Those of you joining us from outside of NY have probably heard about the massive transit strike we’re enduring at the moment. 7 million daily commuters were left stranded last night after negotiations between the MTA and the TWU union broke down without an agreement.

Although I agree with the union members that they probably deserve more money and a better contract, I think they’re wildin’ out with their demands for 8% increases each year for the next 3 years. The city is gonna fine their asses so much money per day while they’re out, it’s gonna cancel out whatever increase they eventually get, if they get any.

My job says we have to use sick and vacation days to cover any days we’re out, but I’m not sure if my department is gonna actually enforce that. I stayed home today because I can do that, but as the New Negro pointed out, that’s not exactly an option for everybody. Hopefully this can be resolved quickly, but last I heard the MTA is refusing to negotiate further until the workers return to work. If that’s the case, this could take a while.

Anybody else from NY (or elsewhere) got any strike stories? Opinions?

As Fresh pointed out yesterday, Dame has a certain short-yellow-bus look about him lately.   

Watch video of the Foxy Brown press conference here.

New Saigon interview at HipHopGame. You know that guy always has something interesting to say. There are also a couple of his new tracks in the Audio section.

Em’s music used to torture prisoners in Afghanistan. I wonder if the Pentagon has heard FACK yet…that song should be labelled as a deadly weapon.

Chronicles of Narnia Rap from SNL. I haven’t watched it yet, but I understand it’s classic.  

Remeber that guy Aztek that had that freestyle with Hovie over the summer and then fell off the face of the earth? Prohiphop asks what the hell ever happened to him. Good question.  

Time Magazine names Kanye one of their 23 People Who Mattered this year along with his good friends President Bush and VP Cheney.

New Game ft. Jadakiss and Fabolous   – These Streets I don’t know, it kinda sounds like a blend to me. 

All you aspiring M.C.’s out there can now hit up letsbeef.com to battle other e-rappers from across the globe.  (via SOHH)

Prodigy, aka Lil Ballerina ‘P, recently sat down with SOHH and continued to defend his title as raps biggest lil’ dun dun.  Besides calling Nas ‘Milkshake’ again, he reiterated that him and Hav can work with whoever they want in the industry….as long as daddy says it’s ok. Here are some choice quotes:

"I got beef with everybody that don’t like me. I don’t give a fuck about none of those niggas out there. Anybody that got beef with 50 Cent got beef with me. That’s the King… Mobb Deep-G-Unit!" 

"Hav can shop beats to whoever he wants to, we could still do ads for [clothing company] Southpole, it just doesn’t make sense. It’s about what is going to make the most money. Hav works hard for those beats. Should he give a beat to someone that isn’t going to do nothing with it or someone like Eminem or Dr. Dre for The Detox? Niggas come around with the right check they can get a Hav beat. Matter [of] fact, the right check might get you a verse from P."

"There are nine million more people out there, we want those Eminem sales. We know about the demographics: 80% of hip hop audience is white, 6% is black. Mobb Deep been had the hood, we got the hood. It’s the white consumer that we haven’t had. We had them a little bit, but we want that audience Eminem got, 50 got, Dr. Dre got."

I almost fell out of my chair when I read that part where he said, for the right check, you can get a P verse. Negro please, you stopped spitting fire 2 albums ago. And what are these guys smoking talking about doing ‘Em and 50 numbers? Somebody should pull this guy aside and explain to him that you have to have some kind of mainstream appeal to put up numbers with the big boys. Right now, P you need to either step your flow back up to somewhere reasonably listenable, or take some voice lessons so you can hit them high notes with your boss. Otherwise, I’m sorry, but I just don’t see middle America running out to buy Mobb Deep albums by the truckload.

Previously on Nah Right:

Lil’ Ballerina P 

Prodigy Loves 50 Cent 

Buried at the bottom of MTV’s weekly Mixtape Monday report today is the following:

DMX is currently cooling his heels at New York’s Rikers Island, serving out a 70-day jail sentence. When X gets out, he’ll be heading to a new home. After barking loudly on Def Jam since the late 1990s, he’s called it a day and left the label. DMX has signed a deal with the Sony Music Group. You may recall that X was signed to Columbia (now part of Sony Music) in the early ’90s but never released material.  

I wonder what that’s about. You may remember X’s comments earlier this year when asked his feelings about Jay’s position as head of Def Jam:

"I don’t have a boss. I don’t have a boss. I honestly have to say, that whoever or whatever entity gave him that position, it’s putting a strain on our relationship. We have a good relationship. It’s a mutual respect. We came up together. We done had battles and got over it. We did songs together! We rocked together!"

I can honestly say that I’ve never heard the song ‘My Humps’ by the Black Eyed Peas in my life. At least I don’t think I have. It may have been on in a bar or somewhere I’ve been and I didn’t notice, but who knows. My Humps has been said to "hurt the mind" and be "the musical equivalent to a perfect storm", and is widely believed to be to worst song of the year, comparable only to the disaster that is ‘Laffy Taffy’ by D4L.

