Kanye West let the BET Hip Hop Awards finish this weekend without pulling another stage hijacking stunt…because he wasn’t there.

The awards, which went down in Atlanta on Saturday and will air on October 27th, brought out a long roster of names including Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, Lil’ Wayne, Drake, Gucci Mane, and  Fabolous, but Kanye pulled a no show, even though he led the rap pack with 9 nominations.

Where in the world is Yeezy?

Some reports say he he might have retreated to India to find “spiritual guidance” and lay low following his infamous MTV meltdown and the cancellation of his “Fame Kills” tour with Lady Gaga. MSNBC quotes a “source close to West” who said:

“Kanye might do some dumb things, but he’s smart. He knows he needs to come back from this break changed, and that isn’t going to happen at some rehab overlooking the ocean. He goes to India, he has a chance to come back seeming like he learned something from what happened.”

While it hasn’t been confirmed if  Kanye is actually getting his Eat, Pray, Love on, or not (I’m sure we’ll see paparazzi shots of him wherever he is, soon) but at least it seems like he’s making good on his vow to “take some time off.” MSNBC also reports that he has canceled plans to perform at Madison Square Garden on New Years Eve.

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In the world of hip-hop and R&B, you’re nobody ‘til somebody calls you gay.

So forget the hot mix tape, the huge singles on radio, and the much hyped bidding war. Drake didn’t officially arrive until a photo – that looks very much like a joke, mind you – of a man’s head really close to his lap leaked online and prompted gay rumors about the Young Money star on the rise.

But no stranger to criticism (especially after that video for “Best I Ever Had”), Drake took to his blog to respond to rumors that his wrist and ankles are closet lovebirds.

He wrote:

“People often ask me the craziest part about becoming ‘famous’ and I’ve never had an answer until yesterday.

‘You’ll spend half of your time defending yourself and the other half trying to stay sane resulting in you being forced to find time to be creative”

‘Even photoshop couldn’t change me’
- Me”

Translation: No, I’m not gay.

How nice is it to have a thoughtful rapper who can actually write something down and not look like a Hooked on Phonics failure?

Of course some people would look at that and assume he’s gay.

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Drop Down (to the ground on stage) Drake would like each and every one of you to know that he’s not just a rapper for the ladies.

Speaking to MTV News, Young Money’s most prized signee made clear that people with penises can still get into his flow.

He said:

“I think there’s two types of rapping about women, there’s rapping about fairy-tale stuff …not to take away anything from an MC like this, but you take a rapper like Bow Wow, who is a genuine ladies’ man and all his songs are to make ladies love him and love themselves. And that’s cool. That’s a brand of music that might not always be what’s real, you may not always be telling the truth, but at least someone is gonna feel good about the songs you’re making. With me, when I touch on women — which I don’t feel like I rap about a lot — I feel like I’m just rapping about myself.”

In other words: “I ain’t no punk.”

Whatever you say, Wheelchair Jimmy.

No really, I believe you, but if you ask me, anyone that’s listened to “Every Girl” should know he’s not exactly some male feminist rapper.

And just to prove himself a little more, Drizzy shared some new bars from a song he just record:

“She’s nothin’ like every other dime/

When I think of her, couple things that come to mind/

Thoughts like if she end up, my baby mother fine/

Cuz we only use a rubber like every other time.”

Yeah, “U-N-I-T-Y” it’s not.

See the man spit the rhyme himself below:

Only in hip-hop would rhyming about women be a bad thing. Yet, being gay is like the worst thing on Earth in the culture. Fuzzy math, folk.

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Last Friday Drake took a tumble while onstage performing with Lil’ Wayneat the America’s Most Wanted tour concert leg in New Jersey and the singer/rapper re-injured his knee. Twitter was ablaze with news of the injury and links to videos of the unfortunate tumble. Drake responded to his fans from his Twitter account @Drakkardnoir to let them know that he was OK, but someone else took to Twitter to write about the incident as well: Drake’s knee.

