HardTimes
05-28-2006, 08:26 PM
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Despite her recent protestations that she does, in fact, like hip-hop and actually has some 50 Cent on her iPod, Oprah has not yet mollified the rap world. In the July issue of FHM magazine, rapper Ice Cube complains that the woman who put the “O!” in “talk show” has not given him his due.
“I’ve been involved in three projects pitched to her, but I’ve never been asked to participate,” Cube says.
“For [my film] Barbershop, she had Cedric the Entertainer on, but I wasn’t invited. Maybe she’s got a problem with hip-hop,” the sometime actor says. Cube, 36, reasons that he is as deserving as any sociopath to make an impression in Oprah’s legendary couch. “She’s had damn rapists, child molesters and lying authors on her show. And if I’m not a rags-to-riches story for her, who is?”
While you ponder the question, let us remind you that previously, other rappers have expressed their discontent with Lady O. 50 Cent charged - witheringly - that “she caters to older white women.” And Ludacris told GQ magazine that she treated him unfairly last October when he appeared on her show with fellow cast members from the film Crash.
Defending herself, Winfrey made a surprise appearance on New York City-based radio station Power 105.1
“I listen to some hip-hop,” she told DJ Ed Lover. “You know, I’ve been accused of not liking hip-hop, and that’s just not true… Love [50 Cent’s] ‘In Da Club.’… Love that, and you know, love Jay-Z, love Kanye [West], love Mary J. [Blige].”
Ice Cube was not on the list. Still, you may be wondering why he chose to vent his vexation publicly at this particular moment.
We have no idea. And we are certain that it is purely coincidental that he will release his latest album, Laugh Now, Cry Later, on June 6 - the day the magazine interview hits the newstands.
Any continent but this one
Michael Jackson, who has been licking his psychological wounds in Bahrain, is going to Japan to accept MTV Japan’s Legend Award today.
During his stay in Tokyo, Jackson will reportedly tour the city, meet with members of the Asian business community, and visit orphanages.
All righty, then.
After leaving Japan, Jackson reportedly will make stops in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.
You and your pussycat thong
Whoa-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh. When Hasbro first planned to release a line of dolls based on the hot band the Pussycat Dolls, how was the company to know that the group would make Barbie look like a 19th-century virgin?
Now that it’s become clear that the Pussycat Dolls are too hot for innocent hands, Hasbro has changed its mind.
While the big pussycats are thriving, the toys that would have immortalized them have been ditched. Hasbro has decided that the dolls would have been “inappropriate” and that the Pussycats’ target audience is “much older” than anticipated.
Not to question Hasbro’s selfless concern for children’s innocence, but we are guessing that protests from groups like the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Dads & Daughters might have had some influence.
Despite her recent protestations that she does, in fact, like hip-hop and actually has some 50 Cent on her iPod, Oprah has not yet mollified the rap world. In the July issue of FHM magazine, rapper Ice Cube complains that the woman who put the “O!” in “talk show” has not given him his due.
“I’ve been involved in three projects pitched to her, but I’ve never been asked to participate,” Cube says.
“For [my film] Barbershop, she had Cedric the Entertainer on, but I wasn’t invited. Maybe she’s got a problem with hip-hop,” the sometime actor says. Cube, 36, reasons that he is as deserving as any sociopath to make an impression in Oprah’s legendary couch. “She’s had damn rapists, child molesters and lying authors on her show. And if I’m not a rags-to-riches story for her, who is?”
While you ponder the question, let us remind you that previously, other rappers have expressed their discontent with Lady O. 50 Cent charged - witheringly - that “she caters to older white women.” And Ludacris told GQ magazine that she treated him unfairly last October when he appeared on her show with fellow cast members from the film Crash.
Defending herself, Winfrey made a surprise appearance on New York City-based radio station Power 105.1
“I listen to some hip-hop,” she told DJ Ed Lover. “You know, I’ve been accused of not liking hip-hop, and that’s just not true… Love [50 Cent’s] ‘In Da Club.’… Love that, and you know, love Jay-Z, love Kanye [West], love Mary J. [Blige].”
Ice Cube was not on the list. Still, you may be wondering why he chose to vent his vexation publicly at this particular moment.
We have no idea. And we are certain that it is purely coincidental that he will release his latest album, Laugh Now, Cry Later, on June 6 - the day the magazine interview hits the newstands.
Any continent but this one
Michael Jackson, who has been licking his psychological wounds in Bahrain, is going to Japan to accept MTV Japan’s Legend Award today.
During his stay in Tokyo, Jackson will reportedly tour the city, meet with members of the Asian business community, and visit orphanages.
All righty, then.
After leaving Japan, Jackson reportedly will make stops in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.
You and your pussycat thong
Whoa-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh. When Hasbro first planned to release a line of dolls based on the hot band the Pussycat Dolls, how was the company to know that the group would make Barbie look like a 19th-century virgin?
Now that it’s become clear that the Pussycat Dolls are too hot for innocent hands, Hasbro has changed its mind.
While the big pussycats are thriving, the toys that would have immortalized them have been ditched. Hasbro has decided that the dolls would have been “inappropriate” and that the Pussycats’ target audience is “much older” than anticipated.
Not to question Hasbro’s selfless concern for children’s innocence, but we are guessing that protests from groups like the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Dads & Daughters might have had some influence.