Monday, August 4, 2008

Gum is the New Black

VIBE recently announced its newest - and frankly, dumbest - audience-engager yet: the "Best Rapper Alive" contest. Structured exactly like the NCAA bball tourney, the mag has fans vote in each round to determine the winner. And somehow, both Cam'ron and Bun B (huh?) get away with a #5 seeds. Strange.

Also - a Pun Spot contributor told me about the origins of Chris Brown's "Forever" jingle - turns out Ne-Yo wants in on the gum game too.


2 comments:

phatroukh said...

crazy.... a few thoughts:
1) wish i had knew about this sooner... would have been fun to have some kind of blog pool.
2) how about a BIG L (R.I.P.) bracket... or even a BIG L seed? sheesh
3) i got NAS going all the way

phatroukh said...

ohhh best rapper ALIVE... please disregard #2 above. (though i do think he deserves a bracket over pimp c)