.@MikeBloomberg on @ChrisCQuinn's living wage bill: "Last time you had a big managed economy was the USSR and that didn't work out so well."

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) April 13, 2012

It's Friday, so it's the day that New York City Mike Bloomberg says tons of wild stuff! The living wage bill, if you haven't been tracking, provides a guaranteed minimum wage for people who work on some projects that have New York City subsidies. It will affect literally hundreds of people. Heh. Perhaps 500, and those workers would be guaranteed at least "$10 an hour with benefits, or $11.50 an hour without benefits." [...]

Diamond is an Atlanta rapper who came to fame six years ago as a part of Crime Mob, a group of high school kids who signed to Lil John's label, BME Records. (So you know they were crunk, because Lil John, he always tells the truth.) They made a couple good records with Lil Scrappy, who will always have a place in my heart because of his song "No Problem," which is one of the most crunk songs I know, a great favorite of mine. Diamond, who is now Lil Scrappy's girlfriend (and, unfortunately, suffering some recession-related problems with him), has left Crime [...]

When I was in college, a guy I knew had a really bad day when, at the behest of two platonic girl friends, he drew a picture of where he thought the clitoris was located in relationship to the vagina. He drew it at the bottom. And the girls told everybody. First of all, I swear that I am not the guy in this story. Secondly, too bad Maybach Music Group singer Masspike Miles wasn't around back when we were in college, because he has apparently invented a device designed explicitly to locate hard-to-find features of the female anatomy. I would quote the lyrics to this song, which are [...]

Rap Radar's B.Dot says T-Pain's new chain looks like "a bedazzled dildo." He's right. It does. Meanwhile, that massive medallion swinging from Kanye's neck during his performance at Sunday's BET awards? It was in the shape of the falcon-headed Egyptian deity Horus, and it cost $300,000. So there you go.

Gucci Mane got a great set of synth horns from producer Drummer Boy for his new single, and a guest spot from Cash Money Records owner Bryan "Birdman" (a.k.a. "Baby") Williams. And considering all the CGI explosions and fire and bullets and doves in the video Dallas-based director Mr. Boomtown made for it, the only thing missing is Nicolas Cage.