(I love these animal x hip hop illustrations from Patrick Moberg, see more here)

-New Music: Raekwon, Ghostface and Method Man “Our Dreams” (download link) (via Nation)

-New Music: Consequence feat. Asher Roth “Childish Games” (download link)

-Comedy: Complex’s Twitter Fight! Bow Wow vs. Bow Wow’s Mom: Another classic imaginary twitter convo from Complex’ Peter Rubin, this time documenting BowWow’s epic social network struggle with his mom-ager Teresa Caldwell, with guest appearances by Shyne, Mystikal, Waka Flocka, OJ, Usher and more…

-News: Brian Birdman Williams and Ronald Slim Williams of Cash Money start investing in “oil and gas.” I just had to include this because of the genius of the name of the CM Brothers new venture….Bronald Oil and Gas. Awesome.

-Fashion: There were two photos that….well, frankly…they confused me.

(On the left: Chris Brown at Milan Fashion Week, imitating an formal chauffeur-turned-hillside-strangler. Sleeves tucked in?) (pic spotted at TMZ)

(On the right: Monique and husband at this past Sunday’s Golden Globe awards…but…where’s PETA to regulate that mink pelt on her legs? *shivers*) (pic spotted at SandraRose)

After the jump….Nivea remakes her 2nd baby daddy’s worker’s song and turns it into a tale of abandoned love…

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Today, Conan O’Brien supporters rallied outside of NBC studios in the rain, with their man sending out pizza and showing up on the roof to show appreciation.

Meanwhile, TMZ reports that the end is nigh….allegedly, NBC will be paying Conan $32.5 million (plus $7.5 million more for staff severance) to walk away, with the caveat that he has to sit out until Sept. This would allow for Jay Leno to recover some footing during the weak summer re-run period. And Jay Leno also tried to recover some goodwill by speaking out last night on how NBC screwed him too. “Don’t blame Conan.”

How many meetings between studio brass, crisis publicity flacks and Leno’s agents did it take to plan that?

No matter where Conan goes, he’ll probably have to leave the Masturbating Bear, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and In-the-year-2000 with NBC. And all this non-compete period and loss of intellectual property is totally normal. But I watched Monday’s show, and the highlights are just the jokes about losing the show. I still can’t figure out what happened in the move from NY to LA, it was like some tv-magic boxes got lost.

BONUS: MissInfo.TV’s resident Howard Stern expert sent over Howard’s scathing remarks about the whole Late Night TV dust-up (Download Link). It’ll be very interesting TV if Stern shows up for Conan’s final show on Friday, right?

These Late Night Talk Show Wars are getting crazy! I mean there was Conan’s Jerry Maguire mission statement. There were the snarky sneak disses from Conan and Letterman. Leno was playing the goofy aww-shucks role. Kimmel was watching and eating popcorn.

Now it seems like the social niceties are breaking down….with Jimmy Kimmel and Chevy Chase spoofing Leno and Conan last night…with rumors of Leno finalizing his takeover deal and NBC chief Jeff Zucker allegedly threatening to put Conan on ice for years …and with Leno allegedly throwing his first shots at Conan tonite…

But nothing prepared me for the incredible awkwardness of this…..Jay Leno actually had Jimmy Kimmel on the Jay Leno Show for the “10 (questions) at 10″ segment. And Kimmel went at Leno’s neck! (clip via Gawker, thnx to Mel on the assist!)

Bottom line…Hey rappers, step your beef game up.

(PS: if Leno, Conan, Kimmel, Letterman, (that Scottish guy and those two other guys who shouldnt be there) were this entertaining all the time….they wouldn’t be in this predicament in the first place.)

And Letterman also got his Leno jab in too….ugly ugly ugly!…after the jump
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LOL….this is really the only way to deal with this mess for the players involved. I told you recently about the upcoming confusion amongst TV’s late night talk shows. There are still rumors that Conan is getting courted by FOX, but meanwhile everyone is mad and disgruntled…but we benefit by being able to see Leno, Conan, Letterman and more vent about it with snark on their shows. NYMag’s Vulture blog had this great compilation of the monologues. (HA! @ Dave’s Carson Daly diss)

UPDATE: wow…the NYTimes posted a statement from Conan O’Brien. He says he will not host the Tonight Show if NBC bumps it to 12:05am after a half hour of Leno. Because, it won’t be the Tonight Show, it’ll be the next day show.

“I sincerely believe that delaying the ‘Tonight Show’ into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. ‘The Tonight Show’ at 12:05 simply isn’t the ‘Tonight Show.’”

And he’s right.
Read the whole statement after the jump…
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the homie Lowkey wrote up this concise recap of twitter’s hashtag roast….I definitely agree that Foxxfiles’ #UnfollowDiddy was a seminal landmark in twitter angry mob mentality. But I’d also say I was thoroughly entertained by all the Lil Mama bumrush and Kanye West interruption parody twitpics. Those were my favorites. (Thanks to Harry from JumpoffTV for the link as well)

(”frenemies” (c) jomo jones)

What a hot stinking mess….and the rot started back around February of last year, when Conan O’Brien inherited the Tonight Show on NBC. And Jay Leno left in a flurry of fawning farewells…except that then suddenly, NBC announced that Jay Leno wasn’t riding off into the sunset in an antique car….in fact, he was getting a primetime slot for a Jay Leno variety show…which sounded exactly like the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, except that it had 30% more stupid skit time, and played during the time that we normally got to watch a scripted sitcom or drama series (which is way more expensive to produce…hmm, what a coincidink. Remember Tina Fey’s subliminal diss at the Emmy’s?).

