We didn't see this coming. The Stone Temple Pilots filed suit against Scott Weiland Friday and are asking for a judge to stop him for using the band's name and songs.

We expected legal action to result from the band's tiff, but thought Weiland would be the one to fire the first shot, since he was "terminated" in February. Then STP turned up last weekend at KROQ's 21st Annual Weenie Roast as surprise guests with a surprise new lead singer, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington.

STP perform with Bennington (Photo: C Flanigan)Weiland finally broke his silence on the matter on Friday in an open letter on his website, saying his old band's performance with Bennington was a "surprise" and it "hurt," and his former bandmates were misleading the band's millions of fans by calling their collaboration with Bennington Stone Temple Pilots.

Strangely, the band makes some of the same points in their lawsuit about the group's name as Weiland did in his letter. The group's other members — brothers guitarist Dean and bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz — claim they own the rights to the band's name, songs, copyrights and trademarks and Weiland has no right to play the band's music in his solo shows.

Ray J and model Luba (Photo: John Ricard)Let's face it: Kim Kardashian owes a lot of her success to Ray J. It was the sex tape she made with Brandy's little brother that put her on the map, so can you really blame Ray J for playing the Kim K. card to try to reignite his career?

In his latest attempt to get more bang out of his former flame, Ray brought the Kim K. lookalike, who appears in his video for his controversial Kanye-baiting single "I Hit It First," with him for an appearance Wednesday on BET's "106 & Park."

By Jon Wiederhorn

(TimDogMusic.com)Back in February, a small portion of the hip-hop community mourned the death of controversial rapper Tim Dog (Timothy Blair), who was best known for his antagonistic 1991 anti-West Coast scene cut "F--k Compton," though he also worked with the Ultramagnetic MCs. Well, that song didn't get the East Coast rapper whacked; apparently he died from complications due to diabetes.

But recently, a judge in Desoto County, Miss. questioned the death reports and issued an arrest warrant for Tim Dog, whom he believes faked his death.

The District Attorney’s office pointed out that a death certificate was never filed, and sources that were once close to the rapper have no idea where he is buried. Furthermore, none of the obituaries for the rapper mentioned a burial site.