy allegedly smacked the crap out of someone in Soho which leads us to wonder why the hell dude even pays bodyguards in the first place. The rap mogul seems to have a recent spate of violent outbursts.
