Sigh.

It pains us to report this news, especially after Kevin McCall and all his choclatey goodness came by our office not too long ago. But we can’t be held responsible for this man’s foolishness, although we hope his team holds him accountable for his latest antics.

Mr. McCall, the man put on by Chris Brown thanks to his vocals on the singer’s hits “Deuces” and “Strip,” seems to be proving birds of a feather flock foolishly together, as his mouth entitled him to a royal butt whooping during a concert this weekend. The singer/rapper was in Melbourne, Australia, giving a concert when he pulled one of Breezy’s “that pu**y is mine baby” moves and began serenading a woman on stage.

When the crowd began to boo Kevin, he flipped out threatening to whoop the heckler’s you know what in front of everybody and encouraging him/them to come on stage if they really wanted to do something. Noticing there were no takers, Kevin proceeded to let the male audience members know in no uncertain terms, “I’ll f**k your b***h,” and just about as soon as the h sound left his lips, the men in the crowd let him know they don’t tolerate disrespect — with their hands, fists, and feet of course.

Can we say SMDH?

I’m really started to get disturbed by this new trend of concert-goer disrespect. While audiences do need to remember entertainers have feelings like everyone else, when people pay money to be entertained, they’re entitled to voice their opinion. What’s not acceptable, however, is how these entertainers (Read: Kevin McCall, Keyshia Cole, K. Michelle — hmm notice a pattern?) think it’s cool to like completely cuss out their fans like some randoms on the street. I mean they do know fans are their bread and butter right? If not, someone please remind them.

Eva better get her boo.

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They say the American public is quick to demonize and even quicker to forgive. I don’t know about all of that considering that with certain celebrity stories, we stay on critique mode, and never come around to forgiving and forgetting. Whether it be a certain singer’s supposed fake baby bump, or an old domestic abuse case that gets a new headline weekly, there are certain situations that we just need to get over, especially since we weren’t involved in any way. The expression of beating a dead horse cannot even be applied to these next examples, as I’m sure their corpses have already denigrated.

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Well, if you’re one of the few people who opted out of Olympics coverage, let me tell you: YOU. MISSED. OUT.  At almost any given time of the Olympics, especially during this past week with the focus on track and field, there was some type of eye candy flashing across the screen.  I’m talking about cuties from every country, in every flavor, matching almost everyone’s taste.  Let’s see what we found…

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You would think being an international swimsuit model would be enough to afford Simone Farrow a pretty comfortable life, but it seems the money just wasn’t enough for the 37-year-old. Desperate for cash perhaps, after her days of being the face of Ed Hardy were over, she picked up a little hustle on the side—trafficking high-grade crystal meth around the world.

Simone was arrested in Queensland, Australia last week after skipping out on bail over a month ago. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Australian police, Simone used 19 different aliases to ship methamphetamine around the world by FedEx and even the postal service, hiding the drugs in shipments of bath salts. When Simone was arrested she denied the charges, of course, but also claimed she was hiding from a killer, not the police.

“The only reason I’ve done this is because someone was trying to murder me,” she told Australia’s Sunday Telegraph. “I’ve been in … relationships with numerous underworld figures or whatever you want to call them and I feel that maybe they feel threatened by my situation.”

I’m willing to bet the pin-up girl and Penthouse “pet” was running from both, which former special agent Brad Garrett told ABC News is typical for a girl like her.

“It’s not uncommon in the modeling and entertainment industry,” he said. “If your skill set doesn’t take you any place else, where’s it going to take you? A quick buck would be distributing methamphetamine. It tells me that she was not that sophisticated, and she may be desperate for money.”

Ouch. At least seven other people are expected to be involved in the ring, but authorities say Simone was the mastermind behind the scheme. According to the Sunday Telegraph, one of the alleged members committed suicide in a Hollywood motel after being contacted by US authorities.

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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Get ready to roll your eyes. A couple of days ago, a video of The Game spitting on female fans at a concert after party went viral online and made viewers cringe with disgust at the rapper’s bullish behavior. Sensing the backlash, The Game decided to explain his actions to XXL magazine, although he may have been better off just keeping his mouth shut with this weak reasoning. Here’s what he said:

“This girl and her dude were at the concert, and we had a meet and greet,” he said. “It was like 100 people, plus we have to get to an after-party, so we [focused on] doing everything on schedule. You shake my hand, I sign one thing from each person and take a picture with each person. So, they wanted to hold up the line, and there’s other people behind ’em, and we got time constraints. They acting crazy, [saying], ‘we paid all this money and we can’t even chill!’ I guess they wanted to chill, go back to the hotel and smoke with a N***a and be my kid’s godfather. So, security had to take them out because they got a little crazy.”

“We go to the after-party and here are these same two people. They by the VIP [area], kind of doing the heckling s***, and throwing s*** throwing Red Bull cans. But ain’t none of it hitting me. The dude starts spitting loogies and drinking s*** and spitting it. The s*** started getting closer and closer to where we was at. He keeps spittin’ and finally, the f***in’ s*** hit me. So I went over and I f***in’ spit.”

Securrrrrity anybody? The Game went on to say his saliva didn’t actually hit anybody because, unfortunately, he has bad aim.

“My spit hit the f***in’ ground. That girl didn’t have no spit on her. The dude didn’t have no spit on him. They just saying some s***, making a scene, and then they left.

“That video don’t show me spitting on nobody. I didn’t spit on nobody, but, I definitely tried to spit on the b****. I just missed. But I’m not the best at aiming spit. Me, to get up and spit on somebody? I’m not doing that unless I’m provoked.”

