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Jay Z has More People.

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Ewwwww. Our folks, Jay, is putting out an album inspired by American Gangster.

Delish.

In an hour long telephone interview, Jay-Z, 37, who has spoken of spending his early years in Brooklyn both rapping and drug dealing, said that the movie had tremendous resonance for him and had sparked a burst of creative activity that even he found surprising. He has already recorded nine tracks, almost every one prompted by a specific scene.

?It was like I was watching the film, and putting it on pause, and giving a back story to the story,? he said.

The movie, set for a Nov. 2 release, depicts the Lucas character as an underworld Horatio Alger and an innovator who, despite keeping a low public profile, rose to such power that he was able to defy the Mafia bosses who had traditionally dominated the New York drug trade before being brought down by a special narcotics task force. (Its leader is played by Russell Crowe.) Jay-Z said he thought his fans would be struck by the image of a black man reaching such heights of success, even on the wrong side of the law, much like such ruthlessly efficient Al Pacino antiheroes as Tony Montana and Michael Corleone.

Just in time for some fourth quarter good ness. “Universal Executive”
my @ss, no matter where you go, you are who you are player.
The article is replete (<<---slang delicious.

Please don?t compare me to other rappers. Compare me to trappers.

I?m more Frank Lucas than Ludacris. And Lude is my dude, I ain?t trying to dis.

Just like Frank Lucas is cool, but I ain?t tryin? to snitch.

I?m-a follow the rules, no matter how much time I?m-a get.

I?m-a live and die with the decisions that I?m-a pick.

There is NOTHING like being inspired.

Mr. Grazer, who visited Jay-Z in the studio last week and heard seven of the new songs, said he was impressed by how the movie had ?ignited all these memories of his childhood and how he grew up and the experiences he had, and the moral crossroads he had constantly in his life that were so parallel to Frank Lucas?s.?

Tracks inspired by specific scenes.

Denzel Washington.

Oeeewww Weee. This has the makings of a “Boyz in the Hood Era”
movie event.

LOl.

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UNKUT has this “interesting” post up about female
rappers on some Bol type imma be anti woman because
its cute sh*t. They normally do really imaginative boom
bap oriented type ‘ish. One commenter summed it up
nicely when they said:

I can?t front, this is kinda homo-erotic and yes, sausagefestish. I?m a dude who likes women, and I can appreciate a good ?chick? record by male rappers, and also I dig some songs by female MC?s- even the ones that us ?purists? aren?t supposed to like. Lance Atkinson, the arrested fake Rolex seller told free viagra tablets the police that he paid more than $2 million working with spammers to sell his products. In ED, what essentially happens is that your ability free sildenafil samples to continue in the state of stimulation and continued erection gets hampered severely. The cause of ED is due to mental stimulation and finally, those that are experienced during viagra in australia health disorders can be easily overcome by make correct choices of the medicinal drugs after the approval of the health expert. Sex, on the whole, plays an cialis on line australia important part of our life. But lately, yeah- it?s been kinda dead.

I feel like alot of us just don?t relate to songs by chicks or chick songs because most of the time, they?re not for us in the first place. But that?s like sayin? that certain types of clothes are wack just because they?re not for us. I don?t know about anyone else, but I don?t wanna mess w/ a girl who dresses like a dude- nor do I wanna hear a chick rappin? tryin? to be harder than dudes.

Besides, they don?t need to rap hard like us- two of ?em have already done more jail time than most of these so-called hard niggas.

Comment by DANJAMANIA 09.20.07 @

I can’t even beging to unpack the above statement. Women that “dress like dudes”
probably don’t want him! Lol.

Women trying to be harder than dudes? Ummmm. Some of them are.

“Black non-Hispanic females (with an incarceration rate of 199 per 100,000) were more than 3 times as likely as Hispanic females (61 per 100,000) and 5 times more likely than white non-Hispanic females (36 per 100,000) to be in prison on December 31, 2001. These differences among white, black, and Hispanic females were consistent across all age groups” (Harrison and Beck 12). These statistics raise the obvious question of why black women are being incarcerated at such alarming rates.

Ain’t no need to try. These ladies are trill.

