There was a debate on the floor of the Illinois Senate yesterday about the state's budget crisis, and Republican senate minority leader Christine Radogno got up to make a "point of personal privilege." The point just happened to be a quote from a Wu-Tang Clan song.

Singer-teenager-Canadian Justin Bieber and rapper-producer-neurotic Kanye West "dropped" their much-Tweeted-about collaboration with famed rapping chef Raekwon. It's a remix of Bieber's "Runaway Love," for which Kanye recycles a classic RZA beat and Raekwon recycles his old lines. Click to listen!

WuChess, a site where you can hone your knowledge of the mysteries of chessboxing chess against other players, has launched. On the site, a partnership between RZA, the producer behind hip-hop legends the Wu Tang Clan, and ChessPark, a chess-centric social network, membership costs $48 a year. That has caused…