::Throwing plastic at rappers is the new new. Game’s bodyguards chin-check the attacker.

>>The guys behind “Lloyd Banks’ Retirement Party” have now uncovered R.Kelly’s songwriting secrets. [The Real]

>>Speaking of the serial child molester, here’s Trapped in the Closet 13. [HipHopCrunch]

>>Kids to Music Industry: I download because that’s how I was raised. [Idolator]

>>The most influential hip-hop head of 2007 is back on air. [Chronicle]

>>Oldies but Goodies: Just a soul whose intentions are good. [Souled on Music]

>>Living with Baduism, an oft-ignored musically transmitted disease. [Oh Word]

>>Joey (of Straight Bangin’) sums up Common’s Finding Forever nicely. [Brooklyn Bodega]

>>Introducing…the newest member of the Dipset Crew. [Juelz Banana]

>>After a one-year sabbatical the king of international blogs is back. [Soul on Ice]