All this NBC action sent rivals and viewers into a tizzy. We kind of thought Conan would benefit from his big bump up to LA. We thought Leno was just getting a cushy gig to ease him out of our lives. We thought Jimmy Fallon and the Roots would be edgy and youthful on the Late Night slot. We thought Carson Daly would finally go away. Meanwhile Jimmy Kimmel thought about moving up to 11:35 and deading Nightline. And Letterman thought, now is probably a good time to not have any more bypass surgery, and dust off that intern sex scandal (just keeding).

So…how’s that working out for us? Well, Conan is stale and inexplicably un-awesome. Fallon is painfully corny and annoying apologetic (The Roots seemed to humor him like a visiting relative). Kimmel is Kimmel (pretty funny in a fratboy way). I still have no need to remember that Irish Scottish guy’s name. And Letterman is back to feeling himself, watching the drama around him.

That drama got even crazier today….first there was a rumor that NBC had given up on that awful Leno primetime show. But no, that would be too good to be true. Instead, TMZ reported that Leno is taking a hiatus, and then, come February 1….he’s not only coming back, but he’s taking the 11:30pm time slot!?!!

Which means, either Leno will only get 30minutes to yap his maw. And then The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien will start at midnight…hmm. Or…Conan will get the boot…*gasp.*

Is it possible that we’ll end up with the Jay Leno then Fallon then Carson Daly? Blech! Or will Leno nativeamerican-give on Conan, and Conan nativeamerican-give on Fallon. I’m 100% sure Fallon won’t be able to nativeamerican give on Seth Meyers at SNL. Or…can Letterman thaw out a space in his heart for Conan to move over to CBS, and get rid of that Irish guy? All I know is…if Carson is left standing, he’s officially f–king for slots.

Related: Gawker had a hilarious breakdown of Conan’s less than enthusiastic response to Jay Leno’s retirement renege last year. and Tina’s sublim Leno diss after the jump
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Mikey: Apparently, some moron has been pretending to be Justin Smith aka Just Blaze and duping unsuspecting rappers. Well, the real Just Blaze caught wind of his whole scheme and gave the fraud a phone call. (props Meka/2dopeboyz)

Mikey: Producer Shawty Redd who has worked closely with Young Jeezy and produced tracks for  Snoop Dogg and Gucci Mane has been arrested and charged with first degree murder. Details are still sketchy but news outlets are reporting that Shawty Red aka “Demetrius Lee Stewart shot and killed Damon A. Martin, 35, of Detroit, Friday morning after an altercation at Stewart’s home in Hampton.” Shawty Redd was nominated for a Grammy award in ‘08 for producing Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction” in the “Rap Song of the Year” category.

Legend: Young Buck starts off 2010 with a few words for 50 Cent in not one, but 2 disses towards the rapper in the first week of the year. He addresses why he’s dissing Fif on “Steroids” stating, “N****s talking about.. Buck, why you going so hard on this n****? Because this the 3rd year and this b**** ass n**** still got me on this f****d up ass contract! Hahaha! So now I’m like f*** the contract n*****. Go to war with me n****. However you wanna do it b****!…. F*** G-Unit!”

Although 50 Cent was the main target in both songs, Young Buck takes shots at more people including G-Unit, Sha Money XL and XXL’s Editor-In-Chief.

Young Buck – Happy New Years

Young Buck – Steroids

In related news: 50 Cent celebrated his new years in Las Vegas where he performed a medley of songs to close out the year in the right fashion. Footage after the jump..

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(sisters Taja and Deja Riley at an event, and dad Teddy Riley on the right)

TMZ reports:

Teddy’s 18-year-old daughter Taja Riley was granted a temporary restraining order against her dad — claiming 43-year-old Teddy abused her and her older sister by “stomping, punching and bashing them” in his L.A. home on December 23.

In the documents, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Taja claims at one point Teddy, “lifted a Rock Band guitar and threatened to kill person(s) w/ it.”

The holidays light fire to pent-up family tension like a tattered extension cord to dry Christmas tree needles. And the house that “New Jack City” built got crazy between Teddy Riley,  his daughters Taja and Deja, and his girlfriend, Bita. Not only did the physical altercation allegedly happen, but it was world war iii on twitter too. Daughter Deja tweeted that the girlfriend was “a golddigger” who met Teddy “2 months ago” and is the “same age” as her (Deja is 21 years old). (For more, check Necole Bitchie)

Bita tried to defend herself (and cancel her twitter at Teddy’s request). Taja joined in to tell her followers that her dad had beaten her and her sister…

UPDATE: Teddy Riley released a statement denying that he beat his daughters…

“I love my Daughters, but I will not allow my children to disrespect me in my home. Contrary to what I have been accused of, I would never beat my children.

Perhaps, I should have been a stronger disciplinarian as they were growing up. I worked very hard so that my children would want for nothing.

In hindsight, I see that it was a mistake to give them everything they wanted so that they could have the childhood I never had. Unfortunately, they have taken me, and the privileged life I have given them, completely for granted. Instead of being appreciative and realizing how fortunate they are, my children have an inflated sense of entitlement and expectation without having to work or earn their way….”

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