Does going to jail equal being hard? No. Is it reasonable to say
that a portion of the women who are in prison are “hard”?

Yes.

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Its time for a new Jay cd, right?

Is Unkut being Anti-woman or just tongue in cheek?

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There is Something About Foxy Brown

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I saw Foxy Brown in the Tunnel once.

She is beautiful.

Her teeth were strikingly bright and her skin was
like a melted chocolate bar.

She and Kurupt were still dating then.

They were out together that night.

Here it is, years later and she is in jail.

I wonder what is going through her mind this moment.

She is young and full of potential but right now stands
for the stereotype of the “Angry Black Woman” with
an attitude problem.

We all know people full of potential but something in their personalities
causes them to f*ck off their opportunities to shine.

It can manifest in DUI’S, accidental baby daddie’s and
really bad credit reports.

One bad, decision and our futures are materially changed forever.

Now don’t get it twisted. In this blog I have looked at the way
in which my own habits have impacted my chances to shine.
Such as not following up on networking opportunities, f*cking
with a n*gga who would rather party than work, having survival
guilt about being the “one” that made it.

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But Foxy, unlike me, is doing it under the spotlight in front
of a lot of people and the magnitude of her destruction is
much greater.

She turned her car over, lost her hearing,

She also stands for the stereotype of young star who is caught
up in the legal system.

I wonder if she sees this as a “a part of the process” of her
doing what she needs to do to get where we need to go.

Remember when Mary was notorious for showing up to interviews
late, drunk and angry?

You peep how she has transformed?

I wonder what it will take for it to happen with Foxy?

I wonder why she is so angry and self destructive.

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I am bloggin from one of those Transbay Bus’s,
 and I can see the Bay water. I just had an INSIDIOUS
thought. WHAT IF THERE WAS AN EARTH QUAKE right now?

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Why is Foxy so f*cking mad?

Do you know anyone who walks around full of rage?

What enrages you?

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Thick Women Rock!

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I like the fact that J hud is getting some shine.

Jill Scott as well.

Add America Fererra.

The William Sisters too.

Callie Torres (from Greys Anatomy.)


None of these women are size fours.

And even tho’ I have always been a lil’ bit-a-something,
as a feminist I understand the importance of having
a RANGE of body images repped in the media.

This came to mind when all that Britney sh*t popped off.

She is a 26 year old mother of two. Of course she may have a
momma pouch. Sh*t. Mommas get ’em.

Does that absolve her of being criticized for wearing
an out fit that WASN’T the most flattering.
Not really.

BUT the media’s, and the fans overt, critical response
to the way that she looked was disproportional to what
she DID and reminded me
of how fans perceived Lauryn Hill fans.

Notice how men swoll up as the they hit them 30’s,
but WE DON”T criticism about that shit.

Remember Timbaland? He had chimpmonk cheeks supreme.

LL? Before the lipo abs?


Am I missing anyone?

Even my Mr. Illmatic himself looks a little chubby in the cheeks.
Smoke good/eat good?

Speaking of Jill Scott.

Did you see her interview in last months Essence by Terry McMillan.

Damn, that woman can write.

I have watched her perform on all those award shows, all gussied
up and sexy and making a statement that says, Hey, yes, I’m sexy and tall and not a size zero and proud of every inch of it. Here, take a look
see.”

…Jill Scotts style is organic: sometimes its tastes rich
chocolate and sometimes she has to pour that vinegar
straight from the bottle. Because she has to and we
need her to, which is why we respond personally to
 the stories she sings….

…Her music is the fusion of many genres….and the way
she allows her melodies and lyrics and even the politics
of love, the freedom to fall into or out of grace, is
Jill Scott’s very own stamp pad.

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TM: Lets get the painful or sad business out the way because
I don’t want to focus on your marriage and the end of it and
all that, I hate endings.

JS: I want it all addressed.

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TM: Oh Lord, do you ever get angry?
JS: If I hadn’t got in touch with my anger, I would never
been able to talk away from my marriage.
TM: Well join the club.
JS: I put icing on many places that were wounded. I put icing on them so
they looked good and tasted pretty and all that. But really
didn’t deal with those things till I had no choice but to deal
with what was going on in my marriage.

