RZA is one of the only rappers that I ever want to see acting. Sorry. In fact, I’ll go further…he’s one of the handful that I want to hear talking too. And Parks and Recreation is genius TV. Especially the episode where Amy Pohler is really nervous about going on her first date with Louis C.K…..awesome.

(Bun B, the homie Eskay, and me, but please ignore my doofy face and tourist peace sign)

Bun B has been on fire this past week. fire! He set off the new year with a bunch of new freestyles and yesterday Bun sent over his freestyle over Chris Brown x Swizz x Wayne’s “I Can Transform Ya” beat…exclusively for us to enjoy on missinfo.tv : )

Love this guy. No seriously, one of the few artists that you actually enjoy talking to and don’t feel like it’s “polly-ing.” Bun’s album Trill OG will be out in April. Mark it down!

New Freestyle: Bun B “Transform Ya” (download link)

Related: here are some of Bun’s other recent freestyles….

Bun B “On To the Next Year” freestyle (download link) (via Nahright)

Bun B “I’m On The Block” freestyle (download link) (via RR)

Bun B “Stupid Trill” freestyle (download link) (via TeamYee)

Bun B “2 Damn Trill” (4 My Town) freestyle (download link) (via UHTN via 57th Ave)

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Obviously, if you’ve frequented our humble web hangout here at missinfo.tv, you’ve caught on to the fact that I’m fully obsessed with the show LOST. And along with trying to figure out a way to do live ustream viewings or something when the episodes air…I’m definitely planning to share theories etc with my fellow Losties : ) (what would be the best way to watch the eps together? Is there a way to show the TV screen and show my own mug at the same time?)

Anyways, alot of hardcore fans have been analyzing this Season 6 promo poster that appeared in TVGuide. The LOST cast is set up to recreate DaVinci’s painting of The Last Supper. Are there hidden clues? Is that peanut butter jar in front of Kate a symbol for Claire’s Baby Aaron, which Kate “stole”? Is John Locke in the Jesus position to show that he is a prophet or martyr? You can read DocArtz fascinating breakdown or EW’s Doc Jensens’ extensive theories.

And thanks to reader Tommy F., who sent over this youtube recap called Everything You Need To Know About LOST 1-5 in 8:15 minutes….

PS: The White House confirmed that Pres.Obama’s State of the Union address will not preempt the LOST premiere. LOL. What a world we live in these days.

(thanks to Embrocation Cycling for the photo)

Yes, this is totally apropos of nothing, but I’m jetlagged and a little loopy….so don’t mind me. I love my sister’s dog, Mookie.

His parents were my ex’s dogs, and his dad Bishop was my favorite pitbull of all time. Bishop was like Cesar Millian’s star pupil, Daddy (if you’ve ever watched that show, you know…Daddy is the GOAT. And did you know that Daddy was originally Redman’s dog!?!?! headcrack!!) Mookie’s not always a good boy, but look at that face! I’m seriously thinking of getting a dog of my own, but I’ve been advised to find one that is under 30 lbs so I can travel with it. Maybe a French bulldog? Need something chunky enough to hug, not yippy, chill, and low-drool. I’ve been told that dogs are replacement babies or replacement BFs, but I disagree. Recently, I read this great Bob Morris piece in the NYTimes about the writer getting a shelter dog: He quotes that dogs fulfill a human need “for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.” And then says that having a dog doesn’t monopolize your attention or fill a space meant for other people, instead: “Affection, I can now see, is not something one has in limited supply like money or drinking water. It’s more like a muscle that grows the more you use it.”

I’ll post the whole column after the jump, because if I just link, you might not be able to read it on the NYT site without an account…

Ok…sappy-break over. back to rap.

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(how awesome is this sculpture in the lobby of Madrid’s Atocha Train Station? An awake baby head was on the other side.)

Still out in Spain….getting more used to the time zone (6 hours ahead of NYC) and pace (late mornings, afternoon naps, 10pm dinners)…but had a bad run-in with a shiesty gypsy who somehow managed to bump me so slightly and slip my blackberry out of my purse in about 3 seconds. The crazy thing is that I’m almost positive I know exactly which gypsies did it, they were parked on the same corner by the Reina Sofia Museum the next day too. This time, I gave them the ice grill and they left us alone…but obviously, my blackberry is long gone : (

On the plus side…not having my BB has been really liberating. For one, it’s forced me to look at the sights around me, without constantly relaying them to an audience back home. (And, being unreachable also means that I couldn’t keep checking for emails or calls that weren’t coming. Which was the emotional break I definitely needed on a personal level.)

