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Yesterday, I was sending an email to someone and I came across an old Law school colleague in the little auto fill jawn, so I decided to look her up. Be careful when you do that shit. I did a search and learned via the NY Times that she got … [Continue reading]
Crystal and Beau Willie Brown and in a pivotal scene in For Colored Girls. In Ta-Nehisi's response to me, he acknowledges me, which I appreciate, then he apologizes for critiquing For Colored Girls without having read it recently, then I read him to … [Continue reading]
While reading Ayana Byrd's essay "Claiming Jezebel: Back Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip Hop," while preparing for my lecture on women's bodies and rap videos I came across an interesting quote by and about Foxy Brown? on the "Ain't … [Continue reading]
In The Wall Street Journal last week Jay-Z blinked at some of the lyrics that he has used historically. He was referring to his bars on "Big Pimping". Here is the first verse, You know I thug 'em, fuck 'em, love 'em, leave 'em Cause I don't fuckin' … [Continue reading]
Last week I learned that in 2005 Jay-Z stopped the release of his autobiography, tentatively titled, The Black Book because he found it to be too personal. After reading this and realizing that Nzingha Stewart was originally signed to direct For … [Continue reading]