Yes, that night a Twitter account called @DrakesKnee popped up generating Tweets on behalf of the singer/rapper’s bum body part.  A sample Tweet: “Hip hop’s like an open sore / but weezy came and opened doors / don’t worry bout my knee / worry if i lose my vocal chords”

Then something crazy happened: a trend (and Twitter trending topic: #celebritybodyparts) was born. Over the weekend dozes of Twitter accounts sprang up on behalf of celebrity body parts from “Oprah’s ugly feet” to Souljah Boy and Trey Songz’s err, third legs. I can’t decide if this movement is hilarious or plain ridiculous (maybe a bit of both) but below is a sampling of some of the celeb body part accounts on Twitter and what they’ve got to say:

@KanyesBeard (it should be noted that someone created this account last December, way before the trend spread like wildfire this weekend and there’s even a blog – way to stay committed!): “Once again this ni—ga walked right pass the shaving kit”

@Rihanna4Head: “Shout out to Tyras 4head! without you, id feel lyk an outsider. 5HEADS UNITE!!!”

@CiarasWig: “@brandysbraids On behalf of yaki, remy, and wigs everywhere. We respect you!” (yep, the body parts often send shout outs to each other and some even have beef).

@ Jayzlips: “All back everything , All black whip / 2 Chapsticks, one for each fat lips. Cheea!”

@solangesfade: “I guess she cut my hair so I could look more like TONY”

@chrisbrownsfist: “I’m punching out….night twitter.”

@tinysface: “THE OLD SAYING IS TRUE: remember when ur elders told you “KEEP MAKIN THAT FACE & ITLL STAY LIKE THAT”…”

 There’s a lot more from where that came from. Check Twitter if you want to hear from other outlandish body parts of the stars. No matter what you think about the trend, one thing’s for sure: clearly people have way too much time on their hands.

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It looks like we can scratch off the Rihanna/Drake relationship from the growing list of rumored celebrity couples and write Drake and Teyana Taylor in its place.

The rapper and the singer, rapper, choreographer, and whatever else she does are now rumored to be “just friends” who do what other celebrity couples guised as “just friends” do.

However, I have a question: Isn’t Teyana like 17?

For his sake in this instance I hope that they are “just friends” because Drake has to get a little bit more popular before he can catch a case that his celebrity will excuse.

I would hate that he ended up with his cell mate singing to him, “you the f–cking best.”

Speaking of future cases, though, alleged pending baby mama and video model, Bria Myles, wrote this on her Twitter recently:

“It’s funny how money change a situation. Miscommunication leads to complication. I was on the humble, you – on every station, Some want play Bria like she dumb.”

That’s a future suit waiting to happen.

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Drake is denying that Rihanna is the best he’s ever had.

In a radio interview he denied that he’s with Rihanna, although he hopped, skipped, and jigged all over the question of whether or not he was with Rihanna the other night at the strip club.

Drake gave the classic “we’re just friends” speech. You know, that same one Chris Brown and Rihanna gave when they started dating.

Although he denies being with Rihanna, Aubrey did acknowledge that he and Rihanna were bowling at Lucky Strike Lans earlier this week.

A source told the New York Post: “She was drinking whiskey and apple juice and making out with him all night. They were really cute together.”

Yet he told the radio hosts, ”I’m honored that they will take this rumor and use my name, but it’s not true.”

I don’t freak up on my friends, do you?

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The word around the web is that the mystery man who joined Rihanna at the strip club is none other than the newest ‘next big thing,’ Mr. Degrassi himself, Drake.

A source told the New York Post:

“She was drinking whiskey and apple juice and making out with him all night. They were really cute together.”

I’m starting to notice a pattern here.

This is story is oddly similar to the one that paired Rihanna with Andrew Bynum.

We later found out the two weren’t on a date. Rather, Rihanna walked up to Bynum and introduced herself and coincidentally on purpose walked out of the restaurant they both dined at the same time as him – sparking rumors that the two were hooking up.

And if you notice, she’s also been paired with Wilmer Valderrama, Baron Davis, Brody Jenner, among others.

Now she’s with Light Skinned Herman Munster (said with love…Herman was that dude).

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if she were paired with one of your uncles for publicity.

Maybe Rihanna’s playing the field, but I wonder if she’s also trying to play the press.