Following the lead of fellow target Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh responded to his being singled out for criticism in Jay-Z’s new single “Off That” with a riposte of his own… that somehow turned into a rant about President Barack Obama being a bad thing for American males’ most precious bits. More »
Jay’s dis of Bill O’Reilly on his new single “Off That,” as predicted from the moment it first dropped, garnered a free plug for Blueprint 3 on last night’s O’Reilly Factor. Never let it be said that Jay’s desire for maximum bloggability doesn’t extend to the political end of the ‘sphere! [YouTube via Rap Radar] More »
But don’t worry: The lover of falafel and “doing… More »
On the heels of the Fox News protest he led outside the NewsCorp Building and his album hitting No. 1, Nas stopped by the Colbert Report to chat with Stephen about why he was in a flame war with Fox and Bill O’Reilly in particular, the scrapped title of his album, and how the news media is somehow more sensationalist than ever before. Video of him performing his Fox News dis “Sly Fox” after the jump.
Nas issues a rebuttal to his Fox News antagonists. [Nah Right] More »
MTV has published further excerpts from the interview where Nas aired his feelings on his newfound nemesis Bill O’Reilly. Remember when I said the newly self-described “American psycho” was acting “levelheaded” about O’Reilly’s attempt to demonize his performance at the Virginia Tech memorial concert and that Nas, unlike O’Reilly, wasn’t interested in stirring up pointless controversy? Well, uh, yeah:
MTV sat down with Mr. Jones to talk Big Bill and the muck he tried to rake when it was announced that Nas would be performing at today’s concert for the victims of Virginia Tech. And once again, a rapper proves to be more levelheaded and less interested in stirring up pointless controversy than TV’s most hateable moral crusading douchebag. Well, except for the part where Nas calls O’Reilly a racist:
Nah Right has further shenanigans from Biill O’Reilly’s week-long smear campaign against Nasir Jones; O’Reilly has appointed himself guardian angel in charge of warning America about Nasty Nas’ scheduled performance at a Virginia Tech memorial concert. You should only watch if there are no sharp implements nearby.
Russell Simmons appeared on The O’Reilly Factor last night (above) to promote his new book, Do You! (we don’t know why he gave it such a terrible title–do you?). Not surprisingly, most of the discussion was about Simmons’ proposal to ban those three words from radio, and about Cam’ron’s 60 Minutes appearance. It’s nowhere near as hot-headedly crazy as you’d expect, though O’Reilly does have some threatening words regarding Cam’ron: “He was in [the studio], if he comes in here again, I’ll wise him up.”
Speaking of Cam, he’s hired a publicity firm to help him deal with the public fall-out from his anti-snitching statements, and released a statement today apologizing for his comments: