Well, well, well…seems my boy Carmelo Anthony showed some heart while chillin’ in the NY with his girl LaLa of MTV VJ fame
From Allhiphop.com:
So Joe Budden is telling this story because he’s wondering if the publicist is telling the real deal. He saw Carmelo last night at Club Babalu. It was Swizz Beatz birthday party, Joe said it was definitely poppin - he kept saying that - with nuff celebrities doing the mingle and move thing. He mentioned that Carmelo Anthony and MTV VJ Lala were there together. If you didn’t know they are a couple - then now you know. So there Carmelo and Lala are, all up in the VIP section having a good time, when this guy named Sugar Ray spots them from across the room. Sugar Ray is Lala’s ex-fiance. The fact that he’s now her ex is no surprise. I remember one day last year, she was hosting an MTV show and the guest mentioned her ring and her new engagement - she didn’t look like she was overjoyed about the situation. .
Sugar Ray and Lala had some words, it was supposed to be a friendly situation. Somewhere along the line things turned foul and Sugar Ray spit in Lala’s face. Carmelo Anthony, who was at the club without bodyguards, got hood with it and started swinging. So these two are fighting, but Sugar Ray was with his Harlem buddies. They jumped in. Now it’s just an all out brawl: tables are being kicked over, chairs being thrown. Joe Budden said the fight went from inside the club.. to the outside.
Apparently Carmelo held his own sans bodyguards and bouncers to stick up for his girl….like any real man should.
Don’t necessarily condone the fightin’ and shit, but stickin up for ya girl earns points like nothing else…
Uhhhhhh…..OK, so what the hell were these people smoking?????
Is Kanye West’s “The College Dropout” a gospel album? The rapper-producer’s debut album includes one explicitly Christian rap, “Jesus Walks.” But other tracks have lyrics that might offend a congregation, and because of that, some people in the gospel music industry are upset that “The College Dropout” was included on a Stellar Awards ballot for best gospel rap album.
A committee from the Stellar Awards Gospel Music Academy put West’s album on the ballot, which academy members use to select the award nominees.
Hmmm..I can see a nomination for Gospel SONG of the Year (barely, I mean the unedited version of Jesus Walks has a fair amount of cussing in it) but ALBUM of the Year?!?!? C’mon people…did you even listen to any other tracks?!?!?!?!?!
So I let September 11 pass without nary a comment. I don’t think I said anything about what that day was, how it affected me or anything at all.
All I said, that meant anything on September 11, 2004, was “Happy Birthday”…to someone who was having a horrific day all of their own. I think the fact that I remembered and cared enough to say those two simple words meant something…
It is with heavy heart that I report that Aaron Hawkins has passed away.
I have no other information that I am willing to report at this time outside of what his sister Val posted on his site, http://www.uppity-negro.com/archives/001943.html.
Aaron’s voice will be sorely missed by us all.
My heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends!
Aaron, I hope you are at least free from your pain and flying amongst the clouds with angels 
Just one more FUCKED UP EXAMPLE of what it is to live BROWN in America
It’s hard to work BROWN in America
It’s hard to play BROWN in America
And as Ian Spiers has found…
It’s hard to be educated BROWN in America
In the past two years I have turned down a few jobs because they happened to be in locations that weren’t complimentary to my living BROWN in America.
Truly sad…
(found via Negro Please who found it via Punkassbitch.com)
(Check out this review and many more over at Blocgritics.org)
Hot beats to get ya moving is what its about these days. The hip-hop landscape is changing…folks are tiring of gansta rap and are looking for players to get back to what it was about in the beginning…beats and spittin’ lyrics.
James Todd Smith (LL Cool J to y’all who don’t know) is doing his part to follow the new trend with his new release The DEFinition. From the outset the beats are what get you going. Head Sprung, Rub My Back…get ya movin’, head bobbin’, booty shakin’ (if my two-year-old daughter is any indication).
The style and beats have a familiar sound…LL teamed up with super producer Timbaland for nearly every track on the CD. It’s nice to hear that Timbo can still put out those hot beats and not have a CD of the same tired beat over and over.
But this is not the “hard as hell” LL that we know from the past. There is no Rock The Bells, there is no I’m Bad, there isn’t even a Round The Way Girl here but there are several “love raps” over nice beats.
LL still has the flow, still has the lyrics…and he more than likely coined the newest “bootylicious” with Apple Cobbler…but the Greatest Of All Time may be losing some of his shine and glimmer.
I would still give this CD 3.5 stars… it is LL Cool J and he is still holding down the game after all this time. And the beats did get me moving. I just wish there had been a little more “edge” , a little more “LL Cool J is hard as hell”.