There's not too much to say about Flavor of Love this week, although one thing definitely stands out from the last episode. Remember the toast where all the girls toasted "to not being whores"? At what point did your life take an incredible turn for the worse to where making a toast to not "being a whore" is not only acceptable but something to be celebrated? I don't remember ever being at a bar and hearing someone go, "here's to not being pedophiles!" I can't recall ever hearing, "to not being serial killers!" If you have to toast to not being something like a whore, pedophile or serial killer, then I really don't want to know what you couldn't toast to. And if you go on a reality show looking for love, chances are you can't honestly make a toast to not being a whore.

Apparently there's a new rapper out called Money Over Sex. Are all the rap names taken and now rappers have to resort to naming themselves after songs? And why does it have to be Money Over Sex? Why can't it be Money AND Sex? Why do you have to choose? Are you really grinding that hard that you can't find any free time? Unless you pop five Viagras, you should have time to lay the pipe and still sell some records or whatever it is rappers are selling these days.

Banks is pushed back again. That's ok with me because the main thing I want to hear is a 50 Cent spoken word album. That's the album that needs to come out. I don't even want to hear 50 rap. I just want to hear him talking about how girls can carry his bags and be in his entourage and how he's not going to Puffy's party. That shit is far more entertaining than hearing him actually rap. 50 Cent may not be the best rapper ever, but he is definitely the best shit-talker the game has ever seen. You know 50 was probably that kid in class who would just poke you during silent reading and then when you said stop, he probably looked you in the eye and did it again, then you snap and punch him in the face and go to the principal's office while 50's smiling at you as you walk out of the classroom.

So now 50 and Puffy are beefing. I think this could be an all-time low or an all-time high, depending on how you look at it. It's wack because do you really want to hear Diddy respond to 50's disses? I know I don't. And do you really want to hear 50 dissing, of all people, Puff Daddy? Puffy's rich, but dissing him's not really going to change things. He'll still probably have MTV on lock for at least a few more years. It's not like anyone who's already in Puffy's corner is going to switch sides because of 50 Cent unless 50 Cent starts throwing better parties on the same night. There's nothing like two rich motherfuckers with nothing better to do than make songs about each other.

And how do you know hip-hop is wack? When people write songs about other people they don't like. I know, I know, the diss song is a part of history and there are a few classics out there that can never be touched. But for the most part, making a song about somebody you don't like is really not that cool. If I wrote a song about everybody I didn't like I'd have twice as many mixtapes as Papoose. Besides, most of them come off the same way too: "I'm real, you're fake, my gun pops, your gun jams, I have sex, you're celibate, I'm hot, you're cold, I'm tough, you're pussy, I say potato, you say potatoe…" I'm also drawing the line here between battling and making songs about people. Battling is entirely different because that involves wit and skill. Writing songs about people you don't like is just kind of lame. You don't hear Nike dropping Reebok diss tracks or the Giants dissing the Redskins on wax. Instead of trading diss tracks back and forth, rappers just need to set up battles and let the people decide who's better. Go live with your wackness. Anyone can go in the studio with a banging beat and all the time/help in the world to diss somebody, but how many emcees can/want to do that shit to the other rapper's face? Probably not many…and I think we all know what a disaster it would be if 50 and Puffy had to square off for a live battle.

Is Remy Martin's quote on Foxy Brown the gulliest thing ever published on HipHopGame? In case you missed it: "I heard she can hear again. I'm waiting to make sure it's official so when I say shit she'll hear it." Ouch.

Snoop Dogg was recently on the David Letterman Show. Letterman was giving Snoop a pretty basic interview - asking him where he was from, what his childhood was like and all that. So Snoop says (paraphrase), When I was a teenager you could either play sports or run with the gangs and sell drugs. I chose the gang/drug thing. After he said that, the audience started laughing and clapping. Nothing says funny like someone throwing their life away, right, guys? Right? I don't know who David Letterman invited to his audience that night, but they were straight up losers. If they find Snoop selling drugs funny, imagine how hilarious they're going to find the Biggie shooting when Letterman tells them about that. They'll be laughing for three straight days. Letterman even had to pause to say, Guys, the man just said he chose to sell drugs and join a gang. That's not funny. If you have to be told that somebody doing something bad to themselves and other people is not funny, then there's probably not much hope for you. Don't invite that crowd to a funeral.

There was a report that Kanye is done with interviews for awhile because he's mad at how the press twists his words. Last time I checked, Kanye hasn't said anything since those infamous Katrina comments, which probably fucked up a lot of desperately needed donations. Beefing with the press is not a good idea because at the end of the day, the press decides what airs or runs in a magazine.

Method Man is another dude who doesn't seem to care for the media too tough. I don't blame these guys for not liking the media. I wouldn't like the media if I had to deal with them. And I'm not necessarily sticking up for the hip-hop media either because there is more bad than good out there. There are a lot of dumb comments made out there and a lot of stuff seems too personal at times. For example, Scratch Magazine wonders if Ice Cube's family films have made him soft. That's the same beef Meth had with doing comedy. I've never acted and I've never rapped so I don't have much to go on here, but I'm going to take a gamble that laughing a little or driving a minivan across the country in a flick does not make you pussy. I'm also willing to bet that Ice Cube and Method Man are not pussies in real life. The real problem is the acting rappers trying to be Super Crackman and Super Pimp. They never should have been relevant in the first place. If Ice Cube's music does not have the same violent intensity it once had, I'm guessing it's more because of maturity than Are We There Yet?

I wonder why Rick Ross never called Immortal Technique to get on the "Hustling" remix.

Did anybody else see the Andre and Big Boi interview on MTV? Was it just me or did Big Boi look like he wanted to get the hell out of that interview as fast as possible. Of course I don't know, but that just looked and sounded like a tense interview.

Still don't have the new Madden. I'm holding off on it for at least a few more weeks because I'm pretty sure once I get it there's not going to be too many interviews or columns. There probably won't be a lot of exercising or teeth brushing as well.

We should have the winners of the Rick Ross beard contest announced soon. Sorry Poison Pen, your fifty entries don't count since you do have a journal on the site. Apparently that's the reason Pen really shaved the beard off.

I'm going to have to push Rick Ross's songs back a week. My pen ran out of ink.

Let's end on a toast for having five toes.

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