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“I don’t even want to cry. I think about her daughter, her mother, the people in her family. And I just think ‘how dare me cry.’”- Kelly Rowland
How dare we cry at the loss of our beautiful, soul belting beloved icon when her mother, daughter, her family mourn her loss. That hasn’t stopped the [...]
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“If I don’t like it, I don’t like it, that don’t mean that I’m hating.” – Common
I don’t even like the word. I also don’t use it in every day conversation.
My recent post, “An Open Letter to Tyler Perry,” has been quite the buzz for the past week. It has been [...]
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Dear Mr. Perry,
Let me begin by congratulating you on your massive success. It is truly commendable to overcome the obstacles you have—molestation, poverty, abuse and homelessness—to becoming the highest paid man in entertainment. If nothing else, your story of triumph is living proof that achieving a dream is attainable even when one’s [...]
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On Friday night I attended a private dinner in the Gold Room at Pranna with a few of the cast members of “Love & Hip Hop.” The event was hosted by 135th Street Agency at one of NYC’s swanky restaurants on the east side of Manhattan. Every event I’ve attended that 135th Street Agency hosted [...]
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I’ll admit, my first thought was to immediately cast Kelly in the same boat as Keyshia Cole, Keri Hilson and Ciara when I heard she posed topless for VIBE’s latest issue. The timing of it all appeared to be an attempt to turn up the sexy in an attempt [...]
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“Dangerously In Love” was the last Beyoncé album I actually purchased. As a young woman in college it seemed like the soundtrack to my life. Years ago before my ears were as seasoned I deemed her debut album a classic. Every album since has been a major letdown.
Destiny’s Child was arguably one of the [...]
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(Written for Jezebel February 9, 2011)
Rihanna is pushing the envelope with her latest salacious “S&M” video, which has resulted in it being allegedly banned by 11 countries according to the U.K.’s Daily Mirror. I guess chains and whips aren’t so exciting after all.
The banning of the video reeks of [...]
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When the idea of creating a blog began floating around in my brain I vowed to be unique by dedicating my blog to things of substance. The blogosphere is already over-saturated with those celebrity/entertainment obsessive sites; and personally I think that ship has sailed. By no means am I knocking those sites as I [...]
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