The city has elected its first white mayor in 31 years, Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu.

Landrieu will replace Ray Nagin, the mayor in office during Hurricane Katrina who was elected in 2002 before being reelected during 2006.

Coincidentally Landrieu is the city's first white mayor since his father Moon Landrieu left the post in 1979.

The new elect beat out 10 of his opponents wining by a landslide of 66% and was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that voters decided to “strike a blow for unity.”

Fittingly, the new mayor finished his acceptance speech by leading a crowd in the “Who Dat” cheer in honor of the new Super Bowl champions The New Orleans Saints.

The New Orleans Saints made history with their first ever Super Bowl appearance by beating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17.

Saints quarterback Drew Brees was named MVP of the game after setting the Super Bowl record for highest completion percentage and tying Tom Brady's 2004 record for Super Bowl completions.

Good for the city of New Orleans and good for the Saints.

Who dat?

“I got two singles out right now.  One featuring Pleasure P called “Hands On You” and it's already at cross over radio and we got “Gotta Get It.”  It was produced by Precise who used to do Mystikal's music in the beginning.  That single is also out everywhere and we getting ready shoot a video for that.  I got a helluva project and you definitely gonna get the title out of it.  It's just that…Cocky & Confident. It's an up-tempo album that wakes you up.  It's not dark at all.  It's one sample on the album just to show you the range of the music.  Mouse that does beats for Boosie and Webbie also produced some stuff and it's one of my best projects.  I'm still UTP / Atlantic even though E1 is handling all the marketing, radio, promotions and everything like that.”

Since his last album Reality Check, Juve has also been through a transition and has moved back to New Orleans from Atlanta since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.  Giving the run down on his city, Juvenile also discussed the economic hardships of the ghettos of New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and how gentrification is running rapid after millions were displaced.

“I still live in New Orleans.  I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years but I moved back after I built my house back.  So it's all good, I'm at home.  Man, in New Orleans right now, we still in the rebuilding stage.  We having our same financial difficulties like everybody else but I don't think we have it as worse as everybody else.  Our tourism is up, Canal and Bourbon Street is fixed back up.  New Orleans is pretty much doing alright.  The only problem we're having is we got high crime and that's because the cats from the minority side.  We haven't seen anything yet.  It's crazy when you get to that part.

If you g go through the ghettos of New Orleans and you ride around, you'll see stuff being rebuilt.  You'll see houses but the problem is who's moving in them.  The people who actually lived in those areas are not getting the opportunity to move back in them.  So that's why I say it's still messed up in a sense.  Not by the naked eye it probably won't look like that but it is still messed up.

I don't have an opinion on Ray Nagin.  I get asked this question a lot and it doesn't bother me to be asked this question but I really don't have an opinion on Ray Nagin because I don't know him.  And I really don't see what he did that was so big or dramatic or great for the city.  So I don't have no opinion.  I don't have nothing bad to say about him but I don't have anything good to say about him either."

Cash Money's breakthrough artist also spoke to Hip-Hop Wired about the highly anticipated reunion.

“It's definitely gonna be a Hot Boy$ reunion.  I be talking to Baby like everyday.  That's all I can tell you, the ball is in their hands right now.  We definitely been in the studio but the songs we recorded earlier got leaked but people know we definitely been in the studio.  But we waiting for Wayne to finish all the trips (tours) he doing and then we all gone fly back down to Miami and then we gone really get down on it.

Working with Cash Money again, it's cool.  I mean it don't hurt.  When you think about it and look at your past, we had a dynasty.  So it won't hurt me reaching back at all.  It's all pluses for me.  As far as Mannie Fresh being involved in the project, that's something he gotta take up with Baby and them because that would be over my head right there.  That part there but I definitely feel and want Mannie to be involved in it.  If you asking me, yeah."

While B.G., Wayne and Juve are all on board for the union, it's still up in the air if the fourth-man of the team Turk will be involved in the reunion.  Locked up since 2004 for the attempted murder of a Memphis police officer, Turk's case has gone through a number of appeals and he has been scheduled to be released several times but has yet to see freedom. Juve also added,

“I spoke to Turk months back and he told me he was getting out of jail.  Then I heard he signed with J. Prince (Rap-A-Lot) so I really don't know what Turk's situation is.  I even put money up in the past to get him out and they still ain't let him out so I don't know what's going on with that.  But what I can tell you is I wanna see him on the street.  He's a good dude and I know he ain't shoot no cop.  He should have been out two years ago.  So I don't know what's going on with Turk.  If he's getting into more trouble while he up in there or if they threw another charge on him?  If they holding him because it involved the police?  You gotta think about it.  It's in Memphis and it's the police.  It's a touchy subject man.”

Stay tuned to Hip-Hop Wired for our upcoming feature with the original Solja Boy.  Cocky & Confident will be released on November 17^th.

This would serve as the final nail in the coffin for Jones who was already serving a 120-day suspension that started March 18. The suspension was a result of Jones filing false invoices to hide the fact that the camera program was showing a steep increase in the costs. Along with this, he intentionally violated contract requirements and accepted plane tickets to an out-of-state conference from a contractor that earned millions on the camera project.

These reports can be credited to recent audits that went on to discover that the crime camera program was beginning to fall through with increases in cost. After receiving these alleged misdeeds, the federal grand jury felt it necessary to investigate even more and interviewed Jones last month in relation to it.

Jones has stated that the program has been with its issues and glitches long before he was placed at the forefront of the technology office.

The crime camera program was made in order to monitor and serve as a deterrent for street crime. The city was under fire in 2008 when critics stated that the cameras were not accomplishing its purpose and were looking for justification for the reported $1.6 million that would be spent the following year on maintenance. That year, $7,500 had been spent for maintenance and upgrading each of the 240 cameras. City Council member Stacy Head indicated that it would cost far less to just buy and install a new camera making the $1.6 million an overpayment.

As a result of his suspension, Jones' lawyer, Lionel Burns, has stated that he is owed compensation for the months that he was suspended along with compensation for being unjustly terminated. He has also stated that there was a link between his clients firing and a decision made by the Nagin administration to fire a team of technology experts. There were claims circulating that someone that had access to the city's computer system was using it to remove messages sent and received by the mayor via e-mail.

He will be appearing in court on Thursday in front of the Civil Service Commission in order to make an appeal to his suspension.

Jones lost his position as chief technology officer last August when it was discovered that he lied about having a college degree. He would be demoted to director of City Hall's management information systems.