The photo caption from WENN says it all:

Lil Wayne stunned by $1 million birthday gift
Birthday boy LIL WAYNE was left stunned when mentor and pal BIRDMAN handed him $1 million (GBP540,000) at his 26th birthday party in Miami, Florida on Tuesday night (07Oct08).
Stars like DJ Khaled and Akon looked on in amazement as the Got Money hitmaker opened a briefcase Birdman handed him and discovered it was full of crisp new bills. A stunned party guest says, "Lil Wayne was left speechless. He was almost in tears when he hugged his friend. I mean, who wouldn't like $1 million as a birthday gift?" The Club Mansion bash was a lavish affair all round - one of the party's main attractions was an ice sculpture full of frozen $100 bills.

Not only is it completely ridiculous to give a millionaire a million dollars for his birthday, it's also extremely uncreative, obnoxious, and, some would argue, insensitive, given our current economic meltdown. Didn't anyone ever tell Birdman it's the thought that counts?

• Lil Jon made Avril Lavigne cry at the New Year's Eve party they were co-hosting when he led the countdown instead of her. But is anyone asking why the hell those two were co-hosting a party together in the first place? [MG]

• Birdman's getting sued. Chris Brown, too. [SOHH]

• Vivica Fox denies it's her in this censored-yet-still-NSFW (oral) sex tape. You be the judge. [NYDN]

• Ever wonder what a real caucus is like? [Jezebel]

Last year, Bow Wow's solo album opened at No. 6 with 262,000 sold, and Omarion's solo venture opened at No. 1 with 119,000 sold. This year, the friends collaborated to make Face Off, which sold only 107,000 in it's first week and didn't even make it into the top 10 of the Billboard 200. This kind of reminds me of Ne-Yo's song "Make Me Better," but in reverse.

Check out who else had a less-than-stellar debut on the charts after the jump.

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While getting caught with what was reported as a pound of weed and a bunch of guns might sound like a stupid rapper thing to do, Birdman insists that he is no stupid rapper. The guns police found in a Birdman-occupied RV they pulled over after it ran a truck off the road were legal, he insists. And the weed? It was a paltry, meaningless amount. And the 18-year-old girl? Totally not the sort of woman he would marry. Basically, we just had it all wrong.

Read it in his words after the jump.

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The intelligence of our popular rap stars will never cease to astound, impress, and delight. Just when it seems that the bad press surrounding rap music, which we can all agree is not so well-represented by the guys who make the evening news, is dying down, something brilliant happens.

Take Birdman, for instance. Yesterday, he, along with an entourage that included his wife, his brother, and 13 others, were riding around Tennessee in an RV that made an improper lane change, drove a tractor trailer off the road, and conveniently reeked of marijuana smoke after the cops pulled it over. Inside the vehicle, cops found a pound of weed in a trash can, plus an assault rifle, a 9mm handgun and a magazine for .45-cal. handgun. All 16 people were arrested for pot possession. Gun charges are pending. What will Lil Wayne do without his daddy? [TMZ]

UPDATE: Check out all 16 mugshots, including the one for Baby's wife, who is rumored to be just 18, right here.

• As long as there's no sex in the champagne room… [PS]

• Dissecting a public figure's classic "apology" for saying something racist. [RR]

• Birdman thinks Lil Wayne is greater than Tupac, Biggie and Jay-Z. [MNT]

• White supremacists plan a rally in Jena on Martin Luther King day. How innovative! [SPLC]

• Mekhi Phifer spawns. [E!]