Ran across this vintage vid of Nicki from back in the day (2 years ago). Entertaining stuff.

AR!

Another day in the life of Taylor Gang. Video from “Never Been” off the Kush&OJ mixtape.

Roll sum’n beeeeecch!!

AR

This man never ceases to amaze.. for a plethora of reasons. Enjoy the painting video .

Technically, he did tell us lol.

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It’s always great seeing art bring real, spontaneous emotion. Janelle is a true artist doing things her way and staying true to herself, and though it’s a slow burn she’s really gaining a lot of industry respect and success in doing so. If you haven’t already, make sure you give her latest album  The Archandroid a listen; definitely one of the best R&B albums of the year thus far.

Below is the music video for “Cold War,” one of my favorite tracks off the album. Real simple. Real powerful. Enjoy.

I’m trying to find my peace
I was made to believe there’s something wrong with me
And it hurts my heart
Lord have mercy, ain’t it plain to see?

Real.

AR!

Okay, it’s not all that exciting when a cartoon (especially a Nickelodeon one) becomes a full length movie. You’re left with a lengthier episode. But the latest Nick toon to get the movie treatment will be The Fairly Odd Parents. The cool thing is that it will be a live-action film featuring Drake Bell as Timmy Turner (yes, a grown early 20′s Timmy). The film will be called “The Fairly Odd Parents: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!” and will follow the grown Timmy as he tries to hold onto his fairy godparents for as long as possible. Sounds interesting, eh?

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The film is set to premiere (on Nick) early next year.

Cj..

My favorite show on television, Entourage is gearing to come back to HBO soon, and for the first time they’ve dropped a trailer actually showing some footage from the upcomning season.

Summer’s just not complete without the crew.

They return for their seventh encore Sunday June 27th. Get ready.

AR!

If you don’t watch FOX’s groundbreaking show Glee

then you really need to stop existing in this world.

The show’s newest season debut tonight and was true to its predecessor. Fresh, original, entertaining, and just too damn funny, Glee has established itself as a television powerhouse. I mean it has been a trending topic on Twitter for the past couple of days. At the start of the episode, I was apprehensive that it would disappoint me somehow but in true Glee fashion the plot twists and turns came full throttle. The season looks to be a promising one filled with drama, laughs, and of course music.

Are you a Glee fan?

Cj..

Album of the Year goes to….

That is all.

Cj..

They really know how to grow up don’t they?

The Rudy’s and Ashley’s of our favorite sitcom’s of the 80′s and 90′s really do know how to go from adorable character to sexy adult right before our eyes. Tatyana Ali is mostly known for her role as Ashley Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air but is returning back to television in Martin Lawrence’s new comedy sitcom Love That Girl (airing now on TV ONE). I don’t know about the show, but I can say that Tatyana does a great job at being sexy on the cover of MAMI Magazine. Peep the images below.

Pound sign SEXY

Cj..

I used to love Greek Mythology, still do actually.

So yesterday while snowed in at home, I sat down and watched one of my all-time favorite movies: 1981′s Clash of the Titans. The flick, full of old school heavy hitters like Burgess Meredith, Dame Maggie Smith, and Laurence Olivier tells the tale of the Greek hero Perseus and his many conquests. Its all there: Zeus, Mt. Olympus, Medusa, Pegasus – heaven for a greek geek like me.

But I digress.

Whenever I’m watching a movie on my computer, I’m bound to wikipedia something about it to learn more. Whether looking up the inspirations behind the movie, fact finding, or reading the plot outline to clear up any questions I might have, I always wiki something! So of course, I looked up “Clash of the Titans,” and what do you know, there’s a remake coming out next year in March!

And then I saw… there’s tons of sequels and adaptations coming out next year, so I thought I’d post a few.

“Clash of the Titans” – Releasing March 26, 2010

“Robin Hood” – Releasing  May 14, 2010

Ridley Scott [the producer of Gladiator] teams up with Russel Crowe again [with Hollywood gold Cate Blanchett] for the remake.

“Shrek Forever After” – Releasing May 21, 2010

[The final installment of the most successful animated franchise ever].

