Random Midday Hotness: Jamming With James, Michael and Prince.

How doesn’t everyone know about this? And how come the world didn’t explode? [...]

T.R.O.Y.

Random Midday Hotness: Killin’ Em at Recess.

Via.

Random Midday Hotness: Look at Me Now.

The breath control is amazing.

Random Midday Hotness: (Clap)

So many good things about this video. The best thing, I think, is how Monch & Co shed light on the most important issue regarding police brutality: someone is hurt/killed by the people who are charged to protect them. That individual, immediate crime shouldn’t be forgotten, or made smaller by people who want [...]

Claire Huxtable’s Secret Past.

The Internet again justifies its existence:

“In 1978, [Phylicia Allen (now Phylicia Rashād)] released the album Josephine Superstar, a disco Concept album telling the life story of Josephine Baker. The album was mainly written and produced by Jacques Morali and Rashād’s second husband Victor Willis, original lead singer and lyricist of [...]

Lupe Fiasco’s “All Black Everything.”

Got to love this song. Well no, you don’t GOT to…but at least appreciate what Lupe is trying to do in a genre where conscious rap–while it surely isn’t dead its constant balancing act between sellability and socio-political responsibility often make it a  less-than-profitable venture record labels usually shy away from.

Lupe evidently [...]

Blacking It Up: Hip Hop, Race and Identity.

Not long ago I had the pleasure of seeing a documentary released by California Newsreel entitled Blacking Up: Hip-Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity by filmmaker Robert Clift. The film opens by taking us on a kind of behind-the-scenes look at white american suburban culture in a way that mass media rarely [...]