Obama By Versace!

Barak Obama's swagger is clicking on all cylinders right now, Obamania as some have dubbed has reached a new high as Versace just rolled out their new clothing line inspired by the presidential hopeful himself; affectionately titled Obama by Versace. I guess Obama can now add fashion icon to his extensive resume.

50 Cent Talkin Reckless On The Cocaine City DVD

This nigga 50 is on one on this shit. Feeling himself to the highest degree, the way he was talking you could almost forget that he was signed and dropped by Columbia records, and his career didnt take off until after he was stabbed up and shot 9 times over the span of a few months. And even then no one was really trying to hear what he had to say but once Eminem signed him and Dr.Dre co-signed him his career took off. If you listen to him tell it, he'd say it was all part of his plan but in actuality he got lucky in more ways than one and turned the worst thing that happened to him into the best thing that happened to him. Where would 50 be without Eminem, Dr. Dre and those 9 shots almost killed him? Still on the block hustlin.

Video: Shaq to Kobe "Tell Me How My Ass Taste"

Now we all know Kobe snitched on Shaq for cheating on his wife way back during Kobe's rape trail, Kobe even went as far as to tell the feds that Shaq pays women a million to keep quiet. But no one expected Shaq to retaliated 4 years later like this! And whats this whole "Tell me how my ass taste" line about? I don't know, that shit sounds mad homo to me. If Shaq had an issue with Kobe's snitching choke artist ass he should've called Kobe out on that shit back then, its kinda petty to wait all this time and then finally call the nigga Kobe out. Thats like putting R.Kelly on trial for child pornography 4 years after the sex tape surfaced.

Music: Sean Garret f/ Pharrell- Patron

This is a new track from singer/songwriter Sean Garrett called Patron featuring Pharrell. If you're not familiar with Sean Garrett he's no newcomer to the music industry he's been behind the scenes for a while writing hits for some of R&B biggest stars. Including Usher’s Grammy-winning “Yeah!,” Fergie’s “London Bridge,” Chris Brown’s “Run It”,"Gimme That," Ciara's "Goodies" and Beyonce's "Ring The Alarm", "Get Me Bodied", "Upgrade U" & "Check On It".

This song goes hard! It's a smooth laid back summer song, if Sean Garrett drops this as a single I could see it taking over the airwaves all summer similar to the way Lloyd did with "You" and "Get It Shawty".

Listen: Sean Garret ft/ Pharrell- Patron

Barak Obama's Fatherhood Speech

This speech is the amazing, he touched on one of the biggest issues in the black community. I hope that the next generation of fathers and even this current generation are listening and taking notice. The epidemic of absentee fathers in black community has crippled us and impeded our progress for too long and hopefully with this speech and other speeches like this, we can move toward a day where more black fathers are taking their responsibilities seriously and raising their children. With as many high profile black people out there with the ability to speak on relevant issues to many waist their celebrity and influence talking about nonsense. What Obama is saying is an old truth that we've all been aware of for some time now and its something that should have been said a long long time ago. As proud as I am of Obama, I'm equally disappointed in all those black people that have come before Obama that have passed on numerous opportunities to say these types of things when they knew the whole world was listening. What Obama is saying takes a tremendous amount of courage and exposes many of our so-called heroes (in the publics eyes) as the self absorbed cowards that they are, too scared to address the real issues.

Video: The-Dream f/ Young Jezzy - I Luv Your Girl

Here is The-Dream's Video for his 3rd single "I Luv Your Girl" featuring Young Jeezy. The-Dream's album Love/Hate is without a doubt R&B's best kept secret. Its one of those rare R&B albums you can listen to from start to finish and you don't have to skip a song. Rumor is he wrote and recorded it in just 9 days, I don't know if thats true but the album is definitely my favorite R&B albums out right now. He took nigga's to school on this album.

Now when it comes to this video, I have to give The-Dream a big C- on this one. The video is like the rest of his videos thus far for the singles off this album BORING! I've been on this song for about 6 months now and I couldn't wait for him to drop a video for it. I was just sure he was going to come with and do a video that really compliments this massive song and he didn't. I'm pretty disappointed that this great song is going to be remember by such a mediocre video.

