• A Parisian birthday celebration for the grown old and sexy. [People]

• Apparently, Law & Order was shooting outside of our offices today. If I hadn't decided to work from the comfort of my couch, I might have actually had a chance to see "that black guy" in person. [Jossip]

• Remy Ma talks about being a Ma and explains how attempted murder charges prohibits one from being able to smash random women's heads through bathroom mirrors. [XXL]

• Condoleezza Rice visits the motherland. [NYT]

• LA Weekly takes us back to NWA's heyday. [RTNY]

• I guess the Georgia governor would have hated Tuesday's Rewound, too. [MSNBC]

• Awww, isn't Chris Brown polite to his elders? [MTV]

• I wonder what Jennifer Lopez would find more offensive, getting screwed by her record label or having Irv Gotti repeatedly refer to her as "JLo's big, old ass." [SR]

• Remy Ma encountered woman more ignorant than she is during her brief stint at Rikers. [Bossip]

• Listen to Erykah Badu's early birthday present to herself. [SB]

• The California Parks Dept. realized the PR disaster on their hands and paid off a farmer who had plans to build huge, stinking dairy farms next one of the states most important African American historical sites. [NYT]

• Economists continue to scratch their heads over why on earth blacks and hispanics have higher-cost subprime mortgage loans. [USAT]

• Racism is all the rage with the young kids these days. [WP]

• Steve Biko's message is still relevant in post-apartheid South Africa. [AFP]

• Beating up a witness in her shooting case probably won't help Remy Ma's situation. [IHT]

• I don't see boob job, I see well-placed "cutlets" and Hollywood Tape. But that's me. [SOHH]

• The other woman speaks! And its quickly apparent that no matter how nice or well-spoken she is, she's still pretty much an ass hole who had a baby with another woman's man. [SR]

• Please don't say Remy Ma was actually the inspiration for this look. [C&D]

• Try to resist the urge to get up and do it when you think no one's looking. [BV]

• DMC changed his name recently from Devastating Mic Controller to Deliver My Children. It's for a good cause, but it makes him sound a little like he's in need of an ob-gyn, right? [AHH]

Out of the celebs in attendance at Friday evening's Baby Phat/KLS show in NYC, the only one who might actually be caught dead in any of the B.P. get-ups on the runway is Remy Ma, who was probably salivating thinking of stuffing herself in that pink denim bedazzled suit. They rest came to see and be seen. See them and some looks from the show after the jump.

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• Oh my, this video is really doing too much. Am I the only one who thinks J Lo should recognize she's getting a little old for this?

• Remy Ma, why don't you worry about your own problems. Okay? [SP]

• Whoopi Goldberg had to take the ridiculousness one step further and call Michael Vick a "wonderful person." Not even the NAACP thinks that's true. [Jossip]

• If I believed that Diddy would ever stoop to buying his own drugs in an Ibiza club, then I would believe that's what he's doing in this video. [SR]

• Yeah, Kim. You made a dramatic exit, but why have you been publicly hanging out with him the past few days? [People]

• Meagan Good will star opposite yet another non-actor in the Mike Myers film Love Guru, which has a plot that made me dizzy. [BV]

• Remy Ma seems to think she has been blessed with both personal style and intelligence. [Bossip]

• Geez, how long ago did I show y'all "Read a Book"? The MSM is just catching on. [C&D]

• I know it's a slow news day, TMZ, but this is just ridiculous. [TMZ]

• No way. Did I really just admit to liking the TV show Dirty Jobs? [Clutch]

• Ew. Second story of the day — they really are back. Usher and Tameka are planning a wedding "real" wedding this weekend for family and friends, including Jermaine Dupri, Janet Jackson, Ashanti, and Diddy. [US]

• Every Jehovah's Witness in the world just clutched their chest in horror. And which one is it, Terrence Howard — do you have premarital sex or not? [SP]

• Jena High School administrators banned the sisters of one of the defendants in the infamous case from wearing "Free the Jena 6" shirts in school. Because it was "disruptive." [MSNBC]

• Remy Ma's alleged victim is just mad at all the female rappers. [BV]

• Venus Williams launches the largest clothing collection of any female athlete. Uh, congrats? [EUR]

A too-cool-for-school Chris Brown graces the cover of Vibe's October issue. Inside, he squashes rumors about being infatuated with Ciara and proclaims that he's a virgin — in our eyes…whatever that means. Also inside, an interview with notorious Newark mayor Cory Booker. I wonder if they asked him what its like to date Gayle King and Arianna Huffington at the same time?

