• Meet AKA Barbie. [Jezebel]

• Erykah Badu can be impregnated by however many men she wants to, thank you very much. [NB]

• Young Berg and Polow Da Don are learning to cover up their color complexes. It’s bad for business. [AHH]

• Note to black comedians: try to clean it up for Obama fundraisers, please. [C&D]

• Even in their breakup, Russell Simmons and Porschla Coleman still decorate together. [Bossip]

PROBLEMATIC AT BEST “I’m late all the time. I have no perception of time. Time is for white people. It doesn’t work with me.”

–Erykah Badu

Janet Jackson does it again, taking the top spot on the Billboard chart after selling 181,000 copies of her new album, Discipline. This marks Jackson’s sixth time at the peak position, but her first since 2001’s All for You.

Erykah Badu came in second with her record, Amerykah, which moved 123,900 units.

Fourth was a band named Webbie, of whom I’ve never heard. And I’m now officially my father.

The complete Top 10 is after the jump.

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Two of the people pictured above are really fond of Louis Farrakhan. Can you guess which two? Since we all know that Obama both denounces and rejects the controversial minister, the answer’s pretty easy.

Erykah Badu “salutes” Farrakhan in a song on her new album, New Amerykah, and went so far as to praise the Nation of Islam leader, who Obama, among many others, denounced (and rejected) for his anti-Semitic comments, during a press conference in Israel last month. ‘She paid tribute to him in [her song] “Me,” she says, “because everyone else is afraid to, because everyone’s ganged up on him and he’s blackballed in this country.”‘

So are you saying you just support Farrakhan, Badu? Or do you support and accept him?

I wouldn’t have pegged Erykah Badu as the type to go the mainstream advertising route, but more power to her and to Tom Ford for choosing the singer as the face of his new, yet-to-be-named women’s fragrance.

We should help Tom Ford out and come up with a fragrance name to match the ad campaign’s face.
[Vogue]

I remember how excited I was when I first head an Erykah Badu song way back in 1997. Eleven years later, she’s definitely still around and making good music, but nothing will move me like Baduizm!

Erykah Badu thought hard about her new video (or chose a director who did) for “Honey” before it was shot, which is more than can be said for a lot of R&B and rap artists these days. Although, I might have enjoyed the video more than the song.

• This is only because the Rock is apparently so high in demand. I, for one, had no idea. [People]

• All I have to say about this is that it’s not suitable for work. Or, really, anything at all. [C&D]

• Erykah Badu on Girlfriends? She doesn’t seem like the CW type. [RTNY]

• Beyonce says she can’t blame her infamous in-concert tumble on her long coat. I said it then, and I’ll say it again — all that fake hair messes up a girl’s center of gravity. [People]

• Police gave the Game back $40,000 they took during a sweep of his home earlier this year. He probably needs it. [SP]

• I guess the Georgia governor would have hated Tuesday’s Rewound, too. [MSNBC]

• Awww, isn’t Chris Brown polite to his elders? [MTV]

• I wonder what Jennifer Lopez would find more offensive, getting screwed by her record label or having Irv Gotti repeatedly refer to her as “JLo’s big, old ass.” [SR]

• Remy Ma encountered woman more ignorant than she is during her brief stint at Rikers. [Bossip]

• Listen to Erykah Badu’s early birthday present to herself. [SB]

• If you’re racist, you probably have a pretty good chance of making it onto Big Brother. Watch the clip until the end for a casual “nigger bitch” reference. [MG]

• I liked the turban much, much better. [Bossip]

• Some things, Jay-Z included, definitely get better with age. [SR]

• Bad idea — having an affair. Worse idea — suing 1-800-Flowers when your wife finds out about it. [C&D]

• I hate to spill the beans and say it’s Kanye West, but no one, especially Beanie Sigel, would have trouble guessing this one. [TSG]

Look how happy Amerie is to be posing with her very own leather BET bag! Yesterday, more stars in town for the BET Awards filed into the “Backstage Creations Talent Retreat” to pick up some free electronics and bags embossed with the network logo. The only one not posing with some merchandise is Flavor Flav, but probably got the publicists didn’t think an image of him touching one of their products would make any of us plebes consider going out and buying them. Check out the rest of the pics after the jump.

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Laila Ali ensures her Dancing With The Stars win by inviting her dad, the world’s most beloved sports icon, onto the show. [People]

Don Cheadle makes it rain on a random woman in the street. Well, close. He stole her cab and left her in the rain. [NYP]

New music from Erykah Badu; I’m more interested in seeing what sort of wig she’ll be wearing this time around. [GG]

If I were Spike Lee, I would not dignify rumors that Malcolm X inspired terrorism with an explanation. [Reuters]

Usher’s mother is officially fired as her son’s manager. They claim it was amicable, but wait until her tell-all book comes out. [CNN]

Jim Jones claims all of Dipset is banding together to put Cam’ron on punishment. [MissInfo]