Since I haven’t heard it and have no intention of infecting my laptop with wackjuice, I can’t personally vouch for it’s wackness. I have, however, heard Eminem’s FACK. I even posted it here when it leaked last month. I’m gonna ride with FACK as worst song of the year. It recently made Pitchfork Media’s 15 Worst Releases of ’05 and I think they summed it up well:

Eminem: "FACK"
For those that think this list is pussing out by not assigning a specific rank to each track, I’ll give this the #1. Holy god. That there was a worse track than "My Humps" this year is the kind of thing that gets saved for history books. I actually had to pause it in the middle to get my bearings. Unfortunately, nothing I could possibly say about "FACK" would drive home my point like a lyric sample. Are you ready? Are you sure? Okay, careful now: "Ow I’m so fuckin’ hot/ And you’re so fuckin’ hot/ Oh my god/ I wanna fackin’ fack/ No, not fuck, I said fack/ F-a-c-k, f-a-c-k, fack, fack fack fackin’ freak me!/ Ohh yeah, girl, see baby, they call me Mr. Freaky/ Let’s call your sister, 3-way have some 3-some me so horny!/ And you’re such a fuckin’ babe I wanna go down on you, fuck, you shave!/ Ohh goddamn, here I go again!/ I’m gonna come, I am!" And finally, the chorus: "Owwww owwww owwwww (oh goddamn!)/ I’m gonna fuckin’ come! (Oh shit!)/ Fuuck fuck fuyyuccck (fuck, I am!)/ I am, I’m going to come (I’m coming!)." Soooo…yeah.

A new website, ChappelleTheory.com, is claiming to tell the true story of the rise and fall of the Dave Chappelle Show and the real reason why we won’t be seeing a full 3rd season. The site’s homepage bears a message from the "retired PR exec" who tells the story, and assures visitors that this is the truth, with no "embellishments or exaggerations."

What follows is a bizarre conspiracy theory alleging that a group of "dark crusaders" made up of prominent black celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Louis Farrakhan, and Al Sharpton; have been secretly conspiring to ruin Dave Chappelle and remove his show from the air. Some of the incredible allegations include:

• Dave received a voodoo doll of himself dressed up like the crackhead character from his show, Clayton Bigsby Tyrone Biggums, riddled with pins and with a noose around his its neck. Along with the doll was a note that read "what you’re doing is hurting the African American community — it needs to stop."
• One day while Dave and his mother were at the movies, Al Sharpton himself snuck up behind Dave and whispered in his ear "I didn’t appreciate the mockery directed at reparations in last season’s shows. You should be ashamed of selling out the community for cheap laughs and ratings."
• While watching an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show, Chappelle recalled being completely stunned when Winfrey turned to the camera in the middle of interviewing Tom Cruise and said "Dave Chappelle, you should be ashamed of yourself for airing that Niggars sketch on your show this week, I’m going to make sure you never work in Hollywood again." The site goes on to claim that this image of Oprah was transmitted only to Dave’s house by Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET!
• One night Dave woke up to find a man on top of him with an enormous gun aimed at his face and two other men holding him down. Who was with them in Dave’s bedroom, but Oprah herself who told Dave: "you better watch your step — we’re representing interests more powerful than you can imagine. You do remember that Farrakhan killed Malcolm, and that Cosby, Johnson and I have more money than God — we can keep this harassment up forever. Is this what you want your life to be like Dave?"

The site is very well put together and is actually slightly convincing for a page or two, but then the allegations quickly become too fantastic and exaggerated to take seriously. Whoever put this together must of had the first two seasons of Chappelle’s Show on DVD and alot of time on their hands. Too bad they didn’t show some restraint with the story, they might have actually had some of us buying it for longer than 30 seconds.

Almost one month to the day after his highly publicized biopic Get Rich or Die Tryin’ bombed at theaters, 50 Cent may now have another spectacular flop on his hands. King Kong, which features 50 as the legendary giant gorilla, had a very disappointing opening night on Wednesday grossing only 9.8 million at the box office and, I think, effectively ending 50′s short lived career as a movie star. The film, by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, cost $200 million to make and millions more to market and was expected gross at least 60 million this weekend.

Hollywood analysts had banked on hopes that audiences would embrace 50 in a role that allowed him to show his real personality and not the fake tough guy image he bored them with in GRODT. Fitty recently mentioned that he would like to get into movie production, but sources close to NBC Universal assure me that he will quote: "Never work in this town again." If one lesson can be taken away from all of this, I think it’s this: The public just doesn’t find big dumb gorillas entertaining anymore.

Ed "Knockout" Lover turned himself in to police this morning in response to allegations that he punched a broad dead in the face the other night at Duvet. As of right now it looks like this fool might have actually done this shit too. I don’t want to make assumptions and all, but I haven’t heard any denials either. I hope he didn’t do it, but if he did, I can’t respect that. If you with your wife or girl, you supposed to let her handle that dog. You mess around and lay a chick out, and you’ll be right where you were today, putting up bail.

Here’s the trailer for Game’s upcoming movie, Millionaire Boys Club. Like he says in the video, it looks like a typical hood movie, lots of gunplay, crack distribution, etc. As a matter of fact I think I already saw this trailer, except it was called Killa Season at the time and featured Cam. Can you say straight to DVD? Anyway the flick features Mike Williams (Omar from the Wire) and is directed by Cess Silvera, the dude who did Shottas.

Millionaire Boys Club Trailer 

Vibe’s Year End issue. We’ve all seen the pic, but whatever.