A little @ss kissing is healthly, right?!?!!?! Well. I am blowing the kisses because I need some help. If there any techies reading this, I need your help. My pings on technorati are not working. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.~m. readingiswhite@yahoo.com ________________________________ Oh. I have been nominated for a Black Blog Award. Show love [...]

I have been following Maurice Claretts situation for a hot minute.He was arrested earlier this week with hella guns. In a car. Wearing a bp vest. Ouch! Clarett’s recent arrest reminds me of the greater issue of how institution’s decide how and to what extent they will invest in their members.His situation reminds me of [...]

DMX do be putting his heart and soul into his performances. I have long felt that X is one of the dudes I could pretty much take to any hood and feel comfortable. He rocks like that. Kalefa from the Times says, X has built a hugely successful career (all five of his albums have [...]

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I have one of those brains that will think about something. Plan on doing it. Get distracted, file it away. Search for it again when I have more time. For example a few months ago I remembered seeing someone use Amazon wish lists are used to fetter out ?subversives?. Peep how Lars Toomre explains how [...]

In honor of OhWords crack week, I have decided to contribute 10 ways Crack Changed the Hood. 10 Ways Crack Changed the Hood. 1. Aiesha’s, from next doors, cute brother, went from being a scrawny 8th grader with a crooked smile to an aspiring d-boy who was ready willing and able to pop a fool [...]

Nothing like vintage Pam Grier to set off a post about sexual politics. I was just thinking that for a blog about hip hop real estate and sex, I sure am skimpy on the latter. Consider this post an effort to address that wrong.Last months article in Essence magazine about women that date their pastors [...]

I knew I wanted to write.More importantly, I knew I wanted to write about women and hip hop and men, and sex, and primo beats, and mobb deep and 40 slang and ebonics. A year later, I say thank you to you all. Thank you to danyel, jase, james, for telling me to just pick [...]