Before our ceremony begins please rise for the playing of this years Playahata.com Anthem, “Why?” by Jadakiss - yes, Jadakiss and it's not a misprint, we're having a hard time believing it too (Chorus: All that I been given Is this pain that I've been livin' / They got me in the system / Why they gotta do me like that / Try'd to make it my way / But got sent up on the highway / Why, oh why, Why they gotta do me like that ..... Why do [brothas] push pounds of powder / Why did bush knock down the towers ....(time for a DJ scratch),  ...Why did bush knock down the towers / Why you around them cowards / ... Why they stop lettin' [brothas] get degreez in jail / Why you gotta do 85 percent of your time / And why do [rappers] lie in 85 percent of they rhymes / Why they come up wit the witness protection / Why they let the terminator win the election Come on, pay attention) ……Okay you may now be seated)

R&B Album of the Year: Musicology  - Prince

While many of his contemporary, musical megastars, struggle to try and maintain their relevance, Prince has adjusted well to "life after the 80s". The fact that he will probably never again be as big as he was back then, hasn't seemed to bother him nor has it caused him to change, or try and get with the hot new producer to "make him current". Undeniably Prince's contribution to the genres of R&B, Rock, and much of the area in between is the stuff of legend, and if you let Dave Chappelle tell it, he's a hell of a basketball player too.  With such a wealth of talent and a reputation that makes accomplished musicians (saxophonist "Mike Phillips" for example ) happy to play second fiddle to him, Prince returned to prominence in 2004 with Musicology. With a deep and diverse fan-base and a catalogue that is even more so, it was obvious that it would be near impossible to match past success, or get long time fans to stop clamoring for the old hits so while promoting his new album he once again threw the industry a curveball. He packaged his new album as part of the price of admission to his sold out tour dates across the country, throwing the Soundscan figures into a tizzy and introducing long time fans to an LP that for many brought back feelings about his music, they had "back in the day". He then proceeded to rock each and every one of those tour dates, with a mixture of old and new material as fans forced him to play songs that he allegedly will retire and refuse to perform again after the tour. And though the ticket prices were high we hear the admission price was worth every dime.

Honorable Mention: 

Beautifully Human / Jill Scott - Was worth the wait but with a debut that set the bar so high it's kind of hard to fully meet everyone's expectations. And that wait was pretty long, I mean, not a "D'Angelo long" wait, but long enough.

Rap Album of the Year: (Tie) College Dropout - Kanye West and The Grind Date – De La Soul

Yeah, yeah, yeah we know Mr. West is apparently obnoxious and arrogant as hell but credit must be given where credit is due. College Dropout was one of the year's best albums and probably the most groundbreaking in that West was able to carve out a spot in the mainstream rap world without trying to be a studio gangster, pseudo drug dealer, and/or a pimp. True he's still into the "bling" but it's not over the top and it's an admitted personal flaw. Besides the LP is about more than that and he produced it himself. West was even able to drop a major single that was religiously themed but was so hot it even had the non-believers bobbing their heads. The trick now for West will be to prove he's not a "1-trick pony" as his production style of sampling sped-up, old, soul records is becoming a bit worn with him producing so many songs recently, in addition to his own album.

Honorable Mention: 

Street's Disciple / Nas  - "Want to know how to blow on your eighth LP" - he'll show ya. Not very radio friendly but if you liked Nas and hated Escobar then you'll probably like this double LP.

The Tipping Point / The Roots - One of their shortest LPs and the appeal is not quite universal, but Black Thought deserves some kind of Oscar for his impersonations of Cool G. Rap and Kane.

Movie of the Year: (Tie) Fahrenheit 911 and Ray

Maybe this film wouldn’t be sharing this award if it had actually succeeded in it’s goal of getting George Bush Jr. and Co. out of the White House, but regardless Michael Moore has done it again. The lightening rod, film director seems to be the only person these days, that makes films that are entertaining, informative, take on serious issues, and have major distribution. Either that or he is the only person with the wherewithal to get his movies in a significant number of theatres. Most documentaries are not all that entertaining, and even though Moore’s documentaries function more like fact based “cinematic editorials”, his work is doing a great job of at least bringing a basic understanding to the masses regarding some of the most important issues of our day. Fahrenheit 911 misses the mark in attributing too much power to the Saudi Royal family with respect to U.S. foreign policy, placing them in a position of control instead of the position of a propped-up client regime, which probably would have been more accurate and we would say that the DVDs “Hijacking Catastrophe” and/or "The Oil Factor" are the definitive multimedia looks at 9/11 and U.S. foreign and domestic policy under Bush Jr., but only one of the aforementioned films will ever be seen on the big screen in this country, any time soon.

