Monday Crackbacks - 8/7/06

Wassup, Y'all!

This week's crackbacks feature Flava Flav putting the finishing touches on his second harem of hotties (which is music to my boy Cat Daddy's ears), Vivica thinking folks want to hear her talk, Beyonce admits her kissing technique needs help and Jamie Foxx is ready to drink Halle's bathwater. Who does that that brother think he is? He needs to get his butt in line behind everybody else (including her current boyfriend)...

Cinematical gave a nice shoutout to Carl Brasher (1931-2006) - the first black U.S. Navy diver and the inspiration for Men of Honor, in which he was portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. He died recently in Richmond, VA, of respiratory and heart failure. If you're looking for a good evening of entertainment, check out the Men of Honor DVD and see what kind of ruckus this brother had to go through just to serve his country...

The probe beat goes on with Biggie's murder investigation (and presumably Tupac's) Now in it's 9th year, it's hip-hop's version of the Kennedy assassination without the grassy knoll...and Kennedy...

Ruben Studdard's ready to drop dead, some weight his sophmore album! Man, hopefully 'The Velvet Teddy Bear' will learn a little something from Luther's tragic, untimely passing and back away from those honeybutter biscuits...

Headline: Baby gets a $500K grill! Now as ridiculous as that sound, that would actually be the rapper Brian 'Baby' Williams who decided he needed to 'upgrade his grill game' by going through four hours of dentistry to get a set of diamond encrusted uppers and lowers. $500K. For a grill. Damn homey - didn't Oprah just do a couple shows on the state of education in America and highlight our run down inner city schools?? Dude, keep the uppers and cash in those lowers and spread that $250K 'jury' money around for the kids...

Maybe Ice Cube needs to include our boy Baby in the conversation while he's getting salty (rightly so, by the way) with the Governator's lack of attention to inner city issues...

Beyonce needs some kissing lessons? Jay-Z - you could have called me, man. That was one of my majors in college (hence my current basement living arrangement...). Word on the street is that Beyonce is getting dead surious about her acting in her upcoming role in Dreamgirls (is that a collective sigh of relief I hear from my peeps who peeped ol girl in Austin Powers Goldmember and The Pink Panther) - who knew ol girl was *this* serious?? And who is the lucky homey who helped her practice busting a slob? And why couldn't Jigga hova Jay-Z handle that business for her? Drop me a comment, Jay!

hmmm - Katina Taylor is filing for divorce from Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor. Could be sticky with her brother Zack Taylor still in the Dolphin locker room. With three kids I'm expecting the child support payments to resemble something like what Kanye said in Goldigger: His baby momma's car's crib is bigger than his. You will see him on TV Any Given Sunday. Win the Superbowl and drive off in a Hyundaiiiiii (Jason, homey I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin')

'Ugly Betty' update! After proppin' my girl Vanessa Williams last week as a player in this new fall comedy, word has reached the basement that production has temporarily halted on the show to touch up some of the scripts to match the promise of the pilot. Since ABC is still proppin' the show with promos ol Ty won't panic. 'Specially since this type of doctoring worked well with one of my other shows...

Only in America - Flava Flav returns with an all new harem in Season 2 of Flavor of Love a reality show where 20 women via for Flava's affection. I find this interesting since Flava is banned from every mirror store in the country due to spontaneous breakage whenever he appears... Last season’s 90-minute "Flavor of Love" finale made VH1 history by becoming the network's top rated telecast of all time. What?

The Pussycat Dolls are cribbing TLC's mojo by being featured in a new reality show to find a seventh member of the girl group. I could have sworn that I just saw this joint but it was called R U The Girl and T-Boz and Chilli where looking for a replacement for Left Eye... Sounds like grand larceny to me...probably watch it for educational purposes though...

Vivica's talking talk show, y'all. I got two words for that - Tyra Banks. Now I know Tyra is foine and all but her talk show is WHACK! Now picture a talk show equally whack but you don't have Tyra to look at - that show would be called the Vivica Fox Show. TV execs - Just Say No...

Sometimes you don't know when Jamie Foxx is frontin' or not, but now here comes homeboy claiming that Halle Berry can get him to give up his alley cat ways. Mama always says - be careful what you wish for as Halle's dating track record is a little less suspect than her driving ability....


Peace@Least,

Tyrone