Watered Down Hip hop: The well oiled Assembly line Pt 1
One day I was sitting in a co works car she had her radio on blast to a local R&B hip hop station while sitting in her car listening to this so called music I really didn’t like what I heard but oddly but not oddly I found myself humming; bobbing my head to this monotonous popprap, popr&b as the next song started playing it sounded like the song before it, there was no originality nothing to make me wanna turn it up and ask who’s this I need to go to iTunes and download the whole album.
While bobbing my head I thought of how genuinely, greedy these three BIG music juggernauts groups are they knew exactly how to impose, manipulate, brainwash, whitewash; bamboozle their mass and diverse audience; crush other genres of music like Jazz, classical music Hard, soft Rock, Heavy Metal, country; R&B. Today you can turn your radio dial to any radio station and hear the same type of music there’s no variety no individuality, although I don’t care for all rock music it would be nice to hear some screaming; a howl of the lead band member. I love jazz, gospel, SOME rock, Neosoul Hip hop ol’ skool mainstream Hip hop from 1988-1998. Vince Staples a rapper from Long Beach has stated “The 90’s get a lot of credit but I don’t know why…” Yes Stapes can be an asshole and give his opinion but how are you gonna give your opinion but to not know shit about what he’s talking about is wack. Staples to me is nothing more than a RAPPER with no real lyrical talent It is my belief that mainstream radio and corporations like Universal, Warner; EMI music groups is the cause of the decline in music programs in our schools,technology; money is the culprit of why all the genres of music has declined.
Even MTV, VH1; BET are no longer music video driven tv networks. TRUE hip hop musicians like Jay Z; Kanye West were once socially conscious Hip hop artists but somehow got rapped up with the money, power; the mainstream fame.I think it’s sad really while watching tv a car commercial came on with this amazing song bumpin in the background I was like who is that?
My mama who is was born in a time when music and creativity was a blossom was like that’s ZZ Ward! Now you know if ya mama can tell you who the artist is; sing along it must be good!! The past few years I have wondered where; why all this rich socially conscious hip hop and that R&B that makes you want to turn up your radio and say HEEELLLL YEAH THAT’S MY JAM got lost buried underground .
Well of course I know the answer now so I’m going to teach you introduce you to a whole new way of looking at hip hop and the difference between poprap, popr&b; TRUE HIP HOP; R&B Good music has no color I truly hope with my written thoughts of this watered down hip hop and R&B we all can think of how to bring back the uniqueness; creativity of this genre; others that have been snuffed out by this watered down poprap;popr&b. I feel it is my; likeminded people responsibility to educate and expose our young ones to our music past and what REAL MUSIC sounds like. The next time you turn on your favorite popr&b; poprap radio station tell me if the artists (s) or band sounds different can you tell them apart? Is the hook; the chorus unique, is there any true meaning to what your listening to? From what I hear mainstream poprap today has no real listening value. Part 2 of my watered down hip hop series will explore these three music groups and why TRUE hip hop has gone underground.
The Tears of a Clown Kat Williams
What can we say Katt Williams is that clown with tears flowing down his face he wants to feed his sadness,happiness; anger by making everyone else laugh, making us happy with a joke I’m sure like a lot of comedians he gets a rush from seeing his audience fall back with a laugh and thunderous applause for his comedic delivery. I think people; his fans a like forget Katt Williams is human, with family; friends who love him?
Within the last few years we’ve seen this comedic genius slowly spiral out of control until it’s not even funny. If you are a TRUE fan of Katt Williams or not you have to wonder who is truly in his corner? Sadly showing signs of mental illness; this time he is very vulnerable and could end it all with a gunshot to his head or someone will end his life for him. Like so many of our comedians who has ended their lives they didn’t see a way out their deep depression,the yes men;women; money problems family problems.
Katt Williams is alone he seems to not know who to trust; I’m sure he scared, he may feel crying, laughing; yelling at the top of his lungs while silently asking for help. I don’t think anyone is really listening (SOME) everyone is just sitting back laughing AT him; not with him. He truly has tears of a clown.
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.”
Robin Williams~
Here’s a link to another cry for help http://www.vibe.com/2016/03/family-wants-katt-williams-hospitalized/?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign=kattwilliams
Batman Vs Superman Review
As you all know one of the most anticipated Super Hero movies came out this weekend, and that is Batman vs Superman.
While I initially heard bad reviews about this movie, I wanted to see it for myself before I gave my judgement on it. After seeing it myself last night I can say that while I don’t hate the movie, I’m kinda disappointed in it.
To start off, let me first say that Ben Affleck was AWESOME as Batman. I had my doubts about him at first but he definitely proved me wrong in this movie. Henry Cavill once again made a great Superman and Gal Gadot did great as Wonder Woman. But as far as Lex Luthor goes, Jessie Eisenberg wasn’t really the best choice for a villain like Luthor.
Throughout the movie it felt like I was watching a socially awkward nerd on crack than an intimidating villain.
