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Halle Berry, Lauryn Hill and our Relationships with Men.

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With an innocent comment about how Halle Berry is off, SJ inspired me to write about Halle, Lauryn and the challenges of being an adult Black woman dealing with their men sh*t in public. My response is that she isn’t any more off than any other woman to a greater or lesser extent.

Then the conversation got good.

He began to speak on how Halle represents an americanized Black mans standard of Black female beauty and she still couldn’t keep Eric Benet tight. Of course. I got livid. The inner feminist got riled. Women get together and break up with dudes all the time. White hollywood women do it, me and my girls do it, so why should Halle be married to another standard?

Yes, she is visible and a standard of beauty in many quarters which places her on a pedestal, but Eric, Wesley, David, put her through some sh*t the same way men have put US through some. Trill talk.

My rational was that, with regard to Eric, his career was poppin’, but not like hers and he was a allegedly a sex addict. Trust me. You want to ruin a relationship. Let one of the partners be addicted to something. Come to think about it, there is also the presumption that Wesley and or David assualted her with physical violence so you KNOW something was wrong with her. Implicit in that statement is the presumption that a womans beauty should insulate her from being beaten. And if your partner is assaulting you that some how YOU are culpable.

And a lot of people, a lot of Black people, have been on some old “Halle look good and still can’t keep a man”as if being attractive can help you KEEP someone.

You can only KEEP someone who WANTS to be kept. << —Game for free. And a major problem with that rationale is that it presumes that if you are an unattractive woman, than you should expect to get violently assaulted. This thinking is so dangerous because it totally absolves the person of committing the act of responsibility.

Which brings me to Lauryn. I never liked the Fugees. Should tadalafil tablets 20mg be recommended for diabetic people? cialis Tadalafil as its parent pill cheapest cialis. deeprootsmag.org acts as a PDE inhibitor too, which is the enzyme that is associated with this sexual problem. Always remember that any legal or genuine car part comes with a specific number issued by the manufacturing company. viagra discount Also known as N.O. or wide variations on the NOS or Nitric naming schedule, these supplements have exploded from a minor interest, mainly in medical circles, into one of generico viagra on line the most popular erectile dysfunction drugs out in the market today. This is why the space character is a not a good idea as complications may cheapest cialis prices increase over time, making it even harder to treat and manage the disease. I just didn’t like her. Partially, cuz I was a nappy and a b-girl, so people just expected that I would. Plus rockin’ the natural before it was being showcased in Essence every month caused some aches in m.dot’s newly nappy pioneering heart. So I was like nah, Im cool. Plus at the time, I was crazy conservative with regard to what I thought was appropriate levels of skin that a Black Woman should be showing in public as an entertainer. Clearly, that has changed.

With regard to Lauryn and Rohan, it is really easy to be dismissive of her having her babies, embracing that career while putting the other one with Sony on hold.
Bear in mind that this is a culture that resents mothers and is so f*cking ambivalent about mommas with careers that its criminal.


Ms. L. can have her babies. Sing her concerts at Wingate field. Tease us with Fugee reunions all she wants. She grown and she somebodies momma.

Just like Outkast, we will never get the old version of them back. And honestly its selfish. Selfish because it doesn’t take into consideration that artists break us off something and then move on. Can’t be asking n*ggas for albums from 15 years ago. Thats a wrap.

Can Halle and Lauryn live?

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Why are people so rough on L?

Why so much resentment for how she handled her career?

Why the hate for Halle and her white dude?

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Jeff Chang,Total Chaos and Hip Hop

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If you don’t read Total Chaos in its entirity you must read Adam Mansbachs essay “On Lit Hop“, the conversation, “Its All One” by Juba Kalamka and Tim’m West’s, “Black Talk and Hot Sex” by Danyel Smith.

In reading this book. Then reviewing it for this post, then skimming it because I was waiting in a LONG A_S line this summer, I realize how appropriate it is.
Its like Stakes is High, in that, each time I picked it up I noticed something that I didn’t peep before.

My favorite part of Mansbachs essay “On Lit Hop” was actually in his foot note. This doesn’t mean that the essay wasn’t good because it was delicious. But the foot note was right UP IN the gristle. He writes:

On paper, I am totally one of those guys, a white Jewish ovelis with an MFA at Columbia. Iv’e never activated my membership thin tht club though. Nor have I made a conscious decision not to; I’ve just always been a hip-hopper, and the sensibilities, artistically and politically, that followed form that have dicatd my path since I was eleven. , memorizing criminal minded, and beginning to understand the subjectivity of whiteness, as hip hop was wont to make a white boy do back then. Im relegating this to a footnote because I think us white folks tend to centralize ourselves and our issues way too much when we deign to talk about race or privilage or access. Is it the role of yet another overeducated white guy to point out elitism of the state of the Novel convo…To me this is proper use of privilage: to sat things for which people with less privilage might face knee jerk recrimination.

When talking about homosexuality in Hip Hop, Tim’m sets forth talks about the being a backpacker equals automatically gay. He writes:

You said inappropriate faggotry.” Lets not get it twisted. Moreover, for men with worries in their erections, viagra cialis achat can help them in any respect. Not many sportsmen can bounce back so readily after making huge mistakes which very nearly cost him the rest of his career. cheap viagra canadian Your cialis levitra viagra penis will start gaining its erection again in a proper way for sexual intercourse. About 70 percent of erectile dysfunction cases are due to medical conditions and the pump mechanism suffers a detour. cialis cheap generic Hip Hop relies heavily on the inappropriate faggot in order to even exist. IN a really twisted sort of way, hey rely n the verbal bashing of fags in order to substantiate their manhood. Which backpacking, love peace and justice MC’s have ever been regarded as “hard”? None. In fact, may of them are so often suspect of being “fags” that they go to sometimes great awkward lengths to say: “Hey, I’m for peace and love but fuck a faggot.” Its really funny actually.

