June 16, 2010
Tweet With leading-lady looks and a voice as crisp, easy going and heavenly as a tall glass of water, Amel Larrieux was the hip-hop generation’s Sade in the late 1990s: As one half of the duo, Groove Theory, their song “Tell Me,” was a certified banger for the ‘Love Jones” set. Larrieux struck out as ...
June 8, 2010
Tweet In the late 1990s, few female emcees had the lyrical traits, movie star looks and hot entourage as Charli Baltimore. The rapper born Tiffany Lane made her mark with Lance “Big Un” Riviera and the Notorious B.I.G. whom she had a relationship with. She signed to Irv Gotti’s The Inc. records in the early ...
March 21, 2010
Tweet Bursting on the scene with a energetic, soulful, Gospel-tinged voice, Philly artist Jaguar Wright, may have left the airwaves but has never stopped performing music. Doing strictly live shows and rolling with the Okay Player collective, Wright has blessed stages all around the world for the past eight years off the strength of 2.5 ...
March 10, 2010
Tweet And no, we’re not saying that Aunt Viv is a transformer. But some have (not us though). No way. We’ve all seen them: Men who dress like women. Not the Madeas of the world, either. We’re talking about shapely, breasts-and-everything man. Trannies, or as they’re known on the street: Decepticons. The only thing about ...
December 31, 2009
Tweet Tierra Marie is about to blow up the music scene. We said that in 2007, but in 2010, we mean it. When it comes to name-dropping, few can top Marie’s credentials: Hailing from Detroit, her grandmother sang backup to Aretha Franklin. She is an alma mater of the same school that produced Aaliyah. Marie”s ...
December 21, 2009
Tweet Crucial Keys does Giant magazine this month as the New York singer does the promo jaunt for her new album, featuring ‘Empire State of Mind II’ and other jams. But really now, when is she gonna speak on Swizz Beats? And the Twitter-airing wifey of his who swears A.Keys is a homewrecker? Check out ...
December 15, 2009
Tweet When Nicki Minaj first hit the scene a couple of years ago, the hip-hop community was beside themselves at how this “model chick” who looked like she belonged on the cover of a magazine or a video vixen could have rap skills lethal as swords. While the male-dominated music industry sneered at her she ...
September 11, 2009
Tweet In what the Haters think. That much is obvious from the uniquely stylish way she wears, well, anything. She’s simply her own woman, and who can hate on that? The music, however, is another thing. She recently tweeted that she will be coming out with a mix tape, only that she didn’t want it ...
August 17, 2009
Tweet They are underworked. Underpaid. Underappreciated, and when they are working, it is more derogatory roles no self-respecting thespian would dare agree to portray. But yet there they are, the black actresses of Hollywood, the few, the proud, the Moreens, the Saquishas, the ghetto chicks in the ‘hood. Why do they get all the terrible ...
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July 29, 2009
Tweet Looks like rapper Nicki Minaj and Kanye West beau Amber Rose have finally hooked up. It all happened at the America’s Most Wanted tour featuring Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy and their cohorts. While this isn’t the first time Minaj and Rose have met, this is blogworthy simply because of a pass Amber Rose made ...