Courtney Love is the white Whitney Houston. Houston had a considerably higher profile, making a splash in the 80s with her pyramid perm and octaroon beauty, she looked white enough to be unthreatening to the dominant culture, yet still was a descendant of R&B royalty. When she sang the powerhouse hit “I’m Every Woman” we […]
P. Diddy is being accused of using sweatshops in Honduras to produce clothing for his Sean John line. That sucks for so many different reasons. First of all, I must say, I love that Sean Combs. Everybody seems to seek him out for complaint, blaming him for the fall of hip hop to the return […]
I remember when I first met Queen Latifah. It was in San Francisco at a huge benefit for AIDS awareness in the early ’90s. She was walking out of the green room and her bodyguard, a large imposing man, gave me a straight arm to get me out of the Queen’s way, and then she […]
Mouth news. Lots of mouth stuff happening in the news. In Venezuela, a group of eleven prisoners sewed their lips together in protest of not being transferred to another jail. Caracas has the bad reputation of having the worst overcrowded and violent prisons in the world, and the gristly self mutilating act still has not […]
The latest trend in South Korea is getting pubic hair transplants. One would think that it would be the opposite, with salons all over the West serving up specialties like the “Barely Legal,” in which all hair is removed from the area, designed to replicate the genitalia of an underage girl, as statutory rape seems […]
The sniper trials have begun, with a bang one might suggest, and John Allen Muhammad, the elder of the two suspects, pleads not guilty. Remember how scary that whole thing was? The news channels were once again firing up the constant coverage as well as the crawl underneath, usually repeating the information just given to […]
“In fourteen hundred and ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue” – then landed on an island inhabited by gentle people, and killed fucking everybody to prove that the world was round, not actually flat. I have been to that island, and will never return, because there is not a moment where I don’t feel […]
If you are faint of heart, don’t read this. Don’t. Close this window. Now. Do it. You cannot handle it. After you close the window, get off the internet. It is too much for the faint of heart. There could be a pop up, a virus, a worm, some sixty-three year old man pretending to […]
I cannot get enough of Atmosphere’s new record Seven’s Travels. MC Slug loves the ladies with the low self esteem. Like Beyonce – I am crazy in love, like this kind of thug/playa/rappa love that I have been immersed in for the last few decades. I wrote him a fan letter, but since our tour […]
I love hip hop. It is a language that speaks to me, with the complexity of the beats, the dexterity of the rhymes, the posture and pride of rappers that makes me swoon. It is like opera to me, with all the sturm und drang of Wagnerian proportions, but with modern values and transformative knowledge. […]
Here in South Beach, we are staying at a rapper/supermodel hotel. Various Run DMC members are kicking it on the white couches, and we rode the elevator with Paris Hilton. She turned to me and said “I like your outfit.” And it was as if Mother Theresa said “You know, you are a really nice […]
I missed the Koreatown parade. Fuck! I knew I forgot some shit but I couldn’t place what it was, like I knew there was something I had wanted to get done, but I did not write it down and my memory is not what it was. Now that makes me mad that I was not […]