Meanwhile on the autobiographical, less political side, Jamie Foxx has arrived! Foxx delivers an astounding performance as the late Ray Charles that will have you reminding yourself that you are not actually watching Ray Charles in the flesh. Foxx captures Charles from his hand gestures all the way down to his walk, and it couldn’t hurt that Foxx actually can play the piano and sing. The story is compelling as well as the performances by supporting actors and actresses, such as Regina King, and the soundtrack is an easy winner being based around Ray Charles music. Probably the only miscue in the film was the writer/directors decision to try and turn Charles into some kind of civil rights hero. If you look a Mr. Charles real life history they were reaching a bit on that account, but we’ll let them live on that one.

Runner Up: Hotel Rwanda  

Got caught in "no man’s land" timing-wise as this film debuted too late in the year to get full consideration and it still hasn’t started full distribution as it is currently playing almost exclusively in New York and Los Angeles. Hotel Rwanda is a haunting, moving, and brilliantly acted film that brings the 1994 Rwandan genocide to life and will leave viewers wondering how something like that could happen, and why the world ignored it, in addition to leaving the viewer on the verge of tears if not outright balling. Special praise is due to all those who worked and campaigned so hard to bring this story to major cinema, and especially Don Cheadle who delivered an Oscar-worthy performance and has made promoting this film a personal crusade. 

Teflon Don Award (Non-stick Personality of the Year): Eminem 

Last year R. Kelly was the personality best able to escape or totally diffuse shortcomings and valid criticism and still keep on the grind despite his documented history with people's underage daughters. In 2004 Eminem grabbed the mantle. Ever since The Source Magazine dug up old recordings of him using the N-word and calling Black women bitches, he has played the race card to his advantage and acted like a victim. Eminem has used Black artist and White-owned hip-hop publications like XXL to indirectly tackle criticism. He blamed his attack on black women on earlier frustrations with a Black girl who “broke his heart” back in Detroit. Ironically fellow Detroit rapper/rocker Kid Rock, who is also white, had a black female love interest earlier in life and he also ended up heart broken. He wrote a song about it but if you peep the lyrics to his song "Blackchicwhiteguy" you won’t find anything close to the animus of Eminem.

If a Republican rapper Kid Rock said what Em said about Black women it would be curtains for him but nothing "race related" sticks to Em as a child or adult. Even as recent as Feb 1999 Em has shown little sensitivity and tolerance for Black women. In an interview with Davey-D, Eminem was asked about his thoughts on collaborations with other artists. "I asked him jokingly if he wanted to do a song with Lauryn Hill, KRS-One or Public Enemy. I was surprised how he got real serious when I mentioned Lauryn's name, 'The first word you said is a dirty word to me', when I asked if he meant Lauryn and I asked why.. 'I heard a lot of stuff about her and how she is toward white people and I heard she's racist. I can't prove it, but I heard a lot of stuff and there's a lot of controversy."

As controversial as Eminem is, it surprised many that he would be so judgmental of another artist or say Lauryn Hill name was dirty based on some rumor. But recent interviews have evidenced that he has created such a insular network that he says he is unaware of criticism against him even when it comes from entertainment giants like Stevie Wonder or Steve Harvey, and regular fans can forget him ever knowing of any constructive criticism they may have because he told XXL his peeps rip out the pages of magazines he reads if they feel the criticism in it is too harsh. Em's non-stick Teflon coating did get scratched a lil’ bit through it all - he sold less in 2004 - and had more attacks, but so far he like R.Kelly, he is still cooking.

Runner Up: Guerrilla Black

Guerilla Black a.k.a. “The Stunt Dummy” Biggie managed to sell 50,000 albums his opening week in October, we didn't know that there were 50,000 people in the world who respected biting that much. But we underestimated him because almost 2 months later the imitation Biggie was still in the top 100 at 99. Granted he probably won’t reach Gold sales status but criticism of him stealing a dead man's rap style, mannerisms and persona have not stuck enough to him, so it must be the Teflon coating.

