The Daily Roundup for Sept 13

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BET Announces The 6th Annual Hip Hop Award Nominees, Lil' Wayne Leads Pack With 18 Nods

This year, the 6th annual BET Hip Hop Awards will air on October 11 at 8 p.m. EST from the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta. And for the 3rd year in a row, comedian Mike Epps will host.
While Lil' Wayne leads the pack with 18 nominations, Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa tied for second place with nine nominations, while Rick Ross got eight nominations.

The nominees were announced on on "106 & Park" by Busta Rhymes, Big K.R.I.T., Mike Epps and Meek Mill (shown below) who joined hosts Terrence and Rocsi.

The Following is the Full List of BET HIP HOP AWARDS ’11 Nominees and Categories:

Best Hip Hop Video
Big Sean f/ Chris Brown – My Last
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now
DJ Khaled f/ Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – I'm On One
Eminem f/ Rihanna – Love The Way You Lie
Kanye West f/ Rihanna – All Of The Lights

Reese’s Perfect Combo Award (Best Collab)
Ace Hood f/ Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – Hustle Hard (Remix)
Big K.R.I.T. f/ Ludacris & Bun B – Country Sh*t (Remix)
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now
DJ Khaled f/ Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – I’m On One
Lupe Fiasco f/ Trey Songz – Out Of My Head

Best Live Performer
Busta Rhymes
Cee-Lo Green
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Kanye West

Lyricist of the Year
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Nicki Minaj
Rick Ross
Kanye West

Video Director of the Year
Gil Green
Anthony Mandler
Chris Robinson
Kanye West
Hype Williams

Producer of the Year
J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League
Kane Beatz

Lex Luger
No I.D.
Kanye West, Emile, Jeff Bhasker & Mike Dean

MVP of the Year
Lil Wayne
Nicki Minaj
Rick Ross
Kanye West
Wiz Khalifa

Track of the Year
6 Foot 7 Foot – Produced by Bangladesh (Lil Wayne f/ Cory Gunz)
Black and Yellow – Produced by Stargate (Wiz Khalifa)
I'm On One – Produced by T-Minus (DJ Khaled f/ Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne)
Look At Me Now – Produced by Diplo & Afrojack (Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne &
Busta Rhymes)
My Last – Produced by Lex Luger (Big Sean f/ Chris Brown)

CD of the Year
Big Sean – Finally Famous
Lupe Fiasco – LASERS
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers

DJ of the Year
DJ Drama
DJ Enuff
DJ Envy
DJ Khaled
DJ Prostyle

Rookie of the Year
Big K.R.I.T.
Big Sean
Frank Ocean
Diggy Simmons
Tyler the Creator
Wiz Khalifa

Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip Hop Style)
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Nicki Minaj
Kanye West
Wiz Khalifa

Best Hip Hop Online Site
All Hip Hop.com
Bossip.com
Nah Right.com
Rap Radar.com
World Star Hip Hop.com

Best Club Banger
Ace Hood – Hustle Hard (Produced by Lex Luger)
DJ Khaled f/ Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – I'm On One (Produced by T-Minus)
Lil Wayne f/ Cory Gunz – 6 foot 7 foot (Produced by Bangladesh)
Waka Flocka Flame – No Hands (Produced by Lex Luger)
Wiz Khalifa – Black And Yellow (Produced by Stargate)
YC Worldwide f/ Future – Racks (Produced by Sonny Digital)

Best Mixtape
Big K.R.I.T. – Return Of 4Eva
B.o.B – No Genre
J. Cole – Friday Night Lights
Kendrick Lamar – Section .80
Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra

Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse
Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now (Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes)
Lil Wayne – Motivation (Kelly Rowland f/ Lil Wayne)
Nicki Minaj – Monster (Kanye West f/ Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver)
Wiz Khalifa – Bright Lights, Bigger City (Cee-Lo Green f/ Wiz Khalifa)
Wiz Khalifa – Till I'm Gone (Tinie Tempah f/ Wiz Khalifa)

Hustler of the Year
Diddy
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Rick Ross
Kanye West

Verizon People’s Champ Award (Viewers’ Choice)
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now
Lil Wayne f/ Cory Gunz – 6 Foot 7 Foot
Nicki Minaj f/ Drake – Moment 4 Life
Kanye West f/ Rihanna – All of The Lights

Who are your picks??

