Word on the Street...

-Rap icon KRS-ONE has launched his own religion, complete with a 600 page 'Bible' for potential followers. He's written a 600 page bible called The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument.

In an interview with All Hip Hop.com, KRS says of his book: "It explores the spirituality of hip hop, the divinity of hip hop. I'm suggesting that in 100 years, this book will be a new religion on the earth. Now you talk about controversy, there's some Christian ministries if you go online, look up some ministers, they dissing right now. 'Who the hell does he think he is?' Well, I think I have the authority to approach God directly, I don't have to go through any religion (or) train of thought. I can approach God directly myself and so I wrote a book called 'The Gospel Of Hip Hop' to free from all this nonsense garbage right now. Respect (to) the Christianity, the Islam, the Judaism but their time is up."

-KRS One is featured in a documentary entitled 'The Obama Deception'. He had this to say: “If they controlled it before, what makes you think they're not controlling it now? The country was on the verge of revolution. They threw a Black man up, now we like this (complacent). They put a Black face on the New World Order and now we all happy. KRS ain't buying it.”

For more on The Obama Deception, check out the link: http://hiphopwired.com/7285/krs-one-breaks-down-the-new-world-order-the-obama-deception/

-Venus and Serena Williams are now part owners of the Miami Dolphins.

u go girls!

-Hip-hop entrepreneur Jay-Z is aiming to move his basketball team the New Jersey Nets to his native Brooklyn, New York by the end of next year (2010).

His plans have been hampered by a number of legal delays, but Jay-Z reveals progress is being made and he's looking to unveil the Nets' new home in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Prospect Heights by December 2010.

Jay-Z says, "We're trying to get to Brooklyn, I think in early December; we'll start building the new stadium, it'll take hopefully a year (to complete)." The rapper wants the team's new move to be coupled with a new name - the Brooklyn Nets - and he's keen to add his pal LeBron James to the line-up when the basketball ace's contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers is up.

-A movie is currently in the works on the life of Whitney Houston. No word yet on who will portray Houston.

The movie will depict her rise to stardom, her tumultuous marriage to Bobby Brown, her drug abuse and her recent comeback.

-Janet Jackson will do a duet with Madonna.

Science & Technology

A Breathalyzer for Cancer?

A team of researchers may have come up with a golden idea for diagnosing lung cancer. By coating tiny nuggets of gold with a thin layer of organic material, the researchers have developed an "electronic nose" that, with some additional work, could spot lung cancer instantly by analyzing someone's breath.

Hossam Haick and colleagues at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa embedded the 5-nanometer-long gold nanoparticles in a silicon wafer and then collected exhaled air from 40 cancer patients and 56 people with healthy lungs.

All the subjects had to breathe deeply through a purifying filter for 5 minutes. After this "lung washout," they filled five 750-milliliter Mylar bags with air. A machine blew this air over the silicon-gold circuit, and the electrical resistance of the gold nanoparticles rose or fell depending on the presence or absence of certain compounds.

Cancer cells exude different compounds than healthy cells do, Haick explains, and the circuit picks up this difference. Tumor growth causes stress in cells, leading to a build up of free radical molecules that attack the lipids in cell walls, tearing out molecules with long chains of carbon atoms.

The sensors respond rapidly and are completely reusable. The breath diagnosis is especially promising for detecting lung cancers early, before they show up on x-rays.

Source: ScienceMag