Hello!

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Salt and Pepa have a show.

I hope it isn’t like watching a train wreck.

BUT.

Knowing our friends at VH1………

Salt is angry about being unappreciated when they were together and Pepa blames Salt for breaking up the group. Their lifestyles are also polar opposites: Salt has indeed found God and is living a quiet life in Long Island with her husband while Pepa is still the party girl and desperately wants to re-capture the glamour of Salt-N-Pepa?s glory days. [Madonna Whore Anyone?] Can they overcome their differences long enough to heal their friendship and perform again?

Ummmmm.

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I need more People.

Chemerinsky got his job back!

UC Irvine’s chancellor tried to salvage the reputation of his fledgling law school Monday by announcing that he had reinstated Erwin Chemerinsky as its founding dean, but his own troubles persisted as faculty members continued to question why he had sacked the liberal scholar and contemplated taking action against their university’s leader.

The agreement with Chemerinsky, made five days after the deanship was rescinded, came after Chancellor Michael V. Drake and his wife flew to Durham, N.C., over the weekend so the two men could speak face to face.

Guess a Black man, had to protect his neck.

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Did I miss any thick mommas?

Am I off on my Britney analysis?

Will you go see the Sex in the City just to support Jennifer?

***cues…..baby got back.

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Adult Gettogethers Rock!

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This fly mural in was in the Mission also. Old boy goes
to work diligently.

Can’t believe no one has shot a video here?

Friday night I hung out with the adults (hi j-sf) for the first
time in helllllla weekends. I felt like a momma who finally
found a baby-sitter after being in the house for months.

I went to a poets birthday gettogether (don’t you love how
grown folks have getogethers?) and I called myself a writer.

For the purposes of engaging with other folks I tried to chat them
up about their work.

One conversation went like this:

Well what do you write about?

Hip Hop and Feminism!

Oh really? Well I don’t know about hip hop but
I know about about feminism.

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For the record, the Mission, in ‘Frisco, is Dope.

It reminds me of a more Mexicano Williams burg.

If it only took signs hanging out the our windows
to IMPACT housing decisions.

Thats that Zapatista sh*t right here. LOL.


Peep this flick of the Bay from tha Hills.

No wonder the real estate is so expensive.

That view is priceless.

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When was the last time you went home?

And if you never moved away, why? <<
When was the last time you heard a real anthem?

^^^Silly.

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Good Art is Hard to Find.

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Platano Pride by Miguel Luciano

Isn’t this an amazing photograph?

There is a new show up at the BK Museum and the artist
Miguel Luciano, is featured in it.

Stop by.
Show love, its the Brooklyn Way.

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Here at Model Minority, we are all about you making
your cake.

I found this GREAT little tool that shows you how to
calculate your salary AND it breaks down
what you estimated pay will be after taxes.

Imagine my delight when I saw that you could plug in your
job title and have your Numbers crunch.

This sh*t is so necessary when you are negotiating
for cake w/ your employer.

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The Yeye & Andre Mixtape is HERE.

I am ready for new Outkast.

They needs to stop playin’.

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MZ. Here is the book list.


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The books that I circled are:

The Art of Possibility– About living a life that is open to good sh*t happening.
Talks a lot about teaching styles and how when you expect MORE from
young people they tend to perform better AND give more.
Get Paid What You Are Worth– Title sums it up.
The Hidden Cost of Being Black– Dope Title. Never read it tho’.
Stolen Harvest– One of the first books on local food movement, global warming
tip.

Some other sh*t that I have noticed recently
Free Food for Millionaires- Book title is sick.
Guaranteed Success- Master P’s handbook on being dedicated
entrepreneurial and successful.

Junot Diaz has a new one out as does Edwidge Dandicat. They both,
I presume, are mind blowing.

This isn’t the list I “promised” however technically, I kept my word.

LOL.

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Anyone else reading anything good?

What if there was a relationship calculator?

You put in your info, and the machine spits out the
estimated length of your relationship, the sources of
your potential fights, the estimated emotional/financial damage
done after the fact. Whether happily ever “n*gga clean them dishes”
after is an option?

I bet you the Freakanomics dudes could flip it.

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