Crush of the Month: The College Dropout vs. The Funnyman

KANYE WEST: Anyone who can get a non-Jesus-lovin' crowd to sing part of a hymn at the top of their lungs and chant, "Jesus, walk with me," and get Talib Kweli and Common to join him on stage and sing my damn favorite songs of recent hip-hop has what I call charisma. (What I'm really saying is that I freaked out when that happened.) Kanye scores with 8/13 of my Jelly criteria from post 1. He unfortunately misses on some of the more crucial marks -- but I bet he knows how many feathers are on a Purdue, and dude, that's hot.


Kanye: The better moves


Chris: The better mind

CHRIS ROCK: Sure to salvage a weak-ish list of noms with his charming humor and that grimace-worth-a-thousand-words at this year's Oscars. All the flack he's gotten for "not taking the Oscars serious enough" (I read: being black) only makes me love him more. I ain't mad atcha, Chris -- I got nothin' but love for ya.

My man scores 9/13 (possibly 10 -- I bet he knows Napoleon D.) on the Jelly scale. And I love a man who tells it like it is and makes me laugh at the same time. And people, he's right about the straight black man. They all laughed when he said that -- it was the uptighty whiteys that freaked, yo.