Guilty Before Proven Innocent Award: Suge Knight 

Everybody knows that Marion Suge Knight had something to do with the Vibe awards fiasco; if you don’t know you must be new to this. By our estimation Suge is simply the most basic example of a "Playerhater", he's still carrying around "beefs" from several years ago and seemed almost pained by the success of his former friends and business associates. We're just waiting until the final investigation is completed before we document exactly what Knight's role was, but his Martha Stewart innocence is falling on deaf ears, being involved in drama won't resuscitate Death Row Records. Somebody tell Marion the only remedy for our undivided attention needs to be a positive one. 

Runner up: Young Buck

In his desire to be the Next Shyne, Young Buck bypassed the body guard’s, security and got up close and personal with his bosses nemesis. Let’s see, Jamal “Shyne” Barrow got a few years but that was a gun and this is a knife, but this is on tape – that wasn’t huumh .Young Buck will have the best lawyers, that money can extract against his future earnings, and Shyne could barely afford a lawyer. I don’t know I can't call it those are 2 different states, but finally the Vibe awards offered something unique to talk about, too bad it was violence. Our guess, eight months to a year. Young Buck, if you're listening don't get too upset about your possible jail bid, you can use Tony "Yayo's" old cell.

Chevron Award (Most Overrated and/or Gassed up Artist): Kanye West

Artist don’t come more gassed up than Kanye West and since rap music boast a lot of braggers (pun intended) it’s really saying something big about your ego to receive this award. Kanye had a great album but it’s not “flawless” as he says. His megalomaniacal personality is unmatched. Maybe his being an only child has created his sense of entitlement. Even after selling more albums than better, more established artist, Kanye has no humility. “I’m planning to sell a million in the first week! This shit is planned out.” The College Dropout sold 440,000 copies in its first week. “I wanted to do 500!,” he admits, “I am a little bit disappointed.” Yeah right we say. He dismisses the rumors that his Soundscan numbers were inflated since many of the initial CDs would not play and had to be returned. He’s too busy checking out girls to focus on rumors, his new found confidence in his sex appeal has him saying “he believes he can seduce most women” he meets. "I used to fantasize about having sex with every girl, I passed on the streets of New York", West explains, "I used to walk down the street in New York, and say, 'I wish I had the power to choose any girl in a 3-mile radius. Now I probably have the power to have 50 per cent of the women in a three-mile radius, except for 50-year old white women." Hey Kanye my older cousin ain't a white woman and she won't have you. But he can fantasize all he wants cause he believes his only competition is himself now. Recently he said “now that I'm working on the next album, I had to listen to the competition, listen to the best albums. For College Dropout, I listened to "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" at least a thousand times while I was working on it. Now I got to compete with College Dropout". The hype has been helped by the mainstream since his College Dropout put West in a position to win 10 shiny gold things at February's Grammy Awards, so his ego may grow bigger. Consider he co-wrote four highly anticipated tracks off of R&B rookie John Legend new album which we think will turn heads. At least he admits he is out of control “I used to flip out all the time. I remember flipping out when Rolling Stone only gave College Dropout three-and-a-half stars out of five. Now, every magazine is calling it the album of the year.” West told Vibe Magazine that not giving his LP the College Dropout their highest album rating jeopardized the “integrity” of their magazine’s ratings scale and essentially forced them to put him on the cover. West is very consistent, he has blasted every publication not giving him the highest marks or rankings. He did repent his arrogance once after the American Music Awards, West blasted country singer Gretchen Wilson. Later he apologized for bitter comments he made about her. West lost out to her in the Best Newcomer category at the AMA in (NOV04) and nearly cried backstage when he called her music "bulls**t". But West made amends “I was doing a disservice to everything my forefathers have done to allow black people to get to this place.” He later said then at the early morning party in Los Angeles he found Wilson and took it all back. She says, "He just walked up and tapped me and he looked like a little boy and he said, 'I'm sorry.'" I didn't know what to do but hug him. 

Runner Up: The Game

This egomaniac rapper will say anything on his mind, restraint is not a strong point of his. Despite proudly stating to the public that “he don’t care about anybody else’s kids but his and he’s only concerned about making money for his children", Game has created a public demand for himself . He has ring-tones, numerous award show appearances, and a documentary film coming out, rumor has it that Vibe Magazine will even give him a cover based on the hype and drama he has created around himself to sell merchandise. Believe it or not he does not even have an album out yet. Contrary to his label-mates, Game tells people he is surprised by his success and although he talks more trash than a dumpster the new kid likes to tell others he is grounded. Stating “I'm not a star or better than anybody else. I'm just a hip-hop artist in the rawest form, down to earth and approachable."

