She looks good. Check out behind the scenes footage of the shoot:
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However, we must still make sure to teach the babies that she’s an entertainer and that it’s not cute to wannabe a Barbie in real life.
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.
Meet Devynity. Super nice. From Southside Jamaica, Queens like another femcee we all know.
#Fun fact: The three of us all went to the same high school.
Mariah Carey’s new video for “Up Out My Face,” featuring Nicki Minaj just dropped. It’s cute but the song is wack. Even worse, I’m tired of Mariah parading around like she’s not 40-years-old (or close to it or whatever). I’m not knocking getting older and can still be fly when you reach a certain age but not like this.
Mariah Carey reminds me of an old embarrassing aunt who still looks young and has a cute shape, subsequently going overboard with trying to act like she’s 21. You know, the type who still tries to go to the club in catsuits to drop it like it’s hot and hit on all the young boys. It needs to stop. It really does.
P.S. Mariah Carey and Vivica Fox go in the same bracket for me. iCant.
Ludacris: Battle of the Sexes
Ludacris is teaming up with female heavyweights in hip-hop for his forthcoming album, Battle of the Sexes, due out March 16. Luda will collab with Lil’ Kim, Eve, Trina, Shawnna, Nicki Minaj, and more to rap back and forth about male/female relationships. Ludcris has always done his own thing so I applaud him for taking a different, edgier approach with this project. It sounds like an interesting concept. (Bangladesh, Swizz Beatz, and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League have all contributed to the project).
“There’s never really been an album with a male rapper and a female rapper together going head-to-head on different issues, mostly relationship issues,” says Ludacris.
I think this might go over well. Hopefully there are femcees on there that folks either haven’t previously heard of or who are talented and deserve more shine.
Spotted at All That’s Fab
The 2 -Cent collective is a New Orleans based group of young adults who produce a series of documentaries and parody videos that relate to the new hip-hop generation (21 and under). They teach the babies in a language that they understand. Check out their latest parody “Every Book:”
This was sooooo dope. I cracked up laughing (especially at Drake in the wheel chair a la Degrassi lol). Can you imagine if this was the song that Lil Wayne had really put out? Of course it wouldn’t sell! That’s my point smh. I love the Michael Eric Dyson spin at the end too.
Check them out at www.2-Cent.com.
Roc4life.com and GangStarrGirl.com teamed up back in May in search of a dope female mc for the “Roc Your 16 Bars” contest. It was tough competition as the ladies really stepped it up but in the end, Harlem native AtLas’ was the winner. Get to know her as she talks about her affiliation with MC Lyte and her love for hip-hop.
