The guido / guidette lifestyle is a costly one. Bumpits, trips to the tanning salon, and monthly gym memberships don’t come cheap! Act like you know.

The stars of MTV’s overnight sensation “Jersey Shore” have been negotiating like “Friends” — but soon could be enemies.

MTV has offered the cast of self-proclaimed “guidos” and “guidettes” $10,000 apiece for each of Season 2’s planned dozen episodes, TMZ.com reports. And, anyone who holds out will reportedly be replaced.

Sources said that the cable network first offered the cast members $5,000 an episode, with a $10,000 signing bonus. However, the cast rejected the deal as one, letting the network know they were negotiating “Friends”-style where everyone would be paid the same amount. According to TMZ, MTV dropped the grenade that they are open to using replacement cast members to fill in if the original stars don’t accept the offer by the end of the day on Monday.

The network has reportedly received thousands of audition tapes and is willing to mix and match new and old cast members. It is said they already have replacements at the ready.

Rocking a perfectly picked mini-fro and Mars Blackman necklace [as a possible nod to her seven month old baby girl], the woman iStan for performed alongside her latest sperm donor Jay Electronica on Mos Def’s Ecstatic Tour at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood on Saturday.

Babble recently caught up with Madame Wheat Germ about homeschooling, tweeting during labor, raising her kids in a vegan household, and giving birth at home.

The food which fuels that learning is also a big concern for Erykah, who adheres to a vegan lifestyle both for herself as well as for her three children, which include daughters Puma Sabti, 5, and Mars Merkaba, 7 months. “When Seven was born I was a vegetarian and his father [Andre 3000]was too, so it was a natural progression for him in life to eat the things we eat,” she explains. “Puma is the same way. It’s just what’s in the house.”

The kids are also being taught to read the ingredients before they consume, though Erykah is quick to point out that she did not “in any way force them to have the same lifestyle,” adding, “I think they should know the benefits of having a healthy body.”

“If they were to choose to do anything else after they become high school students, I would have full confidence that they know how to take care of their bodies and themselves. By making sure they use preventive medicine — getting plenty of water, plenty of chlorophyll and vegetable juices and good, healthy rest and activity — I know they’ll be able to take good care of themselves.”

The diet is sometimes a challenge, however. When asked about whether her children ever request hot dogs, Erykah replies, “they joke about it,” and concedes, “I’m sure as children they feel left out sometimes.” When those situations seem likely to arise, Erykah says she always has an alternative food to offer. “We make sure we keep a school menu on hand, and we prepare the same foods the kids at school are eating but in a healthier manner,” she notes. “That’s what this lifestyle provides us with.” [Check out more quotes from the interview at The EcoSista.]

Dear Kanye,

I’M MAD, JOE JACKSON MAD. Ever since you started getting serious with your main squeeze Amber, the random outbursts and diva-like tantrums have been kept to a minimum. You cleaned up your act, and now getting all domesticated and shit. Not fighting the paparazzi, no longer writing in ALL BOLD FUCKING CAPS. Where is your head, [we know its buried deep in Amber] but seriously, where is your head?

Now I know you said you was turning over a new leaf, and that various outlets [including those BITCH-ASS producers at South Park who made the gay-fish shit] made you take second look at life and how you handled things, but don’t let those SLAVE-ASS BITCHES tell you how to act. Where is that Kanye that went over his minutes at each awards show? Where is that Kanye that screamed and got “sick and filthy” with the MTV crew backstage at the 2007 VMA’s? Where is that Kanye who let the people know that “George Bush didn’t care about black people”?

Where is that Kanye? We crave him. We miss him. The world needs him.