CAT FIGHT 2.0…MEOW! Kelis Calls Katy Perry Crap

Kelis is not a fan of Katy Perry's brand of pop music and is not afraid to say it.

R&B singer Kelis is not a fan of "California Gurls" hitmaker Katy Perry.
According to Britain's Daily Star newspaper she said, "Katy Perry is crap. It's just poor pop. Her name might be on her stuff but that doesn't mean it's any good."….OUCH!
Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera recently ended Perry's record-breaking run at the top of the U.S. pop chart.
Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)," which became the fifth single from her "Teenage Dream" album to reach number one on the Hot 100, drops to five after spending two weeks on top.

GAY FRIENDLY OVERLOAD???? The Game Calls 50 Cent Gay

The Game recently opened up about his views on the homosexual community in an interview with VLADTV. News source TMZ caught wind of the interview and posted an article titled ‘The Game: Closeted Gays Spread Aids’. Apparently The Game wasn’t too happy about the title of the post and fired back at TMZ on twitter. While making his point to TMZ though, he dropped a name: 50 Cent. In his interview with VLADTV, he never said any specific names but did say that there were some gay rappers in the industry. Interesting that he took this moment to drop 50′s name. I’m guessing The Game doesn’t care that he dropped 50′s name either because he still hasn’t deleted the tweets and he said it hours ago. Check the tweets out for yourself!

Do you think 50 Cent will fire back to what The Game said? 50 is known for ending careers. Do you think The Game’s statement about 50 is even true?

SAY WHAT???? Slim Thug is Celebrating His Birthday Send Money

Slim Thug asked all his Twitter followers to send him $5 for his birthday using his paypal account...

Can you believe this ish?????

Cooler than a DeLorean: Nike releases self-lacing Back To The Future sneakers

Nike is going back to the future.
The company said Thursday that it has created a limited-edition shoe based on the model audiences saw in the 1989 movie Back To The Future II.
Sneaker and movie fans have urged the company for years to create the self lacing shoe, a cult classic worn by actor Michael J Fox during the 80's movie.

It will auction them on eBay and donate proceeds to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Fox famously played Marty McFly in the Back To The Future time-travel trilogy, where he wore the glowing sneakers that laced themselves during a visit to the year 2015.

Rosie O’Donnell blames her rage issues on ‘zero estrogen’

Rosie O’Donnell is the co-cover girl on Oprah’s O Magazine this month (because Oprah never lets anyone get the cover unless she standing right next to them as they lick her ass). Rosie is attempting to remake her image after seeming so pissed off at the world when she stood her ground against View co-hostess Elisabeth Hasselbeck, quit that job and then later mildly trashed her then-employer, Barbara Walters. (Who deserved it, but still.) She’s got a new show on the OWN network and Oprah has to present Rosie as reformed and back to her old ’90s koosh-throwing self. I think that ship has sailed, but admittedly I haven’t listened to Rosie on satellite radio lately. Many of you have commented that she’s got a great show despite the dumb sh*t she often says.
So here’s how Rosie explains away her breakup with her longterm girlfriend, and her anger issues. She tends to place blame on external factors instead of taking personal responsibility, but it sounds like she understands that she needs to change her image.
Rosie O’Donnell opens up to Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine about her split with Kelli Carpenter, how she calmed her rage, why she takes to being a mother-of-four, what led her to the OWN network and more in an in-depth Q&A between the talk show legends.
In the interview, O’Donnell opens up about her 2007 split from ex Kelli Carpenter, calling it “humbling” and “humiliating.”

