TiRon – Ketchup

Apparently,  it isn’t too early for ‘Best of 2009′ lists.  I was scanning thru the online edition of the LA Times and stumbled across Jeff Weiss’s The Quarterly Report: The best hip-hop albums of 2009, thus far.  Although I completely disagree with Doom being at the head of the class (and where the hell is [...]

Louis Vuitton + Kanye

Finally, the new Louis Vuitton / Kanye ads have dropped… When did becoming a bald girl become fashionable?  It reminds me of some Sinead O’Connor ‘Nothing Compares’ destroying photos of the Pope shit (I’m so glad that song has re-entered my memory, mental torture right now).  Regardless, Amber Rose takes on the hairless NC-17 sleeping [...]

Friday Ode :: Queen Latifah

The Queen was one of the most quintessential role models in my early years.   Being a young doll at the playground, screaming “Who you calling a bitch!? U.N.IIIII.T.Y!” before I really even knew what she was spitting about or the gender issues that she so eloquently addressed.  She transformed herself from the beatboxing Flavor Unit [...]

When life gives you lemons…

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis A poet like Langston Hughes and can’t lose when I cruise Out on the expressway Leaving the bodega I say “suave” Premier’s got more beats than barns got hay Clips are inserted into my gun So I [...]