Right now the main course for Hip Hop is beef, and apparently Jay Z is hungry. It seems Jay Z caught some controversy from Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher. Gallagher made his voice heard by criticizing event organizers for allowing Jay Z to headline the Glastonbury festival. Jay Z got back at Gallagher by preforming his own version of the Oasis song “Wonderwall” and following that up with a brilliant performance of “99 Problems.” If we were Noel Gallagher we wouldn’t stand for it. Yes we are instigating. Here’s the performance:

In other Jay Z news, Celeste Williams was the first petitioner in a class action lawsuit filed against Jay Z’s 40/40 Club. She is saying that while employed at the club she received under minimum wage pay and was not paid for overtime hours. How did she not know how much she was making when she started? We’re confused!! Her lawyer Maimon Kirschenbaum made this statement: “This is a good day for restaurant workers all over the city.” He is also reaching out to other club workers and have them join Ms. Williams on the suit. Personally we feel this is just another attempt to extort money from a celebrity. The truth always comes out in the end and we will keep you posted.

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Not really, but that’s the way it sounds. Akon joined forces with pop legend Michael Jackson in a song titled “Hold My Hand.” The song will be released on Akon’s third album, which at this point is untitled. Akon told MTV News that working with MJ was, “A dream come true.” He also went on to say:

“Just to be in the same room, I felt everything I wanted to accomplish in life has been achieved,” Akon said. “That aura … that’s how incredible that aura is. We about to shake the world up, man. You know how you be with somebody and you can’t even explain? I used to sit and think, ‘How does somebody sell so many records and dominate a whole business genre to a point nobody can’t be a part of that without associating with you?’ The way he thinks … some artists think regional, some think national, I was thinking international. He thinks planets. It’s on another level.”

We are not insinuating anything, but given Jackson’s past we are getting a giggle out of this. With lyrics like: “We’re better off being together than being miserable alone” and “Nothing can come between us if you just hold my hand,” can you blame us? Both entertainers have a questionable past when it comes to underage sexual acts, so if they are holding hands at least they’re both of age. We’re just playing, but they could have come up with a better title.

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This is one of those WTF stories. We send our children to school trusting that the staff will protect them and keep them safe while they learn. At Charter Oak High School in Los Angles, California that wasn’t the case for several African American students. In their school yearbook they were given fake “hood” names like, Tay Tay Shaniqua and Laquan White. The picture here shows the actual yearbook as it was printed and distributed to students, staff, and parents. This is not the first instance of racism at this school, but it is definitely the most outrageous. When asked about the usage of such racist monikers, the school principal Kathleen Wiard had this to say:

“It appears that during the process of creating the yearbook, filler names were put in and not corrected at the proofreading part.”

African American students account for less than 5% of Charter Oak High’s population. “Filler names” like the ones that were used should not be acceptable. Whatever happened to John Doe and Jane Doe? No matter how much this principle tries to cover up this mistake, it is clear that there are some racial issues going on in this school, and some action should be taken.

The editors and staff of the yearbook surely saw this during their editing process and we here at Random Gossip think it “slipped through the cracks” because it was allowed to. Pictures of unknown students could have easily been labeled as “unknown.” The blatant racism here is inexcusable and shouldn’t be tolerated. The students should have to pay for the re-printing of the yearbooks and the teacher responsible for them should be fired. What do you think?

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