Kanye West Says His Music Is ‘Perfect,’ Is The Beethoven Of Our Lifetime – “I am flawed as a human being. I am flawed as a person. As a man, I am flawed. But my music is perfect!” Kanye continued. “This is the best you gonna get ladies and gentlemen in this lifetime, I’m sorry. You could go back to Beethoven and s—, but as far as this lifetime, though, this is all you got.” [PopCrush]

Former Iran Ambassador Suspended Amid MTN Bribery Scandal – “Yes, he has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation,” spokesperson Clayson Monyela said. The investigation related to allegations that Saloojee accepted payments from MTN. Monyela said that Saloojee was “an employee of the department” but declined to elaborate on the position Saloojee held there.[MG]

UK’s Cameron Furious After Party Revolt – A revolt against British Prime Minister David Cameron within his own Conservative party has damaged his authority this week, threatening an already fragile coalition government at a time of growing public anger with his leadership. [News24]

RIM Said To Sell Jet To Help Save $1 Billion – Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), which has lost 95 percent of its market value since 2008, is selling one of its two business jets under a plan to save $1 billion in operating costs, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The maker of BlackBerry devices put its nine-passenger Dassault Aviation SA (DSY) F50EX up for sale, trying to fetch $6 million to $7 million, one of the people said. [Bloomberg]

‘Olympics Security Blunder Must Be Explained’ – Pressure is growing on the Home Secretary to explain how a blunder over security at the Olympic Games has caused thousands of military personnel to be drafted in at the last minute. The armed forces have been told to find an extra 3,500 personnel to protect the London Olympics to cover a shortfall in recruitment by a private security firm just a fortnight before the opening ceremony.[Sky News]

Is Jay-Z’s ‘99 Problems’ Legally Accurate? A Law Professor Explains in Line-by-Line Reading – Caleb Mason, an associate professor of law at Southwestern University, has done us all a service by producing, in a paper for the Saint Louis University Law Journal, the most thorough legal reading of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” yet produced. The upshot? Jay-Z mostly gets it right, except for one glaring omission. Some highlights: [Gawker]

Porn Star Ron Jeremy Was Courted To Play Bait In Magnotta Sting – Twin Playboy bunnies and an animal-rights group tried to enlist one of the world’s biggest porn stars last year to help catch Luka Rocco Magnotta. Ron Jeremy said he was asked to lure Mr. Magnotta, a small-time Canadian porn actor, to Los Angeles with a phony job offer to appear in an X-rated flick. The ploy was concocted more than a year before Mr. Magnotta became a murder suspect in the gruesome death of Montreal student Lin Jun. [Globe&Mail]

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Romney Heckled By Black Voters – Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney made a bold pitch to black voters on Wednesday, but his vow to repeal President Barack Obama’s health reforms drew a sustained chorus of boos. [IOL]

Bin Laden’s Cook Freed From Guantanamo Bay After 10 Years – A man who spent a decade as a prisoner in the U.S. detention facility for militants in Guantanamo Bay returned Wednesday to his native Sudan after completing a shortened sentence for aiding al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Al-Qosi, who recently turned 52, had not seen his family since he was captured and sent to the U.S. base in Cuba in early 2002. His release brings the prison population down to 168. [CBSNews]

New York City Pay Phone Booths Now Free WiFi Hotspots – New York City is committed to making sure the 12,000 phone booths still lining its sidewalks don’t become relics. While the city announced plans to turn some of them into digital kiosks with SmartScreens in April, today it launched a pilot program to provide free public WiFi at public phone booths around the five boroughs. [ABC]

Will Facebook Share Who You Vote For? – Facebook announced Tuesday it will join CNN in helping cover the 2012 election, the first such deal of the 2012 election season. CNN and Facebook announced that they have entered a partnership that promises to deliver social data related to the 2012 election, including posts and demographic information derived from Facebook’s extensive and complex algorithms. [The Capitol Column]

Philanthropist Couple’s Drug Downfall Ends In Death and Arrest – They were lavishly generous patrons of drug treatment charities who turned out to be drug addicts themselves, a glitteringly wealthy couple whose secret lives were exposed four years ago when the police caught them with thousands of dollars’ worth of crack cocaine and heroin. [NY Times]

LAUSD Teacher Under Investigation For Lewd Acts With A Child Crashes After Wild Pursuit [VIDEO] – An LAUSD teacher under investigation for lewd acts with a child has been taken to the hospital following a police chase that ended with the suspect’s truck flying off Crenshaw Boulevard and crashing near a Palos Verdes office building. [CBS]

Armstrong Gets 30-Day Extension To Answer Doping Charges – The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency gave Lance Armstrong 30 more days to answer charges he used drugs and blood transfusions to improve his performance, an extension that could undercut the seven-time Tour de France winner’s argument that the agency has been unfair. [USAToday]

Hooker Fourie At No8 For Stormers – STORMERS coach Allister Coetzee showed his willingness to experiment in the face of adversity by selecting Deon Fourie at No8 for Saturday’s Super 15 match against the Melbourne Rebels at Newlands. Fourie, normally a hooker, will pack down at the base of the scrum for the first time – making this the eighth different loose trio combination of the season. [SportLive]

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COMING UP TODAY

Toya DeLazy on The IanF Show – With her trademark thick-rimmed glasses and braided Mohawk, afropolitan diva Toya Delazy joins The IanF Show at 09h00! [2ovfm]

Maya On Money – Maya On Money is a finance feature, hosted by Maya Fisher-French. She will be teaming up with the Just Josie lunch show at 12h30 every Thursday, to bring us simple and useful finance tips. [mayaonmoney]

The Rock Dimension – Gary Cool chats to The Arrows about their hot new album on and their tour. He will be calling up MK’s best new act Die Tuindwergies and also chats to Jack Parow about Rock/Rap bands. Tune in from 20h00-23h00 for all this and more! [rockdimension]

FRESH PODCASTS

ChianoSky In Studio – ChianoSky joined Richard and Dan and chatted about her album which has been a year in the making, who she collaborated with and what’s to come later this year. [podcast]

Biz Takeouts – The State Of South African Marketing – Find out more about the state of South African media and marketing. This week’s Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show, streamed live via 2oceansVibe Radio featured the outspoken columnist, David Bullard. [podcast]