New Morgan Heritage Song/ Obama Cover

I had the wonderful opportunity to see the Royal Family of Reggae perform live once again last night and definitely love one of their new songs "Headline Fi Frontpage"


Listen to it on their Myspace



In other news, Obama is on the cover of September's Vibe. I haven't seen the article, but it's a nice cover.



You can read the editors in chief's letter "The Brother's Gonna Work it Out" here

HAUL!

THROWBACK POP CULTURE CLIP OF THE WEEK

BOB ROSS! Expect these every Thursday (a throwback clip..not Bob Ross)

After all the hours I spent watching this man when I was little, you think I would have gotten better grades in art. Thanks for the reminder Erin!

BET-Number one

I'm sure I'll have numerous posts on this channel...

Sigh, I have no words for them. That Read a Book video had potential in the proper context, or just humor for a particular audience, but the channel's a mess. Even Ivy League savior Reggie isnt doing complete justice... although I am happy that programming now consists of something more than 24 hours of videos.

Switching to VH1 Soul full time,

HAUL

We Stay Broke (Bouncing)

An ode to my unemployed recent school grads...Keep Ya Head Up, your time is coming:

We stay broke, no joke you know this (Bouncin')
Got no job, late bills , this is bad business (4get a bachelors )
I'm still broke, no joke you see this
Stay in debt, bad checks, dont cash this (Bouncin')

Ya girl writing letters (Cover) I got a resume (2 page)
I can show you my degree if need be (Bachelors)
Still dream high (focused) waiting for some pay (dollar dollar)
Got Skills? Wait let me see (Bouncing)
Now I'm networking, emailing (Suck up)
Pull out big words, brown nose for days on end (smiling)
Going to stop all mean mugging (pleasant)
Changed email address, Kept Dot E D U on End (Bouncing)
Cus it cost ma big bucks, see me on stage got the folder shucks (with the proof in it)
Wasn't guaranteed a job after (Why not?)
And the banking kids are dying of laughter (Lehman)


We stay broke, no joke you know this (Bouncin')
Got no job, late bills , this is bad business (4get a bachelors )
I'm still broke, no joke you see this
Stay in debt, bad checks, don't cash this (Bouncin')


Speed up, job post will be gone by midday (Click Send!)
So, I type real fast, include the G.P.A (Spell Check!)
Ask 'bout insurance and 401 K (Dental)
And include the clips from the days of unpaid (Bouncin)
I include two phone numbers (Start Callin)
While I read over, start checking mast heads (Feenin)
Daydream, thinking bout last summer
Flashbacks of high hopes, once called reporter (Intern)
2K4 Culture Now 4 Sho (Hey Abby!)
2K5 Holler on Radio (Word, W N Y C)
And then last year, entered publishing mag game
Found out I liked it, and women's lifestyle wasn't lame (Martha!)


We stay broke, no joke you know this (Bouncin')
Got no job, late bills , this is bad business (4get a bachelors )
I'm still broke, no joke you see this
Stay in debt, bad checks, don't cash this (Bouncin')

You right I can't buy that
Still keep 20 in the pocket (Train Fare)
But the debit card is no longer what I cop with (Money's Gone)
Missing the Fed. Work study ... (Weird.)
Need an allowance to roll in B K, NYC
But got to get to Manhattan's Macy's (Interviewing Suit)
Spin through Lord and Taylor to find a dress (Spending)
Cant show up looking a hot mess
Ivy grad, no paper, living in the rent's house (Bouncing)
So when I sue, homeboy sue back
Paralegal Apps. where all the real money's at
I got to do graduate school soon (N.Y.U.)
Letters of recommendation from Cambridge (Masters)

We stay broke, no joke you know this (Bouncin')
Got no job, late bills , this is bad business (4get a bachelors )
I'm still broke, no joke you see this
Stay in debt, bad checks, don't cash this (Bouncin')


All of us need to stay focus
when your dealing with your future lives/careers
You know the game, Law, Banking, Media Job,
Nepotism ain't the only
We Did our time and we born to fly
This ain't about degrees or dollars
But about getting what you worked hard for,
Ya dig, another day another letter
Ballin' real soon


We Stay Broke (Bouncing)--written by me
Original-We Stay Fly (Balling)--Jim Jones -Come Back by Jay-Z (Brooklyn)
H.A.U.L.

Blacks in Washington D.C.

1942 Gordon Parks "American Gothic"

[Imagine Images of Prominent Negros Here..including Thurston, Thomas, Condi and Powell and all the high-sididdy black people and Howard alums]

2007 -New York Times, Opening of New White House Press Room

Times have changed...We've moved from mops to vacuums

Last Night

Remixed:

Stuck in South Station/Partied in Cambridge/ Bus getting on my nerves/ Got there on Time/And Still no seats were mine/greyhound's for the birds....

Vanity Fair's Twenty Cover Issue

Vanity Fair magazine has created headlines again. No, this is not another exclusive Jennifer Aniston break up issue (which was great if you did not catch it two summers ago). This time vanity is dark and edited by one of our favorite fair on the outside, but dark on the inside celebrities -'cus he's Irish and England oppressed them too- BONO!



In an unprecedented twenty cover issue, Vanity Fair's July 2007 issue focuses on Africa with cover photography done by Annie Leibovitz. The covers feature twenty one people and read like people holding a conversation on Africa. Included on the covers are George Bush, Condolezza Rice, Oprah, Don Cheadle, Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, H.M. Queen Raina of Jordan, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and a host of other people. Our favorite second and third richest people in the world are included : Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet. Also included are our favorite adoptive parent celebrities: Brad Pitt and Madonna. Also, a special shout out to Brooklyn-Jay-Z and Chris Rock also hold it down. Who said nothing good could come out of their neighborhoods?

The issue shows a lot of promise, and we all know the Economist would not garner this much attention with an issue on any pressing world topic.  It is great that such a popular magazine has committed itself to seriously focusing on the topic. Sure, the articles are certain to be behind twenty pages of Donald Pliner, BCBG and St. John advertisements.  But then, whose to say you can't be conscience and fashionable at the same time? Most likely, there are some downfalls to the issue and sadly I have not bought my five dollar issue yet to comment on those, but kudos to Vanity Fair for taking this on as well as the hot cover idea. To check out more of it go to http://www.vanityfair.com/. Somewhere beyond the Simpsons headline for today there is more information about the website.

Henry Louis Gates is somewhere upset that his ancestry work did not get him on the cover. I hear that there was a quota for only one 50% European person and Obama got the call.

(the last two sentences were not verified and Skip is a very nice man)

HAUL(holla at u later),
The QUEEN