“In the O’Donnell family, no one had ever been divorced,” the Exit To Eden star explained.
O’Donnell told a story about their conflicting lifestyles that ultimately led to their split.
“She wanted to play tennis at the country club, and I don’t do country clubs. I tried,” O’Donnell said. “They made an exception for a gay family, and we joined. It was a big thing: ‘They let in a gay family – whoo!’

“So I show up to play with her, and somebody comes out and says, ‘You can’t play unless you have tennis whites.’”O’Donnell told Winfrey that receiving estrogen treatments has helped her stop seeing red all the time.
“I had, like, zero estrogen. And since I got some, I’ve been able to function more normally,” O’Donnell said. “I’ve stopped being so angry. You know, I think I had a lot more rage than I was aware of.
“But I’ve gotten back access to my other feelings. I’m not cut off from my emotions anymore.”
O’Donnell held little back in discussing her four children, admitting that she often connects better with the young’uns than she does adults.
“The truth is, I’m a little socially awkward — with adults, I still need Relationship 101. But I was always comfortable around kids and always wanted a family of my own.

“I would die for any of my children, and, more importantly, I would live for any of them.”
O’Donnell returns to the air with the debut of The Rosie Show on OWN next month; Winfrey gave her prize acquisition huge words of praise, saying that “in 25 years of doing my show, only one competitor ever seriously challenged me in the ratings: Rosie O’Donnell.
“From the day Rosie took her place among the crowded field of talk show hosts, I knew she had the ‘It’ thing,” Winfrey said.
O’Donnell returned the praise, admitting she passed on a network deal to hitch her wagon onto Oprah’s brand.
“I was actually on the verge of signing a new deal with NBC, and — this probably sounds kiss-assy, but it’s true — just before I was about to sign, I remember saying to my agent, ‘Doesn’t Oprah have her own channel? Can we call there?’
“If I was going back to entertaining, I wanted to work with you,” O’Donnell said.

[From Radar Online]
I find it very hard to believe that Rosie was on the verge of signing a deal with NBC. She had a live variety show on NBC in the fall of 2008 that was absolutely unfunny, awful, and completely tanked in the ratings. Oprah kind of says it all when she explains that she’s never had competition from any other talk show hostess. Now she’s Rosie’s boss, and I’m sure she’s relishing that.
As for the estrogen stuff causing mood problems, I’ve heard that before. It must be really tough to go through menopause. US Weekly has some more quotes from the interview in which Rosie says that hormone shots changed her life.

There’s a promo clip for Rosie’s new shown on the OWN website. It’s kind of disjointed and annoying.
Oh and the cover is just so fug. Rosie is holding a stage curtain over her front, but it looks like she’s lifting up her dress to reveal fishnets and gold combat boots with her toes pointing inward. It’s awful and they made her all clownish while Oprah got to look glam. Typical.

Is Jay-Z's Realty Company Harassing Renters Out Of Condos?

This is a strange Jay-Z news.
According to FoxsNews.com, current and former tenants of a luxury building in Philadelphia co-owned by Jay-Z are being harassed in order to get residents to vacate the premises.
"I'm scared of Jay-Z," a tenant told Fox News. "I've endured endless harassment from his team of lawyers, and I can't take it anymore. I don't know when this drama is going to end."
Fox News reports:

The 24-unit condominium complex was purchased by SCC North American Realty, LLC, in January of 2009. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, SCC North American Realty, LLC, is partially owned by Shawn Carter, otherwise known as Jay-Z.
"The whole thing has been so unsettling,” former tenant Liza Tedeschi tells FoxNews.com exclusively. “I've been in tears over this.”
Tedeschi claims Jay-Z's legal team has been trying to evict tenants at his four-year-old building.
“They filed a lawsuit against me knowing that I had paid the rent. The lawyer admitted it to me, yet they still filed the lawsuit against me,” says Tedeschi.

