Forbes Lists Top Hip Hop Money Makers for 2006

1. Jay-Z: $34 million
2. 50 Cent: $32 million
3. Sean (Diddy) Combs: $28 million
4. Timbaland: $21 million
5. Dr. Dre: $20 million
6. Lil Jon: $14 million
7. Swizz Beatz: $12 million
8. Chamillionair: $11 milion

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Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee Plays Bass Guitar

We like Mike, left, because he is cool and conservative. On top of that he plays bass. Larry Graham is surely proud. Since we have not heard Mike play we do not know if he thumps and plucks like Larry Graham (inventor of the thump and pluck). Bill Clinton might be Elvis but Mike Huckabee is Larry Graham.

Mike Huckabee is the bass player for his band, Capital Offense. Huckabee recently won the Iowa Straw Poll and it gave his campaign renewed life. Huckwbee would clearly be a great president. Lucid and straight forward, he expresses his conservative values without hesitation and in clear tones. Huckabee is also good on global warming too.

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Black-Owned Country Clubs: Golf & Tennis Anyone?

Hercules Pitts, right, is the African American owner and CEO of Marlborough Golf Club in Upper Marlboro, Maryland and Lake Arbor Golf in Mitchellville, Maryland. So it appears that the only black-owned country clubs in the United States are located in the richest majority black county in the country -- Prince George's County.

For more information on Lake Arbor Golf Club call 301-336-7771. For more information on the Marlborough Golf Club call 301-952-1300. (The Washington Informer)

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Elvis Presley Copied Sly Stone Costumes & Sideburns

Elvis Presley was The King but Sly Stone is the Emperor. The Emperor is still rocking 30 years after The King stopped. Clearly Elvis saw Stone in concert and started copying his style. Those Vegas-style jumpsuits were right out of Sly's closet. Except for the hat. Elivs was not into hats. Stone was always into hats. Anyway, the proof is in the pictures. Look at Sly's outfit, left, and at Elvis', right. Elvis clearly copied Sly.

Elivs copied black artists during his entire career. He, like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, was quick to credit the influence. Elvis became the coolest white entertainer by copying blacks. Elvis was Chuck Berry without the guitar licks and Little Richard without the, well, Little Richard. But El had that voice. Nobody could take that voice from him even in the end when he was struggling with weight and drugs. How in the world did Sly outlive Elvis by at least 30 years. Back in 1970 nobody would have made that bet. Presley's drug use was hidden until he died, whereas Sly showed up high (cute and popular at the time) at many venues.

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Lindsay "The Black Kid Was Driving" Lohan

Not only did Lindsay run over the foot of one black man (Ronnie Blake), she tried to blame another one (Jakon Sutter) for driving the chase vehicle in her pursuit of an assistant's mom. "I can do anything I want, I'm a f--king celebrity," she allegedly said, according to one of her boy toy hanger-on. Evidently she can do and say even more to and about her black hanger ons. Low six figures for the foot guy. Maybe 20K for trying to force the other brother to take the rap for you. And get some real help. Dr. Phil put it out there for you. Give him a call.

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Dana Gioia Writes About The Arts in The Wall St Journal

"Entertainment promises us a predictable pleasure--humor, thrills, emotional titillation or even the odd delight of being vicariously terrified. Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world--equal to but distinct from scientific and conceptual methods. Art addresses us in the fullness of our being--simultaneously speaking to our intellect, emotions, intuition, imagination, memory and physical senses. There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories or songs or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions. And it remembers." (The Wall Street Journal, 7-19-07)

Mr. Gioialeft, is the chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts. This is an excerpt from a June 17 commencement address at Standord University.

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