Hey y'all --- sorry about the lack of blogging for the past few months. But not to worry --- we are back!
ISLM launched a tumblr page --- for some reason tumblr makes you feel less guilty about the lack of written words. Additionally, the new site is slightly streamlined in attempt to further filter the good from the bad.
Stephen Colbert lends a hand to Alicia Keys' on Empire State of Mind II --- "The Upper Middle Class Remix"!!!
Yeah, yeah, yeah I love New York, King of all the Cities Lived up by the Guggenheim, ’til I got some kiddies Moved to Connecticut, ‘bye George Pataki [ ... dry-cleaners, pickin’ up my khakis] Shoppin’ mall is close, my community is gated My shorties are all private school educated Home theater system, 60-inch plasma Clean suburban air, much better for my asthma Still hit the city, Times Square, keep it real Hard Rock Cafe for the appetizer deal M&M Store, Disney Store, I’m in heaven I own this town from 41st to 47th Take you to The Lion King, that show is fantastic Leave half an hour early so I can beat the traffic I can get home really fast, driver rocks an E-Z Pass Land of cheaper gas and the upper middle class
According to RR: "Buummmbaclot! According to the AP, Buju Banton was arrested last Thursday in Florida and charged with conspiring to move more than of five bricks of cocaine. If convicted, Buju faces 20 years behind bars. This won’t be an easy road."
So I don't watch Gossip Girl but if I knew there was going to be a threesome on the show I would have definitely tuned in (EVEN if it included cringe inducing Hillary Duff). The song below played while the three didn't do enough to be deemed wood worthy.
Back by popular demand...click on each individual head and crack yourself up!
ROW 1: (Left to right) President Obama, Olivia Munn, Ras Kass [Ed.—it's his boy in the clip], Ras Trent, Rick Ross, Eric Cartman, Kanye West (South Park version)
ROW 2: The Joker, Larry David, Lil Wayne, Kim Kardashian, Mooj (from The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Latarian Milton, Jonah Hill
ROW 3: Randy (Aziz Ansari in Funny People), Red (Danny McBride in Pineapple Express), Clay Davis (The Wire), Smokey (Friday), Kanye West, Tommy Buns (DMX in Belly), Howard Dean
ROW 4: Bow Wow, 50 Cent, Brick Tamland (Anchorman), Cam’ron, Kenny Powers, Leon Black (J.B. Smoove in Curb Your Enthusiasm), Super Craka
ROW 5: Brian Collins, Leroy Jenkins, 2Pac, Mike Tyson, Superhead, Craig Robinson (as club bouncer in Knocked Up), Christian Bale
ROW 6: Kim Kardashian, David Letterman, Raekwon, R. Kelly, Super Craka, Jay-Z, O-Dog (Menace II Society)
"In more "Yo Gabba Gabba!" news, the show will premiere a run of new episodes during the week of October 12, and a ton of guests will stop by. Among them are Andy Samberg, the Roots, Lady Tigra, the Little Ones, show regulars Biz Markie and Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, and MGMT. MGMT will sing a song called "Art Is Everywhere"."
This is sad as I heard dude was one of many highlights from the recent VH1 Hip Hop Honors show and Swizzy recently mentioned that he was working on an album with DMX.
Makes you wonder - why? (Also --- Butterbean is now an MMA fighter?)
On December 12th, at an event billed as Alabama Pride, DMX will show off the brawling skills he earned on the mean streets of Yonkers, NY in an MMA exhibition bout vs. “musician” and Power Moves Entertainment CEO, Eric Martinez. AHH reports that Martinez is also a member of X’s management team. Bizarre, but sure to be enormously entertaining.
"You know how you can tell this year’s MTV Video Music Awards were extra-crazy/special? Somehow Kanye West vs. Taylor Swift wasn’t even the only unexpected person-leaping-on-stage event last night. No, there was also the odd spectacle of Lil Mama climbing up during Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ show-closing “Empire State of Mind,” attempting to join the performance (?), then standing there awkwardly beside Jay and Alicia in a B-girl stance when the song ended.
We’ve reached out to Lil Mama and Jay-Z’s camps to see if they can clarify just what happened there. (UPDATE: A representative for Jay-Z tells EW she has “No clue how it happened.”) In the meantime, watch the encounter again below. Lil Mama’s appearance begins around the 5:07 mark. Warning: You may LOL when you see Jay-Z’s understated yet surprised-seeming body language."
3 quick thoughts --- 1st, this moment marked the most awkward I have felt in a long time. 2nd, Alicia Keys continues to get hotter and hotter with every year that her acne fades (proof that proactiv works!). And 3rd, "Empire State of Mind" launched itself into anthem territory this weekend. Song is serious.
I say what I mean, [random gibberish.] Me and Jay had a battle, I got in his ass. I got in his ass, before he got signed. Niggas was there, niggas know. In a pool hall in the Bronx. I fucks with him and had respect for him after that. Until he became the president of Def Jam, and I ain’t gon say too much more about it, but you know what it is. There’s a difference between doing wrong and being wrong. At one point, you were being wrong.
Jay is a talented motherfucker, don’t misunderstand me. He is talented. But he has no heart. There’s no soul behind it. It’s motivated by money strictly… But I still maintain the respect, because our birthday is in the same month and you know, we have history. But I lost it when he became president of Def Jam, that’s why I left Def Jam. ‘
When you became the president, you hit me “yo dog, the inmates is running the building!!!” You know what that mean, your mans is in charge… “That’s what it is, we good,” cuz we had history. And then you go do that.
You come down, listen to my shit… we ready. Then you go on vacation. Niggas take a picture of you with chancletas on. That’s what you leave the hood for, son? That’s why you walk out on your man for, son? Flip-flops? Serious? You serious? Real talk son, I respected you. I’m in my feelings about that. I’m hurt. I ain’t ever talk about that.
This brings us back to my huff post piece --- just cause I like to shout myself out!
*Note from Jeffrey - "and i noticed at the end its tyrese he's talkin' to!!!"
M+B is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition BARACK OBAMA: THE FRESHMAN, black and white photographs by Lisa Jack. First featured in Time Magazine’s 2008 “Person of the Year” Issue, which chose then President-elect Barack Obama for his “rare ability to . . . organize himself and others to anticipate change and translate it into opportunity,” these photographs offer a window back in time before the posters and before the campaign, when a 20-year-old young man was caught up in just such a change that Time Magazine would later describe. Lisa Jack, then a student of photography at Occidental College, sought a striking subject for a portrait project and was tipped off about a charismatic freshman named “Barry” Obama who would make an ideal subject. After the shoot, these images would remain locked away for the next 28 years, until a dare from a friend triggered Lisa Jack to seek them out. At first worried these images could be used against President Obama, Jack realized they were not incriminating of anything other than being young and self-conscious, and that they offered a unique glimpse into how the man who made history went from being “Barry” to Barack. This exhibition marks the first time these rare photographs have ever been printed and on display.
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