“It's total and utter harassment. They're filing frivolous lawsuits. They gave my personal cell phone number out to what seems like every realtor in town to show my apartment. I've gotten phone calls at 9 p.m. on a Friday night. They're on a coordinated crusade of harassment–everyone who's left in the building is being sued."
It's a good thing Jay-Z didn't send Memphis Bleek to the building to handle business. Those tenants would really be scared then.
Bleek has to earn his keep somehow.
Read the full story HERE!

FASHION WEEK KICKOFF: Selita, Amar'e & More Celebrate MISSONI For TARGET

Celebs hit up a Missoni for Target event. I've got pics of the uber cute items
Model Selita Ebanks rocked a multicolored Missoni for Target dress to pop up on the carpet for the event:

Super cute easy dress.

Designer in training, NY Knick Amar'e Stoudamire, hit up the event to check out what was being debuted in stores.

And Amar'e's designer partner Rachel Roy was there as well:

You can always count on this chick for something out of the box and the barely pulle doff look. Looks like pajamas with a fur vest thrown over it.

And boho chic lover Joy Bryant hit up the event:

Wanna get a glimpse of all the cute Missoni items set to hit a Target (at a really good price) near you:

Loves!

Nicki Minaj's Multi-Stop Fashion Night Out and DRAMATIC ENDING!

Fully immersing herself in the Fashion's Night Out festivities, Nicki Minaj had quite the busy evening as she trekked about New York City
The "Pink Friday" hitmaker kicked things off as the Yves St. Laurent store's guest of honor, as she tweeted of the stop, "Barbz, the President of YSL said we made history for the most pandemonium ever. *kisses the barbz*"

Proceeding forth with her multi-stop agenda, Miss Minaj kept her fans up to date on her doings by posting a message reading, "Believe it or not, we've driven over 20 blocks and a couple ken barbz r still trailing us. Lmaooo. If this ni€€a bang my window 1 more time! Next Stop : Giuseppe ;)"
Once arrived at her destination, the 28-year-old joined alongside store namesake Giuseppe Zanotti Boutique while holding a pair of neon green and black kicks in-hand.

Closing things out at Versace, But while at Versace Leave it to Nicki Minaj and her Barbz & Kenz to turn a typically only slightly rambunctious but with a touch of snob appeal type event into an all-out mob scene. When Drake hit the 1's and 2's at the Versace boutique on NY's 5th Avenue to help celebrate Fashion's Night Out, Nicki Minaj and Jay-Z stopped by to visit. And so did stacks on stacks of fans--causing a police controlled mob scene outside the store.

Most of the hundreds of fans outside never even got a whiff of inside the Versace store tonight. But the crowds were so large and spilling over into the streets, and the crowds inside were busting at the seams, we hear the police had to shut it down.

Drake make a guest appearance as a celeb DJ for tonight's event. And his Young Money labelmate Nicki stopped by. And so do Mr. Shawn Carter. Apparently that was all just too much star power for the fans to handle, because Nicki was whisked out of the store and on to the after parties once police started shutting down the hoopla.Folks were all a-twitter about the madness going on.

Nicki tweeted upon the end of her style-strong night on the town, "Ok barbz, we had a blast tonite. Love u always & 4ever! Muah! ••• "

The real reason why TIP is back in Jail till the end of the month!

It appears that T.I. getting put back into jail was not because of his tricked out bus, as his lawyers claimed, but because prison officials found out that his manager and a VH1 producer on board the bus to talk business! According to Bureau of Prisons documents obtained by CNN,

“such people were not authorized to travel with him in the conditions of his furlough. [T.I.] further indicated he was discussing a new reality series and a book with those individuals.”
Because T.I. broke the rules of his probation, in which he was to stay in a halfway house until the last day of his sentence on September 29, he will stay in a federal penitentiary until that date. Lawyer Steve Sadow still say that the feds are wrong and that “no business was conducted on the bus,” and goes on to say that even those accusations aren’t a violation,
“The provision itself speaks in terms of conducting a business or conducting or directing an investment transaction. The purpose of that provision is not so that people can’t talk about their business, it’s so that you don’t run a business while you’re in the Bureau of Prisons.”

