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POP UNCULTURED: A roundup of weird happenings in music for the week ending September 16

by Anne T. Donahue

Since it’s impossible to address the total madness of the music industry in only five days, Pop Uncultured saves some of the week’s strangest stories for Friday afternoon. Enjoy?

Thanks to Nicki Minaj, fridging is a thing now

Maybe you didn’t see the photo of Nicki Minaj photographed inside a fridge in Vanity Fair, but now you can see Snooki, Heems of Das Racist and anyone else atop bandwagons get up close and personal with icy-cold condiments. As you can see, there is no way this will ever get old. [via Rolling Stone]

People keep stealing Questlove‘s combs and now he’s almost run out of them [FULL STORY]

Questlove only has about 60 out of his 2000 specialty-ordered hair picks left, so STOP TAKING THEM FROM HIS HEAD ALREADY, YOU GREEDY, THIEVING, WANNABE QUESTLOVES.

Snoop Dogg might star in a “new family sitcom”

GTFO Phil Dunphy, because according to BET, Snoop Dogg is in talks to star as the “patriarch” of a new Warner Bros. family sitcom. This would be shocking until you remember that at one point, Charlie Sheen was cast in anything, ever.

A missing boy from LA was found by playing Ozzy Osbourne on a loudspeaker [FULL STORY]

An eight-year-old autistic boy was found after his father suggested blaring his favourite songs over a loudspeaker, and thanks to “No More Tears” by Ozzy, Joshua Robb was discovered by rescuers. Evidently, this eight-year-old boy is more badass than any of us will ever be.

CONFIRMED: Boyz II Men and J-Biebs are making holiday magic

Christmas cometh early!

Bryan Adams has told the Rolling Stones not to play the Olympics

While the Rolling Stones haven’t officially been asked to play the London Olympics, Bryan Adams has recommended that they do not since his own performance left him “so cold” and resulted him wearing “this bizarre suit.” Responded the Rolling Stones:

Kanye once tried to create an adult puppet show that ultimately failed [FULL STORY]

Despite Viacom eventually blocking it, footage of a failed Kanye West adult puppet show surfaced this week that featured Kim Kardashian dressed up as Princess Leia being propositioned by a vulgar puppet. Also known as “Tuesday.”

The Game has outed 50 Cent as gay on Twitter

Although the tweets have since been deleted, NME reports that in an attempt to slam claims that he’s homophobic, The Game outed Fiddy Cent, claiming that “I be surprised when I see someone who’s not GAY . . . @50Cent GAY n we was cool.” That is, until they hated each other.

James Brown‘s publicist hires a private detective because he thinks the singer was murdered [FULL STORY]

Describing the circumstances around James Brown’s death as “fishy,” the singer’s publicist has claimed his former client was murdered, and that those who know the truth have been offed as a result.

Aqua has unleashed new music [FULL STORY]

And there’s absolutely nothing we can do to stop it from happening: