Rihanna'a New Boo Perhaps???

Lauryn Hill: Where Did She Go?

Can you believe that it has been 10 years since her last album! Man Lauryn where you at? It seems like she fell off once she started having kids. With the voice of an angelic siren to spitting the illest lyrics, Lauryn Hill’s music traps you with its pure sound and raspy texture into what should be coined as the “L-Boogie trance,” summoning a head bob with every verse. But the pondering question is: Where is L-Boogie now?
She's the epitome of pure, undeniable talent. Yet despite her tracks being on every one’s top-10 playlist, Ms. Hill is so far gone that she is now simply past our reach.
The fate of Lauryn Hill’s music and career is something that is never guaranteed. But like Kanye said on Champion, “I wish her [Lauryn’s] heart was still in rhyming.” Until then fans can keep Miseducation and The Score on heavy rotation or catch a glimpse of her while watching Sister Act 2, just to keep the old Lauryn resonating within.“Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. I’ve just retired from the fantasy part,” she’s said of her disappearance in the past. Whether retirement or a long vacation, we’ll be awaiting the reappearance of our girl.

It's About Time!

So I was listening to my itune list of songs, and started listening music by SWV. Then I started to wonder, darn where is this group...they were really good!
Guess what SWV fans? There is talk that they are reuniting and coming out with an album this year(2010)! It's About Time!

saggin niggas

Origin:Sagging is commonly reported in the media as having originated from the prohibition of belts for inmates. Belts were banned because they could be used to commit suicide by hanging oneself, to strangle others, or as a weapon in fights.In the early 1990s, hip-hop artists popularized the style.Once upon a time there was a thing called modesty; it entailed respectfulness and decency. In that time it was frowned upon to show any unnecessary part of the human body.Yet now it seems like that was a long, long time ago and we are in a land far from then. Our times have changed along with our clothing. Soon women started revealing their upper half, which was considered sexy or beautiful.The trend moved down from the cleavage of the chest to the cleavage of the backside, also known as the butt crack.This fashion development started with men. Pants that reveal undergarments, or come close to showing private areas, are disrespectful, inconvenient, and poorly represents the people who wear them and therefore should no longer be a fashion trend. Boys wearing their pants below the waist, also known as sagging, were not always considered trendy. In fact, to wear pants that sagged was humiliating. Around the 1940's, when many people were truly poor, clothes were exchanged to last as long as they could. Boys would have to wear pants many sizes too big for them and would therefore sag. Sagging of the pants was a way to distinguish the wealthy from the poor. This continued to be true until the 1950's when a Latino gang started sagging to have a definite style. They also were used in prison. In prison those baggy pants are the trademark of a prison prostitute and thus advertise availability.Sagging pants was never meant to be fashionable. Prisoners wear their pants because belts are a popular way to commit suicide by hanging oneself, to hang others, or to use as a weapon in fights. Prisoners are also not allowed to have shoestrings for the same reasons.Not until the 1970's did gangs start sagging to hide weapons. Sagging started moving from the ghetto; to everywhere else. Sagging was no longer an indicator of one's wealth, even boys that could afford pants that fit started sagging. Professional skaters and actors also began to wear pants that revealed their boxers. Wearing a fashion statement is usually used to set a person apart from everyone else, but can quickly become a trend if people think it is cool. Sagging or wearing low-riders is very common and does not set one apart. Therefore, people who wear sagging or low-ridding pants must do so because other people think it is cool. Sagging pants makes it difficult to perform many activities and sports, yet people still seem to do it.
They can be hazardous to your health. Doctors say these low rise pants, or hip huggers, can cause damage to a nerve causing numbness in the legs. If there is continual use of the pants it could become permanent (Parmar). There have been reports that several cases of boys tripping and falling over their sagging pants.Before a person can sit, stand up or even walk low pants need to be pulled up in order for them not to fall completely down. That requires more attention than clothes should need and make wearing them inconvenient. They also can cause serious injury or even death.
In some way [our] culture embraces this style as a fad. At some point we have to take greater responsibility for what we put on TV and start changing these images. We see images that perpetuate the idea that that it's okay. It becomes part of our heritage and it's really not. We have to set a community standard."
As Eazy E once said about women in skirts,
"For easy access, baby."

Who You Callin A Bitch?

Can someone please explain this to me? I’m seeing it everywhere, but I don’t get it: Women who identify themselves, and people they purportedly like, as "bitches."
Main Entry: bitch
1: the female of the dog or some other carnivorous mammals
2 a: a lewd or immoral woman b: a malicious, spiteful, or overbearing woman —sometimes used as a generalized term of abuse
3: something that is extremely difficult, objectionable, or unpleasant
4: complaint
Bitch is a term for the female of a canine species in general. It is also frequently used as a term for a malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or unpleasant person, especially a woman. This second meaning has been in use since around 1400. When used to describe a male, it may also confer the meaning of “subordinate”, especially to another male, as in prison. Generally, this term is used to indicate that the person is acting outside the confines of their gender roles, such as when women are assertive or aggressive, or when men are passive or servile. More recent variants of bitch are bitchy, ill-tempered (1925), and to bitch, to complain (1930).

The word “bitch” has long been in use to refer to a woman in contempt, as shown in an 1811 dictionary which describes bitch as “the most offensive appellation that can be given to aSo why would a woman call herself “bitch,” refer to her friends as “my bitches,” or ever let a man call her “his bitch”? Evidently it’s an effect of “third-wave feminism” and a movement toward reclaiming derogatory and pejorative terms:n English woman, even more provoking than that of whore.”
Third-wave feminists believe it is better to change the meaning of a sexist word than to censor it from speech.

Many of these words did not originally have their modern connotations of power. For example, the English word cunt, which is commonly used as a pejorative, is a derivative of the Germanic word “kunton” meaning “female genitalia.” Over time the word has become both a pejorative and a marker of femininity. The words bitch and whore developed in a similar fashion.
You can talk to me about reclaiming words until you’re blue in the face and I still don’t buy it.
How about teaching people respect instead? How about not demeaning your fellow women by using offensive terms “to empower them”?
Feminist Response to Pop Culture,” together seem to imply that opinions of any sort other than “I like baking and raising babies, I do declare” are equal to bitchiness.

Why do we need to hide behind the label of “bitch” to feel okay with expressing opinions — or to slap it on others to make them feel like they shouldn’t express theirs? When are we going to stop being “bitches” and just be women?

There's A Difference!.

Ok, so while in N.Y. for the summer 09' I talked to my uncle who is(Rastafarian) about the difference between dreadlocks and kinky twists. and he explained it to me.
Kinky twists are like single braids and you can run your fingers through them as well. People who don't have any knowledge of dreads assume that dreads and kinky twists are the same. When they are clearly not!
Dreadlocks are heavy matted coils of hair which form by themselves (neglect method) or with the help of hair products. So yeah if you think you have dreads try to run your fingers through your hair. If you can they are definetely not dreadlocks. Most likely kinky twists.
Locks were never a fashion statement to begin with.
The wearing of dreadlocks is very closely associated with the movement, though not universal among, or exclusive to, its adherents. Rastas maintain that locks are supported by Leviticus 21:5 ("They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in the flesh.") and the Nazirite vow in Numbers 6:5 ("All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.").
Rastafari associate dreadlocks with a spiritual journey that one takes in the process of locking their hair (growing hairlocks). It is taught that patience is the key to growing locks, a journey of the mind, soul and spirituality. Its spiritual pattern is aligned with the Rastafari movement. The way to form natural dreadlocks is to allow hair to grow in its natural pattern, without cutting, combing or brushing, but simply to wash it with pure water.
Locks worn for stylish reasons are sometimes referred to as "bathroom locks," to distinguish them from the kind that are purely natural. Rasta purists also sometimes refer to such dreadlocked individuals as "wolves," as in "a wolf in sheep's clothing," especially when they are seen as trouble-makers who might potentially discredit or infiltrate Rastafari.

So Cliche'... But I want it!.

So I have been thinking
for a hot minute, that I want a tattoo,
but I had to answer three questions.
1. What was I getting?
2. Where was I going to get it?
3. What's the meaning of me getting it?
So I decided to get a tattoo of a butterfly, but not just any butterfly...but the one in the picture. I looked up the type of butterfly that I wanted and found out it had a very good meaning behind it.
Now usually people get it on the left or the right of their shoulder but can get it other places as well. Which I'm going to get it on the left or right of my shoulder.
In Japanese culture, butterflies are known as the embodiment of one’s soul. In Chinese culture, the butterfly represents young love of a young heart. They believe that it is a symbol of grace and is associated with romanticism.

WAKE UP!

Spike Lee's "School Daze"(1988 film)
is one of the greatest films
I've seen by him thus far.
the light skin vs. dark skin issue will
always be an on going issue within our community.
discrimination within the race continues on.....



when are we gonna wake up and put an end to it?

Rihanna's Brass Knuckles

So I was googling...and happened to come across this picture,
it was a snapshot from 106&park's show.
The boots to me are very cute!!!!.
But, I couldn't see myself wearing them.
There are just some clothing/shoes that look good on people, that do not look good on yourself.

Wish people would get that through their thick skulls...

Jay-Z-On To The Next One.

New video of the decade, Jay-z dropped this video 12am, on NBC.
I watched the entire video. I loved the song waaaay before the video came out, but as I was watching the video I couldn't make a connection with the video and the song.
I thought videos were supposed to be the visual explanation of the song.
Still like the song, but I really do not care for the video.