Ummmmmmmmmm...Yeah.

Have you ever thought of music as a guilty pleasure? Whenever I hear this song, the lyric lover/poet/muse to a few magnificent minds in me just feels like a cheat. I mean, is the fact that the producer sampled one of my favorite old songs for the beat MY FAULT? I plead the Fifth. Honestly, I don't even UNDERSTAND most of the lyrics--and I'm a Southerner!

Someone decided to post this translation (sic) of the hood favorite, THROW SOME D's. Hey, it's better than my version...

Check This Out, and Share Your Outlook

I found this article on a link from one of my favorite music sites, www.okayplayer.com. I have mixed emotions about the sincerity of this program. Check it out, and please leave your thoughts.

I'll give my thoughts after I get some sleep.

Sharpton wants to bury hip-hop lyrics

AP

June 4, 2007

Detroit -- - Rev. Al Sharpton has brought his campaign to clean up hip-hop lyrics to Motown, and organizers hope to collect thousands of bars of soap as symbols of the effort. Sharpton said it made sense to promote the hip-hop campaign in Detroit because NAACP leaders plan to conduct a mock funeral for the "N" word during the group's July convention.

"The 1960s were the Motown sound and James Brown. But they did not call us the 'N' word and they did not degrade women." The bars of soap will be donated to shelters and halfway houses for women, organizers said.

Reference URL: www.theglobeandmail.com

Some Things Are Just Wrong

White chicks and gang signs: is this an epidemic or just bad taste on the part of some Anglos? Say sumn!



Reference URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTDRqQtPO8

Richard Pryor...Straight No Chaser

"Cocaine," according to Rick James, "is a helluva drug." Richard Pryor was a legend...even when he was high on cocaine--some might say ESPECIALLY when he was high! You be the judge.

Beauty in Word and the Physical

Saadia...she weaves words like the ancients weaving rugs that mesmerize the eyes and speak love of beauty in craft. Find out more about her and her fabulous new work lavish lines/luscious lies, available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.