It may be too early to call it, but the Gossiping Bitches just caught word that Stan Lee & Marvel are suing MF Doom for copyright infringement. We’ve even heard Stones Throw had to pull the cover artwork to the Madvillain project cause Doom was cold-chilling with the mask on the album.

If this news proves to be incorrect, feel free to sue us instead. Rather, file this news story under “inevitable” and we’ll point our fingers one day and say, “told you so.”

UPDATE (02.02.04):

Gossiping Bitches has learned that Doom is not being served a lawsuit, but a cease & desist order from Stan Lee/Marvel Enterprises. What this means is Doom will not be able to reprint the original Doomsday artwork, or the Special Herbs albums which feature Lee’s original Dr Doom character art.

However, because the Madvillain artwork is original, Stones Throw is in the clear in regards to releasing it.

-- a Gossiping Bitch

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Dr. Dre and once Roots mainstay, Scott Storch claim they have “the most advanced rap album ever.” And they say it is Dr. Dre’s new album, The Detox.

“I’d describe it as the most advanced rap album musically and lyrically,” says Scott Storch. When asked if he was familiar with Anticon and the label/collective’s history with the word “advancement” in hiphop, Storch replied, “Huh?”

“Breeze and stars…Wonder willows, what you are?” questions Sole in a proverbial way. “Why does thou art not know, thy Anticon homies in the East Bay have the most advanced listening tunes? This Dre guy is really out of the loop.”

When asked if he knew Scott Storch was white, Sole replied, “Oh, it’s definitely on now!”

Sage Francis was a little harder for us to contact. Many calls to his lumberjack business office were not returned. Sage will be legally representing Sole and the Anticon record label in court; Sage, himself, a jack of all trades. “Rapping’s what I do least best,” remarked Sage in an interview long, long ago…Indeed, Francis…Indeed.

Anticon will file a preliminary injunction against Dre and Dre’s label, Aftermath for use of the term “advanced” in hiphop. More as the news develops.

-- a Gossiping Bitch

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