Yes, I KNOW that the Miss Rap Supreme finale aired nine days ago.

It's been nine long days since pimpsuited hip-hop lothario Kool Keith serenaded newly crowned MRS pageant winner Rece Steele.

Nine days since Kool Keith appeared in first runner-up Byata's mirror, Snow White-stylee, crooning/ordering her to step off.

Or, as of this writing, more specifically eight days, 12 hours, and 21 minutes ago.

But it's hard to get over this awesome show (or my innocent girl-crush on Byata, or my NOT-so-innocent woman-crush on Bellhop Willy) when VH1 insists on monopolizing my weekend by running a 10-hour Miss Rap Supreme Sunday marathon, MRS co-hostess Yo Yo stops by my office...AND my work shoots a special Mic Pass segment starring the MRS laydeez in all their mic-rockin' glory!

So until season 2 goes into production--or until VH1 runs another Miss Rap Supreme marathon--here's Yahoo!'s new Pepsi Smash Mic Pass video, featuring Rece, Byata, Nicky 2States, D.A.B., Bree, Chiba, and even legendary

As has been hyped for weeks now, on this season of Nashville Star the contestants will be mentored by the show's three judges--Jewel, John Rich, and Jeffrey Steele--who will bring their combined 50 or so years of music biz experience and expertise to the proverbial table.

On paper, this seems like a fine and dandy idea. Nashville Star's panelists pride themselves on having a kinder, gentler approach than Simon Cowell and cutthroat critics on other TV talent shows, after all--so it makes sense that they'd want to go out of their way help the contestants, and make their constructive criticism especially constructive.

But it will be interesting to see how this practice works in real life.

See, each of the judges is going to be assigned three or four finalists to mentor personally. But will this arrangement bias them in any way? Will the judges be able to critique one of their own protégés as honestly and impartially as they would any other contestant on the show? And more importantly,

Some people may feel sorry for poor, poor Brett Asa Young...or "Ace," as he is more commonly known.

See, the season 5 American Idol also-ran is possibly most famous for nearly getting an asswhupping on national TV at the famous fleet-fingered hands of Queen axeman Brian May, who was none too thrilled with Ace's attempt to remake "We Will Rock You" as an R&B slow-jam. It was certainly a case of Queen beating the Ace that time around.

The seventh-place runner-up also gained notoriety this year when he returned to the Fox network on Bones, playing the rather undignified role of a karaoke singer who warbles Nickelback and later gets murdered. (Hey, he sang a Nickelback song--he had it coming!)

But yo, don't you feel too sorry for Ace. He ain't doing too shabbily. After all, the guy co-wrote the gibungous "It's Not Over" with former fellow finalist Chris Daughtry--meaning he not only made a massive chunk of change, but he got nominated for a friggin' Grammy.

So anyway, when Ace isn't

Miss Rap Supreme just wrapped up last night, and already I miss it. I loved everything about this show: the '70s variety-show-style intro, that nerdy-but-sexy bellboy, the Salt-N-Pepa Suite afterparties, the lifesized furry cockroach and his puppet posse, the bizarre "STEP OFF!" skits at the end of each episode, the (usually Chiba-instigated) catfights, turban-swathed Yo Yo's "mirror mirror" alerts...EVERYTHING. Really, I'm so sad this show is over.

But easing me through my Miss Rap Surpeme withdrawals today was hostess with the mostess Yo Yo herself, who stopped by Yahoo! Music HQ this afternoon (her genie turban swapped for a baseball cap) to discuss the MRS finale. And she mercifully answered all my burning questions: did the right femcee win, is champion Rece Steele working on an album, and, most importantly...

WILL THERE BE A SEASON 2????

Check out my Yo Yo interview here: