Mister Cee, a Hot 97 DJ and semi-old-school hip-hop guy, was arrested last week and charged with public lewdness and exposure, according to the NYPD. The rumor mill has been great on the blogs! A sample: "Rumors of Mr. Cee engaging in homosexual activity have run rampant for years"! And there's some great hedging: "allegedly arrested after he was caught receiving oral sex from a male prostitute dressed as a woman, according to several news reports." What could it all mean? Perhaps... an "April Fool's Day prank or possibly someone that is not too fond of Calvin Lebrun aka DJ Mister Cee set him up to take a fall." Oh, I see. They add: "hopefully Cee can find a way to explain this debacle." Ha! Here's the take from Diary of a Hollywood Street King: "I do know Mister Cee reportedly likes to pay female strippers to urinate on him. Is that Hip/Hop? I don’t think so." Uh, are you kidding? Paying ladies to pee on you is totally hip-hop. It involves money, ladies and peeing! What's more hip-hop than that, fools? READ MORE

I sat in a parked car for an hour this morning, waiting out the no-parking-for-street-cleaning window, listening to Hot 97. I know they're basically a top-40 station, dedicated to whatever's currently most popular in "blazing hip-hop and R&B." But, God, I wish they'd expand their playlist. It really seems like they keep to a rotation of the same five or six songs at any given time. (Maybe they're a top-5 station?) Today, for example, they played Fabolous' "Throw It In The Bag" remix, featuring Drake, around 8:45, and then again at exactly 9:24. Twice in forty minutes! That's ridiculous. (The most recent playlist at Hot97.com has "Throw It In The Bag" ranked 5th. Trey Songz' "I invented Sex," also featuring Drake, is no. 1. So they're playing that one every, what 12 minutes? We're going to run into mathematical impossibility here...) But I don't even mind "Throw It In The Bag" so much. Much worse is the new Young Money song that's also playing with great frequency (ranked 9th on the playlist.) Have you heard it? It's called "Bedrock" and it absolutely plagued my drive back home from Boston after Thanksgiving. (So Hot 97's counterparts in Massachusetts and Connecticut must share some blame.) Young Money is Lil Wayne's group, featuring, yes, Drake, but also Mack Maine, Gutta Gutta, Nicki Minaj and, usually, way too much autotune. But the real problem with "Bedrock" is the chorus. READ MORE