He's retired the name "Hurricane," but Game rained down on the Internet today like a monsoon. Songs leaked, Jesse Jackson commentary went flying and he even indirectly — well, OK, very directly! — said Jay-Z couldn't hang with him in a rap battle. Interesting! Does anybody remember Jay's infamous "Dear Summer Freestyle" on the Funkmaster Flex radio show a few years ago? As a fan of lyricism, I thought Game was really bringing it on the leaked L.A.X. records, especially "Letter to the King," which he and Nas teamed up on. I wonder if his line about Jesse Jackson is going to overshadow all the supreme wordplay he dropped on the record prior to that?

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In "My Life," a new track (featuring Lil Wayne) that just leaked online, the Game raps cryptically about Eminem:

"All the pictures of me and Em, I burned them," he raps, referencing Slim Shady. "So there ain't no proof I walked through 8 Mile/ And so since it ain't no Proof, I'll never walk through 8 Mile/ Sometimes I think about my life with my face down/ Then I see my sons and put on my Kanye smile."

What do you think he's talking about? Let us know below...

Ever since we posted asking for you to vote on the hottest MCs right now, we've been flooded with comments. And y'all are intense! Every rapper on the list has been picked apart with fire, and you’ve battled it out for a couple not even in our lineup.

Some of you had major issues with our 2007 Hottest MC Lil Wayne, saying the man’s all hype and waiting for the proof of his talent on the much-delayed Tha Carter III. Fresh said Weezy’s just “getting bigger and bigger over hype alone. His a cappella freestyles are horrible, and that for me is letdown…He’ll [be] no.1 next year if his album’s dope.”

There were a lot of shout-outs to the Game, with Chris Hasso writing in, “Once Game’s L.A.X. album drops, it will be right up there with Tha Carter 3.” And Mario said, “Only 3 albums deep, and he’s the best lyrical West Coast rapper ever.”

And plenty of people pushed for Lupe Fiasco and Black Thought as MCs known for lyrics that go beyond girls and game. As Prophet J put it, “Lupe talks about real life s*** and explains it with more passion than anybody I’ve heard.” While Checkitout backed up Black Thought: “This guy has been spitting lyrical prowess under your nose for 20 years now!! Give him his just!!” And Josh got critical about the “hottest” MCs as being “hot for the dollars, not for the cause.”

Even more folks were riled up about Soulja Boy being in the poll. “He doesn’t even rap, just mutters 3 lines in a song,” Taf wrote. And Eye said, “I’m disgusted in the committee even considering Soulja Boy an MC -- that’s like saying MC Brains, Hammer or Luke are MCs just because they make hip-hop music, no! It doesn’t work that way!” But NV stepped in: “The boy is dumb popular with the kids, and we were all there a while ago…We have to consider him because he is fire in the South.”

Whoever you’re rooting for, remember to tune in to see the MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust go at it tonight, May 16, at 10 p.m. ET on MTV, when MTV News Presents the second edition of “The Hottest MCs in the Game.”

And if you haven’t voted yet, head to our poll, after the jump. Read more...

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· The Game will have a chance to add another tattoo to his face. He began serving a two-month jail sentence on Sunday.

· We kind of stopped counting around the time all those news hounds got rope-a-doped by the Lez Zeppelin / Bonnaroo announcement, but the rumors of a Led Zeppelin reunion appear to have been deep-sixed for good due to singer Robert Plant's overwhelming desire to turn down $200 million in favor of playing bluegrass versions of “Black Dog.”

· How do 900 pissed off Lil’ Boosie fans protest a no show in Omaha? By wildin' out on a ticket booth.

· Can it really be that Radiohead and Jack Johnson are the only headliners available for every major U.S. festival this summer?

· Russell Simmons has officially endorsed Barack obama's presidential bid, feeling that at this “transcendent and historic moment in American politics...I am obligated not to remain on the sidelines.”

· Bono, Fergie, John Legend and Eli and Peyton Manning have been added to the list of performers and presenters for the second annual "Idol Gives Back" charity show on April 9. They join a previously announced roster that includes: Brad Pitt, Miley Cyrus, Reese Witherspoon, Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Daughtry and Carrie Underwood, but, sadly, no Gary Busey.