New Music: Nas f/ Keri Hilson - Hero

Nas new single Hero produced by Polo Da Don (Love In The Club, Throw Some D's) just hit the net. The song features R&B up and comer Keri Hilson who was first introduced to the masses on Timbo's Shock Value. I think this is a good single for nas and should start the album off on the right foot by really get peoples attention. If you feel otherwise, feel free to drop a line but from what I've been hearing from Nas lately, that nigga is comin wit it on this Album. The album formerly known as Nigger is set to drops July 15th.

Listen: Nas- Hero
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New Music: Nas- Black President

Check out Nas new song Black President. And you know Jay-Z is gonna do a freestyle over this beat or drop an Obama song himself, soon. But all that aside, this is song is only the beginning of what is expected to be an onslaught of Black President / Obama song's by artists around the nation, now that Sen. Barak Obama has rapped up the Democratic Party Nomination. And I say keep them coming, we're truly witnessing history today and hip-hop should definitely be a part of that history.

Chuck D said "Rap is black CNN", well today as we stand in the crossroads between the past and the present this is hip hop's opportunity and duty to live up to that title by documenting this historical moment in it's music, so that it may live on forever. In the same way that Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" even when you listen to it today still embodies the essence of the black experience during the 60's civil rights movement, Vietnam War and numerous assassinations. At this moment the black voice is louder than it has ever been in this country and if Barak is elected it will be prouder than ever. And wait till Barak gets elected, then (like Kanye Said) you niggas can't tell me nothing, right? Hah! Hah! (Jeezy Laugh)

Listen: Nas- Black President

Apple Celebrates Black Music Month w/ Live Performances!

This month apple stores across the nation will be celebrating black music month with live performances by various Hip Hop and R&B's acts. Artists scheduled to perform include E-40, Michelle Williams, Talib Kweli, Janelle Monae, Wyclef Jean and Goapele. The apple store locations for these performances include SoHo, Frisco, Lennox Square (Atlanta, GA), Lincoln Road (Miami, FL), North Michigan Road (Chi Town) and Third Street Promenade (Santa Monica, CA). Click the link below to view the full schedule of performances.

Apple Store Black Music Month Performance Schedule

Barack Obama wins the Democratic Party Nomination!

June 03, 2008
The political hegemony of people of European descent in America was dealt a crucial blow today as Barack Hussein Obama earned the Democratic Party’s Nomination for President of the United States. Obama shares this distinction with prominent names in American history such as William Jefferson Clinton, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and slaveowner Andrew Jackson. Mr. Obama’s nomination comes after a remarkable campaign that has inspired an unprecedented amount of voter involvement and setting records for campaign contributions.

Technicalities aside, Mr. Obama’s nomination marks the farthest a “black” person has gone up the symbolic power structure of America.


This is the same America where 40 years ago, the idea of inequality of the races was as prevalent as the idea of driving on the correct side of the street. However, despite the 300 year head start by European Americans, and violent, sadistic resistance to the humanity of “black” people, Barack Obama has been given the opportunity to appeal to the public for the privilege of being our country’s next political leader, and commander-in-chief of America’s armed forces.

Enough with the parades, though…

No matter what you feel about politics, this marks a change in the objective history of the racial power struggle . White people have been giving us shit all our lives about how we are lazy and stupid, how our cultures are “primitive”, and continue to degrade all people of color as if we aren’t human. Even though not all white people are explicitly racist, all white people benefit from the inhumane acts that have been perpetrated against truly innocent, good people worldwide whose only crime was not having white skin.

As we see from worldwide protests against Bush, the president of the USA is a visible symbol of power; a power which normally belongs to the racist white establishment. Obama winning this nomination is a major step in bringing the truth to the light, by breaking this myth that only white people can be considered for such a responsibility.

The ‘race’ now is for the votes of the American people, as opposed to non-white people facing violent opposition to being respected as citizens.

No matter what happens from this point on, we have clear evidence that this long standing idea of racial superiority or inferiority in society is a myth…a fucking myth! Wake up! WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FREE!

Black is not just beautiful…it’s American, it’s human, and today it’s
Barack Obama.