Human itching powder Soulja Boy's Internet accounts were all hacked last week. Nightmare! Can you even imagine? I mean, his YouTube access was locked for literally hours.

Did the hack make the crappy rapper wary of all the technology of which he's so fond? Of course not; that would be too rational. As soon as his passwords were restored, Soulja Boy – who is neither – took to his beloved YouTube, threatened the hacker and then weirdly proclaimed his shock at how racist the Internet is. Funnily enough, before asking people to stop calling him a "nigger" in comments sections, SB himself uses the word seven times, and then four times after!

Oh, Soulja Boy, you sure do tell 'em.

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Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

This conversation has begun in another post, but I'm broaching it here in order to take The View, Whoopi Goldberg, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck out of the equation. I wrote of my own preferences and opinions regarding the word "nigger" a while back here on Stereohyped (my stance tends to soften and harden as the wind blows, but the general idea remains the same), and now I'm posing the question to you. Do you use nigger (or any variation thereof) in general conversation? Why or why not? Do you agree with the argument that it's fair game for black people to use it and not anyone else? Let loose.

Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy was performing "Peace Sign" on stage with his group during the St. Louis Warped Tour stop when a black audience member called him a "fucking ignorant nigger." That's when things went downhill.

McCoy calmly asked the man, “What did you just call me?” As security was removing him from the crowd, the frontman reached down and broke his microphone over the man’s head. McCoy immediately apologized for his reaction and said it wasn’t representative of him as a person. “I’m sorry. But when someone calls you something that ignorant and that offensive, you have to bash their head in with a microphone,” said McCoy.

McCoy was arrested on stage at the end of the group's set on one charge of third-degree assault. The dude who got a microphone busted over his head remains anonymous. [RS]

Some might think this is old news, since rumors of a Charlie Sheen-to-Denise Richards voicemail during which he called her a "fucking cunt" and a "fucking nigger" (an odd choice, considering) surfaced long ago. But yesterday, the female half of the incredibly vitriolic ex-married couple actually released the audio. Apology and requisite mention of an African-American best friend soon followed:

"I deeply apologize by my choice of words to all I have obviously offended; especially to Tony Todd, an African-American, who was my best man at my first two weddings."

Sheen added, however, that "three and one-half years later, the reasons that caused the anger and frustration displayed on that voice mail continue to be manifested on a daily basis" because "my children did not show up today for a custodial visit without explanation."

These people are gross.

• The marketing exec at Universal in charge of Ashanti's album might want to rethink his or her career path. [WAOD]

• The Wire gets some love, finally. But I'm still really dreading the Emmy nominations. [BV]

• Nas's "Be A Nigger, Too" video is out. That's all. [CL]

• A new study shows that blacks are the most frequent hate crime victims in Canada. [AFP]

• His Royal Purpleness is now 50. And still rocking the stilettos. [E!]

NAS IS NOTHING IF NOT PERSISTENT Intent on naming something, anything Nigger, Nas, with the assistance of DJ Green Lantern, is releasing a mixtape with the name that his album would have had if he was not actually in a money-making business. [AHH]

Someone at Def Jam finally figured out (or knew all along and were just trying to get the maximum amount of publicity first) that naming an album Nigger is pretty much setting yourself up for poor sales and major issues with retailers. So after all the hype, Nas' newest album, which hits stores July 1st, will simply be called Nas. Nas said that he considers the album untitled.

"It's important to me that this album gets to the fans," he told EW.com. "It’s been a long time coming. I want my fans to know that, creatively and lyrically, they can expect the same content and the same messages. It's that important. The streets have been waiting for this for a long time. The people will always know what the real title of this album is and what to call it."

Now what's he going to do with all of those t-shirts he had made?

Dog the Bounty Hunter, who went on a tour of contrition after his son sold a tape of him dropping numerous n-bombs in reference to Dog Jr.'s black girlfriend, is coming back to A&E. Apparently the appropriate amount of time has elapsed after his racist rant.

"We're really confident that the time is right to bring him back,” said Dan Silbrman, the network’s vice president of publicity.

