Hood Rich: Kid Sister: "I’m just tryin’ to get my shine on!", Will.i.am. joins Wolvie cast, Hot Boys lose steam

Yesssirrr it's time for Hood Rich: All the news that's fit to pimp. It's our feeble attempt at collecting some of the more interesting recent happenings in the world of hip-hop into one easily palatable information smoothie.

• AllHipHop has a great interview with Chicago club rapper Kid Sister up today. She talks about riding her bike two miles uphill in the snow, defines juke, and talks about what it was like coming from working in a children's clothing store and "slangin' bibs" to playing Giants Stadium and collaborating with Kanye West.
• Billy Sunday has a great piece up explaining why the rumored Hot Boys reunion ain't all it cracked up to be. He gets into why a Fat Boys reunion is more likely, talks about the state of hip-hop and R&B, and rappers behind bars.
• Oh, and Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am is now joining the cast of X-Men Origins: Wolverine now too. If only Fergie could get a role - ooh, maybe a To Wong Foo remake!
  
• Central Booking has an interview with street bass king, Philly DJ/Producer up, Dev 79. He talks about doing blow off the ass off select members of the fairer sex. Is that enough to get you to check it out?

Steve-O to Kat Von D: "Pull your career out of the fire, Good luck. Game over."

Today, a story about why mediocre tattooist-to-the-stars Kat Von D is a terrible girlfriend/wife and why Steve-O is...well, Steve-O.

Purported anti-semite and recently sober Kat Von D hates only one more thing than people of the Jewish faith: the institute of marriage. According to brain-dead meth-head Steve-o, that is. Celebrity Smack has the "exclusive" though I'll note their source is Steve-O's myspace. An accusatory and long-winded text message exchange follows:

Steve-O To Kat: Were you really saying that you wanted off my list? And why’d you delete Orbi and make Nikki such a big deal?

Changing your e-mail address will only serve to admit guilt and shame of your anti-semetic[sic] accusations. Nobody on Earth thinks Garver is a liar, if you want out of this situation, you have to make good with Garver– for He is the only man that can clear your name. Sueing[sic] won’t help you either– you must prosecute in the court of public opinion, with Garver as your witness… Or…

Let me try to finish “cleaning out my closet”– I travelled[sic] to roughly sixteen countries with Carolla, and got him laid in just about every one of them. He is not a Good person, but, he is not a liar, either. You fucked Carolla (when you were married), isn’t that right, Carolla? People who lie get punished, in mysterious ways…

Kat: steve, just got your texts. I can’t believe you’d say some of that stuff. Nice knowin you.

Steve-O: At least I’m not a liar. Good luck with doing more of that. Liar.

Don’t bother crying to Nikki over the fact that I’m honest. He doesn’t like liars either, and your panties get to easily twisted up in a bitchy, mad-for-no-reason bunch for you to last so much as three weeks with him.

Kat; wrong you. Nikki is a friend. That’s it. Please stop texting me these mean messages.

Steve-O: Sorry for my poor grammar. I had to clean out my closet. Why’d you delete Orbi. Why’d you let your publicist go to the tabloids with “kat dumps steve-o” (only for you to wind up with “steve-o dumped by tattoo artist), why’d you sweep that hate message under the rug for eight months instead of get GOOD press out of SQUASHING IT IF YOU DIDN’T WRITE IT?

Kat: Dude. Enough of this bullshit. My publicist did NOT say anything about our break up. They got that shit from someone on YOUR end. Don’t put that shit on me. I was the one that wanted to keep everything private. And you know that! I’m not gonna take blame for shit I didn’t do. NOW, PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE.

Steve-O: I don’t have a publicist. And nobody on my end would fuck with me like that. My advice is to ask Garver to pull your career out of the fire. He’s the only one who can, and he’s not a liar. Good luck. Game over.

Kat; and ps. My career is not on fire.

Steve-O: Right, it’s not “on fire”, it’s “cooling down” quick…

Kat: STOP TEXTING ME.

Steve-O: Two words. DANNY WAY…

Nowhere in that correspondence did Kat deny that she did, in fact, write that hateful message, and hand it,
herself, to Chris Garver. She cheated on her husband with me, Bam, Carolla, Ville Vallo, my friend, Bryan Gillooly, and God-only-knows who else. And she’s on record lying about alot of things. I don’t care, I’ve moved on now. I’m a happily married Family Man...

Harsh words from the guy who staples his ballbag for a living! I think the worst part of all these accusations is the notion of someone who is even remotely sane would be involved in any way with Steve-O. But good news, besides his "hot wife", he always has his big dick and a rap career to fall back on.

In NYC? Like music?

My current favorite French electro artist, Yelle, is playing at my former place of employment, the Knitting Factory. You should go! Tickets are $15 and the doors open at 7.

UPDATE: You guys work quick! The show is now sold out. Hope you got while the gettin' was good.

Will Ferrell stays classy, goes back to well™

SXSW film fest producer Matt Dentler has some Will Ferrell news for you - and boy is it...predictable! At a recent screening of Ferrell's Semi-Pro at the Alamo Drafthouse, the hairy tall guy had this to say:

Ferrell commented that as he's performed his Anchorman character Ron Burgundy on the tour, he's started to think up possible ideas for a potential sequel to that film.

