Especially those of you who may have paid a donation to steal. Forget prosecution, you should be lucky you're not being tarred and feathered or thrown in the stockade for being that stupid. And hey, you can calm down because your ringleader has been released from jail, even though his dumb ass is probably going back there for a long time. (Also hilarious: "It is highly doubtful that the IFPI or BPI will go after [all OiNK users], or even one of them." Sleep with one eye open, chumps.) The gross entitlement and embarassing lack of perspective displayed in the OiNK "fallout" makes me long for a tactical Iranian nuclear strike or a killer comet more than ever.

^* From that in-defense of OiNK rant, regarding how "the new model" should make money: "Touring and merch trumps album sales." It does, huh? Tell that to your writer who wouldn't shell out eight measly bucks for a show by one of his "favorite" artists. Surely your proclamation will inspire him to actually pay for a concert by a band he likes, instead of sucking up via blog for a guest-list spot.

"He's a racist," Nas said. "Everybody has a marketing plan; his marketing plan is racism.

"He doesn't understand the younger generation. He deals with the past," Nas continued. "The people he represents are Republican, older, a generation that has nothing to do with the reality of what's happening now with my generation. ... He's not really on my radar. People like him are supposed to be taught and people like me are supposed to let n—-as like him know. I don't take him serious. His sh— is all about getting ratings or whatever. I wouldn't honor anything Bill O'Reilly has to say. It just shows you what bloodsuckers do: They abuse something like the Virginia Tech [tragedy] for show ratings. You can't talk to a person like that."

Sadly, I think Nas underestimates the number of people in "his" generation whose reality O'Reilly speaks to very directly. But the basic thrust of Bill being, you know, a manipulative, exploitative asshole who you should not bother arguing with? Word, word.

Nas Lashes Out At Bill O'Reilly [MTV]