Snoop Dogg’s ban has been lifted. Australia has just issued him a visa to enter and tour there in October and it’s all thanks to his friend Russell Crowe who wrote a letter on his behalf.

Snoop’s visa to Oz had been held up by government officials Down Under because of his criminal past.

Russell Crowe, in a letter to Australia’s Minister of Immigration, recently asked his country to reconsider their decision.

Here are parts of the letter:

“I have known Snoop Dogg for 3 years…[he] poses no threat to Australia or to any individual in this country; he has toured here three times before without incident and there are no reasons to assume this tour will be anything but the positive experience the last three have been,” Crowe detailed. “Snoop has built a stellar reputation with promoters and audiences worldwide.”

“Snoop has used his celebrity in many positive ways. I would like to bring to your attention a very significant contribution he has made in the City of Los Angeles where he started and continues to operate a Youth Football League for 8 to 10 year olds, put in place so that disadvantaged kids could take part in organized team sports,” Crowe continued. “It has been very successful, even to the point it has been examined by the NFL as they look to replicate the enthusiasm and engagement that kids have with this program.”

Now that’s the move of an Australian bad a** backing up an American bad a**!

Am I seeing things straight? Why does Madonna look like this?

I am horrified. I am thinking some plastic surgery went really wrong! There is no reason for her face to look like that.

Eminem made a surprise prank call on Tuesday night on his Sirius Satellite Radio station, Shade 45, to LL Cool J who was a guest on Tony Touch’s “Toca Tuesday.”

Em posing as “Jason from Miami,” challenged LL to a round of “Name That Tune.” Em as “Jason” recited some of LL’s lyrics and LL would have to guess which one of his songs was being rapped.

“Hold your nose, dead bodies are around/ I leave scratch marks under the tears of a clown,” Eminem rapped in character. Cool J immediately recognized his song “Eat ‘Em Up L Chill.”

Em rapped up more lyrics:

“The president woke and he called the pope/ The pope climbed to heaven on a golden rope/ PS. The Lord raised Michelangelo from the dead/ So he can make a fresh painting of my head.”

LL correctly answered: “My Rhyme Ain’t Done.”

Am impressed LL, not knowing he was talking to Eminem said to “Jason” :

“You sound good saying them joints. Damn, B, “that sounds like you need to write some bars, homie.”

Eminem then recited some of his own rhymes from “Lose Yourself” and finally let on who he was. Cool J laughed. Eminem went on to say that he had been a longtime fan of LL Cool J and remembered their only meeting, years ago in a Foot Locker.

“Listen, man, you got this relationship with Dre,” Em said. “You’re cool with 50, so when are we gonna hang out? I got cable at my house, and the game is on.”

Tony Touch the radio host quickly asked Eminem about what he has been up to since he has been on hiatus since late 2006. He was also hospitalized with pneumonia last December.

“Everything is good,” he replied. “I’m just in the studio now working on songs.”

LL Cool J’s next album, Exit 13, is set to drop sometime this summer.

Jay-Z has come out of retirement again to drop an album called  “American Gangsta”. Seriously what is up with guys going into ‘retirement’ and then coming back not even a year later!

Anyway, apparently one of the new songs include the lyrics “Beyonce the Fiance”. They have been together for quite a long time, and it would be nice if they finally got hitched. Beyonce is getting older and she probably wants to have a kid soon, because that is what all the Hollywood girls are doing now a days!

“It’s up to female rappers to stand strong to create the yin and yang in this music,” she added. “There’s a lack of connection with the male and female energy. My music speaks to that space and healing process.” -Medusa

Medusa is a very popular female underground hip hop artist.

I guess she is trying to play the female card, as of now most hip hop artist scorn women calling them b*tches and hoes.

Let’s hope Medusa can make a female rapper revolution!

The Memorial Day Weekend at Tao in Las Vegas was the place to be.  The crowd were entertained by the raptastic duo action of get this: Wilmer Valderamma and Kevin Federline. Why those two bad boy exs decided to give an impromptu perfomance is beyond me, but those who witnessed the freak show were entertained by the two has-beens rapping while the DJ spun his beats.