Soulja Boy is tired of being hip-hop's scapegoat. Last year,Ice T claimed that Soulja Boy's success signaled the downfall of hip-hop.Critics, including this one, complained about the rapper's sophomore lyrics.

But the "Crank Dat" rapper fires back on his new track,"Soulja Boy Tell'em," the theme song from his new show, Soulja Boy Tell'em: TheAnimated Series. The song is also featured on his latest album, iSouljaBoyTellem. 

He puts us all in our places, spewing, "I'm doinginterviews, addressing all these critics trying to underrate me saying I ain'tgot no lyrics."

He argues that his popularity amongst his fans should be ofsome significance: "Three times platinum, yeah I broke the record. If you can'trespect that, tell me what is you respectin'." (It's important to note that thethree times platinum reference he makes is associated to his ring tones sales,not albums.)

Soulja Boy goes on to claim that he "spits fire," suggeststhat "old washed up rappers" retire, and says he sells more

The internet is flooded with 2008 lists--top news, best albums and wildest moments. But for the past five years, none have summed things up better than Skillz.

The Virginia based MC has dropped his "Wrap Up 2008" that compiles the year's hip-hop highlights. As usual, Skillz' brutally honest account of the year spares no mercy on the newsmakers, leaving Suge Knight, 50 Cent, Rick Ross, R. Kelly and dozens of others victims of Skillz' comic wrath.

My favorite lyrics are about K-Ci & JoJo and Keyshia Cole's The Way It Is BET reality series. I won't spoil them for you. Check it out.

Watch an outtake from Keyshia Cole's The Way It Is and see if you agree with Skillz' opinion about the show. 

Below, see the clip that earned R&B duo K-Ci & JoJo a mention in the song. 

Amy Winehouse's marriagewasn't just the worst thing to happen to her music. It appears to be the worstthing to happen to her personally.

The controversial singer finallyhas an alibi for being hooked on drugs, and it's a good one. Her husband BlakeFielder-Civil recently admitted to introducing her to hardcore drugs.

In the U.K.publication News of the World, aremorseful Fielder-Civil takes responsibility for giving his wife crack cocainein addition to other illegal substances. He claims he would divorce her if itcould help save her life.

Us magazinepicked up the News of the Worldreport in which, in my opinion, Fielder-Civil is conveyed as someone lookingfor sympathy.

I appreciate Fielder-Civilfor being man enough to admit his wrong. That's always a good starting point.But I question his being so willing to walk away from the marriage. I believethat people need to clean up their own messes. If he is cognizant enough toacknowledge his role in her demise, he should be just as willing to

Someone just asked me what I thought of Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak and it was hard for me to answer.

Last month I blogged that I liked the album's first single "Love Lockdown" but could not get past the fact that the outspoken rap star could not sing. I even joked that "Love Lockdown" was cool, but that Kanye should stick to rapping and absolutely not release an R&B album. Two days later, I found out that 808s & Heartbreak mainly featured Kanye singing, as opposed to rapping.

808s & Heartbreak isn't so much an R&B album as much as it just features Kanye West singing on the majority of the songs. A lot of rappers sing their way through their rhymes-Nelly, Snoop, will.i.am-so this isn't the first time a rapper has tried this. However, it has to be among the first times that a rapper has released an entire singing album.

Though Kanye's singing talent is suspect, his production is still among the best. The music is consistently good throughout the album, and Kanye tries keep his