October is Breast Cancer month and sadly, one in nine women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. Pretty Stylish London is hosting The Big Pink Pamper Party in an attempt to raise £1,000 for Cancer Research UK. All it takes is 40 guests who want to support the fight against the disease, and we’ll easily make the £1,000 target. Please blog and tweet this invitation out to help us get the word out. To RSVP, click here donate […]
Walk These Streets is taken from Rakim’s long-awaited/highly anticipated new album Seventh Seal which will be released on the 16th November. I love Walk These Streets but could have done without hearing other rappers on the track. I just want to hear Rakim! LISTEN TO WALK THESE STREETS [Thanks Cookie] The man still looks good enough to eat… Anyway your thoughts please. Hit or Miss?
Via Forbez DVD Why do black male stars insist on wearing ridiculous dark shades inside and during televised interviews? JUST STOP THE FOOLISHNESS! But still love you Usain.
Via The Metro Two rappers have been convicted of trying to scare off witnesses to a murder in a song placed online. The ‘chilling’ song by Ishmael McLean, 22, and 18-year-old Rowan Simon warned people they could be shot for talking to police, the Old Bailey heard. It had been placed on YouTube with links to MySpace and Facebook following the murder of 24-year-old Jason Johnson in Ealing, west London, last November. Simon and McLean, both from west London, were among eight […]
Via The Guardian The BBC has received 63 complaints after it emerged Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke called his dance partner Laila Rouass a “Paki”. The dancer issued an apology after the News of the World revealed he had used the offensive term to describe the actor Laila Rouass, his partner on the BBC1 show. Du Beke reportedly said Rouass, who is mixed race, “looked like a Paki” after she turned up to a rehearsal with a spray tan. Rouass […]
Former Bad Boy artist Mark Curry sits down with Atlanta blogger Gyant and talks about his new book Dancing With The Devil: How Puff Burned The Bad Boys Of Hip Hop, which exposes Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs and Bad Boy Records.
Via The Associated Press Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican. The respected circuit judge once was the Democratic Party’s choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama. Then his career collapsed under allegations that he brought inmates to his office and spanked them with a paddle. Later, an indictment accused him of sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency. The trial on […]
MTV has released their annual Hottest MC’s In The Game list and this year it is truly ridiculous. Seriously I don’t know whether to laugh or bawl out loud. Who sits on the voting committee over there at MTV towers? Who is responsible this mess? I want names!!!! 01 – Jay-Z (NO SURPRISES HERE!!!) 02 – Lil Wayne (*huge sigh*) 03 – Drake (WHY?) 04 – Kanye West (*huge sigh) 05 – Rick Ross (WHY?) 06 – Gucci Mane (THERE ARE NO […]
It looks like Alexandra’s ‘explosive’ interview with Marie Claire hasn’t gone down too well on the home front! Via The Sunday Mirror Melissa Bell, a singer with Eighties group Soul II Soul – spoke out just days after X Factor winner Alexandra, 21, attacked her in an interview. Alexandra claimed Melissa was filled with jealousy after Alexandra won the ITV show and then went on to have a Christmas No1 with Hallelujah, her only hit so far. But seriously-ill Melissa, 45, said the […]
This post is dedicated to Reggae/Dancehall hits from the 1990s. Frighty & Colonel Mite – ‘Life Is What You Make It’ (1990) I haven’t heard this track in YEARS!!! I didn’t even know they made a video! Wow memories! [Thanks Nessa] Patra – ‘Dip & Fall Back’ I was never a big Patra fan but I liked this track. Cutty Ranks – ‘Who Seh Me Done’ and ‘Limb By Limb’ (1992) I used to listen to both tracks every morning before I […]
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