This much we know for sure: T.I. will be getting out of the big house by the end of the month.
As for why exactly he wound up back behind bars following what was supposed to be an early release—that still seems to be a bone of contention between the feds, who claim his VH1 reality show was the reason, and the rapper’s lawyers, who are crying foul.
Furthermore, the lawyer says that VH1 and T.I. had long signed a deal back in July and that there was no need to do business on the bus.
T.I.’s case will go before the disciplinary hearing officer and I’ll have news on who the officer thinks is right or wrong. According to Sadow,
“T.I. is doing all right. He believes he’s been singled out in this instance for his celebrity status and would just like the opportunity to return to the halfway house and complete his sentence.”

Your fans will be waiting on you to get out….Hopefully.

Ai Corrida! Jennifer Lopez & Enrique Inglesias Record Duet!

Producer DJ Frank E has announced on Twitter that a duet with Enrique Inglesias and J Lo will be released to the public very soon. He said:
“New Enrique and J Lo coming soon!!…It’s true… New original duet.”
The producer has also worked with Pitbull, Kanye West and Justin Timberlake in the past.

Slain Mississippi Man's Male Partner CANNOT Join Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against White Teens

More developments in the horrific case of James Craig Anderson, the Black Mississippi man killed in an alleged racially motivated hit-and-run murder.

Anderson's family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Tuesday against the group of white teenagers that police say is responsible. Anderson had a long-term male partner of almost two decades and they were raising a daughter. Anderson's long-term partner cannot join the legal action, reports the New York Times.
The lawsuit, filed in Hinds County Circuit Court in Jackson, depicts the death of James C. Anderson as a racially motivated attack and outlines an evening of drinking that culminated with a caravan of teenagers from a largely white suburban county driving 16 miles to Jackson intent on harassing African-Americans.

"We want to send a message to people who want to use race as a reason to target someone," said Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who joined Winston Thompson III, the family’s lawyer, in filing the suit. "It appears this group went out to target a black person."
The suit did not specify an amount for damages, but it included accusations of negligence as a way to tap into the homeowner’s insurance policies of some of the families of the young people involved, Mr. Dees said.
The lawsuit makes public for the first time the names of all seven people who had piled into the two vehicles that night, charging that while some were directly responsible for assaulting and killing Mr. Anderson, others were negligent because they acted as lookouts and did not try to help Mr. Anderson.
James Bradfield, Mr. Anderson’s partner of 17 years, is not a plaintiff. Under Mississippi law, same-sex partners have no claim in civil actions like this, Mr. Dees said. There was no indication that Mr. Anderson’s sexual orientation was a factor in the crime.

The 48-year-old auto plant worker died on the morning of June 26 in a motel parking lot. Surveillance video shows two carloads of teenagers driving into the parking lot. Several approached Anderson, who was beaten and robbed. The video shows Anderson being struck by a truck. Witnesses report one teenager yelled "white power" and the driver of the pickup shouted the n-word.
Two of the seven defendants in the suit have been charged. Nineteen-year-old Daryl Dedmon, who was driving the pickup, faces capital murder charges and is being held without bond. The driver of the second car was charged with assault and has been released on bond. Prosecutors say they will try to charge the other teens before a grand jury later this month. The FBI is also involved in the case.

The slain man's partner of almost two decades is forced to sit on the sidelines—courtesy of the Defense of Marriage Act and the lack of statewide protections for LGBTs and same-sex couples in Mississippi. Yet another example of Mississippi justice.

So, It takes a Baby to sell a CD!

Sales for '4' jump after Beyonce announced her pregnancy on the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards...
From Billboard,
Obvious gainer thanks to the VMA show is Beyonce, who announced she was pregnant during her performance of "Love On Top." Her "4" album returns to the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with 39,000 (jumping 12-7; up 87%) and "Love" debuts at No. 10 on Digital Songs with 113,000 (up 803%). This marks the first time the "4" album has posted a weekly sales increase since its arrival.

