Juelz Santana and Lil’ Wayne have been talking about recording an album together for months with no musical or promotional evidence to backup the claim. I wasn’t suprised by the delay, because these artist partnership situations hardly ever work (Cee-lo and Jazze Pha…what was that?). However, schedules have been worked out and studio time has been put in to make this shit happen. Here’s a link to one of the new tracks, Rubber Burnin’.

Angela Simmons recently familiarized the world with her plans of starting her own magazine on the last season of MTV’s Run’s House. Well, after an agreement between her, Rev. Run, and Word Up! Magazine founder, Scott Figman, we can all get to see the result of her editorial imagination. The fashion-based magazine, Angela Simmons’ Rundown, will hit newsstands across the country next week as a packaged bonus for Word Up! readers. The first issue will feature celebs such as Auntie Kimora, Chris Brown, Ne-Yo, & Bow Clown.

“It feels good. I feel empowered. I’m happy with it,” Angela Simmons told AllHipHop.com. “It’s a great opportunity for me. It connects back to what I like to do, which is fashion and I want to be a fashion designer. So everything that’s in the magazine is what I love.”

Angela is also moving into the position of executive editor for Word Up!, while her younger brother, Daniel, will run his own column called “Diggy’s Doin’ It”.

Run’s House has been renewed for a third season and will start taping again around Sept. 26th.

The loss of Star Jones’ spot on ABC’s The View, has finally taken a chunk out of her ass. I heard that she is making serious cuts in her spending to avoid bankruptcy. She has been caught hailing down taxi cabs instead of taking the usual limousine cruise, and I even heard some of her credit cards have been declined. So now, according to The Enquirer, she is pressuring her husband to generate a more substantial income. I guess The Al Reynold’s Spit & Swallow Escort Service isn’t taking off as well as they’d hoped.

“It feels exhilarating. It’s like a rebirth. It feels like God put me through hell, showed me a lot of things, showed me who the good people and bad people are around me, and lined me up to do what I’m put here to do…I embrace competition, because I get busy. Certain of my peers in the business, I know that they don’t want me to succeed. They prayed for me to go to jail.” — Irv Gotti says of his decision to move Murder Inc. to Universal Records.

Mr. Lorenzo, I’m gonna need you to sit your ass down somewhere. Dragging Murder Inc. to Universal is not going to bring Ja Rule back into the limelight. Hell, curing cancer couldn’t bring his ass back. Last I heard, Ashanti was getting ready to leave you and The Inc., and John Tucker Must Die only hurt her career even more, so she has little-to-no hope. Therefore, dubbing this move as a “rebirth” is a bit of a stretch. Calm down.

Oh, and I know you think you’re part of the Mafia, but you don’t need to be kissing niggas.

Joking…

Okay, by now you might have heard about Osama Bin Laden’s secret crush. One of the psycho’s former sex slaves, Kola Boof (Arab for Karrine Steffans), revealed that the man is smitten with Whitney Houston.

He said that he had a paramount desire for her and although he claimed music was evil, he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting.

He said he wanted to give her a mansion he owned in a suburb of Khartoum. He would say how beautiful she is, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband - Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have women’s husbands killed.

Kola added: “He explained to me that to possess Whitney, he would be willing to break his color rule and make her one of his wives.” [ StarPulse.com ]

So, why the hell is America still at war with this dude? Why don’t we just give him Whitney in exchange for peace? It’s not like she’s seeing anyone. Plus, Being Osama Bin Laden would be a very interesting reality show. Somebody call George.

Three days after the arrest of Busta Rhymes, the alleged assault victim has decided to speak up, claiming that Busta and members of his entourage kicked him in the face. Ouch.

The 19 year old man, who identified himself as Roberto Lebron, admitted to the New York Daily News Monday that he did spit on Busta’s car, but it was unintentional.

“Me and my friends were walking across the street. I spit on the street and it landed on a moving car. It was a Maybach. That car stopped, along with two black SUVs,” Lebron explained to the Daily News. “People came out and they were walking up to me. We realized it was Busta Rhymes.”

“He asked me, ‘Homie, did you spit on my car?’ I said ‘Sorry, I didn’t mean to. We’re big fans of yours.’ That was the last thing I said,” Lebron recounted. “One of his people hit me in the face and I fell on the ground and then Busta came over to finish the job.”

According to Lebron, Busta and his associates kicked and punched him and then took his Nike sneakers off his feet and tossed them away. The rapper’s crew purportedly kept Lebron’s three friends from coming to help him and then ran off after about two minutes. [ SOHH.com ]

So, I guess Busta really did kick someone’s ass. Now, I don’t feel so bad for him. I mean, damn nigga - It’s just spit. A little bit of Armor All would’ve had that shit lookin good as new.

I heard Diddy is working with the marketing department of Burger King for extended promotion of his upcoming album, Press Play. He is allegedly shooting various advertisments for a campaign with the fast-food company, where he will also help to endorse BK’s new restaurant items. I know a lot of people who work at the corporate headquarters, so I’ll see if I can find out more on this tomorrow. It might be interesting to see Mr. Combs do The Running Man while holding a Double Whopper with cheese, in his next video.

The Fly & Big Boi ; Bryan Barber ; Paula Patton

Patti Labelle ; Prostitute Barbie ; Terrence Howard

Susie Castillo ; Sway ; Mrs. Huxtable

Rapper, Lupe Fiasco, has become one of AOL Music’s Breaker Artists for the summer.

Lupe as well as other AOL Music Breaker artists will be showcased on AOLMusic.com during the season and across the AOL Music and Radio Networks via AOL Sessions, in-studio performance series, AIM music interviews, song and music video debuts and heavy rotation on AOL Radio. [ SOHH.com ]

Lupe’s debut album, Food & Liquor, is by far one of the most anticipated of the year and is scheduled for a turn-out on September 19th. He is currently promoting his second single, “Daydreaming” featuring Jill Scott, for which he has already shot a video.

Other artists featured on AOL’s Breakers list include 50 Cent, Keyshia Cole, The Game, and Corinne Bailey Rae.