“Prince of Persia: Sands of Time“ – Releasing May 28, 2010

[Screen adaptation, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, of the very popular game franchise.]

May 2010 is going to be poppin!

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PS. For all things movies check out the ThatGirlOnTV Blog HERE via one of my former VIBE edit interns, Chiderah Monde. Girl knows her movies.

Jimmy Fallon imitation of Neil Diamond singing the theme song to Will Smith’s “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

Props to Broke Mogul

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Some of you think she tries too hard. She’s not organic. She fabricates this image.

FAKE!

No one is that... Weird

Well, I don’t know if I can agree with that.

With every interview, Gaga seems to be about as #realasitgets.

But what do I know…?

I’m Gone.

AR

…Class ends

Recap

Notes

• Eminem is the best rapper alive. period.
• Mos Def is a marvel, almost as much as Black Thought.
• Note to self: Find Wale some respect and stage presence, cause he just lost both.
• Nicki Minaj is a Beast. Haters, shut up—stay in the crowd.
• KRS ONE: ..he still got it.
• the next generationn: Nipsey Hussel.
• You’re a fool if Joe Budden’s bars were a suprise to you. He been doing this
• What happened in that third cypher is just unfair. #massacre

Definitions

Barbie Bomb - I’m on stage, you can sit in the cloud/ I be up in Leer jets: “make a left at the cloud”/… Metaphor Heaven/ so they approve Nicki like my credit score seven/ Mac and Cheese Sticks Fried Chicken in her Guts/ and i’m killin these bitches, Mike Vickin’ it up -Nicki Minaj

Everyday business – Wanna talk about bars, mine leave it be/ Neva needed an AR, mine needed me/ It’s one thing in this world I cant stomach’s a fake/ you try to stop what ain’t come wit a break/ you made a mistake…You past your prime, I ain’t spit Ether yet/ you need a major, i just need an ethernet. -Joe Budden

Genius- The trash talkers deleted/ Blast off. I lay him out like a Tempur Pedic / Black Thought, I told you I’m a win eventually this/ unsung, UNDER rated, UNDER appreciated/ the one, them UNDER acheivers had UNDER estimated/ finally, graduated from suttin’ dats so hated to one of the most sacred/ nobody gone take it, face it -BlackThought

Cocky- My d*ck is so big, if I add another inch to it/You would swear when I raped you, that you was actually into it/… It’s like I’m off my Bon Bar/When I bring the fuckin’ drama/Used to bomb you like Saddaum/ But now that I’m a lil calmer/I’m a fuckin cross between Osama, Dahmer, Obama, and Dalai Lama/Somali, im a knight in shining armour. -Eminem

Disappointemnt- Wale

Potential- I’m a boss, nothin move less I say so/ I’m a business, you the nigga on the payroll/ Here come recession? There go yo J-O/B/While we/Fly high on mo’ chrome than eva, everytime I ride by/’Member every day was like the Fourth of July/At war, so you had to keep ya pistol in your ride/ Lean low, blowing kush in the sky/Watchin out, for blue cars, driven by white guys/Now it’s like, white clouds and blue skies/European grill with the leathers inside/Ain’t a nigga this fly comin out the West Side -Nipsey Hussel

Wise Words- I MC, don’t rap/We take you back to “return of the Boom BAP”/Let me take you all the way to ’94/”This-is-what -you-came-here-for”/BET…the Rap Awards/we rappin. Look, this from the lord/You gotta overstand/it’s all in your heart/Forget that chart, man/ get wit cha art! -KRS One

Resulting Equation

• Eminem > Budden > Mos/Black Thought > Nicki Minaj > KRS > Nipsey Hussel > G’Saan> Wale…

Concluding Hypothesis:

Hip Hop lives. Shut da fxck up.

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Got A Resulting Equation I should borrow? Let me know

Shouts Out to Tommy Atkins for the link…

– clip from 1974 Blaxploitation Classic Truck Turner. Starring Isaac Hayes as Truck & Nichelle Nichols (the ORIGINAL Lieutenant Uhura of Star Trek)  as prostitue-turned-Madame Dorinda. With her pimp dead, Dorinda begins to assume control over his stable of whores. [Diva] and look to put a hit out on whoever it is that killed her pimp. Dum dum dummmmm…

Shut up you chunky whore!