Allen Iverson Award (Artist Trying the Hardest to Crossover): Talib Kweli

After years of toiling on the semi-underground scene, Kweli seemed poised and hungry for that mainstream recognition that he only got a taste of with his hit 2003 single, "Just To Get By", but the jury is still out on whether his latest LP "The Beautiful Struggle" will get him the recognition he deserves rather than lose some of the recognition he already had. We respect Talib Kweli's work so this award isn't delivered with bad intentions but damn, Talib seems to trying to get that "backpack" off of his persona like it's a straight jacket. Talib has been making it his business to disassociate himself from the moniker "conscious rapper" every chance he gets, though fortunately this change hasn't really shown up in his music's content. Best believe though if it ever does our gloves are coming off. Truth be told any number of "positive", "conscious", "political", etc rappers have been trying to disassociate themselves from these labels and/or the "dirty backpack" image. It's a sad day we live in when they feel they have to do that to sell more records, outside of Loon from bad boy we don't hear many rappers making it their business to say they are NOT "gangstas", even Nelly claims he's been to jail and he's barely a rapper.

Least Likely to Succeed: Eric Benet

We don’t even know if he has any projects slated for this year but after his embarrassing breakup with Halle Berry almost anything he does in the near future is doomed. Based on how some of her past relationships have ended we have our suspicions that being involved with Halle Berry isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but this breakup was clearly the work of the nymphomaniac, a.k.a. “Senor Sensitivity”, a.k.a. Eric Benet. I mean what is he going to do now, he’s almost completely ruined that sex symbol thing he had going with the ladies, he hasn’t had an album in years, and worse then all that he initially tried to challenge their pre-nuptial agreement! If Mr. Benet is really living like that he needs to investigate being a gigolo, but not in 2005, ..... 2005 is not looking good for you homie'.

Most Likely to Succeed: Jamie Foxx

Just think, he came to Hollywood to become a singer and did the acting and stand-up comedy thing in hopes of realizing his real R&B dream. Well who needs American Idol, this brotha’ is multi-talented and if his role in the made for TV movie, the “Tookie Smith Story”, didn’t open your eyes undoubtedly his Oscar deserving performance in Ray will. Unfortunately, Denzel and Halle might have filled the black folk Oscar quota for this entire century a couple of years ago, but if Jamie Foxx wins for Ray lookout accountants and real estate agents because he might be moving into that $15-20 million per film neighborhood real soon.

Mantan Award (Community Disservice Award): Ohio Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell

Prior to the election many of those paying attention were remarking, cynically, how Ohio would be this year's Florida. Few knew how prophetic those words would be. In fact, Ohio in the 2004 election, was actually worse than Florida in 2000 because we all saw it coming like a slow motion car wreck. No election fraud would be complete without it's protagonist however, and this year's "Katherine Harris" is none other than a "true Negro" (in the most sarcastic and insulting sense of the word), who goes by the birth name Ken Blackwell, but shall herein be referred to as "Ken Blackface". Sometimes you have to wonder if even ol' "Ken Blackface" believes it when he sits with a straight face and asserts that the elections in Ohio went off fairly and without a hitch and that he was a non-partisan arbitrator of election related matters, despite the fact the he was a Bush-Cheney Campaign Co-chair. In the run up to the election ol' Blackface was pulling out all the stops to prevent new voter registrations, for instance issuing an order requiring voters voting by provisional ballot to be at the correct polling place and in some cases the correct table within the correct polling place, which had never been the case before in Ohio and caused many provisional ballots to be rejected. Or how about the one where "Blackface" initially issued an order saying that voter registration forms had to be printed on "80 pound paper weight" though these forms were available on the internet and people were told to print them out and send them in on regular paper. Finally how about "Blackface" also issuing an order that forms with certain items missing, such as Social Security Number and/or Drivers License number, were to be rejected. The last two "orders" were eventually rescinded, but, in the interim, an untold amount of forms were rejected. And these are just some of the things "Blackface" did that we know about.  

