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Archive for September, 2007

Did 50 Snitch On Vick?

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Give the video a few minutes. Shit is delish after about 30 seconds. www.hoodzone.com ***Coma. I almost had an asthma attack. “Figure out what the f*ck you wantthen f*ck with me.”“Put all the meat in the bag.”My favorite part is:” Im sniiiiitchinnnn.”“You ain’t got no endorsements.” ============ F*k watchu going thru. Japanese Mommas get THEY [...]

Jena 6 Retaliation?

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Whats up the hanging of nooses at schools? Another incident just occurred at the University of Maryland. Madueke was among more than 300 students and faculty members who converged on Cole Field House this week for a “speak out” to express their feelings about the noose and to discuss possible solutions to the racism and [...]

MTV tells Diddy. N*gga Sit Down.

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Diddy UnforgivableAdd to My Profile | More Videos The commercial for Puffs new fragrance isn’t being ran as they deem it too RACY. I wonder if it would be acceptable if the model wasn’t anethnically ambiguous Latina. At Nah Right sums it up perfectly when he says, e-dubbs Says: September 12th, 2007 at 9:44 pm [...]

Kanye, "Give a Black Man a Chance."

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Suffice it is to say that it is Kanye week here. As you all have heard, Yeye was not happy with hisVMA moonman situation. LOL. “Ya’ll find Britney, get Britney.” “Give a Black man a chance. I’m trying hard man.” Priceless. Black people LOOOOVE to tell someone to GO find someone. It sounds so good [...]

Kanye’s Good Life.

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

When I first heard this, I was like, how he get that Micheal sample cleared? Think about it, you can count on one hand the number of hip hop artists thathave obtained permission to sample Micheal. White background makes it crispy. The other background makes him look like he is trapped in a Las Vegasvideo [...]

Finally, A Black Man Analyzes the Kanye/50 Day.

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

This cover is so zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Or. Is it an example of the hype machine doing its job?When I first saw it, I was like this shit is sooooo Vibe ’94. “Black male Violence/Anger/” as magazine cover fodder. LAME. I tried reading Everything But the Burden. But it was just so f*cking academic. One of the [...]

Wyclef, Weezie & …….Rae?

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

This. Is a motley crew. ================ Why is Wyclef able to consistently make (quasi) sociallyrelevant (conscious) songs? Is it his connection to Haiti? I wonder what he thinks of Edwidge Dandicat (who, I am stalking by the way). Is it his innate ability as a song writer?================

My 9/11 Story.

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I am a delayed stress kind of person. Meaning that, when a crisisoccurs*, I go through it and make it to the other side. Then I collapse after the fact. Call it an East Oakland survival mechanism. I dealtwith 9/11 the same way. The bug out is that, this is my first Non-NY 9/11. Honestly, [...]

America’s Failure to Educate Black Students* is Soft Genocide.

Monday, September 10th, 2007

*For brevity’s sake I said Black students, but it applies to latinos, under resourced white kids and a plethora of other immigrant groups as well. Did you know that certain governor’s base the number of prison beds on 3rd grade reading scores? The notion is, the worse the scores, the more beds will be needed. [...]

Doom is Different.

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Doom is nuts. Why is your boy paying other people to perform for him? Though unverified accounts of “fake” Doom shows have been swirling for a couple years, the critically beloved rapper usually does justice to his brilliant studio catalog in concert. Schwab, for one, says Doom’s performance on the same stage two years earlier [...]