Today we took the bullet train** from Madrid to Toledo, the old capitol city of Spain. Toledo was home to Christians, Moors (Muslim) and Jews, and you definitely see the influences of all 3 in the architecture, etc.

(Me and Jules in Toledo, in matching Barbour jackets…rockin’ our James Herriott “All Creatures Great and Small” steez, lol.)

More from Toledo, and then foodie-heaven with crispy baby pig at Botin….after the jump

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(Plaza Santa Ana: this is around midnight. On the right corner, a group of men are drinking open bottles of wine and smoking. On the left there is a playground, that was packed with kids and parents. All around the perimeter…tapas bars.)

Info: I was telling Mikey n Legend about how I’m exploring the tapas x bar scene is here in Madrid. And Mikey (always thinking) said I should post some pics to break up the monotony of rappity rapping, and rapper talkity talking.

(lots of people eating, beautiful old-world decoration….dinnertime starts at 9pm, and people are in the streets ’til 4-5am. Maybe that’s why Madridians take a break in the middle of the day. Stores shut down from around 2pm-5pm.)

(In life, where goes ham, I follow: inside and on that bar is a leg of Iberian ham. Jamon Iberico. The bartender is slicing it like tissue. I will eat alot of that this week.)

1) A video tour of Lil Wayne’s Florida mansion….
What? no gold tub like Percy Miller, or gold toilet like Kimora? (”Where dey [don't] do that at?” (c) anti-WakaFlockaFlame) This place looks like like a rental, or a video shoot location. Gorgeous, but sterile.

soo….I’m back from the ‘Go, but sadly I didnt get to catch up with old friends or new, it was such a short trip, I just hung out with the family, ate bomb-ass home-cooked Korean food (traditional new year’s fare: rice-cake soup, plus a new lobster claw bibb lettuce salad concoction, and bbq short ribs aka kalbi), and nursed this nagging cough I still have. But I also left my computer off, so today, it was time to catch up….come to find out….not a lot happened. Above is a video of Wayne’s crib via his YM artist JR. I’ve heard that at one point he had a fly home in Miami but was still paying to live in an exorbitant penthouse at the Setai, but that was a couple yrs ago.

Moving on…

2) A breakdown of the Mary J. Blige vs her husband Kendu at her release party last week appears here. Yes, I have heard that there was an altercation, but no, I don’t think any flirting waitress was involved. It was over a family member. And I hope it’s all settled by now.

3) Scott Storch tells Allhiphop that he’s been talking to Shyne during his incarceration and will be working on his new album. I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and say…I think there are couple big name producers who are having talks with or about Shyne of late…So these revelations will keep coming as folks try to angle their way around this project.

4) Kanye West and Amber Rose helped out at the LA Mission, serving food to the homeless. Big up yourselves! That’s awesome. (They did not serve food in the above outfits, of course) (via BoomBox)

5) Rihanna romped on the beaches of Barbados in a super cute bandeau bikini. She also had a wedgie. (via TheBlemish)

6) J.Lo and Mark Anthony attended a football game in Florida, and the dress code was apparently called for  “On the 6″-vintage (for her) and chest-naked-creepy (for him). (via ContactMusic)

7) Ron Mexico’s take on the Lupe Fiasco vs YN-Rant (via XXL)

After the jump….Spike Lee’s video for Michael Jackson’s posthumous “This is It” song

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(Young Jeezy gets much respect for taking time during the holidays to give back. His Street Dreamz charity treated a group of local kids to a Atlanta Hawks game, and threw them a Xmas party. Thanks to Thaddeus from ExclusiveAccess for the great photos)

New Verse: Young Jeezy “4 My Town (remix)” (usershare) (via DJ Folk via Splash)

New Freestyle: Styles P “Hoodie Season” (”Fear” beat) (via DJ OP)

New Version: Gucci Mane feat. Sean Garrett “Smooches” (via Legend/Onsmash)

Speaking of Gucci Mane, he talked to XXL from jail for the coverstory of their March 2010 issue, gets a sneak peak here.

