Just in case you didn’t know, Jay-Z has officially arrived. Add the New York Yankees to the growing list of those who have partnered with Hov. The cultural icon recently inked a deal with The Billion dollar baseball team to co-brand several pieces of merchandise. The limited edition hats, hoodies and t-shirts will be available from now until September 14th which is the date of the concert that he and Eminem will headline.

Adolf Hitler may have been descended from both Jews and Africans, DNA tests are indicating, the Daily Mail reported.

Paraphrased in the words of my favorite rapper “Damn why they trying to stick us for our paper”. Yes indeed, bloggers have now turned what was once a platform to share your ideas and thoughts to a full fledged multi-million dollar business. Some blogs boast readerships of over 1 million and advertisers have taken notice. The beauty of blogs are that they are non-conventional and that proves to be advantageous and lucrative for businesses trying to expand business and reach a more widespread audience.

A new album from the King of Pop will be unleashed in November.

And the saga continues. Unless you have been sleeping under a rock, I’m quite sure you have heard about longtime radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger and her national on air N-word rant. I mean really, what’s good with all of these mad-rapper style “tell em why you mad son” N-word sessions. To be quite honest I’m over the N-word , so upon hearing foolishness like this, I quickly place the individual in the “crazies” box and keep it moving.

If you haven’t already heard we here at Smugger will let you in on a little secret. The new Miami Vice, fun-in-the sun , LeBron James will grace the cover of the September Fall Fashion edition of GQ. The one good thing that has come out of the whole LeBron James fiasco is a lot of good journalism. It was refreshing to see journalists force to analyze a situation that was not so cut and dry. LeBron-mania was a true journalist’s dream, and GQ went in.

Shares in American Apparel, the clothing choice of urban hipsters, plummeted more than 13 percent as the company disclosed receiving a federal subpoena over its change in accounting firms.

The people who want their country back wants to dictate which people gets to build what where? Are they going to ban any mosques or Muslim-related establishments from being built anywhere there was an incident involving somebody that identified as Muslim?

Jay-Z hauled in a truckload of cash this year. The hip-hop mogul was recently crowned the highest paid rap star on Forbes magazine’s Top Earning Musicians of 2010 list.

Sure, the social networking monstrosity that is Facebook invades almost every fabric of our online lives. It’s like our own little personal reality show. People watch us from a far and we watch them back via news feeds, photos, videos, walls posts, personal notes, and status updates. Hell, sometimes I’ll ask for a girl’s Facebook page before I ask for her number. It’s gotten that bad. But as much as Facebook is burned into our actual realities and as much as we doodle hours of our personal lives entertaining ourselves by clicking thorough somebody else’s life would we want to see a movie about the guy responsible giving us Facebook and all the drama behind it?