Its been a month since I have been out of BK. It hurts. But not in the obvious ways. See I was walking in ‘Frisco on Wednesday, and right there in a plain sight was a 2 by 4 poster of the BK bridgeand it was like I saw a ghost. See. For a long [...]
Archive for August, 2007
The Bridge Haunts Me: My Biggie Wars
Friday, August 31st, 2007Ye Ye is a Genius.
Friday, August 31st, 2007Rarely does a mans words grab me. I was listening to the new Yeye.Song by song, looking for smilies, metaphors, undercaps, the whole 9.Just doing me, listening, imm’ing with the blog homies. Then Big Brother came on. “My big brother was Big’s brother.” I stopped typing and moved closer to the speaker. That F*CKING hook [...]
Q -Tip has a Thing for M.dot * Wink. *Pucker. *Wink.
Friday, August 31st, 2007Ok. Not quite. But he does bike blogs. He was speaking to Breihan in Status Ain’t Hood when he spoke on the importantance of the internet. He writes: I think that the internet has reached out to more people in the past ten years. There’s more people on it, there’s more people involved with it, [...]
Wyclef and Prostitutes
Friday, August 31st, 2007I often find myself in a quandry when it comes to rappers. I know that they are “just” emcees. However, I expect a lot from them, especially the ones that know better. I also know that capitalism and power is seductive and that it is far moreconvenient to make music that makes people dancethan to [...]
Miss Info Kinda Bad.
Friday, August 31st, 2007Black Love is Delish. Ye ye and Alexis. Rarely do I read work by other women that is analytical and quirky and about hip hop. So. When I found myself at Miss Info’s blog after going to Eskay’s I was pleasantly surprised. She mentioned Prince, Kanye, Kevin Smith and George Lucas all in the same [...]
American Idol Illusions
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Booker T. The Original Negro Boot-strapper. I love reading the letters to the editor section of newspapers. Its one thing to read articles written by journalists, its a whole other to readsomething by a Joe Schmoe reader. More than a year or so ago I clipped the following reader comment from the New York Press. [...]
When Men Break Up, Its Interesting.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007I first noticed it when Dame was talking about J in New York magazinelast year.There is very little ink on the topic in our cultureand that is precisely why I am so interested in it. Men fall out and have funk like us,but to hear ya’ll tell it, MEN ARE SIMPLE andwomen are complicated. You [...]
Gonzalez Resigned!
Monday, August 27th, 2007SAY word. WASHINGTON – Alberto Gonzales, the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general, announced his resignation Monday, driven from office after a wrenching standoff with congressional critics over his honesty and competence. Republicans and Democrats alike had demanded his departure over the botched handling of FBI terror investigations and the firings of U.S. attorneys, but President [...]
More Jena 6, Less Michael Vick.
Saturday, August 25th, 2007If I told you that a 16 year old was chargedas an adult, of attempted murder for allegedlygetting into a fight (along with 5 others) with anotherstudent, would you believe me? What if the victim was knocked unconscious but was released for the hospitalthe same night? What if the alleged victim testified that he didn’t [...]
I Can’t Listen to Nas.
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007I can’t. I try to listen to it. I wake up. Talk to god. Make the oatmeal and coffee. A song pops into my head. And then I wanna hear it. But the bug out is since I have moved,I haven’t really BEEN into a listening to hip hop mood,because everything is in transition. Haven’t [...]
