The credit crunch is hurting just about everyone’s stacks, even ‘Benny The Loan Shark’. We hate to be pessimistic but we just think the anthem next year is going to be “gimme the loot”.:

Benny the Loan Shark has something in common with banks - he’s made loans to subprime borrowers in danger of defaulting. But he’s not likely to get taxpayer money to buy his nonperforming assets, so the low-level street lender is thinking of a radical change in the way he does business. “I’m not really worried about people borrowing money from me, what I worry a lot about is whether they’ll pay it back,” said the 40-year-old whose “office” is the streets of the Belmont section of The Bronx. “I’m going to have to start collecting collateral - you know, like jewelry, wedding bands, necklaces and family heirlooms.” Benny, who makes loans of $100 to $200 and charges about $50 a week interest, predicts the downturn won’t affect his customers for a week or two. Those who do business with him don’t have to worry about goons coming at them with baseball bats. (more…)

Lil girls are scrapping more and more over boys. One little wheffah busted the other girl’s face all the way up with some old school brass knuckles out in Killer Cali:

A dispute over a boy prompted a teenage girl to beat a romantic rival with a pair of brass knuckles, leaving the victim with broken bones and her face permanently disfigured, police said Wednesday. “They both looked like All-American girls, which was surprising to us,” said Lt. Jeff Pinney. “Usually you see brass knuckles used by gang members, not young girls.” (more…)

Crime is expected to go up due to the current recession:

The last time stocks on Wall Street fell hard, in 1987, crime was exploding, and the city saw historic highs in murders in the following years.

Before that, the fiscal crisis of the 1970s helped lead to the abandonment of neighborhoods, failing schools and startling crime rates: robberies built through those years to a high in 1981, when there were 107,495 of them, for an average of 294 a day. (Last year’s total reported robberies, 21,787, was the lowest figure in modern history.)

“Every recession since the late ’50s has been associated with an increase in crime and, in particular, property crime and robbery, which would be most responsive to changes in economic conditions,” said Richard Rosenfeld, a sociologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Typically, he said, “there is a year lag between the economic change and crime rates.”

Bush, McCain, Wallstreet, and some other folks have really done us in.

BET has decided to scrap Rap City: Tha Basement, which has been pretty wack for a while now thanks to lame hosts, barely luke warm guests, and poor executive handling. For the full story on the demise of the longest running hip-hop show, click away.

Update: BET is replacing Rap City with a new show called “The Deal” hosted by DJ Diamond Cuts premiering on November 10.

A knocked up looking Lisa Bonet and daughters Zoe Kravitz and Lola were photographed walking in the streets of NYC yesterday.  Hopefully Lisa’s not trying to deny that she is with child, because that belly and protruding navel says it all.  On the other hand, that could just be a piercing.  Who knows…

Washington Mutual became the largest bank to fail in the history of the United States last night. This sh*t has hit the fan. The government seized the bank and then sold it to JP Morgan Chase. Wamu had over 300 billion in assets before collapsing. Your stacks are insured up to 100K.

Jesus The Wheel (Please!), Bush, Wallstreet mofo’s, McCain, and these other white folks have really got us into some sh*t.

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Travis Barker and DJ AM are in critical condition:

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and a popular disc jockey were critically injured in a Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people, authorities said Saturday. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane went off a runway and crashed on a nearby road, she said. Hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits said Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of Columbia.

Tracee Ellis Ross’s twin was caught terrorizing Hispanic children on the streets of Eagle, Colorado… with a Samurai sword:

Amanda Jane Darling Harris, 21, allegedly chased the children, aged 9 to 15, with an 18-inch samurai sword because they were playing in a parking lot of the Villa apartments, according to a police report. Harris was arrested in her third-floor apartment on suspicion of menacing — use of a deadly weapon, misdemeanor third-degree assault with a weapon, ethnic intimidation and harassment. Harris is employed by Pooh Corner Preschool in Minturn, Colo., according to the arrest report. A spokeswoman for the preschool said she couldn’t comment on Harris’ current employment status.

WTF has gotten into people?! A preschool teacher trying to murk babies?! She needs to be permanently sedated. B*tch is crazy.

Snoop from The Wire is the culprit this time:

Police arrested popular actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson on minor drug charges on Wednesday (August 20), after she was detained for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial. Members of Baltimore’s Homicide Unit entered Snoop’s Northeast Baltimore home with a “body attachment” warrant, which allowed authorities to arrest and detain her. Once inside, they also found two cigars filled with what is allegedly marijuana as well as marijuana residue. Police may detain Snoop until September 16, when the murder trial of her associate Steven James Lashley begins. Lashley is accused of stabbing three men - one fatally - outside a Baltimore New York Fried Chicken, in Snoop’s defense. Snoop already told investigators that she wasn’t involved in the stabbing.

“He [Roseborough] ain’t try to flirt with me or no [s**t] like that,” Pearson told investigators. “It was so tight in there…I’m like what [s**t] man get out of my face.”

According to The Baltimore Sun, a warrant was issued for Snoop on July 1, after she missed an April 21 trial date. She also recently avoided prosecutors’ phone calls in regards to the trial. Snoop was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1996 at the age of 14, for shooting and killing Okia “Kia” Toomer during a dispute between the two females.

It’s wack what trouble a little kush on the table can get you, but goddamn Snoop was murking fools at 14.