Now don’t get me wrong, someone spitting “loogies” at, near, on, or anywhere around me would definitely make me want to lay hands; however the fact that he emphasized trying to spit on “the b****” when the guy was the one spitting only proves my point further: He’s a weak boy who tries to prove his manhood by assaulting women. Let’s see how he explains the other fan getting pushed off the stage.

Does this explanation justify The Game’s behavior in your opinion or make him look worse?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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I like rap music—a lot—which is sometimes hard to reconcile with other values, and rappers like The Game make it increasingly harder to defend the majority of the lyrics and lifestyle behaviors that go along with this genre, particularly as a woman.

What The Game lacks in album sales he makes up for in media coverage of his ridiculous antics; and although his lack of success in the actual rap game makes him easy to ignore, his overt disrespect of women does not. Jay Electronica already had to hand it to The Game late last year over lyrics disrespecting Erykah Badu but it seems 50 Cent’s former protégé could use another refresher on being a gentlemen based on two web scandals he’s currently involved in. The first is a video of the rapper at a nightclub in Australia. For a few seconds the rapper is seen chilling in VIP and the next, he is leaning over a railing and spiting on a group of girls below him. As the girls turn around appalled and one fan screams “How Dare You,” The Game removes his chain from around his neck and hands it to one of his boys. The clip ends shortly after, with the girls exiting the club, but I think we’ve all seen The Game’s gesture before and are quite familiar with what he intended to do.

But if you’re willing to spit on and fight a girl in a club, why not egg your boys on to push one off of a stage when she refuses to bare it all. That’s the second internet controversy following the Compton rapper. At a show in Adelaide, a young woman comes on stage with several other fans of his (who knew he had so many?) and she is immediately pressured to “show them t***ies.” A couple members of The Game’s crew even grab her breast and try to pull her shirt down, and after trying to push the men’s hands away the girl proceeds to walk off the stage, only to be pushed off by someone in his entourage. The entire scene was trifling, disrespectful, and sick—and unfortunately not uncommon these days.

I was just having a conversation the other day about how men, who were at one time expected to protect women, have become the primary attackers themselves. It’s the easy target, I suppose, for men who struggle with their masculinity to step to a woman as though she is a man. He most likely has the advantage of stronger physical force, and if he can’t have that power over another man, slapping, pushing, spitting on, cursing out, hitting, and getting in the face of a woman is the next best thing. I’ve witnessed it more times than I’d like to, and it’s easy to sniff out the men who would cower at being confronted by a male counterpart, but love to try to intimidate women with power they really don’t have.

I’m not asking The Game to be a role model—a task which he would no doubt fail—but at the very least, an entertainer should respect his fans. It shouldn’t be a stretch to demand that he respect women too. I guess he gets points for being “the realest” out here and actually living what he talks about, although in this instance that’s no honorable recognition. So often it’s easy to dismiss the lyrics rappers spit in their songs as mere words, but The Game is an obvious example of a man who when he says “We make a move and act a fool while we up in the club” clearly means it. More importantly, he’s a man who has serious issues with women, and unfortunately has been given a platform to spread that hatred and influence others to follow suit as if sexual harassment and attacks against women somehow make you a man.

I know the perpetuation of this behavior is just as much the consumers fault as it is the rappers who write the lyrics in the first place but if rappers were smart, they’d start paying attention to where the buying power lies and recognize their growing female demographic and change their lyrics—and behavior—accordingly. And I’m not talking about throwing an “independent woman” track on the album and saying you love strong women either, I mean making a concerted effort to create content both men and women can stand by and support.

The Game just did himself a great disservice artistically with his disrespectful behavior, although I can’t say that he will be missed. With the extra time he’ll have on his hands not doing shows, maybe he’ll seek therapy to deal with his issues as a man and his need to feel adequate by disrespecting women any way possible.

Do you think most rappers have deep issues with women or are they just mocking behavior they see other men do? Do you struggle being a female rap fan or have you given up on the genre altogether?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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Many were surprised at how candid Seal was when he talked about the end of his marriage just days after he and Heidi Klum filed for divorce, but the singer recently stopped by he Fifi and Jules radio show in Australia and explained that he had an obligation to the public and to his fans to admit what was going on in his relationship. He told the hosts:

“When you publicize your marriage as much as our marriage was publicized, when you renew wedding vows, when you do all those things, what you are saying to people is … you’re giving people a picture of an ideal relationship that people aspire to.

“When it goes south, you can’t all of a sudden take the philosophy of a monk and decide to go for a vow of silence. It doesn’t really work like that,” he said. “I respect my wife’s decision not to talk about that, but I felt that people at least deserved some kind of explanation why the picture of the ideal wasn’t what they thought it was.”

He also said the split just happened to coincide with several previously scheduled public appearances due the release of his new album, and that he wasn’t seeking media attention to talk about their relationship.

“It’s not like this [split] happened and I decided the next week to go on the show,” Seal said. “I’ve tried my very best to protect the general welfare of my family, my wife included.”

I think this is one of the most respectful Hollywood divorces we’ve seen to date.

Do you agree that the public deserves explanations about celebrity splits for the reasons Seal said?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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(HuffingtonPost) – — An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with “salt and freshly ground black people.”

Penguin Group Australia’s head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader for the Pasta Bible should have picked up the error, but called it nothing more than a “silly mistake.”

The “Pasta Bible” recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto was supposed to call for black pepper.

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