Tweet Kanye West on his new blog, recently released a pic of model girlfriend Amber Rose outstretched and semi-nude holding a microphone. The pic, reportedly from an old Complex Magazine photoshoot, is an updated version of a Grace Jones photoshoot. Here are the two images side by side. Tell me, who absolutely kills it? Tweet
Tweet Movie star Regina King is among a small cadre of African-American actresses we’ve literally seen grow up before our eyes (Janet Jackson and Cookie being among the others) on television. Born and raised in Los Angeles, it would be easy for King to be “Hollywood,” in all senses, but the 39-year-old actress is as cool as ...
Tweet If I changed the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, it’d go: “Dish water blonde, tall and foine”. Of course, blonde is optional, but the point remains: Having a little meat on the bones never hurt nobody. Of courst the backlash against the skinny little things that model women’s clothes have been going on for a ...
Tweet Young Money artist Nicki Minaj has nary an album out but is the hottest female in the rap game already? How could this happen? How could a lyrical novice who started on Myspace with barely two mixtapes and a handful of features, and some major detractors, be a serious contender for hip-hop queen? Call it good timing. The female ...
Tweet Few people intimately know the historical treasure that is Diahann Carroll, singer, actress, activist, pioneer. Carroll, born in New York City, was the first African American to get their own show on national television. And she didn’t play a maid, or subservient character either. From 1968 to 1970, “Julia” was a groundbreaking comedy in its own ...
Tweet When you think of the word androgynous, perhaps your mind harks back to Amber Rose, or even Omahyra Mota, but Grace Jones was the originator. A musical pioneer in the New Wave/disco genre, Grace Jones was a force to be reckoned with in the 1970s, creating three albums — Portfolio (1977), Fame (1978), and Muse (1979) ...
Tweet You’ll have to excuse the ‘coon’ imagery and thick Mississippi Burning-like sensitivity around this this project, for the Carolina Chocolate Drops are not an R-n-B band; nor are they a funk band. Nada on the rock band either. They are a black jug band, and the only modern day African-American one, too. Has this been done before? ...
Tweet With the recent successful comeback of Sade Abu, I’m reminded of another calm-voiced starlet that has simmered just below superstardom in the States but is part of a musical legacy in Brazil and parts of South American: Bebel Gilberto.One part Sade, the other part Sheila E., (no Bebel doesn’t play drums) Gilberto learned the music ...
good music, hollywood's ignored celebrities, sade abu, soldier of love, tanto tempoTweet For much of Latin America it was the season of Carnival and what a party.What does ‘Carnival’ mean? Well, there is some dispute by some say it comes from the Latin expression carne vale, which means “farewell to meat,” which is what Catholics gave up during the Lent season.Nowadays, especially in Brazil, it’s all about ...
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Tweet Admit it, you thought Deelishish, aka, London Charles was just going to be another reality TV skank with a Gucci charm bracelet for a moral compass. VH1 viewers can’t be wrong, can they? Well, it seems Dee has tasted the real flavor of love, and his name is not William Drayton and he is not wear oversized ...
Tweet Nicki Minaj says her debut album, “Pink Friday” will run the gamut of her life dealing in relationships. “This is...
Tweet R. Kelly has pushed aside all the raunchy swashbuckling, the R&B diss war and juvenile posturing in a new...
Tweet In what is shaping up to be a multifaceted marketing campaign, Beyonce is featured topless in the latest House...
Tweet In addition to the fly summer/fall/spring collections that the House of Dereon unleashes on the public, they also have...
Tweet There are wedding outfits, then there is Ciara’s outfit at the wedding of Lala Vasquez and Carmelo Anthony. I...