Designer John Galliano has been convicted of hurling anti-Semetic slurs in Paris.

A court in Paris convicted John Galliano of anti-Semitic slurs, but he will not serve jail time. He was issued a suspended €4,000 fine (meaning he'll have to pay if he screws up again) for slinging anti-Semitic insults at a couple in a Paris café and was ordered to pay the two plaintiffs a symbolic €1. He was also issued a suspended €2,000 fine for a separate incident in October of 2010, which is not the one captured so shockingly in a video filmed in December of last year.

Galliano, who was not in court to hear his sentence, faced a maximum of six months in jail plus a €22,500 (about $31,000) fine. At his June trial, the prosecutor asked judges for a guilty sentence with no jail time and a €10,000 (about $14,000) fine. Plaintiff Geraldine Bloch sought a single euro and "expression of regret" from Galliano, while her significant other, Philippe Virgitti, also a plaintiff, wanted compensation for "moral damage."
With Fashion Week starting today, expect the mood in the tents to be light. Galliano is now free to take a job at another label, if he's asked. Surely, with such expressions of support from the industry's most influential people, and that pretty new Vogue spread he appeared in, someone is interested.

Update: Galliano's lawyer Aurélien Hamelle spoke to the BBC about the verdict. Noting that his client got no jail time and has to pay no fines, he said, "There is no penalty so to speak which is a very strong sign by the courts, because it shows the court took into account his sincere apology, the fact that Mr. Galliano undertook treatment for his addiction."
At the June trial, Galliano blamed his outbursts on addictions to alcohol and prescription drugs. Hamelle added, "Mr Galliano is relieved. Relieved that these eight months are behind him. He is looking forward to a future with understanding and forgiveness, hopefully, and to put all of this behind him."

All things Kelly!
On The Set Of Kelly Rowland’s ‘Lay It On Me’ Featuring Big Sean

Kelly Rowland is at it again, working with director Sarah Chatfield on two new singles, “Lay It On Me”and “Down For Whatever.” Sarah Chatfield worked with Kelly on “Motivation” and it seems she liked Chatfield’s work. Rap-Up.com was able to get us some photos from the video shoot for “Lay It On Me” and it includes elephants and Kelly Rowland in catsuits. Rowland gets on the back of her male dancers in one scene, showing her sexual prowess and holds a foil cape in another scene.

“Down For Whatever” will be her international track…..

Also Kelly Rowland COVERS The Fall Issue Of "RUNWAY" Magazine, Talks AGAIN About Growing Up With Skin Color Issues

Here I Am singer Kelly Rowland is setting it off for New York's fashion week by covering the fall issue of RUNWAY Magazine. See the cover photo, behind the scenes video, and hear what Kelly has to say about being a brown-skinned girl inside.....
In her 8-page spread shot by Derek Blanks for RUNWAY Magazine's fall issue, hitting newsstands on September 9, Kelly Rowland gets very candid about what it felt like being a dark-skinned girl surrounding by a sea of white students.

She tells the mag,
"I went to a predominantly white school and I was the only black girl. I can remember thinking, 'I don't want to be as dark as I am - I want to be a little fairer.' I didn't want to be me. Tina [Beyonce's mother] sat me in front of the mirror and said, 'Girl, look at how pretty you are.' She made me feel comfortable in my own skin,”

She's mentioned this before in interviews. It's a plight many brown-skinned girls had growing up, and some still do....

