See the look on Nick Cannon's face as he hosted last night's Teen Choice Awards? I think we are witnessing the moment, captured for posterity by an ingenious photographer, when Nick Cannon officially realized he was too old for this shit.

And yet, the show had to go on. If you have even the slightest interest in who won what, you can find the list of winners here. If not, check out the stars in their teen-friendly award show gear after the jump.

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• Bow Wow and Omarion dismiss relationship rumors about Angela Simmons and Rihanna. They're focusing on their own close relationship these days. [MTV]

• Does Luda improves 50 Cent's "I Get Money?" [SOHH]

• OJ Simpson's book might hit the shelves soon, but Barnes & Noble wants nothing to do with it. [SP]

• This is what Major League Baseball will look like in 20 years. [SH]

• Kanye West thinks Justin Timberlake is his biggest inspiration and competition. You and K-Fed both, Kanye. [SP]

One day, I'm going to post a video that I actually enjoy. For now, there's Chingy's "Celebrity Chick," in which Ludacris and Chingy pretend not to hate each other deep down while wearing very colorful clothing. Somebody out there will like it, I'm sure.

[CL]

The Essence Festival, which is expected to bring 200,000 visitors and a much-needed $130 million to the city of New Orleans, began yesterday with performances from Ciara and Ludacris, an Obama speech (more on that later), and lots of celeb visitors. Check out the pics after the jump.

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Struggling actors out there surely felt like killing themselves when they found out that 50 Cent's ass is going to be co-starring alongside icons Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in a new film, instead of, say, an actual thespian. In the movie, Righteous Kill, 50 Cent will play a drug dealing police informant. In other words, he'll be the type of guy everybody hates. Hmm. Maybe he will do a good job.

In other casting news, Ludacris is set to appear in a new Guy Ritchie (aka Mr. Madonna) flick, which will also star Thandie Newton and Idris Alba. He'll play an American rapper.

Wow. The two of them are stretching themselves thin with these very ambitious, completely foreign roles.

[BB, Jam]

With all the black music stars in Los Angeles for tomorrow's BET awards, the parties, gifting suites, rehearsals, profoundly ridiculous fashion choices (ahem, Luda), and ill-timed brawls (ahem, T.I.) abounded. Check out more pics from the weekend's BET-inspired events after the jump.

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Look at Lil' Wayne. Does he look like the kind of person would would produce trash and sell it to impressionable youth? If you said yes, you agree with a church in Chicago that put up pricey billboards protesting the music of him and his contemporaries.

50 Cent and G-Unit, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Nelly, Fat Joe and Twista are among the artists named on the advertisements posted by Faith Community of St. Sabina, local NBC affiliate WMAQ reported. "If we are going to end the violence and disrespect of women, we must fight every form of negativity, including the music industry," the church's pastor, the Reverend Michael Pfleger, said in a press release.

I don't know exactly how much a billboard costs, but I know they must have dug deep into the church's bank account to pay for a number of billboards across the city. How about feeding some homeless or buying some kids computers instead of fighting a battle you can't win, Pastor?

[MTV]

Ludacris joins Kenny Chesney, Blake Lewis, and Matthew McConnaughey, to name a few, on People's Sexiest Bachelors List. As the token black, of course. If I were to choose one sexy, famous black bachelor out of the many, Ludacris would not be one of them. When you take into account that this list of 10 includes two people who appeared on the latest season of Dancing With The Stars, the Ludacris choice ceases to be surprising. He gave the magazine his sexiest look, see above, and his top secret dating philosophy, see below.

Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, 29, who glides easily between albums (his latest is the platinum-selling Release Therapy) and films (Fred Claus is due in November), says it's good to maintain a little mystery when first meeting a woman. "Don't throw yourself at a woman on the first date no matter how beautiful or fabulous she is, " he says. "And you shouldn't share your whole life story within the first hour 'cause what will you talk about next?"

It would have been inappropriate for his to describe how he really first meets women, which is after a concert when security lets the groupies in the sluttiest outfits backstage.

[People]

For a man supposedly avoiding a tough talk with police, Fat Joe was not being very covert about his whereabouts. He, along with Ludacris, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown, Diddy, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and others, performed at Hot 97's famed Summer Jam Saturday. Fat Joe allegedly witnessed a double murder in South Beach over Memorial Day weekend. He's just getting around to responding to cops who have been requesting a chat with him for two weeks. His lawyer said Fat Joe will probably give police a call this week. Busta and Cam would be so disappointed.

[Starpulse]

Little comes between celebrities and their personal electronics, which is why they are posing at the launch party for a new BlackBerry with the same enthusiasm as they would on the red carpet at the Oscars. Unfortunately for them, none of these stars are Oscar-caliber — although some have more potential than others. I guess that's why they are this happy to be at a cell phone party.

You can say what you will about the Ebony Boris Kodjoe vs. Ludacris issue — I certainly have — but as much as Boris may be a more ideal version of the African American father, Ludacris and his little Karma are pretty cute together. He brought her out for the fourth annual benefit dinner for his youth charity, The Ludacris Foundation. A few others joined him, including Chingy, who looked like someone slapped a blazer on him and dragged him to the red carpet by his ear.

If Ludacris is still pissed at Pepsi for firing him because of his lyrics and then hiring less-than-squeaky-clean Ozzy Osbourne — "'a man who bit the head off an animal onstage [and] who has an MTV show where you have to bleep out every other word'" — as his replacement, then he's really not going to be happy with Ebony magazine.

The Don Imus-fueled controversy over misogynistic rap lyrics surrounds Ebony magazine’s recent decision to pull rapper Ludacris from the cover of its June issue on "the New Black Fathers" and replace him with actor, Boris Kodjoe, reports Journal-isms. "Something has changed in America in the last few weeks," Bryan Monroe, editorial director of Ebony and Jet magazines, told Journal-isms, without disclosing the identity of the rapper. As president of the National Association of Black Journalists, Monroe led the movement to have Imus fired. "I think the media is being called to account in these areas," Monroe said.

To quote Ludacris, "Life is unfair." But really. I hate to sound like a puritan here, and I'm sure Luda's a good father, but isn't Boris Kodjoe a better choice for the cover of a black fathers issue, anyway? He's married to Nicole Ari Parker, the mother of his two children, and…well, isn't that reason enough?

[NYDN, EURweb]

Michael Jordan hung out with Tiger Woods on the golf course in Charlotte yesterday, trying to put on a respectable air after photos of his Cabo San Lucas debauchery (some of which feature Eddie Murphy's ex-wife…hmmm) hit the Internet. More pics from yesterday's events and obvious publicity photo ops (I'm talking to you, Jada) after the jump.

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