Urban Thought Collective

A PRAYER FOR BARACK
Even though Hillary refuses to concede…

No words needed y’all as we have all just witnessed history to the fullest! May Obama & his family be protected as he steps into office and beyond. May he say what he means, and mean what he says! Let him be a man of his word in front of the universe and lead with integrity.

Now onto the gritty nonsense we love…

KANYE & NICK CANNON’S EX SELITA..WHO’S ZOOMING WHO?
The Louis Vuitton don, Kanye West, and Victoria’s Secret Model Selita Ebanks were spotted by NY newspapers being extra cozy up in the club. Now you know they are denying reports that they are more than just good friends.

Could you blame them if it was true? Kanye, fresh off an engagement break-up and Selita probably drinking herself to death watching Mariah & Nick honeymoonin’ it up!

A source close to the Selita says the story is completely false. Hmm, what a co-ink-ee-dink that the old trusty source shows up with a “killer” quote…

The witness said they looked “cozy” when they left the club together. Word is they were trying to be inconspicuous, but they were smiling and walking real close, and they hopped in a waiting car together laughing and took off. They were with a large group that included Serena Williams and Selita’s dad. And no, Serena & Pops were not seen hooking up….

NE-YO GOES TO THE DMX SCHOOL OF DRIVING
Oh lawd, sangin’ ass Ne-Yo has plead no contest to a reckless driving charge in Georgia’s Cobb State Court stemming from a traffic stop in February.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Neyo was sentenced to 24 hours of community service, fined a measley $1,000 (don’t sleep on his songwriting/publishing coins - cha ching) and must attend the dreaded defensive driving class. Shaffer Chimere Smith (yeah that’s his real name) must also perform a concert for the Boys & Girls Club.

Ain’t life rough when punishment from the justice system is performing your hits in front of the people who buy your music?

Ne-Yo & his lead foot was behind the wheel of his Range Rover going 105 mph in a 55 mph zone when he was pulled over at 2:28 a.m. on South Cobb Drive and Cobb Parkway.

He was ticketed for reckless driving and for not having a Georgia license. Now let Ne-Yo tell it, he had been living in Georgia for only one year. I guess 365 days just wasn’t enough time to go down to DMV.

Nevertheless, his upcoming album “The Year of the Gentleman” is scheduled to be released in August. I’m sure he’ll test out some of those new songs while performing during his “community service!”

KEVIN GARNETT SCANDAL IS A BREWING
Now K.G. is my boy, but drama is exactly that…drama.

Now that all eyes are on these NBA Finals, KG can’t sneeze without everybody all up in it. Word on the street is that Kev may have been carrying on a long-term relationship with a former Minnesota Timberwolves dancer named Krissy. Yeah y’all K.G is a married man. But you know how some of these NBA wives get down. The wife may have picked Krissy out for K.G. to “rock” just as long as her Porsche is still parked in front of the crib.

Hey who knows what swingers, I mean couples, agree too, right? Nevertheless, the relationship, according to the rumors, has been going on for nearly 4 years.

And to top it off, scandal has it that Krissy and Kevin are so tight that she moved to Boston when Kevin was traded from Minnesota to the Celtics. When you can pay in cash, you don’t always leave a paper trail. Ya feel me?

Well, with Kevin’s wife Brandi just giving birth to their first child, I guess things on the home front are quite alright!

50 CENT’S HOUSE SET ABLAZE…NOW THAT’S A FIRE
Damn, R. Kelly got it right when he sang “When a Woman’s Fed Up.” He ain’t never lied, and whoever penned the saying “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” was really on to something! Well, that’s the case it seems in regard to 50’s house being stomped out by Smokey the Bear.

Police found a five-gallon gas container on the grounds of a mansion at the center of a grudge match between 50 Cent and his ex-girlfriend. A fire ripped through 50’s $2.4 million dollar Dix Hills, Long Island mansion, sending 6 people, including Tompkins and the superstar rapper’s 10-year-old son, to the hospital.

Arson investigators have yet-to-determine the cause of the inferno that completely destroyed the mansion. Officials had already labeled the fire suspicious, due to the intensity of the blaze, which lasted about 45 minutes. So you know Ms. Thang is an “alleged” suspect right?

God rest her soul, but did we not learn from Left Eye?

Shaniqua Tompkins, (oh lawd that name), who accused 50 Cent of having a role in the incident, also accused him of not checking on his son Marquise in the midst of the aftermath. “Tell him to call his son!” Tompkins shouted at reporters yesterday when she returned to grounds of the property, where she had been living with their son, her new boyfriend and other individuals.

I know the new boyfriend is pissed. I’m sure he’s saying…”Wha..we goin doo now, damn?”

50 Cent…government name, Curtis Jackson, and the boyfriend were involved in a straight up brawl in the office of Shaniqua’s lawyer during a deposition hearing, just days before the house was burned to smithereens.

Curtis denied any involvement in the fire and expressed gratitude that no one was serious injured. He and Tompkins will be in Manhattan Supreme Court over ownership of the mansion this week.

Best believe the insurance company will be in that a**.

See ya’ll next week…

Big Lez has interviewed everyone from Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. to Mary J. Blige and Tom Cruise. She was host of and producer of BET’s landmark show “Rap City” and has enjoyed an extensive tenure in radio as co-host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show in Los Angeles, plus stints at New York’s WQHT/Hot 97, Atlanta’s WAOK/V103, LA’s Big Boy Morning Show at KPWR/Power 106 and Sirius Satellite Radio. Currently, Lez is partnered with DVA Media + Marketing as producer and host of the syndicated urban radio report, “The Urban Eye,” which launches nationwide this summer.