Mannie Fresh & Mystikal- Move Something

PROFILE: Wiz Khalifa

PROFILE: Wiz Khalifa from dee vazquez on Vimeo.

J. Cole feat. Missy Elliott- Nobody Is Perfect

Fred The Godson feat. DJ Ted Smooth “Retox”

Miguel “Gravity”

Program Helps Teen Girls Get Passports

A PASSPORT TO THE WORLD: EXPEDIA AND THE PASSPORT PARTY PROJECT HELP TEEN GIRLS OBTAIN FIRST PASSPORT

– Six Passport Party participants, aged 11-15, will then take first-ever trip abroad, sponsored by Expedia.com –

Bellevue, WA(BlackNews.com) — Expedia.com, the world’s leading online travel agency, announced today that the company will serve as the official travel sponsor of The Passport Party Project. The Passport Party Project is a philanthropic initiative started by award-winning travel blogger and entrepreneur Tracey Friley, founder of OneBrownGirl.com and OBG Adventure Camps. The Passport Party Project hosts parties for ten girls each throughout the United States, giving teen girls, aged 11-15, the tools to obtain their first passports. The goal is to inspire these girls to use their passports to ultimately take their first-ever trip abroad.

Using a Condom May Not Be As Easy as We Thought

http://mybrownbaby.com/2012/02/using-a-condom-may-not-be-as-easy-as-we-thought/

By NICK CHILES

After a number of years (or decades) as a grown-up, most of us probably assume we got the whole condom thing figured out. Don’t exactly need to be a doctor to understand how it works. But it turns out that using a condom is a lot more complicated than I realized—which makes appropriate sex education for young people even more important.

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University analyzed 50 studies from 14 countries over 16 years and found that when it comes to using condoms, adults are kinda clueless. Check out the following list of errors for using a condom (which are 98 percent effective—when used correctly) and ask yourself, being completely honest, whether you do it right, every time. Ask yourself if you even knew you were supposed to be doing all of these things, every time. Then ask yourself how much fun (Not!) it would be to go over each one of these steps with your adolescent son or daughter, as part of the “sex talk.”

From the study, here are the top condom errors:

“West Indian Woman”

http://www.evasaidit.com/2012/02/west-indian-woman/

By Eva

::waves::

So way back when I started this blog, I promised you some creative stuff thrown in among my rants and reads, and did indeed post some of my prose and poetry.

I haven’t kept up with that promise lately though, have I?  I know. I suck. Fuck off.

I wrote this piece tonight, inspired by someone very dear to my heart…who I just confound at times with my “West Indian Woman” tendencies. (Yep. I’m an island girl. Born and raised in the South Bronx, of British Jamaican heritage. I am where Park Avenue and Halfway Tree meet, baby!)

This is in tribute to all the headstrong island girls like me, the prideful mothers, the strong wives, and determined single girls. Sisters, it’s in our genes. We can’t help it. But it’s also in tribute to the men who have to deal with us: we know…we know…

O’Mega Red Drops Detail Produced Single “I’m A Problem”, Readies Album Featuring KRS One & Donna Summer

O’Mega Red Releases New Single “I’m A Problem, Produced By Detail. Forthcoming Album To Feature Legends KRS One and Donna Summer

#WarriorPoet- The ‘Package’

http://warriorpoetbk.com/warriorpoet-the-package/

With tears in her 7 year-old eyes, she states, “But mom, I told you I wanted a birthday cake with cherry frosting!!!” Before her mother could even reply, the door bell rings. “DING-DONG” The 7 year-old girl opens the door and the UPS man hands over a box to her. She fakes a smile to him, closes the door, slams the box down on the counter and goes back to the argument with her mom. She continues to express her passion about the specifics of the cake (that she told her mom weeks prior to) that she wants for her birthday. As she pleads her case, her mom opens the box and unpacks it. As the tears continue to flow from her disappointed eyes, the mom continues to unload flour from the box… As well as eggs… As well as cherry extract… As well as a rubber spatula and a few other things. Her mom listens attentively, while laying all of the contents on the counter. The little girl, gets even more annoyed at the fact that her mom isn’t paying much attention to her “Cake-Cry,” but instead is opening a butter wrapper that she also pulled out of the box. At this point, the mom is trying to hold in her laugh as she goes to turn on the oven yet is still listening to her daughter share her pain, and dissatisfaction of not being able to have a cherry cake for her birthday. At this point the little girl storms out of the kitchen to her room, slams the door, and throws herself under her covers to finish crying. The major issue here is, She didn’t recognize THE PACKAGE…

Fokis Ft. Sadat X & DJ Chonz – “#Justsayin”

Rapper-Producer Kovas’ “Deed it Main” on Party Film Project X

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Brooklyn Rapper-Producer Kovas’ “Deed it Main” on Warner Brothers Party Film Project X Soundtrack

AB-SOUL TALKS “BLACK LIP BASTARD” ON #SWAYINTHEMORNING

Michael Jackson- It’s The Falling In Love

Become Undefeated!! – Daily Word February 27, 2012

Become Undefeated!! – Daily Word February 27, 2012- AUDIO NOW AVAILABLE DIRECTLY TO YOUR BLACKBERRY, IPHONE, OR ANY OTHER MOBILE DEVICE…..