But forget about the two C.B.'s, I'm all about the "THE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF THE DEBARGE FAMILY." Because what could be more relevant to today's music and culture scene? Actually, I love a tragic rise and fall story, as long as its done right.

Lastly, the cover boasts a story described as "From Foxy to Remy: How Girl Rappers Fell Off." Was Remy ever really on to begin with? I don't think she counts.

Pick it up September 11th.

Remy Ma could go to prison for allegedly shooting her friend in the stomach. If that doesn't pan out for the prosecution, someone needs to send her to jail for the crimes committed for crimes against hip hop and video-making** in this very low budget clip for her song "Shesus Khryst." She looks like she went to Home Depot for some wood planks, wrapped some twigs in her hair, draped herself in a white sheet and laid down in a sandbox. She might have used up her video budget on her legal fees.

And Christianity, if you're the religious type

I learned so much today in a NY Daily News item about Vivica Fox's birthday party, which I sort of made fun of yesterday. First, I felt kind of bad about saying she was the only celeb, because, even though they weren't in any photos, Shaquille O'Neal, Swizz Beatz, and possibly Star Jones were there. Hey, it ain't much, but it's more than nothing.

Secondly, I find out the Remy Ma, who showed up in a dress that was very similar to the birthday girls and hair that was all one color (!), had been uninvited as a result of her legal troubles and, after posing on the red carpet, was rejected by security at the door.

Lasty, I already knew that certain types of friends will turn on you in a minute if they think you threw them under the bus. It's something Vivica Fox, who was ordered by a judge not to drink until her DUI trial, should learn from this experience.

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Something nice about Vivica Fox on her 43rd birthday:

Despite the disappearing hairline, the collagen, and the silicone, the woman actually does look good for her age.

Something bad:

From the looks of the pictures, not too many of her celebrity friends decided to show up at her NYC birthday party last night. Even Jessica Simpson was a no show! In attendance were some some stylists, a couple of ANTM contestants (Nik and Keenyah, in case you were wondering) and Remy Ma, who was not only wearing basically the same dress (in red) as the birthday girl, but she actually had better hair, too.

Happy Birthday, Vivica!

[WI]

• If you're like Bill O'Reilly and have no earthly idea what a "gangsta rapper" is, by all means, call Virginia Tech and protest Nas's planned performance there. [BOB]

• While I wouldn't describe Remy Ma's current situation as good, things are looking better for her shooting case than they were last month. [NYDN]

• C'mon! Elvis Presley had to have been just a little bit racist, right? [HC]

• FedEx was ordered to hand over $55 million to a bunch of black and hispanic workers who were discriminated against by the company's human resources department. [BI]

• In Massachusetts' universal health care plan ever going to work? Because right now it's kind of a mess. [MSNBC]

Remy Ma, her manager Big Joes, and an anonymous friend who called into AllHipHop.com all say that the hair-challenged rapper did not shoot her good friend in the torso over $2,000. Well, duh.

The rapper's manager, identified by the paper as Big Joe of New Era Management, said Ma doesn't carry a gun and is not "the kind of person who would shoot someone." He also speculated that Barnes-Joseph was using the incident to seek money.

Barnes-Joseph's mother, Christina Barnes, told the Daily News that she didn't believe Ma's denial. "She shot my child and she knows that," she told the paper. "When the day comes, we'll all find out for sure." She also denied that her daughter would steal money from the rapper. "She doesn't need it and I didn't raise her like that."

Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but I think that Remy Ma's criminal record does indicate that she is the kind of person who would shoot someone. Not to mention hurl statues and bludgeon with umbrellas.

[MTV]

It's his Lebrogative.

Blair Underwood's resorted to writing books so he can adapt them into movies and star in them. [SP]

Danity Kane might not be breaking up, but they definitely don't like each other too much. [EUR]

Remy Ma's accuser claims that even after she shot her, the rapper stuck around to rummage through her purse for the $2000 she was looking for. [E!]

Jermaine Dupri recruits Janet Jackson to Island Def Jam. [AHH]