According to a new report by CurrentTV, Cameroonian mothers believe breast ironing will protect their daughters from becoming pregnant and being assaulted in that it will postpone their development and men will not be enticed by their breasts. With dietary habits in the country improving, girls are beginning to hit puberty as young as 9, and are subject to the practice around at the same age.
I’m fucked up right now. My girl’s homegirl just had a daughter two months ago. In That time her daughter has gone through two open heart surgeries to repair a whole in her heart. Right now she’s in there just barely keeping her eyes open from the drugs they have her on for whatever reason, probably for the pain. I have this feeling in my got that she’ll pull through. I know babies are little strong people. I have faith that that baby is protected by something stronger that anything on earth and that’s the hand of God. With two kids of my own born around the same time of her two children this has me holding them much tighter. Life is crazy. Let us pray for little Shalin Joy
So my hard-drive crashed taking all my photos and music with it. When I decided to submit a new joint I had recorded to Iheartdilla.com I found myself with no photos to submit along with it. Being that my girl is a photographer I was in luck. I tell her to grab her camera and get a quick shot of me I can use to send off with the music. Read more...
While watching the 6:30 evening news on WPIX-TV, New York, I caught their quick rundown of stories they’d be covering once returning from commercial break. One of the stories featured was on a bill sponsored by two Brooklyn Assembly Members, Annette Robinson (D-Bedford Stuyvesant) and Darryl Towns (D-East New York) that would mandate police officers to shoot to wound rather than to kill a suspect. Patiently, I waited until the program returned from break to hear the details. They quickly reported the; who, what, when, where, why and moved on. Later in the program the matter was addressed in an editorial segment titled “Lionel” which, to sum up, is an old white guy ranting about the good old days. I found myself to be incensed by his insensitive, unsympathetic, uninformed, and irresponsible diatribe on the issue. Describing the bill as something that would require police officers “to shoot gun-wielding suspects in the arm or leg rather than shoot to kill” and declaring the people that the bill would protect to be “thugs”, Read more...
I was watching an Indian comedian on Comedy Central a few nights ago. He wasn’t really that funny, but that’s beside the point. I was bothered by him constantly referencing Middle Eastern people as Brown. See that’s where this whole using a color to categorize race thing gets confusing. Read more...
A young militant Muslim boy is allowed to board an American bound airline with explosives, despite being on a terrorist watch list, and now the government wants airport security to get a good look at my nuts. Read more...
I was thinking about dreams the other day. You know how big our dreams are when we’re young? We think so grand. For me, I wanted to be a famous MC traveling the world with mad adoring fans, making millions of dollars, driving expensive cars, mad fine ass women, etc. As you get older, you find yourself having to make that compromise. You want to just do your art but “real life” gets in the way of that. Read more...
Who’s really to blame for this shit? I think everybody is. Even no action is action and those that have taken no action bear some responsibility. Record companies are businesses; businesses aren’t going to invest in what doesn’t make them money. The music people claim they want to hear, they don’t financially support or support in any other fashion. Everybody just feeds into the negativity, they roll with the mob shouting hip hop is dead, it’s a minstrel show, and it’s whatever. That time and energy would be better spent supporting an artist they feel does make the music they’d like to hear. Read more...
I hate when people talk about how much they hate “commercial” music. Commercial music is good music. Besides that, how many artist with a deal, whether considered underground or mainstream aren’t making music with the intent of profiting off of their music? Pushing a product for profit is all “commercial” means. Read more...
