The trailer for the new Biggie biopic, Notorious, has finally arrived. It looks more like a music video than a movie trailer, and that's probably not a good sign.

Despite what Biggie and Co. told me way back when, I've always felt that more money would solve at least a few of my problems. It's how you handle that money (looking at you, Lehman Bros and Merrill Lynch) that matters, right?

• If this picture is any indication, I'm going to be able to watch Derek Luke playing Puffy in the Notorious with a straight face. [C&D]

• Nas explains some of the more "coonish" things that famous blacks have done. Oddly, he doesn't include naming an album Nigger in that list. [Bossip]

• Why did Samuel L. Jackson get cut from Ironman? [MTV]

• Sean Hannity is a disgusting man. [NH]

• Usher likes being a grown-up. [CL]

• Even in death, James Brown is single-handedly keeping the DNA-testing industry alive. [RWS]

• The Roots were live on The Late Show last night with Wale and Chrisette Michele. [NR]

• Guess which one is directly related to Biggie Smalls? [CL]

• Russell Simmons says he doesn't have a small penis. Just so you know. [Bossip]

• En Vogue returns! [TGJ]

There goes our Alicia Keys crush:

… KEYS has bizarrely claimed the US government invented ‘gangsta rap’ to convince black people to kill each other.

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We all know Ray J is sort of opportunistic and self-centered and desperate to be more famous. He also has some interesting-but-troubling childhood stories. His parents were clearly busy managing his more famous sibling. He recently gave an interview to Rhapsody.com, and he explains how he was immersed in the Death Row scene throughout his teens, smoking copious blunts with Tupac, driving around with Snoop, and hugging Biggie the day he died (he smelled like soap).

He also spoke about his life today, the highlight of which consists of women on the road "putting H2O in their bodies and then having [it] shoot out like waterfalls." Fun! After the jump, check out what Ray J has to say about catching Faith Evans on Tupac's lap and hanging out with the Notorious B.I.G.

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Long story short, I was within striking distance of Diddy last night but did absolutely nothing I always told myself I would if I ever got the chance to yell in his ear.
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Confronted with some pretty damning evidence in the form of a detailed article on The Smoking Gun, the Los Angeles Times printed an apology for a story in which it was alleged that Sean "Diddy" Combs and music manager Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemond knew in advance about the 1994 NYC attack on Tupac Shakur that would become the catalyst for the infamous and deadly East Coast-West Coast hip hop beef. Pulitzer-winner Chuck Philips, who wrote the offending article, and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, apologized for the error-filled story, which relied on documents that TSG found to be forged by an imprisoned, delusional con man.

"In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Philips said in a statement Wednesday. "I'm sorry."

In his statement, Duvoisin added: "We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck's. I deeply regret that we let our readers down."

Diddy's lawyer has contacted the paper and, in a letter, explained his belief that the false story amounted to "actual malice," which means his client is eligible for damages in a libel suit. When the original article was published online last week, Diddy immediately denied the allegations. And he was actually telling the truth!

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Tupac/Biggie-nut Chuck Philips might have relied a bit too heavily on FBI documents for his recent big story in the LA Times, in which he alleges Sean Combs knew that Tupac Shakur was going to be attacked in NYC in 1994 before it happened. The Smoking Gun found that the FBI documents were forged by "James Sabatino, 31, [who] has long sought to insinuate himself, after the fact, in a series of important hip-hop events, from Shakur's shooting to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G.. In fact, however, Sabatino was little more than a rap devotee, a wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida whose own father once described him in a letter to a federal judge as 'a disturbed young man who needed attention like a drug.'" Way to go, Philips.

According to TSG, the forged FBI documents were riddled with spelling and grammar errors" and created on a typewriter, which FBI agents haven't used in 30 years. Sabatino is currently serving time at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. When provided with the information, representatives from the LA Times said they would launch their own investigation. Philips apparently worked on the story for six months before it was published last week.

Suge Knight, founder of Death Row Records and probable assassin of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, is set to star in a new project about his life and work called Unfinished Business. According to preview above, Unfinished Business will present viewers with eye-opening portrayals of Knight et al's strange business practices, which include threats, humiliation and acts of violence. (Not that these are unorthodox business methods, but rarely is the cruelty so straightforward.) Exactly what Unfinished Business is – reality series? direct to DVD documentary? minstrel show? – is unclear and unexplained in the video.

If you know what the hell Unfinished Business is, let us know. And everyone stay out of Suge Knight's way. He is not a nice man.

Chuck Phillips, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning LA Times journalist who is hated around New York for his controversial stories about Tupac — in 2002, he fingered Notorious B.I.G. for Tupac's death, and on Monday he alleged in a story that both Diddy and Biggie knew about an infamous 1994 attack on Tupac at NYC's Quad City Studios before it happened — defended his reporting in a live chat on MTV.com yesterday.

Philips noted that he wasn't originally pursuing the Quad Studios incident for a story. In the chat, he explained that he was in New York last year reporting and "stumbled" on the story after discovering the names of the three assailants who purportedly attacked and robbed Shakur. Philips never confirmed what story he was chasing, but in a separate interview, he said he was investigating information regarding the 1997 murder of the Notorious B.I.G.

Phillips said he also has two more stories coming, one of which will probably be about Biggie's death. For his part, Diddy has vehemently denied having any involvement about the Quad City attack.

Chuck Phillips, the Los Angeles Times journalist who is hated by many for accusing one Christopher Wallace of orchestrating Tupac's 1996 murder, is at it again today. He says the Biggie and then-Puff Daddy knew about the infamous attack on Tupac at NYC's Quad City studios in 1994, during which he was beaten and shot five times, weeks before it happened. According to Phillips, Tupac was only supposed to have been beaten in the attack — for disrespecting Puffy and crew — but after Tupac pulled a gun, the plan went off course. He points the finger at talent manager Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond, who was in the news recently after 50 Cent sidekick Tony Yayo was arrested for slapping Henchman's 14-year-old son.. Henchman denies that he had any involvement in the assault, which probably took place around the time his son was born. Rosemond has never been charged, and he has said that the allegations are so preposterous they don't warrant a response.

• The first black member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis is looking to bridge the race-religion gap. And succeeding, it looks like. [NYT]

• Notorious, the film about Biggie's life, begins shooting in Brooklyn next week. Too bad it still has an open ending. [NYT]

• Aww, isn't Finland sweet. [YLE]

• Now chancellors at South African colleges are having a hard time admitting that racism exists on campus. Umm… [Times]

• Sinbad reveals Hillary Clinton's dirty little Bosnia secret. [WP]

• Remy Ma's probably hoping her attorney has some tricks up his sleeve. [AHH]

• The Biggie movie gets a Faith Evans and a Lil Kim — the booted chick from 3LW! [BV]

• Nia Long has a young boyfriend. Or something. [Bossip]

• TMZ paid $165,000 for the tape of OJ's robbery. I don't even think the stuff he was robbing was worth that much. [TSG]