Elfen’s TBT Music Video of the Week Rebbie Jackson Centipede
Rebbie Jackson Centipede. You can tell she had a little help from her baby brother Michael!!
Elfen’s R&B 1984 TBT Rebbie Jackson centipede
Rebbie Jackson Self titled debut Album centipede release date October 1984
Let me see. There’s Michael, Tito, Randy, Jermaine and Marlon. And little sister Janet Jackson. These family members. All started young with their singing careers. And then there’s Rebbie Jackson Here’s her Bio….
Rebbie began her singing career in 1974, performing with her siblings in Las Vegas. The Vegas shows had initially begun in April, without Rebbie; due to a sprained ankle, Rebbie’s debut was postponed until June. Her five brothers were the main draws, with Rebbie, Randy, Janet, and La Toya serving as fillers for the performances.
When the Jackson 5 parted with their record label Motown in 1976, they signed to CBS Records and rebranded themselves as the Jacksons. Additionally, the brothers were signed to CBS-TV to star with their family in a variety series called The Jacksons. The shows premiered in June 1976 and featured all of the siblings excluding Jermaine, who had chosen to stay with Motown. The initial series run of the 30-minute programs was four weeks. Due to ratings success, more episodes were ordered in January 1977. The shows marked the first time that an African-American family had ever starred in a television series. The run of programs concluded shortly afterward.
Prior to the series, Jackson had thought of her singing as merely a private hobby. Her television experience as well as an early love of musicals motivated her to become a professional recording artist, and the show’s producer encouraged her to sing.
Jackson served as a backing vocalist for several musicians around this time, as well as a cabaret singer. She contributed her voice for songs by artists such as the Emotions, Sonny Bono, and Betty Wright before Jackson’s second pregnancy stalled her musical career for a short time.
Centipede Album
Following years of preparation, Jackson’s debut album Centipede was distributed in October 1984 by CBS Records, who had signed her as a solo artist two years previously. The album was only released once the singer had ensured that family life was secure and that she had spent time with her children during their important younger years. Centipede became a moderate chart success, reaching number 13 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 63 on its Top 200. The recording of the album had been a family affair; it involved several contributions from her relatives. Her husband Nathaniel Brown co-wrote the song “Come Alive Saturday Night” with two of his wife’s brothers: Randy and Tito. The latter Jackson also penned “Hey Boy” with his wife Dee Dee. The most successful song from the album was the million-selling title track, “Centipede”.Written, arranged, and produced by Michael, the song also featured Jackson’s famous brother and the Weather Girls on backing vocals.[14] It reached number 4 on the Black Singles Chart and was subsequently certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. “Centipede” marked Michael’s first effort at writing and producing since the release of his successful Thriller (1982).
Other tracks from Rebbie’s album included cover versions of songs by Prince (“I Feel for You”) and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (“A Fork in the Road”). The album received mixed reviews from journalists and music critics.According to the magazine Jet, Centipede marked Jackson’s emergence as a “legitimate recording artist” and “cleared the major hurdle of demonstrating that she [was] talented and marketable”. With the album, Jackson became the last of her siblings to embark on a recording career and the last in line to release hit material.
Rebbie later revealed that there was a lot of discussion at the time of the release of Centipede over whether she should use the Jackson surname professionally or not. To begin with, Rebbie did not want to use her pre-marriage surname, but later reasoned that it was silly to deny her heritage. Jackson explained that she did, however, compromise with the use of her family name on the Centipede album cover – “Rebbie is large and Jackson is small”.[14] She further stated that the success of siblings Michael and Janet had not been a hindrance to her, but served as an enhancement to her career. Rebbie added that she did not have to worry about “name recognition”.
Well that’s it for this TBT. Next week we gonna go way back to 1980. To hear some George Benson!! ??????????????
Donald Trump Says He Had a ‘Great Meeting’ with Kim Kardashian as They Pose in Oval Office
Ummm that’s all you got to write?
Donald Trump may have postponed his meeting with Kim Jong Un but he did meet another famous Kim: Kim Kardashian West.
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Mom Blasts Southwest Airlines For Asking To ‘Prove’ Biracial Son Was Hers
I wonder if the woman was black if she’d been arrested?
A Southwest Airlines employee asked a college basketball coach over the weekend to “prove” that her biracial son was hers, the woman said Monday.
Lindsay Gottlieb, the head women’s basketball coach at the University of California at Berkeley, said she was flying from Denver to Oakland with her 1-year-old son, Jordan, when the airline employee requested his birth certificate.
Gottlieb said she didn’t have the official document, though offered his passport, which lists him as having a different last name.
“She said, well, how do I know that you’re the mother?” Gottlieb recalled to KPIX News. Gottlieb is white, and Jordan’s father is black.
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Weinstein indicted in sex case; lawyer says he’ll fight it
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was indicted Wednesday on rape and criminal sex act charges, furthering the first criminal case to arise from a slate of sexual misconduct allegations against the former movie mogul.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said the indictment brings Weinstein “another step closer to accountability” for alleged attacks on two women in New York.
Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said he would “vigorously defend” against the indictment and ask a court to dismiss it. He called the allegations “unsupported” and reiterated that Weinstein strongly denies them.
The indictment came hours after Weinstein’s lawyer said the film producer would decline to testify before the grand jury because there wasn’t enough time to prepare him and “political pressure” made an indictment unavoidable.
“Regardless of how compelling Mr. Weinstein’s personal testimony might be, an indictment was inevitable due to the unfair political pressure being placed on Cy Vance to secure a conviction of Mr. Weinstein,” the statement said.
