One of the things that I like about blogs is the level of interaction a writer has with her readers. That being said. What do you want me to write about? More about hip hop or less. Less about writers. More of my BBC antics. Less about BL? More about cultural topics like the N-word? [...]

This photo, courtesy of the very talented Martin Fuchs. Peep his sh*t, he’s dope. Thats it. Harlem is about to be the new East Village. Don’t think that the East Village would not look the way the it does without the assistance of NYU, The New School and the Medium Box fashion chain stores. What [...]

So, Wil-E-Coyote, the resident Scorpian Artistic-Know-it-All says I have a bit of Negro ADD. Its true. But my brand of ADD is special because I can have a conversation about three things at once AND keep track of that sh*t. That’s talent fam. I mention this because I started this post, a few weeks ago.And [...]

I remember when Sway told me that there are these two cats from Atlanta that were dope. I was like, them dudes rappin’ in the pool hall in they video. (I had a self admitted East Coast Bias back then).He was like, yeah, OutKast.I responded, they cool. Its catchy, but I couldn’t see myself bumping [...]

This makes me feel like a failure. Crime is so big in Oakland, that the New York Times is talking about the way that they are dealing with it. Apparently, the police have compiled a list of recently parollees and are inviting them in for “conversations”. The idea is to make folks aware of the [...]

I have been ranting and raving about Chango’s Fire for the last two weeks. It is an imaginative book about gentrification in Harlem. About burned buildings in the Bronx. About Dutch, Dominican, Russian and Puerto Rican immigrants. About what it means to have your home in the hood. A place that looks like nothing, and [...]

***Dead*** @ Mr. Crack.net So I have been thinking of moving toward taking about the economic effects of issues that we discuss here on mm. So I bring you, the economic effects of crack. We often do the moral. But rarely do we do the economic. I find that the economic anlysis provides a more [...]

Even though they outta stock. These is hella fresh. Talk about affirming something positive.From 10 deep mens T’s.________________________________ Here at Model Minority, we go from hood books to super woman stamps and round it out w/ photos of Evander Old @ss Holyfield, who in fact won last night. We can’t be serious all time. Enjoy [...]

Hood Lit 101. We have all seen them. “Around the Way Girl 2.” “Homo Thug.” “Let That Be the Reason”. Its Hood Lit. Urban Fiction. Hip Hop Fiction.You see folks reading them on the train. Ladies takin’ they slow @ss time going up the stairs at 14th street because they are engrossed in chapter 5. [...]

I went to go see this flower at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden on Saturday. Its was on a fluke but I am glad I did. That sh*t is straight up and down little shop of horrors. My homie dekka made fun and said, you prolly was the only brown girl there. I wasn’t. There was [...]