10 Items (+1) on Bitches, Snitches, AIDS Awareness, and Angry Papists

- Ludacris is slated to perform at Nelson Mandela's 46664 AIDS Benefit Concert.
- Since Britney Spears has been out of the news for the last twenty-seven seconds, a new tabloid controversy has arisen. Beef: Britney Spears v. the Catholic Church based on the photos included with her album. "Blackout" features some promo photos of a scantily clad Spears in and around the vestibule of a church, which got the Catholic League all pissy.
- Damon Dash talks about American Gangster and why snitches get stitches.
- Multimillionaire Kanye West bitches about the cost of BK value meals.
- URB discusses the music, madness, and growing mystery around Lauryn Hill.
- Nikki Sixx takes on D.C., and MacLean's goes along for the ride.
- Are Dre & Em back?
- The Libertines release a "Best Of" album...you know, the best of both their albums.
- Trent Reznor goes all Radiohead on us.
- Vibe interviews The Cool Kids, young, hot producers fresh out of Chicago who are opening for M.I.A.
- And a new biography of Madonna, "Madonna: Like an Icon," alleges that Mrs. Ritchie once tried to get pregnant by Tupac.