Severe Conservatives Equal Amero-Facist

http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/02/severe-conservatives-equal-amero-facist.html

by Torrance Stephens

In the mid-1930s, Sinclair Lewis once stated that “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” I do not think that he was aware that his words would aptly describe many in the conservative party today from the halls of congress to the GOP presidential candidates.

R&B Star Rahsaan Patterson Opens Up About Childhood Sexual Abuse

Mack Avenue recording artist and soul innovator Rahsaan Patterson is proud to announce the release of his new original song “Don’t Touch Me.”  Proceeds from the song will raise money for the non-profit organization RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization.  Patterson, a former star of the American children’s television program Kids Incorporated, has sold more than 10 million CDs to date with his six critically-acclaimed releases: Rahsaan Patterson (1997); Loveand Stereo (1999); After Hours (2004); Wines & Spirits (2007); The Ultimate Gift (2009); and Bleuphoria (2011).

GRAMMY & OSCAR WINNER REGINA BELLE PREPARES TO TAKE YOU “HIGHER” WITH NEW GOSPEL ABUM – IN STORES JUNE 5, 2012!

GRAMMY AND ACADEMY AWARD WINNING RECORDING ARTIST

REGINA BELLE

PREPARES TO TAKE FANS “HIGHER”

ON NEW GOSPEL ALBUM

 

@BumpyKnuckles x @DJWayneSki = PhUcKu

Dr. Creflo A. Dollar Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Change Conventions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CREFLO DOLLAR EMBARKS ON CROSS-COUNTRY TOUR TO SPARK TRANSFORMATION WITH 2012 CHANGE EXPERIENCE CONVENTIONS 2012 Change Experience Marks 10th Anniversary of Life-Transforming Conventions with 8-City U.S. and Canada Tour

Curt Chambers “Grass Is Greener”

Planet Asia f/ Raekwon “No Apologies”

KALIRAPS “WHY I CAME TO KALIFORNIA”

Hip Hop My Friend – Pep Love

Inspectah Deck And 7L & Esoteric Are “Czarface”

“CZARFACE” project will include contributions from Action Bronson, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Roc Marciano, DJ Premier & Large Professor

With his illustrious career spanning nearly two-decades now, it would be easy for Inspectah Deck to sit back and rest on his laurels; after all, he has helped create some of the best hip-hop music ever recorded. Despite his low-key persona, Deck carved out his own unique space in the Wu-Tang Clan, thanks to his stand-out verses from “C.R.E.A.M.,” “Protect Ya Neck” and his otherworldly verse on “Triumph” among many. Likewise, who could forget Deck’s contributions on Ghostface’s Ironman (“Assassination Day”), his many appearances on Raekwon’s OBFCL, GZA’s Liquid Swords (“Cold World”) or his collaborations with Gang Starr (“Above The Clouds”) and Big Pun (“Tres Leches” which also featured Mobb Deep’s Prodigy).

BigBang Blue Sha Stimuli Announces “The Chills”

Rashad “The Return”

Rashad “The Return” from Elev8thegame on Vimeo.

Brianna “Reality Show”

Viola Davis and The Oscars: Anatomy Of A Best Actress Snub

http://mybrownbaby.com/2012/02/viola-davis-and-the-oscars-anatomy-of-a-best-actress-snub/

Academy Award nominee Viola Davis, star of the controversial film, The Help, went home empty-handed last night after losing the Best Actress Oscar to her acting idol, Meryl Streep—and I can’t say I’m surprised.

As much as I thought Viola deserved the award for her star turn as Abileen Clark, the maid who quietly and defiantly raised her voice to tell the stories of “the help” in racist Mississippi, one need only consider the source of the Oscars, the constant bitching of black folk mad that the Academy Awards was considering awarding a black woman for portraying a maid, and Viola’s own outspoken statements about Hollywood’s race issue to understand why she lost last night.The voting members, according to a Los Angeles Times investigation released last week, is 94 percent white, 77 percent male and 86 percent over the age of 50—and I’m guessing they didn’t want to be bothered with all the backlash that inevitably would have come from outspoken black intellectuals like Melissa Harris-Perry and James McBride, who over the past weeks have gone hard against the Academy and The Help itself for watering down the abject abuse and danger maids faced at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, and for, 40 years after Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as a maid, considering handing over yet another statuette to a black woman for her portrayal as… a maid.

Bow Wow “Underrated” Webisode 12 Live From Amsterdam