• Michelle Obama doesn't know what she's wearing tonight. National emergency! [People]

• The Australians have decided to lighten up and let Snoop into their country. I mean, if they allowed K-Ci and Jo Jo past customs, then it's only fair. [EUR]

• Scary Spice is getting a $400,000 payment from OK! magazine to renew her vows with her duck-killing husband. It ain't Vivienne and Knox money, but it pays the bills. [SP]

• Remind me to never get on Faith Evans' bad side. [NYP]

• US Boxing is not exactly a force to be reckoned with. [BV]

Lovable Crip Snoop Doggy Dogg’s tour bus was pulled over in famously rapper-friendly Texas yesterday, and you won’t believe what police found: weed! During the course of what was supposed to be a citation for expired tags, two of Mr Doggy Dogg’s entourage, Ethan Calhoun, 27, and Kevin Barkey, 26, were arrested after they admitted to having one ounce each of marijuana, which police had smelled.

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• When you've reached a certain point in your career, all you have left to do is Bollywood. [HP]

• Chris Brown and Rihanna go on vacation. They're probably chewing Wrigley's as they jet ski. [NB]

• Tell us how you really feel, Jon Voight. [Bossip]

• Rick Ross is still denying ever being a CO, despite irrefutable evidence. Oh, and just so you know, it wasn't Trick Daddy who outed him. He's busy frying up conch fritters. [MTV]

Shante Broadus, the (one must assume) long-suffering wife of Snoop Dogg, caught a lucky break now that she's of all DUI charges after she was arrested last month. The DA rejected the charges, saying there was not enough evidence that the reality show star was driving under the influence of marijuana. Luckily, being married to the biggest weedhead on earth can't be held against her in the court of law. [SP]

Unfortunately, Snoop's obsession with country music didn't end with here. He's just released a video for a "country" song, which is dedicated to Johnny Cash, that he recorded with Willie Nelson. "My Medicine" is a song about the only thing he and Willie Nelson have to offer each other. Of course, I'm talking about weed.

Now that he's free to roam the streets, pen catchy-when-you-don't-pay-attention-to-the-lyrics, misogynistic, and sexually-explicit songs, R. Kelly has joined an elite group of super-stars who narrowly avoided lengthy jail terms for major crimes. Yes, as an acquitted celebrity, he'll join an exclusive club of Famous People Who Got Away With It (Whether They Were Guilty Or Not). Check out some of the club members after the jump. At least two of them, like R. Kelly, have been ruled guilty in the court of public opinion, but who cares if what the public thinks if the jury says you're innocent!

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Question of the day: Does a modest amount of reality show fame (and being married to Snoop Dogg) drive an otherwise law-abiding mother of three to drink and drive? Or does a modest amount of reality show fame cause us to actually report it when the formerly-low-profile wife of a rapper catches a DUI? I don't know the answer. But I do know that Shante Broadus was arrested for DUI this weekend. There's no word on whether or not it was caught by E!'s cameras. [TMZ]

• Just in case you were still worrying about the possibility that there really is a video of Michelle Obama referring to "whitey" floating around. [AN]

• Janet Jackson's label has ceased all promotion for her newest album, so don't expect another single. [SP]

• Snoop delivers marital advice to Beyonce and Jay-Z. Okay. [People]

• Does Bobby Brown still have delusions of grandeur? Yep? Just checking. [C&D]

• In addition to smoking copious amounts of crack, Amy Winehouse knows racist versions of childrens' songs as well. [GW]

THESE PEOPLE REALLY HATE SNOOP There are few people who would describe Snoop Dogg as a saint, but really, Brits, is it this serious. There are surely much more dangerous people crossing the UK's borders everyday, and yet an untold amount of resources is being used to try to keep Snoop out. After a judge overturned the UK's Snoop ban, the British Home Office has lodged it's second appeal to try to block the borders from the weed-smoking hip hop veteran. It's not really that deep, is it? [Guardian]

A Snoop-friendly judge has overturned the British immigration minister's ruling not to allow Calvin Broadus into the UK after a much-hyped brawl between Snoop's entourage and police at Heathrow in 2006. Back in November, I ruled (from on high) that the videotaped incident seemed to have been initiated by police, and the judge agreed. He didn't even spit on anyone!

Now here's the big question: Snoop can officially enter the UK, but does anyone in the UK care? [Guardian]

Country Music Television Awards Rule #57: All famous black men must be dressed like idiots to gain admittance.

Jay-Z has shocked and excited the music industry with his new, innovative deal with concert promoters Live Nation, which is currently handling his "Heart of the City" tour with Mary J. Blige. If you haven't heard the details, Live Nation and Jay are working out a deal worth $150 million, which includes financing for his new label, the Carter Music Group, fees for his current tour, and a $10 million advance for a minimum of three albums in the next ten years. When his last album is due in 10 years, Jay-Z will be 48 years old. Are there are any other rappers out there with the longevity and business acumen to inspire a longterm deal of this magnitude? After the jump, we take a look at some of the more popular rappers and/or moguls in the game and examine whether they have this sort of business deal in their futures… or just think they should.

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The struggles of an aging rap superstar: Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin' debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 this week, behind Rick Ross, who's Trilla took the No. 1 spot, and the eight millionth NOW album. Fat Joe's aptly-named Elephant in the Room was No. 6. Rick Ross actually sold 198,000 copies, which is more than Snoop, with 137,000, and Fat Joe, with 46,000, sold combined. Florida's vote has officially been counted. Check out the top 10 after the jump.

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• LL Cool J calls on young people to seek out father figures. How about calling on fathers to actually stay in their kids' lives? [CM]

• Snoop Dogg's going to remix the One Life to Live song and make a cameo appearance on the soap opera. Yes. [EUR]

• Ever heard of a Bro Mitzvah? [JJ]

• Marylanders are pissed over an anti-immigration poster that depicts a (non-Hispanic) state legislator sporting a sombrero. [Ex]

• Hip hop invades Iran, much to the delight of the authorities there. [USNWR]

• The NY Post delivered this morning with it's headline for the scandalous Governor-Spitzer-pays-for-sex story. [NYP]

• "New York" and "Tailor Made" are confident that their relationship will thrive despite the fact that they live on separate coasts. Whew! The whole world breathes a sigh of relief. [People]

• The Vatican just released a new list of "sinful behaviors." I probably engaged in at least one of them while I was there last weekend. Oops. [CNN]

• According to the New York Times, Snoop "hints at some existential quandaries with its suggestion of a stumble over selfhood" with his ninth album, the just-released Ego Trippin'. [NYT]

• 10,000 BC is racist, bad, and historically inaccurate. Or so I hear. [TP]