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November 27, 2000 - Moby is commenting to Spin on several songs, including Sisqo's Thong Song saying, "My experience with Thongs is almost nonexistant. I live in New York, I don't see women in bathing suits-ever. I didn't want to like this, but I go beyond liking it. I love Thong Song. It's outstanding."

November 27, 2000 - Spin lists Sisqo's Thong Song as the #9 Single of the Year saying, "Unforgettable like Nat King Cole, unbelievable like EMF, ubiquitous like whoa. It's out there waiting for you, shaking it's scantily clad cootchie in the corner bodega beyond good and evil."

November 27, 2000 - Sisqo is the musical guest on Live with Regis on Wednesday. Regis also will have Samuel L. Jackson on the same show.

November 27, 2000 - Entertainment Weekly is imagining small sceen roles big name rappers should take, and for Sisqo, they suggest he play the petite, streetwise new lifeguard on Baywatch Hawaii, where he'd get an eyeful of thong-thong-thong-thong-thongs.

November 25, 2000 - The New York Post reports supermodel Vendela was "horrified" to have Sisqo sing Thong Song to her at Kat Mack's birthday at Studio 54.

November 19, 2000 - More details emerging from the feuding members of Sisqo in Entertainment Weekly, who reports Sisqo stormed out of a Vibe photo shoot with the group. The problems center around Jazz and Woody wanting to do a Dru Hill album before they do any solo work. Sisqo wants everyone's solo projects out first.

November 19, 2000 - Lil' Kim's new single How Many Licks? features Sisqo and Lil' Kim is commenting on Sisqo saying, "The first day, I talked to him for a long time on the phone. He calls me at, like, 12 o'clock midnight, and we didn't get off the phone until like seven o'clock that morning. Yeah, and our combination and our chemistry was just great -- it was perfect -- so you can imagine how we're going look together on the screen."

November 17, 2000 - Dees Sleaze reports rumors that Sisqo may have used a stunt double for his acrobatic moves in the Thong Song are untrue.

November 14, 2000 - Sisqo has been nominated for Best Soul/R&B Male Artist and Album (Unleash the Dragon) in the 2001 American Music Award which will be seen January 8th on ABC.

November 12, 2000 - Sisqo scored at the Radio Music Awards, where he's shown accepting an award... both for Hip Hop/Rythmic Song of the Year and Radio Party Song of the Year.

November 9, 2000 - The #5 question asked in Spin's 20 Questions this month, "Hasn't Sisqo's Thong Song officially become this year's Livin' la Vida Loca and Macerena Combined?"

November 9, 2000 - December's Spin magazine said the Sisqo uncensored version of Thong Song featuring Foxy Brown was part of their "Matches Made In Error."

November 8, 2000 - In an Abstracts.net poll asking if you thought Dru Hill will ever record another album, 88.8% of you said yes, while only 11.2% said no (509 total votes), yet judging Sisqo's latest comments, the minority appears to be correct in this case.

November 6, 2000 - Sisqo was a big winner at the Radio Music Awards which he hosted Saturday night along with the Backstreet Boys and Mark McGrath. Sisqo took home awards for Song of the Year-Hip Hop and Most Requested Party Song for his hit Thong Song. Sisqo's role as host included introducing Nelly, BB Mak, the Wallflowers, Eve, Mystical, Britney Spears, and Jay-Z.

November 5, 2000 - Sisqo was in Los Angeles to announce the return of the Grammy Awards to Los Angeles for the third consecutive year. Sisqo was also joined by Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan in one of the photos.

November 3, 2000 - More quotes from Sisqo at the press conference announcing the 2001 Grammy Awards February 21st, "Today I'm basically here in support of the Grammy... OK, I'm kissing a little ass, trying to secure my Grammy spot."

November 3, 2000 - Entertaindom.com reports that Sisqo and Dru Hill may be kaput as we predicted might happen months ago. Sisqo admits, "For the Dru Hill project that we were gearing up to do, [there have been] some shocking new developments. Normally what happens with a group when they try to do what we're trying to do, it's got some friction, so I don't know if it's gonna happen."

November 2, 2000 - Sisqo was on Extra today to help promote the Grammy Awards. He threw in the "Extra! Extra!" line saying he's always wanted to say that.

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