It's official! Ben & Jerry's confirms Schweddy Balls ice cream is coming to a store near you

As Molly Shannon said on Saturday Night Live, 'Christmas is a time for traditional foods and bite-sized treats' and in the much-loved 'Schweddy Balls' skit, Alec Baldwin presents his famous dessert.
And now the rumours are true, as Ben & Jerry's announced they're releasing a 'Schweddy Balls' ice cream flavour full in time for the holidays.
The ice cream will have a hint of rum and be overflowing with spherical treats - fudge covered rum balls and milk chocolate malt balls.
Baldwin had this to say via a press release: 'For a long time, I thought that "Here Lies Pete Schweddy" would end up on my tombstone. Now, thanks to Ben & Jerry's, the goodness of the Schweddy family recipe won't go with me to the great beyond. It is immortalized here, right now, and it's an ice cream. Ben & Jerry's and Schweddy. Two great names in American dessert, together at last.'

'Ben & Jerry's is coming out with a Schweddy Balls ice cream for Christmas this year'.
The Vermont-based company has previously released limited edition flavours with pop culture tie-ins, including One Sweet Whirled with the Dave Matthews Band and, currently, Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream.
Americone Dream consists of vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone pieces and caramel.
Announcing the new flavour on February 14, 2007, Ben & Jerry's called it: 'The sweet taste of liberty in your mouth'.
These offerings join the company's perennial favourites like Chunky Monkey, Half Baked and Chocolate Fudge Brownie.
Ben & Jerry's has long offered Cherry Garcia, honouring the late Grateful Dead singer Jerry Garcia, as well as Phish Food, named after the band.
A Wavy Gravy flavour honoured the 60s era clown of the same name, and featured caramel and cashew/Brazil nut ice cream with a hazelnut-fudge swirl and roasted almonds.
The company renamed a flavour Yes Pecan in honour of Barack Obama's 2008 victory, and donated all proceeds to the Common Cause Education Fund.
The company has also offered flavours unique to specific countries, such as Black and Tan in Ireland, a cream stout ice cream swirled with chocolate.

CLEVER FLAVOURS
Other Ben & Jerry's flavours with pop culture tie-ins include:
Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream (funny man)

One Sweet Whirled (Dave Matthews Band)
Phish Food (Phish)
Cherry Garcia (Jerry Garcia)
Wavy Gravy (famous clown)
Yes Pecan (Barack Obama)
Bonnaroo Buzz (music festival)
Hannah Teter's Maple Blondie (snowboarder)
Willie Nelson's Country Peach Cobbler (country star)

Ben & Jerry's was founded in Vermont by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in 1978 and is known for their annual 'free cone day', support of liberal causes and positive working environment.

The Schweddy Balls SNL skit is part of the 'Delish Dish' series, in which cast mates Shannon and Gasteyer played monotone-talking NPR anchors, who repeatedly said 'neat' and 'good times' while covering various culinary misadventures.
Alec Baldwin appeared as a guest on their faux program, named Pete Schweddy, the owner of a 'holiday bakery with a very, very clever name, Season’s Eatings'.
Ms Shannon, in character, told Mr Baldwin that she loved his store name, and that 'Christmas is a time for traditional foods and bite-sized treats'.

Mr Baldwin said: 'There are lots of great treats this year. Zucchini bread, fruit cake, but the thing I most like to get out this time of year are my balls'.
A series of double entendre jokes followed, including the words 'glistening' and 'misshapen'.
Mr Baldwin said, 'No one can resist my Schweddy balls'.
Ms Gasteyer also joked, 'I like to leave Santa some tap water and rice. If Santa is anything like me, Christmas foods really wreak havoc on the digestive system'.
Ms Shannon said: 'I can’t ever leave food out in my apartment because I have an excessive rat problem'.

LeBron Finally Shaves His Head?

Bald is beautiful T...
Last summer was the decision, and this year has been the Summer of LeBron’s hairline…The Self Proclaimed King has been the brunt of many hairline jokes the past few months…Has all the hate towards his hairline forced the King to shave his Crown? We just received this picture of what appears to be a bald dome…I can’t really tell if Bron’s hairline is that far back, or did he finally cave and shave.

AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
“What A Deal”

4 for $10!!! That outrageous! Oh, and if you look closely, I think there might be a lady sitting there with her titties flopped out.

MAY YOU AND YOURS HAVE A GREAT DAY!!
EFREM