Weinstein, 66, learned of the specific charges and the accusers’ identities only after turning himself in Friday, according to his lawyers. Brafman said that with a deadline set for Wednesday afternoon for Weinstein to testify or not, prosecutors denied his request for more time.
Vance said the Weinstein camp’s “recent assault on the integrity of the survivors and the legal process is predictable.”
“We are confident that when the jury hears the evidence, it will reject these attacks out of hand,” Vance said in a statement.
Weinstein was charged Friday with raping one woman and committing a criminal sex act by compelling oral sex from another. A grand jury continued hearing evidence in the case, as it had been doing for weeks.
Defendants have the right to testify in a grand jury’s secret proceedings but often don’t, for various reasons.
Freed on $1 million bail and electronic monitoring, he is due back in court July 30, though that date may now be moved up in light of the indictment.
Beyond the two women involved in the case, dozens more women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to assault in various locales.
He has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex, and Brafman said Tuesday that Weinstein was “confident he’s going to clear his name” in the New York prosecution.
Brafman called the rape allegation “absurd,” saying that the accuser and Weinstein had a decade-long, consensual sexual relationship that began before and continued after the alleged 2013 attack.
The woman, who hasn’t been identified publicly, told investigators that Weinstein confined her in a hotel room and raped her.
The other accuser in the case, former actress Lucia Evans, has gone public with her account of Weinstein forcing her to perform oral sex at his office in 2004. The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assaults unless they come forward publicly.
Vance, a Democrat, came under public pressure from women’s groups to prosecute Weinstein after declining to do so in 2015, when an Italian model went to police to say Weinstein had groped her during a meeting.
Police set up a sting in which the woman recorded herself confronting Weinstein and him apologizing for his conduct. But Vance decided there wasn’t enough evidence to bring charges.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also a Democrat, ordered the state attorney general to investigate how Vance handled that matter.
#NetNeutrality: California Senate Approves Strict Open-Internet Protections for the State
The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with its plan to repeal the net neutrality protections put in place by the Obama administration in 2015. That has not stopped lawmakers in California from taking action to protect the open internet in their state.
On Wednesday, the California State Senate approved a bill that would impose even stricter rules than those put in place by President Barack Obama’s FCC to protect net neutrality. As Ars Technica reports, the vote happened just ahead of the FCC’s planned repeal date of June 11, less than two weeks from now. The bill, S.B. 822, was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, in January. It would include a lot of the same provisions as the 2015 federal protections—a ban on throttling, blocking content and paid prioritization. It would also include a ban on paid data-cap exemptions. In addition, the bill prohibits “misleading marketing practices and enacts strong disclosure requirements to better inform consumers,” according to an announcement from Wiener.
S.B. 822 passed the California Senate with a vote of 23-12. All of the votes to approve came from Democrats. The 12 nos were from Republicans.
Now the bill just has to pass the State Assembly—which has a Democratic majority—as well as Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.
Lawmakers in the state of New York are considering a similar bill.
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Netflix Luke Cage season 2 trailer
YA’LL HAVE GOT TO NEFLIX N’ CHILL SEASON 1 and THEN WATCH SEASON 2 JUNE 22nd!!
Nightline Roseanne ABC cancels Roseanne show reboot
Netflix needs to pull her show reboot too! EDIT Netflix did pull her show! Fun fact did you know The president of ABC is a black woman?
Bernie Sanders Considering 2020 Run Against Donald Trump Former Campaign Manager Reveals
I’d vote for him!
The campaign manager for Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential run hinted that the Independent senator from Vermont may run for the White House again in 2020.
Sanders is “considering another run for the presidency,” but for now is completely focused on his congressional re-election campaign in November, Jeff Weavers said in an interview with C-Span host John McArdle on Monday.
Sanders made waves as the progressive who consistently challenged former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in his 2016 primary bid. His platform largely focused on issues like universal healthcare and income equality
When Sanders announced his candidacy for president in 2015, he was 50 points behind Clinton in almost every major national poll. But with his popularity among young Democratic voters, he closed that gap and ended up winning 22 states and about 45 percent of the pledged delegates before conceding and endorsing Clinton at the Democratic National Convention.
“One of the reasons he was so successful [in 2016] was that people out in the country sensed, rightly, that he was an authentic messenger for the message he was delivering,” Weaver told McArdle during the interview.
Sanders returned to Vermont after conceding, and continued to work as the state’s senator. But he hardly gave up his fight against Donald Trump and the Republican party. For the past two years he has travelled around the country supporting Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Now Sanders faces his own re-election race during the country’s midterm elections on November 6, 2018.
In 2012, Sanders won his first senate re-election campaign with 71 percent of the vote. Even after his 2016 presidential campaign, which forced the senator to focus heavily on national issues more so than state politics, voters in Vermont overwhelmingly approved of Sanders as a Morning Consult poll found that 87 percent of the state’s voters still supported the long-time lawmaker.
“If reelected, you can be sure that I will continue to be the fiercest opponent in the Senate to the rightwing extremism of Trump and the Republican leadership,” Sander said in a tweet on May 21, hours after his announcement that he will seek re-election.
Though there are still six months until the midterm elections, America is already looking forward to possible 2020 presidential runs. New polling conducted by CNN shows that in a one-on-one match up between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, Sanders is already a leading candidate, beating Trump by a 55-to-42 percent margin among registered voters. First, though, Sanders would have to navigate a Democratic primary. While politicians have yet to officially declare their campaigns for 2020, it is rumored that popular figures like Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Cory Booker may be in the mix.