Dog wants everyone to know that he might have said a few objectionable things, but that's not who he is. Who is he, exactly? “I'm famous for grabbing someone if they're a felon, you know with blood in one eye and a tear in the other," he said. “'I'll hunt you down and then call you brother - that's the Dog.’” One things for sure, he won't be hunting anyone down and calling them "nigger."

Bill Hudson, a Minneapolis-Saint Paul news anchor, recently made a tremendous on-air gaffe that he now calls a "very humiliating experience." While trying to read a story about a Twin Cities neighborhood, Hudson slurred his words and accidentally said "nigger-hood." He didn't even notice his error until a colleague pointed it out at the end of their broadcast. The next day, Hudson issued a public apology that aired both on television and his station's Web site. He said he was "very embarrassed."

Case closed, right? Wrong. Tyrone Terrill, the Director of St. Paul's Human Rights department, is speaking out and equating Hudson's slip of the tongue with Don Imus' "nappy-headed hos" comment: "I can't believe it. …. Everybody says, 'It's a mistake, it's a mistake, it's a mistake.' They are not mistakes. I don't believe Don Imus' [slur] was a mistake…"

Perhaps the mistake was hiring Terrill, no?

This 1992 video of James Carville, George Stephanopolous, and Mickey Kantor, former Bill Clinton administration official and current adviser to Hillary Clinton, has been furiously circulating the blogosphere today. In it, Kantor, discussing election polls, says "Look at Indiana - 42-40. It doesn't matter if we win. Those people are shit. How would you like to be a worthless white nigger?" So far, there's been no repudiation or denouncing from the Hillary Clinton camp, but Kantor told the Huffington Post that he was set up, that he never actually said what it sounds like he said, and that he has never uttered the n-word in his life. Elsewhere on the web, I've read that Kantor actually says "how would you like to be beat by a worthless white nigger," referring to the way the Bush camp viewed Bill Clinton. In which case he has, in fact, uttered the n-word in his life, even if he meant it in a different way. The whole thing sounds insane, and, frankly, unlikely, but as we've seen time and time again, Americans (in this case, Indianans Hoosiers) will believe it if they want to, whether it's true or not. Barack Obama knows this better than anyone.

UPDATE: The director of the War Room, the documentary from which the video was pulled, backs Kantor, saying that the first portion of the quote was taken out of context and the second portion was fabricated. The person who made the Youtube video from the War Room footage maintains that it was not a hoax and that all he did was increase the sound on the portion of the video in which Kantor delivers the alleged quote. In the original footage (fast forward to 4:40) you can't hear what Kantor is really saying.

BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS "An off-duty reserve Wakeman [Ohio] police officer was arrested Friday after allegedly assaulting and screaming racist remarks at his estranged wife's roommate. Wakeman police officer William Hodge, 35, of Sheffield Township, is accused of punching and threatening a 26-year-old Lorain man outside an elementary school Friday morning. … The incident took place at about 8:50 a.m. Friday at Vincent Elementary School in Lorain where Hodge's 32-year-old wife, Dawn Hodge, and her roommate, Byron Hendon, were dropping off Hodge's children and several children Dawn baby-sits, a police report states. Hodge saw the van, approached it and threw his police uniform and badge at his wife, allegedly saying, 'I'm already going to jail, so you should take these.' He then pointed at Hendon and said 'you're (a) dead nigger' … "

Nas has released the first single from his controversial upcoming album, "Nigger," and it should come as no surprise that it's called "Be a Nigger, Too."

A sample:

"Not mad cause Eminem said Nigger/Cause he’s my Nigger/Wigger/Cracker friend/We all black within/ We all African within/Some Africans don’t like us no way/A killing happened in Johannesburg yesterday.”

All right. In the song, Nas also shouts out "Kike Niggers," "Spic Niggers," "Guinea Niggers," and "Chink Niggers," since apparently we're all in this together. I keep expecting/hoping for some semblance clarity whenever he speaks about the album, but all I get is… this. Who's buying this? Pas moi. [AHH]