• LL Cool J calls on young people to seek out father figures. How about calling on fathers to actually stay in their kids' lives? [CM]

• Snoop Dogg's going to remix the One Life to Live song and make a cameo appearance on the soap opera. Yes. [EUR]

• Ever heard of a Bro Mitzvah? [JJ]

• Marylanders are pissed over an anti-immigration poster that depicts a (non-Hispanic) state legislator sporting a sombrero. [Ex]

• Hip hop invades Iran, much to the delight of the authorities there. [USNWR]