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Bow Wow turned 21 this week. You can see some photos here. My 21st birthday was pretty much the same. Except Snoop Dogg wasn't there. And there weren't woman wearing nothing but painted on paw prints. And it wasn't in a club, it was an in a small condominium.

Fine, our birthdays were different in every way possible. But the one thing I do have in common with him is that I haven't written a rap song in 10 years.

In this weeks edition of Good Rappers Who Are Actually Idiots and Got their Faces Tattooed, The Game is out of jail, but facing a civil suit for when he brandished the heat at a pick-up basketball game. Makes sense, right? Sounds appropriate to me. At the time, he said he was attempting to "blast" the "fool" because the other team "was garbage." Just goes to show that you can take the man out of the streets, but you can't predict whether or not he'll still get a stupid face tattoo.

Kevin Allocca's advice for the week: stop trying to bring umbrellas to Rihanna concerts. No one can see and it's soooo white that you're embarrassing me.

Finally: what? Lil' Wayne is a spokesperson for condoms now? That is...what? The ad they're running, for a brand called "Strapped," is not only straight up awkward, but also unexpectedly homoerotic.

At first, the whole thing made no sense to me at all. Why would they have Lil' Wayne endorse condoms? But then I saw this other ad, and then it made perfect sense: