After all these years (and blog posts) talking about “Free Shyne,” the day is upon us! Despite rumors that there may be a slight release, all appears on schedule for Moses Michael Leviy né Shyne né Jamal Barrow to come home from Clinton Correctional Facility today after serving nearly nine years of a 10-year bid for shooting up the club (and maybe hitting a lady in the nose). And, not too surprisingly, “Shyne” is the #1 trending topic on Twitter.
Of course, that probably means nothing to the rapper once heralded as the second coming of Biggie; technology has exploded in the time since his cell door clanged shut, so we imagine he might have a bit of a tough time getting adjusted to the way things are now. In fact, we peeped our special limited-edition crystal ball to see how it might go…
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We spent hours working on our soundboard. And you spent hours clicking on it.
Not even the combined forces of Slaughterhouse could prevent a Joe Budden vs Raekwon Twitter fight. [LINK]
Wow Wow Wow our exclusive photoshoot with Amber Rose is beyond hot. Lucky for you, we share. [LINK]
Kid Cudi kept it real in the outtakes of our cover story. [LINK]
Complex pulls a Marty McFly with our Back in the Day: Best of 1989 post. [LINK]
AND FROM THE COMPLEX NETWORK:
Nah Right: Check out this preview of the “Run This Town” video. [LINK]
KarmaLoopTV: We’re not really sure who the Jokers of the Scene are but it was funny watching them cringe while they got tattoos. [LINK]
SlamxHype: How can you call yourself a baller with out this Ballistic backpack? [LINK]
Das Gamer: We know you’re too scared to get on a dirt bike. So just watch this video of the game MX vs ATV Reflex. [LINK]
Sneaker News: New color ways for the P-Rod 3’s? Uh, yes please. [LINK]
On Smash: Drake is dropping an album! Oh wait, its just his mixtape with one new song on it…gee, thanks. [LINK]
Daily Drop: Ever wonder why you don’t look like your dad? Maybe these Milk Bottle lamps will give you a clue. [LINK]
More Pigeon sneakers from Jeff Staple. [KicksOnFire]
Moe Jackson: Its never a bad day for Megan Fox. [LINK]
We love hip-hop. We love rappers. We especially love rappers who take insignificant slights too far, because then it gives us an excuse to chronicle their fuckery. Case in point: Raekwon and Joe Budden got into a little dust-up over the weekend at a Rock the Bells show in California. Seems Lex Diamond resurrected the static between Jersey Joe and the Wu that got started when Joey talked sideways about being a better rapper then Method Man. (Side note: Joe Budden talk smack about another rapper? Whuh?) A punch might have been thrown, an eye might have gotten a little bit swollen, and more darts might have been thrown in the ensuing bloggery. But only one media outlet was there to capture the whole thing as it originally went down*. And that’s Complex! We’re like the Anderson Cooper of this rap satire thing, maing. Hit the jump for the rest of the story.
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Oh, Twitter fuckery, will you know no end? It used to be we just made it up, people, but now it’s really happening. Last night, at a Much Music Awards after-party in Toronto, blogger and famewhore Perez Hilton was allegedly “assaulted” by will.i.am…or his manager…or something. Perez tweeted about it numerous times, then will.i.am came on Twitter to deny it, then they each made horrible and grating videos about their side of the story.
No, we’re not linking to any of this, because it’s fucking stupid. And then this morning, will.i.am’s manager Polo Molina apparently turned himself in to police. All of which is to say, since we have the only legitimate take on this story, we’re gonna do you the solid of relaying the entire post-brawl imbroglio as it went down**. Technology: at first you think it’s awesome, then it goes and gives us something like this….
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Oh, but the internet was on fire last week. First Eminem’s Relapse leaked, then Nick Carey Cannon caught feelings about some of Em’s lyrics about Mariah Carey. On the track “Bagpipes from Baghdad,” Marshall goes in on his alleged ex-jumpoff and her present husband:
…Mariah whatever happened to us? Why did we have to break up?/All I asked for was a glass of punch!/You see I never really asked for much/I can’t imagine what’s going through your mind after such/A nasty break-up with that Latin hunk/Luis Miguel—Nick Cannon better back the fuck/Up, I’m not playin’, I want her back, you punk/This is Hello Kitty bedspread satin funk/Mixed with egyptian with a little rap and punk/Zapp and Eric Clapton, Shaft, Frank Zappa, crunk/And yeah baby i want another crack at ya/You can beat me with any spatula that you want/I mean I really want you bad, you c*nt/Nick you had your fun, i’ve come to kick you in your sack of junk/Man I could use a fresh batch of blood/So prepare your vernacular for Dracula acupunct…
Not even that harsh, especially in comparison to the psychosexual gorefest that is much of Relapse. Regardless, though, Nick blacked out on his blog, coming out of pocket with all kinds of threats (physical and otherwise) toward Em, even going so far as to compare Mariah to Michelle Obama and Oprah. (Even though he pulled the post in a matter of hours, you can still read it plenty of places, including here.) And that’s all we’ve heard of it so far…UNTIL NOW! See, when you have two celebrities on Twitter, chances are shit’s gonna boil over. And boil over it did. Thankfully, we follow all the parties involved, so we were able to record the whole confrontation as it went down.* Don’t say we never did anything for you…
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