Rapper Cakes da Killa appeared on The Hot 97 Morning Show last week, despite not having a song on the New York hip-hop station's playlist. The reason hosts Ebro Darden and Peter Rosenberg invited Cakes on is because Cakes is gay and skilled. And not only is he gay and a rapper, but he's the kind of gay rapper who will correct you if you call him a gay rapper, as Ebro did early on in their interview. Cakes told Ebro that he considers himself not a gay rapper, but "a rapper that happens to be gay. There's no gay mailmen, but there are mailmen that are gay." Feisty.

The morning hosts of New York’s Hot 97 interrogated Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday morning about ending stop-and-frisk, raising the minimum wage, and legalizing marijuana (“I don’t think that’s happening anytime soon”). Listen to the interview here.

"I only get with transgender women for one thing and one thing only, and that's for oral sex. Like I said: I never had sex with a man. I never had sex with a transgender woman." - Mister Cee in GQ's profile of the Hot 97 DJ and his complicated coming out

Hot 97 urges NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio to tell his "Afro Son," 16-year-old Dante, not to hang out with rappers. "We need Dante focused."

If you haven't been paying attention to the saga of hip-hop DJ Mister Cee's sex with men who dress like women, this quote from Cee will help catch you up:

32-year-old DJ Megatron, Corey McGriff, of BET's "106 & Park" was shot and killed outside his Staten Island home early Sunday morning. Before working at BET, McGriff was a DJ at New York's best radio station, Hot 97. He also played a small role in the movie Killa Season. No motive has been determined.

May 19 @ 9:45am Bright and early, Method Man leaving his curtained Maybach at the Hot 97 studios at 395 Hudson. Looks like homie still got cash![Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com]

At least someone's free today: Lil' Kim, the bulbous rapper who has spent the past 10 months in the Phildelphia Federal Detention Center, has finally reasserted her street cred enough to be released back into the wild. Kim was sentenced to one year and one day behind bars for perjury and conspiracy stemming from a 2001 gunfight outside of, naturally, the Hot 97 building, when her posse crossed paths with rival Foxy Brown's posse. Kim got out this morning at 6 AM, appearing in an "all-white, cleavage-baring outfit," thus demonstrating to would-be prisoners how to manipulate the lonely lesbian-driven system into an early release.

Last month, Power 105.1 radio host Star threatened to urinate on the daughter of Hot 97's DJ Envy, saying on air, "I would like to do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl." Star was promptly fired, but yesterday his attorney, seeking to have criminal charges against Star dropped, told the Daily News that Star's comments were in response to Envy's sidekick Miss Jones' on-air comments about Star. Jones allegedly called Star's mother a "prostitute" and his father a "tar black" "Sambo." And now, today, those on Team Star are taking to the Hot97 building, where every hip-hop star goes for a good shooting, to defend Star's desire to molest DJ Envy's daughter. After all, that bitch started it.

In a filing with the State Supreme Court, the District Council of Carpenters has sought to boot hip-hop radio station Hot 97 (WQHT) from its offices in the union-owned building at 395 Hudson Street; union members have also nailed an eviction notice to the station's front doors. The council maintains that WQHT is responsible for a slew of violent incidents "that have shocked, offended, repulsed, or threatened the safety of other tenants" in the building. Episodes range from verbal confrontations (such as when DMX kindly informed a guard that that he was a "$8.50 an hour fuckwit") to actual gunshots. For your entertainment, the Smoking Gun has 16 entertaining pages detailing the specific confrontations.