And, unbeknownst to me, another clip from my sit-down interview with Gucci Mane was released. This would be part 7. (spotted on Nahright)

Mikey: Well we heard about this footage… and finally we have Beans on camera giving Jadakiss and crew a preview from his now infamous “What You Talkin Bout” verse acapella. Not sure why this footage took so long to surface, “politics as usual” perhaps. Thanks to reader AFRA for the heads up. (footage via Bizkit)

Miss Info: yeah, this is the reason why I was so convinced about the fact that Beans was dissing Hov that day of the Philly concert. Despite what all the naysayers said about how I was just Jay-hating (ugh, please)….I knew I wasnt exaggerating s–t because Bizkit told me that there was backstage footage of Beanie spitting the same verse that he did onstage with the mic cut off. In fact, it was D-Block’s team that had asked people not to leak the video of this because they didn’t want to escalalate the tension, or make it seem like they were complicit. Jada had no idea Beanie was going to do at Hov on his set, and frankly, wasn’t too pleased. Which makes alot of sense.

Unrelated/Related: Beanie Sigel was in a car accident over the weekend but is recovering from scrapes.

Have people cracked open that egg nog early? Because there’s no other explanation I can see (other than drunken lactose-intolerant raw-yolk fever) for folks to be cosigning such obvious bullshit this past weekend…

PART 1: Lil Wayne totes guns, and makes number weed runs….

Can you believe this Lil Wayne photo that TMZ posted? With the headline:

“Lil’ Wayne — Is That a Shotgun in Your Pocket?: Lil’ Wayne struck a deadly pose — brandishing what appears to be a high-powered shotgun on his tour bus over the summer.”

um…I’m no ballistics expert, but that looks more like a pneumatic nail gun than a shotgun.  Luckily, Young Money contacts like Karen Civil immediately stepped up to clarify, that’s a pellet gun in Wayne’s hand. Ah doy! Honestly, I’m shocked at TMZ, they’re thorough enough to scoop everyone on the death of Michael Jackson, but fell way short on this one.

PART 2: Asher Roth’s Ass-Gate 2009. The Battle for Asher’s Bung.

Ok, I keed, but honestly…folks were buzzing last night about this “scoop” that appeared on an mysterious, un-vetted site called CWebNews, about Asher Roth announcing he is “the” Gay Rapper. The headline was:

“Asher Roth to Appear on E!News to talk about new “Gay Lifestyle“

What about that ridiculous headline even sounds plausible?? Of course Asher could be gay, and there would be nothing wrong with that. But he’s not even the first that comes to my mind. (Do Asher’s flip flops raise your gaydar?)

Then in the “report,” there’s this convenient mention of a guy who wrote a book about all the gays in hip hop, without naming any names. Hmm. That makes me want to buy his book on Amazon, doesn’t it? ["Message!" (c) School Daze]

But the most damning blow to the credibility of this scoop: Who has ever gone on E! News to announce anything? (#noshots)

As much as this idiocracy made me angry…it was all worth it because this morning, we got a punchline from Ill Doctrine’s JSmooth:

When you click on the link, you see a new CWebNews’s headline:

“Jay Smooth Announces Plan to Sell Brooklyn Bridge:
Jay Smooth, host of the Oscar and Emmy-winning videoblog Illdoctrine.com, announced this week he is selling the historic Brooklyn Bridge. The stunning announcement was made during the E! News channel’s annual Kwanzaa special…”

GENIUS!!!

Evidently, anyone can submit any story to that site.

Read the rest of Jay’s Onion-like gem after the jump…

UPDATE: Asher Roth released this statement:
“I hate to disappoint and take away the entertainment of it all but I am straight, not gay. It’s disheartening to know such “news” on someone’s personal life can be portrayed as fact with no viable source. This, to me, is an opportunity to expose our vulnerability to lies and manipulation through unprofessional and irresponsible news outlets, in which people consider TRUTH. Further, someone’s sexual orientation should NEVER be big news, as it delivers a troubling message to children that they can’t be themselves without fear of judgment. Race, creed, and sexual persuasion should not just be tolerated but understood and accepted. It’s extremely disappointing that this topic would be used with the intention of being hurtful. We are near 2010….2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love of the future and humanity….let’s wake up.” (via RapRadar)

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