When checking music Industry history you may notice it was no more or less violent than what happened this weekend in Miami at a pre VMA party. Gangsters ran things then and some do now. It doesn't matter if things pop off in one of the most glamourous hotels on South Beach (Ian Shrager's Shore Club), 'ish still happens. The Suge Knight saga continues! Face it, rap is a three billion dollar (and more) business today and the players in it have giant agendas....stay tuned.

Let me be the only half caucasion to call the Ashlee Simpson pre record promotion for what it is........................dreck! Why on earth is her father taking that lyp sync disaster on SNL last year and turning it into a marketing hook? Dumbass. Propping her up as some kind of legitimate force who just was not "well" when it happened plus booking on Oprah and a new appearance at SNL just sounds like reheated leftovers to me, instead of the "new and improved" Ashlee they should just come out and offer. Apologies to an unwitting publuc might be good too!!!!!! Like I said before, if you look at how the big money dealt with Janet Jackson as compared to this, you begin to understand how dollars operate. Yes, you cansay the FCC thing is more important, but do you think they could have fought for Janet the way this industry does for Ashlee? Think about it.

In Crazy Pinoy news we are keeping alot of things on hush for once! So much Drama going on from Seattle I can't even begin......but here's some obvious stuff: Madden 2006 proves once again EA Sports owns the genre, David Banner (SRC/Universal Music) is grinding for that September 20th release, My man Sonny Bonoho has finally shipped that summer video to the rest of the country and so has our dude Raja from www.RajasMusic.com . Underground is where we started and underground is where it's at! So support, beaaaattttttccccches!

BUZZ FOR August: Diddy as VMA god, www.Traffic.com, George Clooney Hotel deal in Vegas, Hurricane Katrina, Bjork's swan dress for auction, Suge Knight health problem, club 49 Grove (NY), Wonder Bar (Seattle), www.TVDeskTop.com / Lil Jon' deal.

WANKSTER FOR August: Security @ The Shore Club, Miami. How do you run a Kanye West Invitation Only party and not have the appropriate security? You are very, very lucky that more were not hurt. Believe me, Ian Shrager's insurance company cannot have that much money to cover that!

A SHOUT OR TWO: MC Byrdie, thanks for watching out for us at the door on the 19th for the Livio Burfday event, Dj Scene, Mr. D Sane @ Street Level Records, Aaron Eng @ Universal, Linda @ Urban Network, and all the video shows supporting my kids....

Gene Dexter, mobile promoter
www.CrazyPinoy.com