- Look at Drake, muscling up one a group of hip-hop icons
who have accomplished more in their storied career than his hip-pop ass ever
will. Wu Tang Clan have been a combustible lot since their inception and that
propensity for implosion has made them both entertaining and infuriating to
fans and critics over the years, but there is not question that RZA, Ghostface
Killah and Co. still skate lyrical and sonic circles around Drake any time they
step to the mic. Someone should inform Drake about this because he just
disrespected Wu Tang by shelving a remix of one of his tracks because he wasn't
happy with the tone of the guest verses. Drake originally paid tribute to the
Staten Island hip-hop heroes with his track “Nothing Was the Same,” a direct
nod to “Wu-Tang Forever.” In response, Wu Tang delivered a show of respect with
their own remix of the track. Yet when the Wu was finished, Drake looked
disainfully on their efforts and wanted no part of its release. RZA postulated
that he and his bandmates "came too hard for [Drake]" and weren't
"woman-y" enough for him. "He wanted us to talk about
broads," RZA said. "At the time, I wasn’t feeling woman-y – I was
feeling hard as nails. So, I wrote him a hard-as-nail rhyme, and he was talking
about something totally different, so the subject matter didn’t really
mesh." In other words, the Wu was merely being the Wu and Drake
wanted a whiny, poppy R&B effort that they refused to deliver. In spite of
the blatant dis, one member of the Clan wasn’t down on Drake. "I like
Drake, though," Wu Tang member Ghostface Killah said. "I like him
because he pays homage. But at the end of the day, he knows how to rhyme. He's
not weak." Maybe not weak, but certainly not smart……….
- Political correctness didn’t die, it merely hopped a flight
across the Atlantic Ocean. It now resides in Austria, where the cowardly fools
who run an elementary school have elected to kowtow to one loudmouthed mother
rather than stand up for itself. The school has dropped yoga classes for
children after a mother argued that yoga goes against Christian teachings. The
drama began shortly after yoga classes started after a whiny mother came to the
school and complained that even the word "yoga ... had negative
effects." Yes, this fundamentalist nut job is averse to even the letters
y, o, g and a being used together in a word, let alone the inherent evils of
the Downward-Facing Dog. This maternal kook seems to have looked only at the
fact that yoga has its origins in Hinduism and Buddhism while ignoring the
reality that some forms of yoga still have ties to those religions, most yoga
is nothing more than glorified stretching that functions as mental and physical
therapy for the over-stressed masses. All of this unfolded in the southeastern
village of Dechantskirchen, where school inspector Helga Thomann meekly said schools
should not offer anything linked to "esoteric" practices. Yoga
teacher Ingrid Karner and the children are the ones who suffer here. Karner
said she was told to stop classes at the school after a complaint "that
it's not allowed, according to the Bible,” despite the fact that the Good Book
has no verse dealing with donning stretchy clothing and bending one’s body into
contorted poses for the sake of relaxation. School principal Maria Hofer noted
that no parents complained when courses started this year, so the question
becomes why school officials couldn’t muster the kahones to fight off one
wayward parent………
- Memo to all members of the quarterback depth chart for the
University of Florida football team: Keep your head down, don’t commit any type
of criminal assault on another human being and soon enough, you just might be
under center in a starting role for the Gators. It seems like a simple thing to
do to earn a first-team gig, but it’s already proven to be too much to ask
(allegedly) for two of Florida’s current signal callers. The first would be freshman quarterback Treon Harris, who has
been suspended indefinitely while authorities investigate sexual assault
allegations made against him. Florida coach Will Muschamp called the allegation
against Harris a "very serious charge" and said Harris’ status has
not changed since the suspension. According to police, a female student accused
Harris of sexually assaulting her around 3 a.m. Sunday -- hours after he helped
Florida (3-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) rally to beat Tennessee 10-9 in
Knoxville. It’s not a good way to celebrate a win and when your coach is
speaking about a need to "move forward and manage your football team, it
doesn’t sound like you’re going to be suiting up again any time soon.
Ironically, Harris might have been named the starter Monday had he, ya know,
not been under investigation for trying to rape a woman. With Harris out, struggling
fourth-year junior Jeff Driskel will keep his job and he may or may not be
backed up by Skyler Mornhinweg. Why is Mornhinweg’s status uncertain? Probably
because he tried to cave a teammate’s face in over accusations of stolen
cleats. According to campus police, Mornhinweg and teammate Gerald Willis got
into a fight over a pair of missing cleats. Willis apparently couldn’t find his
kicks and grabbed a pair labeled No. 17 that he thought belonged to close
friend and fellow defensive lineman Jordan Sherit. The shoes actually belonged
to Mornhinweg, who changed his number from 17 to 8 this season. Mornhinweg
confronted Willis about the shoes, things escalated quickly and punches were
thrown. Muschamp tried to laugh the matter off and said too much had been made
of it, but any time teammates are going bar room brawl on each other, that’s
not a good thing………..
- Airbnb is officially legit and legal in San Francisco after resolving
the company’s legal issues and adding in a few new responsibilities for people
who use the site. For the lame and uninformed, Airbnb is a peer-to-peer
accommodation service (i.e. couch surfing) and it had been stepping on the line
when it came to the city’s ban on residential rentals of less than 30 days, a
law intended to keep landlords from turning apartments into hotels. San
Francisco’s Board of Supervisors elected to eliminate the ban for residents renting
out their permanent homes, defined as the space they inhabited at least 275
days the previous year. By enacting this change, the city is essentially
limiting the number of legal rentals to one per host, since a person cannot
theoretically occupy more than one structure for 275 days a year. That’s
interesting because one-third of the listings on Airbnb come from people who
offer more than one property. The law also bans serial renting and limits the
number of days someone can rent their entire apartment 90 per year. Folks can
still rent out a spare bedroom without restriction and Airbnb had said it is
agreeable to all of the above limitations. The new law “will give regular
people the right to share the home in which they live and make it fair to share
in San Francisco,” the company said in a statement. There was more good news
for the company, as it will not be asked to police its own network. In the
past, such claims from technology companies such as Napster and Google have
made the same request, but all have been denied. At this point, all Airbnb
needs to do is notify hosts about the new law and collect taxes, something it
had already started doing at the beginning of this month. Hosts, on the other
hand, will be squeezed by The Man for a $50 permit and must keep two years of
records showing they haven’t been using the site too frequently. With this
fight resolved, Airbnb can channel its legal dollars toward a similar fight in
New York City………..
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