By Robin Caldwell, BlackWeb20.com

Everyone should know the words to Common’s I Use to Love Her and if you don’t you can view them everyday, if not wear them, with Microsoft’s Softwear clothing line. Common designed several of the shirts and is the spokesperson for the new line of gear inspired in part by an era when both hip hop and PC technology were renegade and new. Read the rest of this entry »

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Common had been at the barber shop where five were shot.

Rapper Common had just received a hair cut at a New York salon hours before a man was killed there, according to Allhiphop.com. Two gunmen shot at a 19-year-old man in Brooklyn before the man ran into the salon and was killed there early this week. Four other bystanders at the shop were reportedly wounded, including an off-duty cop. The suspects fled the crime scene in a blue Chevrolet Tahoe, according to reports.

Soulja Boy disses ex-assistant, promotes new CD.

Having disposed of actor and rap great Ice T in a war of Web words, Soulja Boy has responded to a YouTube attack from his ex-personal assistant. “Q,” as the former aide identifies himself, recently posted a video claiming he’d been threatened at gunpoint to take $45,000 of his old boss’ cash, so he complied. Q insists that his story is true, explaining that he always had access to Soulja Boy’s account and that he could’ve emptied it on many occasions if he chose to. The rapper, however, isn’t buying Q’s story, and says that Q could’ve simply explained the threat on his life and asked for the cash. “I don’t care if I got $10 million lying on the floor,” Soulja Boy says. “You don’t touch one dollar without asking me. …I’m 18 years old, and I’m glad that I learned this lesson at an early age.”