It's Saturday and there's basketball on TV--not that I actually have much time to watch it. I'll be pumping a keg at the Monterey Institute's annual "International Bazaar." If you're in the hood, come through and I'll pour you a cup. If not, there's plenty of nonsense in the raposphere to keep you occupied.

First off, Busta Rhymes has apparently already outshined your favorite rapper, and says so on the cover of his latest mixtape. I can't disagree with dude--The Coming is probably the most underrated rap classic ever, and puts Busta up there with B.I.G. and the other greats (yeah, I said it). For more Busta fun, peep this nasty video from MissInfo that finds Bus-a-Bus lecturing fans on what respect means. What an animal.

If you missed it, 2dopeboyz had the best April Fools prank in the hip-hop world. After you peep it, peep the wedding announcement.

The following should probably be filed under "misguided revolutionary fetishism": Rhymefest is saying that his new album will be based on Che Guevara's life. I thought all the Che nonsense died with Rage Against the Machine back in the mid-1990s. All the people who love his iconic stencil-face and flowing hair seem to have no idea what he's actually about. There's so many other revolutionaries who were much more down than Che, but hey, whatever. If you're going to rep him all I ask is that you do your homework.

There's not one but two new State Property tracks over at Fader; "Oceans Seven" is the better of the bunch, but both flow great. This is what I want to hear more of. Rappers: make music similar to this.

Props again to Crate Kings for putting me on to a nice DJ Toomp interview--you know Toomp, he's the man who put together a shitload of synth-heavy summer hits about 2 years ago. Definitely worth a quick read.

Pitchfork reviews Webbie's Savage Life 2. "Fitting for an album that documents a perhaps unwilling crawl to maturity, Savage Life 2 succeeds when it sticks to the specific, discrete, and (relatively) adult." Man, Pitchfork is so ridiculous. Gotta love it.

Polow Da Don may as well be called "Polow Da Shameless". Thanks to 2dopeboyz for this little expose. As they say, "Polow lost." I'll cosign that.

New Wale track, "Conclusion" off his upcoming Mixtape About Nothing. I'm still on Wale's bandwagon but I'm going to need more to keep hyping him.

I can't leave you without new Weezy info: check out "Let's Pray," perhaps the most asinine track Weezy's done in a week. It's getting panned across the blogosphere, and probably rightly so. But as I always say, if you can get the haters mad, you must be doing something right.

Other bits and pieces: Saigon in XXL, RZA seeking openers on CraigsList, Wiz Khalifa performs "Say Yeah," and some screens from Bun B and Sean Kingston's new vid, "That's Gangsta."

That's all I've got. I'll leave you with one parting shot: when rolling around this weekend on 26's and sipping purple drank in the club, ask yourself, "What am I doing to help curb carbon emissions?" Now that's gangsta.