Hello, all. My name is Cord Jefferson, and as of this very moment I'll be joining the venerable Lauren Williams here at Stereohyped.

Perhaps you've previously enjoyed my work on Mollygood, Stereohyped's rumormongering sister site. Perhaps, as some have, you've disliked it. Perhaps you had never even heard of Mollygood until I just name-checked it (twice). Any opinion you might hold is welcome, and, probably at one point or another, deserved.

But let's try to start anew here and make believers out of everyone. I'll try to convince you, dear readers, that I am worthy of a position next to – although slightly beneath – Ms Williams, while simultaneously trying to convince myself that the Internet offers a forum in which a writer can discuss something other than Paris Lohan and still manage to maintain peoples' attention.

I come to you from Brooklyn by way of Arizona, Saudi Arabia and Greece. After spending a sixth of my life at a small college in Virginia, I fled to Los Angeles for three inelegant years. I love hip-hop but can't stand bling, and most of the time I'd like to see MTV fall into the sea. The picture above was taken two weeks ago when I was at the Guinness factory in Dublin.

I can't guarantee you I'll be the same as Lauren, but rest assured I'll do my best to maintain the quality you've come to expect from the best black-interest blog on the Internet.

• These are the kinds of things we do at Jossip after hours. Thankfully for me (and too bad for Cord from Mollygood), seeing a woman dressed up as a man is far less exciting. [QT]

• No matter how famous you get, somebody will always mistake you for a drug dealer. [SP]

• Trina, a role model for all the kids out there who aspire to be strippers-turned-hyper sexual rappers. [C&D]

• Barnes & Noble bestseller, maybe, but you won't see If I Did It with an Oprah's Book Club seal. [SP]

• Mindy McCready, country music's Foxy Brown. [PH]