Another thing that bothered me about the movie are the constant cutaway scenes and it seeming like that movie had too many plot points. You have one instance where you’d be focused on Superman than all of a sudden it switched to Batman, then Lex Luthor in plots that didn’t really matter or didn’t really make sense.
Now for the actual fight between Superman and Batman and then Doomsday. The fight between these two would’ve been better if Superman wanted to fight Batman willingly instead of being forced to by Lex Luthor. Aside from that the fight was very enjoyable visually though. As for Doomsday we all know he was there as a way to bring the 3 heroes together to fight the “common enemy” which I do again admit was enjoyable visually but could’ve been executed better or saved for another movie.
All in all, Batman vs Superman is the first super hero movie in a while that walked away from feeling underwhelmed. Would I see it again? I’m in no rush to, but I still say go out and see it to give your own personal judgement on it. For me, out of 10, I give it a 6.
Well there’s my take on it, let me know what you think!
Mother of Brain-Dead Teen Refuses to Give up Hope: She Is ‘as Healthy and Beautiful as Ever’
More than two years after 15-year-old Jahi McMath of Oakland, California, was declared brain-dead, her mother has posted a new photo of her on Facebook and declared that her daughter is as “healthy and beautiful as ever.”
She is “a fighter, a warrior, a blessed child,” Nailah Winkfield wrote in her post about the teen, who went into cardiac arrest and was pronounced legally dead by doctors after surgery to remove her tonsils and treat her sleep apnea in December 2013.
Winkfield, who won a court injunction to keep Jahi on life-support, moved her daughter last year to an undisclosed New Jersey facility willing to care for her. In New Jersey, the law allows the rejection of a “brain-dead” declaration on religious grounds.
“God’s got your back little girl – keep fighting,” Winkfield wrote on March 15. “Your testimony will be a great one. All the prayers and good wishes combined with your mother’s love for you, which is pure and soothing, will definitely keep you going.”
Jahi’s family fought to keep her on a ventilator and have breathing and feeding tubes surgically inserted, because they believe that as long as her heart is beating, there is hope for a recovery.
“They said she was ‘dead, dead, dead,’ and they said she won’t last long and that she would start deteriorating,” Winkfield said in a post on Oct. 23, 2015, after braiding her daughter’s hair in preparation for her 15th birthday the next day. “They claimed she was just going to last a few weeks, or a maximum of a few months before her organs stopped working. Who are ‘they?’ Just mere human beings who will keep learning each new day that there is a ‘He’ who is greater than ‘they.'”
Winkfield is now fighting to have Jahi’s death certificate invalidated and have her declared legally alive. If her lawsuit is successful in federal court, the family’s insurance company will be required to pay for her medical treatment.
“I want her to have the same rights as any other disabled kid,” Winkfield told the New York Daily News in December. She said then that her daughter was showing some signs of life, including the twitching of her fingers and toes – something that doctors say could be spasms or reflexes commonly seen in clinically-dead people.
“Our prayers are being heard,” Winkfield wrote in a December Facebook post, accompanied by a video of her daughter. “We know ‘dead’ people don’t move their fingers and reflexes don’t happen on command. We will keep praying, as this beautiful child of God keeps fighting to get better.”
Pennsylvania Parents Allegedly Starved 23-Month-Old Toddler to Death
A Pennsylvania couple who brought their unconscious 23-month-old daughter to the hospital in February claiming she was sick were charged with murder on Thursday after an autopsy revealed the toddler allegedly starved to death, PEOPLE confirms.
According to the criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE, when parents Andrea Dusha and Michael Wright brought their daughter, Lydia Wright, to the hospital, they allegedly told doctors Lydia had been drinking “a mixture of water, Gatorade and pedialyte from a sippie cup” when her eyes “rolled into the back of her head, foam began to emit from [her] nose and mouth, and [she] quit breathing.”
Doctors attempted to revive Lydia but were unsuccessful.
An autopsy conducted the following day determined the cause of death was homicide as a result of malnutrition and dehydration, the complaint states. The medical examiner reported that Wright weighed 10 pounds; the average toddler weighs between 20 and 25 pounds, according to authorities.
During their investigation, police searched the home of Dusha and Wright and allegedly discovered “deplorable conditions.” Rooms were allegedly cluttered with objects, making it hard to walk through, and there was allegedly no running water or sewage system.
According to the complaint, the family allegedly urinated in empty soda and juice bottles and disposed garbage in plastic bags kept on the floor. Police allegedly discovered a high chair covered in excrement and a grocery bag filled with used tampons, the complaint states.
The condition of the home was allegedly “unsuitable for children to be living in,” the complaint states.
The couple’s two other young children are currently with child protective services, Fayette County District Attorney Richard Bower tells PEOPLE.
Dusha and Wright have not yet entered a plea.
via: https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/pennsylvania-parents-allegedly-starved-23-172906807.html
Black co-owner of New Jersey sneakers shop is killed in front of his shop.