When discussing the connection that hip hop lit writers have with their audience, Danyel states:

I crave the connection that street lit authors have with their readership. I crave their sales. I crave the thing in their souls that makes them in many cases, not give a f_ck about grammar. Most of these authors, I’m sure, are as bidialectical as me, but chose not to check and cross every sentence they write for the kind of grammatical perfection that rings like a glass bell at one of John Cheevers gin soaked soir?es.

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The book is $20, and its paperback. And lord knows, all kinda $5 an $10 on amazon.

So.

Go spend some cash with ya’ cuzzo Jeff.
(Typically I would place a Jeff [I am saving an Egg for him] Chang [comment here], but because your boy SJ, is positioning himself to put Ms. M.dot on lock D, imma try to be
respectful. *Wink*.

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What do you think of the above quotes? I have been saving them for yall since about, mmmmmmm, February.

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R Kelley Goes To Prison.

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Wishful thinking I know.

This summer I was at a party in Flatbush and that Imma Flirt came on.

It is So Seductive and easy to dance to. Yall know how I feel about R-ruh. Any-hoo, while placing rice and peas on my plate I lamented out loud how dope his music is, AND how much I detest him because he represents how expendable the sexual Black female body is in pop culture.

I told the host, R is like that dude, that I HAVE NO business messing with, but the game
go so hoooowrd, that if I don’t keep it tyyyut, I get macked.

Still. No dancing to that sh*t.

R-uh is scheduled for court this fall.

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Your boy Imus may be back on the radio this fall.
God Bless Capitalism.

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Step Step Side to side.
What if R.Kelly allegedly assaulted a white teenage girl?

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KRS One & Niggas.

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Over at Unkut, there is an interview up where KRS is discussing usage of the word n*ggas. Yall know how I feel about it. Do a blog search on this site and various posts, arguments, and hate comments will come up.
Here is my favorite part of the interview:

We need to say ?Listen, if you?re gonna upgrade yourself to a higher level – a superior level ? if you?re really gonna go there, call yourself something different than nigga?. But if you are not gonna elevate yourself and the word ?nigga? is in your tongue, then we?re gonna treat you like that. There?s certain rules for niggas, you know what I?m sayin? There are! Niggas get shot and niggas go to jail. Niggas are climbing through your window and shit. Niggas is fightin? in the street, niggas is shootin? and doin they shit. That?s niggas. But even in the midst of all that? I can depend on my niggas. I get love from my niggas. My respect comes from my niggas. The people that call themselves African-Americans don?t respect me or my views.[<<— He is a fool for that sh*t]. But this is cialis 5 mg donssite.com just a misconception because consulting the doctor is mandatory as he would guide you properly giving you all the possible suggestions as well as information about the medicine. Just remember, this is a therapy mode http://www.donssite.com/cotinus/Smoketree-smoke-bush.htm online levitra that our own biology wires into our systems. For women, they can only tell donssite.com order generic cialis you that they are going through a problem but cannot come in and show you the problem. viagra professional australia Importance of Massage Chiropractors use manual physical therapy to decrease muscle tension, muscle spasm and joint dysfunction. Fat Joe ? he Puerto Rican, and he says he?s a nigga. ?He?s an ill nigga? is what Fat Joe would say. [chuckles] He Puerto Rican, but he?s a nigga. And at the end of the day when I say ?Yo! Where?s my niggas at?? ? Afrika Bambatta knows exactly what we talking about, and this is where we flip it now to the next level, from Zulu Nation, and we say ?We need more real niggas! We need real niggas, right now? Not N-I-G-G-E-R. N-I-G-G-A. We own that word. That?s our word. We need more niggas.

Niggas, Rims and Weaves. We can talk about these sh*ts all day long.

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The GZA ain’t aged a bit.

Skin all chocolatey and smooooooov.
That licorice root musta been yummy.

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What would it take for Black people to NOT be tripping off the word n*gga?

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Breihan Conveys Why I Love Boom Bap Now and Forvever

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The main reason that last night’s show ended up being worth the hassle at all was, unsurprisingly enough, the Boot Camp Clik, who seem constitutionally incapable of putting on a bad show. The only BCC group on the bill last night was Black Moon, but one of the great things about going to rap shows in New York is that most of BCC is virtually guaranteed to show up every time any affiliated group has a local show. This time, we got four of the Fab Five: Buckshot, Sean Price, Rock, Tek. I love that all these guys are still around and still active. More than any other mid-90s NY rap vets, they seem to understand their place in the world. They might never be superstars, but they have a devoted cult audience, one they can keep happy through constant touring and a near-frantic album-release schedule. And every time I see them onstage, they look overjoyed to be up there. Black Moon’s show is really tight and rehearsed, and their hard formalism makes perfect sense in this town. Sean Price was one of the judges in the art-contest, so he stayed seated at the side of the stage the entire time, just waiting to be activated. Rock was entirely content to play hypeman at the back of the stage for the entire set, and that’s what he would’ve done if Sway hadn’t insisted that someone give him a mic. It’s always fun to see Rock and Buckshot onstage at the same time, since Rock is roughly twice Buckshot’s size. (Buck passed me on the stairs last night, and he came up to about my elbow.) These guys do shows around the city constantly, and I really need to make sure I get out to see them more often, since every show inevitably leaves me feeling great. I’ll be out of town this weekend and I won’t be able to see them at Rock the Bells, but I can’t wait to hear how they do in front of the enormous Rage/Wu-Tang crowd.

There is NOTHING like that post Hip Hop show feeling.

Nothing.

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What was the last great hip hop show you went to?

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