Just another reason I need to come with my A game and stop eating chicken. I know many of you will laugh, but I only learned recently that chicken eat every thing that is on the ground. Gross hunh. Poop. Dirt. Ewwwww. Now the Times is talking about the fact that there are some DANGEROUS [...]

Why did I stumble upon the D-Nice blog. Hallllaaah!Takin out you sucka’s and you don’t know how I did it. Ohhh, those guitars and that base line, dunn nun du nun nun nun nun nun-nun.That is a classic hook, mayne. His blog appears to be honest and full of insight with even advice from BDK [...]

New Book out on Hip Hop. Dope cover too. Between Barkari’s book, Why White Kids Love Hip Hop” to Jeff Changs, “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” and this new joint, Hip Hop Matters, by S. Craig Watkins, can we say that this is a “watershed” year for books on Hip Hop?
He also has another [...]

Damali Ayo, a Denver based, Brown educated visual artist has a new book out titled Rent-A-Negro. What an err- interesting idea. Renting Negros. There was an article on Damali in Salon. Her website is http://www.rent-a-negro.com/.

So, I just learned that Malcolm Gladwell is Colin Powell’s cousin. Can you imagine playing tag with Colin Powell at the annual family BBQ. Colin would have mad strategies and tactics. He would never Be it. I think that it is interesting that Malcom mentions frequently how he is treated differently when he wears The [...]

For the next week or so I am going to post about what I have learned from Hip Hop. I have been toying around with this idea for a minute. I originally wanted to do it in book form so blogging about it is a start:)
1.From BDP’s Love’s Gonna Getcha, I learned that your desires [...]

Why didn’t anyone tell me that the Ikea instructions only have graphics? There is a certain amount of stamina that furniture assemblage requires. It is sorta like a marathon. Redman and Doom helped me learn how to use a drill and assemble an Ikea bookcase, armoire and entertainment center. Well, they did not help me [...]

Two Black women are on the New York Times Bestseller lists.Bebe Moore Campbell’s new book, 72 Hour Hold and Karrine Steffans and Karen Hunter’s book Confessions of a Video Vixen.
I am not surprised by the comments being made about Karrine Steffans book. What it noticable to me is the double standard that exists for Ms. [...]

The Wayans have been in talks with the City of Oakland to build a studio at an army base in West Oakland. I can see it now, a young bucks, thugs and ex-raiderettes all gainfully employed at the Wayans shiny new sounstage. This could be good for the city. But you know how that Hollywood [...]

Lately I have been obsessed with inherited wealth. It is one thing to be the first in your family to go to school. You end up being your families paralegal, social worker and health care advocate. Because you have been in schools re- institutions, you can navigate them better. You do it out of love. [...]