RAHWAY, N.J. — The co-owner of a New Jersey sneaker boutique was shot to death outside his own store Friday night, authorities said.
Friends and family of 21-year-old Jamaal Gaines gathered outside the East Coast Sneaker Boutique Saturday, a consignment store that sold high-end sneakers.
Union County prosecutors said the shooting at the Irving Street business was reported around 9:15 p.m., according to the Associated Press. When police arrived at the seen, they found Gaines suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead a short time later.
Gaines went by the nick name “Mally” and was described by loved ones as highly passionate and driven.
On his Facebook page, he talked about opening his first sneaker store at 18. When that shut down, he tried again and opened the boutique just a few months ago.
Friends said Gaines also had an interest in music. Ruff Ryders rapper “Verbz” had just shot a music video in the store a few weeks ago.
” Mally was one of the best people. He wasn’t a street guy or a gang- banger,” Verbz said.
“He was like my little brother. This goes way beyond sneakers. And all I hope is that whoever did this is brought to justice.”
via: http://pix11.com/2016/02/27/21-year-old-man-killed-in-shooting-outside-boutique-sneaker-store/#
Alexandra Shipp Talks About Storm’s Character In Interview
To think that in a little over 2 months the movie X-Men Apocalypse will be hitting theaters. With each passing day we’re getting a little more information each day. Recently actress Alexandra Shipp who will be playing Storm did an interview with Collider.com giving some details about her character.
Here’s one of the questions she answered in her interview:
Can you tell us a little bit about Storm? Or, this Storm, your Storm.
SHIPP: My Storm in particular is kind of a, well yeah, she’s the past derivative of Halle’s Storm. This Storm is a little bit different because you’re meeting her in Cairo. You’re seeing kind of a little bit of where she comes from. You’re seeing all the pain that she’s gone through. It’s not like she’s in the mansion having a great time. She’s so different from all of the other kids because they come from families. They come from some sort of love and support whereas Storm hasn’t had that since her parents died in that plane crash into the house when she was like 5.
It’s like, she’s kind of just all really messed up and the only mutants that she knows are bad mutants. The only mutants that she knows are the mutants who use their powers for stealing, or protecting thugs or whatever. It’s not like, “Oh, we’re going to save the planet”. It’s like, “Forget the planet, I need money so I’m going to distract you with some wind and then I’m going to pick pocket you.” She’s in survival mode so when she meets Apocalypse, she’s kind of like hit this revelation where she has been struggling to feel like she belongs somewhere.
To read the rest of her Q&A check out the link here !
X-Men Apocalypse is due out in theaters May 27th!
Rihanna Blocks Fan who photoshopped an Image of Ri Ri as a white woman
Why would any white person in the right mind find it okay to Photoshop a BLACK celebrity making them white then post it to Twitter? I have come to the conclusion that (SOME) white folks REALLY do think LIGHT BRIGHT AND VERY WHITE IS RIGHT;the straighter our hair the better. Rihanna was very insulted by this white fans disrespect needless to say the fan was BLOCKED and she was left wondering what she had done to offend Rihanna.
If you ask me the white bitch doesn’t really care she just an social media attention whore I guess getting any type of attention good, bad and ugly gets you 15 secs of Internet fame. She really thinks she’s done nothing wrong can you blame her? This white woman ; others who look and think like her is just as whitewashed as the next Negro. For white (people of color) people to really except that people of color are in ALL shades of brown the mainstream media needs to start embracing DARK skin woman with are naturally kinky hair and styles that our unique to us in magazines, TV commercials, local News…. when white people see a DARK skin hand; feet models showing off the latest nail polish; showing a Diamond ring from Kay jeweler on the hand of a DARK skinned couple then things might be a little bit different.
Source:
http://blackgirllonghair.com/2016/03/rihanna-blocks-fan-who-tweeted-a-photoshopped-image-of-her-as-a-white-woman/
KATT WILLIAMS ARRESTED AFTER COPS RAID HOUSE
Katt Williams is once again locked up … after cops found weed and firearms while serving a search warrant at his house.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia say the warrant was part of an investigation into Katt that began on March 1, after one of Katt’s bodyguards claimed he was beat with a baseball bat and choked after refusing to “engage in criminal activity” at Katt’s behest.
The bodyguard claimed Katt threatened to kill him … but said the assault was carried out by others in the group.
When cops raided Katt’s home Tuesday morning … they found several firearms, and “large quantities” of marijuana.
Katt was booked for aggravated assault, terroristic threats, and false imprisonment. Cops say they will also add the drug and weapons charges.
His latest brush with the law puts Katt’s tally at 4 … after allegedly holding 5 women at gunpoint, assaulting a pool store clerk, and becoming a battery suspect in L.A. … all within a week.
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/08/katt-williams-arrested-drugs-guns/#ixzz42O34q5uI