… and with those words, a love began. As the lil queenies would say:

This video gives me LIFE!

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*Warning fellas…this video has a guy in draws [lol]*

This post is unlike no other. It wasn’t effortless.

I actually  tried to think of a witty remark to make fun of this video, I really did. But I just cannot find the words. I’m speechless at this embarassing act of coonery.

What: Pretty Ricky member Spectacular challenging all young male artists [Day 26, Bow Wow, Chris Brown, Omarion, etc.] in the industry to a dance off– no…um. a grind off.

Career. Done.

AR

Remember UPN? Remember all the ‘black’ sitcoms featured on it and how some of them were carried over when the stations merged wit the WB to form CW? Well it seems to me that CW networks has slowly killed off every single one of them and the latest is the The Game starring Tia Mowry. It seems the show has been officially cancelled despite immense support from its viewers. A lot of viewers are upset that the show (along with Everybody Hates Chris) will not be continued in the fall, and additionally show no signs of being picked up by other stations (like BET). R.I.P. The Game.

Cj

Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony spoof commercial.

Hell I’m sold… sign me up.

~AR

I’m a sucker for a feel-good story.

Susan Boyle, 47 of West Lothian, Scotland has had one dream: to be a professional singer. Something that can be kind of hard to accomplish when you aren’t the prettiest person, or may be considered a bit eccentric.

Boyle is no supermodel. In fact, she is ridiculed by kids on the street, and has admitted that she has never been on a date, or even been kissed.

That, however may change pretty soon.

Boyle wowed audiences Saturday (April 11), including hard-to-impress judge Simon Cowell, on the British hit show Britain’s Got Talent, with her rendition of “I Dreamed A Dream” from the play  Les Miserables, and is now a favorite to win it all.

She may have never been kissed, but she has been touched, by God, with a voice like that.

Best of Luck Susan, we’re all rooting for you.

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/4138637]

~AR

Arlo Weiner, son of Matt Weiner -creator of AMC’s newest (and most fashionable) TV sensation MAD MEN- can dress. Like… really dress!

Oh yea… he’s eight years old.

Take a look into little Arlo’s closet of wears, and his own personal commentary on each look... just promise you won’t get jealous.

I love the tie because it’s really two ties stacked on top of each other. (My dad had to tie it for me.) The pink tie matched the pink shirt. I wore brown-and-white argyle socks for a random pattern.”

I wore the jacket with the pants because I like the different plaids together. I thought the blue in the necklace brought out the blue in the pants.

“I like to put random patterns together, so I picked out the green checkerboard tie with the gray checked jacket and then I wore the red vest underneath, because red stands out and brings the colors together.”

“This is my favorite outfit. The tie is a regular tie, but I tied it like that because I’ve seen it done that way in old English movies. Even though the tie and the jacket are different colors, they’re both striped, so I thought they looked right together. And I wore the vest and pants together because they’re both shades of red.”

Oh Arlo, how DO you do it…

~AR!

Bougie black people turn me on.

Okay, not bougie, but educated, motivated, stylish and innovative black people happen to interest me. BET’s Harlem Heights is our own version of MTV’s The City and after only two episodes during tonights premiere, im already hooked. The cast is made up of eight college-educated black people making moves in New York’s historic Harlem. The electic group consists of an up and coming lifestyle editor for a magazine, a designer itching to get her own name out there in the fashion world, a budding politician, an aspiring lawyer, the ex-girlfriend of a rap mogul, an actress trying to balance her career and social life, an entrepreneur, and a young father trying to set a better example for his daughter and community.

The first episode kicked off the season with a re-cap of election night 2008, which definitely set the tone for what was to come. So far I have no objections, these people actually seem to have some depth and it’s a step in the right direction for BET’s hope to transform their image. Harlem Heights airs every Monday on BET at 10 pm.

Unfortunately, Rip The Runway–which aired right before Harlem Heights, didn’t exactly make the cut. We’ve got to do better.

- Aisha