When you consider flow, the message, rhyme scheme and commercial appeal this second verse from T.I.’s “Live Your Life” reads as good as it sounds and is my vote for the best rhyme of 2008.

Lil Kim got a little “hardcore” at a recent show in Austria. The pint-sized femcee was probably running through her hit “Magic Stick” when she decided to drop to her knees for full effect.

Wanda Sykes was on The Tonight Show last night and gave the most cogent rebuttal to the bailout of any public figure to date: the Bush Administration wants poor people to close their eyes and give rich people $700 billion to squander so they can keep their Olympic-sized swimming pools. Only she says it funnier, obviously. Wanda Sykes for Treasury Secretary!

Mo'Nique: Big 'Push' Help Tell Of Her Own Incest.
In the October issue of 'Essence,' the Baltimore native reveals that she was sexually abused by her brother at the tender age of seven.

"I was molested by my older brother," she tells writer Audrey Edwards during one of her most candid interviews ever. "And even when I confronted him and told my parents, he said I was lying, and nothing was really done."

Stop the presses! Hip-hop star Kanye West was arrested at Los Angeles Airport this morning, the Associated Press is reporting. West was arrested on suspicion of vandalism and battery, after an altercation with the paparazzi allegedly resulted in more than $10,000 in broken camera equipment. West's manager was also arrested.