In the article we also find out Ferrell was originally offered the Butterscotch Stallion role in Wedding Crashers - scandalous!

Pop Pebbles: TVT R.I.P.; Armchair gangsters; Sisters in love; Black-eyed fighters

Because they can't all be gems, we bring you Pop Pebbles, the semi-regular feature where we try to shake the magical gossip nuggets that get stuck in our shoes the past few days.

• Ottoman O.G. Pharrell announced he'll be dropping a furniture line.
• The Black Eyed Peas Taboo is joining the cast of the upcoming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
  
• Super-hot girl-pop throwbacks, the Puppini Sisters covered "Crazy in Love"
• TVT Records is declaring bankruptcy
• But wait! TVT ain't dead well, that's what they say for now, at least.
  

T-Pain aims for Limp Bizkit collaboration; Apocalypse forthcoming

Vocoder usin', Grammy losin' T-Pain, a/k/a the poor man's Akon did a feature on TEN singles last year. With such a prolific year of collaborations, surely he must be running out of people to work with - and he is! In an interview with MTV News, he names Toby Keith and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst as the type of talent he aspires to sing rap - do whatever he does alongside:

another eye-opening artist that T-Pain has his sights set on, he said, is rap-rocker Fred Durst. "Get it on," he said, laughing

What does "get it on" mean in this context? I'm scared to ask. Maybe MTV and T-Pain can elaborate:

According to T-Pain, though, the idea isn't that much of a joke. "Really, to just do a T-Pain/ Limp Bizkit song, that would be awesome for me,"

Well, at least it would be awesome for someone! Thankfully, this does lead to a potential Monsters of Frathouses™ tour, which leads to a potential tour bus crash...

DJ Nick Catchdubs: "My coffee game is so major right now"

Central Booking has a good interview with Brooklyn-resident DJ Nick Catchdubs looking forward to future projects. The Fool's Gold co-owner speaks on how he got his start DJing as well as producing, upcoming fool's gold releases, how his label came to be, and more. [Central Booking]

Alf Dance Revolution

Have you heard of some guy named Soulja Boy? Apparently this young upstart began some kind of a dance fad and accompanying eyeglass fashion. The details aren't really important, it's soooo 2007. Hot in the streets now? The Alf. [Fully Fitted]

Vote in the 11th Annual Mixtape Awards

Nominations for the 11th Annual Mixtape Awards have been announced. Justo award nominees include DJ Drama, DJ Skee, Clinton Sparks, Funkmaster Flex, A-Trak, DJ Khaled, and many more. Established in 1995, the Mixtape Awards "help cultivate the understanding, appreciation, and advancement of the disc jockey". Vote or die!

Creepy headgear lights up going down

Good news has arrived for inept lovers everywhere: Purveyor of questionable-quality sex toys, Pipedream is proud to present "the Oral Sex Headlight". If you aspire to be a world-class carpet muncher, but didn't eat your carrots growing up, this might be the answer for you. Hopefully you don't mind looking like a complete douchebag/telemarketer while you do the deed. We do, however caution you to watch out for the vag miner's greatest risk: the dreaded black mung. [Oral Sex Head Light via Gizmodo]

Alternate universe found, in which the Patriots won the Superbowl

Ever wonder what happens to the merchandise of the team that loses the Superbowl? You know, all that stuff that says City Name Sports Team : Superbowl Champions? Oh, you already knew that all the shirts and hats just go to the third world countries, huh? Well, now you have pictures.

The War Against Rap: Usher victim of conspiracy

Did you know there's an internal conspiracy against former-Broadway star and R&B king Usher? Because there totes is! MTV News has the story, complete with dramatic, paranoid quotes:

"It's internal conspiracy," he said Sunday night at the Grammys. "I don't know what's going on with all these records that have been leaked. It ain't been me, dog."

Sooooo mysterious. Who could it be!? Thanks to the Encylopedia Brown level sleuthery from MTV, we don't have to wonder much longer. The evil masked man reveals himself, just a paragraph later, none other than hit-or-miss Fergie collaborator Polow Da Don.

• "I actually leaked it. I'm the culprit,"
• "When I spoke to Usher, he was like, 'Maaaan, why'd you do it?'"

There's more, but um...yeah.

Hillary: Worst Tennant Ever

Aggressively-named news source, therawstory has details of the Clinton Campaign's stay at a number of locales across the nation. The various spaces which were used as campaign headquarters and dormitories were left "trashed", with "fast food containers all over the place and lots of campaign signs left behind" says talkative landlord, Terry Bennett. But that's not all! Team Hill allegedly owes a whopping five hundred bills to Mr. Bennett, while some other dude from Iowa says he's owed $7,600.

Bennett, who I assume was an uncredited dialogue writer for the Dukes of Hazzard, isn't taking this lying down, either (even though he's since been paid and donated aforementioned cash-money to Obama)! He's told the newspaper! "They have their tail in a vise, and I am holding a gas jet under it,". Watch out, Clinton staffers - Bennett is ready to light your tail ablaze at a moment's notice!

The Raw Story: NH landlord donates late Clinton rent check to Obama campaign