Eat and Sleep Award: Nelly

If "Meth and Red" would have lasted more than a couple of nights we might have had to nominate them, but right about now dude is one of our least favorite entertainment Negroes and deserving of some serious Hatin'. Skip his bad and disposable rap records and let's talk about other things. Where does one start with this guy? First there was the "Pimpjuice" fiasco that actually started last year, that spawned the public relations damage control that P.I.M.P. scholarship. Yes rather than come up with another name for his drink he decided to name a measly $5000 academic scholarship after it. According to Nelly P.I.M.P. is an acronym for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person, ... um yeah... right, and N.I.G.G.A. is an acronym for Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished, see we can play make believe too.  Then there was the cancellation of Nelly's "4 Sho 4 Kids" bone marrow drive event (if Nelly's sister wasn't diagnosed with leukemia trust he would not be doing this) at Atlanta's Spelman College because students at the historically black, all woman's Spelman College, as well as students at the neighboring, historically black, all men's Morehouse college were planning to protest Nelly's presence at the school and his portrayal of women in his videos. Students were particularly incensed by a scene in Nelly's "Tip Drill" video where he swiped a credit card down a black woman's but crack, and their message was clear, "We Care About Your Sister, You Have To Care About Ours". Nelly was told he could have his event with no protest if he agreed to participate in a symposium on misogyny in pop-culture, and rap music particularly, but rather than face the music Nelly and his foundation cancelled the event. He was even heard on Hot 97 radio in NYC saying that he wanted to "smack" the people organizing the protest and that they were hypocrites for not going around strip clubs - some Negroes just don't get it. Then there was the final "Jigaboo" move for '04 when Nelly came out against the "Rock the Vote" campaign and political music in general in an interview with Blender Magazine, saying that "some people don't want politics in their music, ...some people want their music to be uplifting so they can have fun and dance." Now that may be all well and true but encouraging people NOT to put politics in their music IS indeed a Political Decision, as is swiping credit cards down black women's ass cracks in your video. Nelly went on to state, "If you want to do the politics thing, be more involved personally, but you could talk about that and then tomorrow wake up and you're not selling records. So now you protested the war and you're broke!" Damn ain't that right Nelly, as they say "I hear a pimp will sell his ass if a hoe won't"! Here this guy has sold an obscene amount of records, especially for a rapper, and we assume he is a multi-millionaire and all his wealth and fame has done was make him more of a coward. Nelly you barely rap, and you are most certainly NOT Hip-Hop - get out the tap shoes and red lipstick.

The Antonio Fargas Award (Pimp Player of the Year): Karl Rove

This dude is so gangsta’ that some members of the G.O.P. call him "Mr .President" even when George Bush is within earshot. We all know he is running the show, in fact rumor has it that he almost beat out President Bush for Time Magazines Man of the Year. He is more manipulative and controlling than any pimp in history. If you have ever seen the documentary on him called Bush's Brain you know Dick Cheney has to wait in line to tell Bush what to do because Karl Rove always has the President’s ear.

Runner Up:  Bill O'Reilly

America's #1 big mouth and second highest paid commentator was caught in a sex sting with his secretary that would make Ron Jeremy blush. He paid her a few million and told his colleagues in the media he was through discussing it, and the majority of them have taken heed, and pretend like it never happened. With all his fake “moral” grandstanding you gotta’ love it – maybe it’s Karma, but he’s probably just a Freak. The film “He Got Game” should be re-cast with O’Reilly as the lead actor.

The Ozzy Osbourne Award (Most Deluded and/or Strung Out Personality): DMX 

(Yes we changed the name of this award in 2004 out of respect for the recently deceased ODB).

Okay we now know that DMX is bi-polar and we don't want to downplay his medical condition, but in the words of former, Family Feud host Richard Dawson – “survey says DMX is still getting high - Number 1 answer". If DMX gets arrested half as many times in 2005 as he did in 2004 - he will have to start making records again because the lawyers are going to have to be set up with a retainer fee. I think the cheaper answer might be a different drug such as SYMBYAX for bipolar depression. With the right medical plan it is much cheaper than crack, weed or Crystal Meth.

Runner Up: Black Rob

Unlike DMX, Black Rob's drug problem is compounded by him being broke, so he steals to feed his drug habit. Yep “Black Rob” is apparently back to doing burglaries. Bad boy President P-Diddy won’t give him an allowance but at least P-Diddy hooked him up with some medical coverage. He is going to need it all because him using every illegal drug he can get is hand on has resulted in him getting a disease called "nephritic syndrome", which can be fatal. And to think it took all this drama to get him back in the studio.

