Rapper Ice Cube

Billboard’s Hot 100 is out this morning and showing that latest American Idol winner Taylor Hicks’ first single Do I Make You Proud? debuted at #1. The song knocked Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie out of the top spot.

In other Idol news, runner-up Katharine McPhee has told People that she suffered from bulimia for five years and threw up as many as seven times a day. McPhee’s interview with the celebrity magazine revealed that the singer started suffering from the affliction at 17 and sought treatment in October 2005, just before the show’s season started.

Spinning In The CD Player Today:
Ice Cube’s Laugh Now, Cry Later – the original angry rapper is back, and while Chris Brown has a sweet voice and Jay-Z wants to be a mogul, Ice and N.W.A. helped build the bridge from rap to the mainstream. Check out this photo of the 37 year old rapper in front of the Washington Monument. Does he look happy to you?