If you’re a hip-hop fan who will be in the NYC area this weekend, then get into it.

Here’s part two of Joy Daily’s documentary, The Complexion Obsession, where she talks to journalists, models, artists and scholars about whether dark skin is still discriminated against in the music industry. Shameless plug: I make a cameo at 7:59.

It’s awful that in 2010 people are still brainwashed enough to believe that lighter is better. With regard to the Barbie dolls, those children broke my heart. It’s a plastic freaking doll and with the exception of the outfits and “skin” color, they look exactly the same. Wow.

CLICK HERE for part 1.

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I snagged this video of Solange singing “Tell Me” with the Brooklyn based rock group The Dirty Projectors (shouts to all the Williamsburg Hipsters out there lol). Her Twitter rants and melt downs might be questionable but you can’t deny that the girl has talent.

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Photo Courtesy Linda Lee, Cornerstone Promotion

Her influence is getting out of control. I want to like her as a rapper but I can’t get past the “Barbie” references and the goofy flow. Actually, I used to like her as a rapper but that was back when she did street DVDs and mixtapes. However, I realize that the Nicki Minaj then wouldn’t be as popular as she is now if she hadn’t switched things up. I interviewed her some time in 2008 and we talked about how she wanted to break away from being seen as the sex pot and planned to do things differently. It’s working for her because now people talk more about her weird faces and voice inflections than whether her butt is fake or not, but I’m not a fan of what it’s doing to impressionable minds who can’t tell the difference between entertainment and reality.

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The homie Joy Daily released part 1 of her first documentary entitled, The Complexion Obsession, where she talks to various media and music industry professionals including rappers, professors and video vixens about why they believe or not, that dark skin women still get the shaft when it comes to music videos. Shameless plug: I make a cameo at 6:41.

Part two will be up next week.

P-Star Now

My first introduction to P-Star was when I worked open mic nights at NYC’s Club Speed every Wednesday nearly six years ago. She was nine then and extremely talented as she would command the mic and spit bars for days. The word on the street was that she wrote her own rhymes so imagine how much better she is now! Since the Club Speed days, I’ve since seen her on MTV, on a kiddie reggaeton DVD and she is now a teenager and part of the cast of the recently revived Electric Company.

What I didn’t know then was that she was the subject of a documentary entitled P-Star Rising, which chronicles her rise to stardom carefully guided by her father/manager, Jesse Diaz.

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I had a friend in college from Miami who was really into booty bass, and “Ice Cream n Cake” was one of these songs he always went around chanting. It was so infectious that I caught the bug and would randomly chant it too. That was all in fun but Baskin-Robbins managed to find the best usage for it ever. EVER!

Take that other ice cream brands!

Shh…no typing, just stare.

Serena Williams for Vibe Magazine

Gorgeous!

Spotted at Vibe Magazine.

Haiti dedication song.