Since we had a male and female tie for top honor this year we had to hyphenate the name of this award. The Brotha' with the high score is Democratic Representative John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan. The ranking Minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, has been organizing around the allegations of vote fraud and irregularities in Ohio during the 2004 Presidential election, and being a voice of reason in politics. He has been fighting to preserve the integrity of America’s most basic concept, which is the right to vote. Conyers has been vigilant on this issue even though the TV cameras have not covered this subject and Presidential candidate Jon Kerry has run away from it after promising to fight for it. In holding hearings and objecting to the certification of the electoral votes for the key swing state of Ohio Conyers has blazed a path that others can only hope to follow.

Runner up: Dave Chappelle

With one skit he resurrected the career of Rick James before, Rick's untimely death earlier this year. He helped re-unite the Fugees, even if only temporarily, and at the same time he gave much air time to artist who don’t profess to be gangsters and present themselves and the hip hop community in a more balanced light. Chapelle presented us with a comedic and complex look at ourselves in 2004 while all the while keeping us laughing. More heartfelt was the fact that when watching his comedy it's apparent that his target audience is not the mainstream majority of America but instead, you and I. It's obvious that everybody is tuning in though, since The Chappelle show has single-handedly put Comedy Central on the map by their own admission, and in the process he has unsuspecting viewers getting a better civic lesson via comedy and satire then they do watching FOX or various Sunday Morning political talk shows.

This culture critic, novelist and NY Daily News journalist has gone from being arrogant and uninformed on pop culture to simply arrogant. He is fact checking his information and looking pass the surface in his criticism of pop culture. We don’t have to always agree but an authentic search for the truth is all we can ask for, besides too much agreement kills a chat.

"Damn Homie/ after high school you was the man homie/ phuck happen to you?" - I'll tell you what happened, how about a rape charge, involving a White woman no less, Shaq bouncing to Miami due to friction with you, a tell all book from your ex-coach that makes you look like a real creep, and finally topping the year off by accusing an ex-teammate and former friend of hitting on your wife. The boy got skills on the court though so he isn't fading in that area but his popularity is truly in the toilet, especially considering where it used to be. As evidence his #8 Lakers jersey is no longer even in the top 50 for sales according to the league paraphernalia statistics. Mr. Bryant is going to have to work Triple time if he really wants to be the next Michael Jordan. We wouldn't be surprised that if you really got to know him, that MJ was a creep too, but if he was the whole world didn't know about it.

1) The Haitian Coup – Sometimes it seems the U.S. overthrows governments just for the hell of it. Haiti was supposed to celebrate 200 years of independence this year being the first republic founded by Africans in the Western Hemisphere instead it was the victim of a coup by led by drug dealers, death squad leaders, and thugs with an assist from the White House. 

2) The Corporate Media Vs Dr. Howard Dean - Until the corporate media played that irrelevant and inconsequential "scream" about 30,000 times in about 2 days Dean was the front runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and he was doing it with a lot less corporate backing than the eventual Republican and Democratic nominees. But such cheap, juvenile, and almost silly smear tactics are an effective method of sabotage when you're dealing with a population like that of the U.S., which is not very politically astute to put it very nicely.

3) Kobe "Snitching" - Finding out Kobe Bryant tried to drag Shaq into his mess when the cops came to question him about rape allegations almost did as much to sully Kobe’s reputation as the allegations themselves. We’re not even sure if this is really “snitching” since Kobe's character has become such an issue I'm not even sure if he was telling the truth.

4) Nipplegate and the aftermath  - Did Justin Timberlake leave your girl blowing in the wind or what? Is the FCC and these fake "moral" police full of it or what? It's just a nipple, calm down, besides it only seemed right after the 60 "Viagra" and "Cialis" adds we watched leading up to the halftime show.

5) David Stern Vs The Indiana Pacers - As rich as the players in the NBA are, some of that owner to worker dynamic still plays out, and with the league's image on the line (at least in Stern's mind) you knew he might come down hard. But the whole season? That's a bit excessive considering the circumstances and the last time I recall a player going into the stands after a fan (Vernon Maxwell and he was verbally provoked) he got like an 8-game suspension. How's that for consistency.

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