As the star of SARAH PALIN continues to fade further into obscurity we are left with the awesome quote from her spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton…
“I cannot express enough there is no plan after July 26. There is absolutely no plan,”
You said it sister.
^ You know you want a bite!
Our little sister on the internets, Marvelous Mo, has a tasty little deadstock treat for us sneaker fiends…
A crispy pair of Air Jordan 13 retros in the flint/oxblood colorway.
I believe they called these joints the “Grey Toes” (natch).
Call them what you want to if you buy them from her.
($175 or thereabouts) Size 6Y
Her e-mail address is moisdeadserious [at] gmail.
And tell Mo that there is ‘No Smiling’ in the game.
Every time you listen to a DP.com podcast you save a Twitter kitten (Twitten) from being abused by a BlackPlanet internets.
One day it will all make sense.
Was there ever any genre of music more aspirational than rap music? Not even gospel music wants to live as much as commercial rap does. I don’t think they make enough Maybach cars for all of these rappers to drive. It’s not like we would enjoy rap music about being broke motherfuckers either. That’s the reality I’m all too familiar with.
But with all the trappings that money can afford that still doesn’t make you any more of a man or a citizen in this country. A Harvard professor was terrorized and abducted by police from inside of his home. This was a blatant act of state sponsored terrorism. I’m no fan of that professor but I wonder when the feds come calling to the Maybach rappers if they will start rapping about the realest shit ever.
We all want to be rich and wealthy, but mostly secure. The idea that money and education can buy you security is forever shattered by the arrest of the professor. Why else would someone go to college? Why else do we work our asses off? If we can’t go into our own home and close the door then what was the point of all of this shit? If its just to earn more money to spend more money then I need to know that now.
We heard so much talk that America was now post-racial because the president was Black. We even heard songs that exalted in this fact. I still haven’t heard the song that says we are at our core a racist nation of cowards. Everyone hides behind their guns and their authority. Manhood has become effeminate because men are scared of one another. We are like hyenas and jackals with badges and guns.
Rick Ro$$ was once one of those people with the authority to terrorize with impunity. Now he just works as the cheerleader for the prison industrial complex. More than 1 million African American males are locked up behind bars. The crimes committed are a direct reflection of the poverty that we have promoted across this country. Would Ro$$ be the first rapper to put his interests behind those of the 1 million? That would be the realest shit he ever wrote.
I am definitely going to miss this crazy fool.
There has been a lot of internets press around the closure of Vibe magazine. It’s as though we are seeing some institution shutter their doors. This was far from Lehman Bros. but people are talking so I thought I should add my thoughts to the discussion. Vibe magazine was pretty though. I remember when this young chick in the neighborhood had Lupus and she punched out. Vibe wasn’t like that. Vibe was more like the pretty chick who gave head to everyone and then got hit by the Q66 on Northern Blvd. chasing down a trick. That is more like Vibe’s epitaph.
I wonder why other publications don’t throw themselves out the window like Vibe did, but then I realize that other mags have a totally different direction. They recognize trands but don’t try to court them irresponsibly. When I look at a magazine like Jet I see that it is 180 degrees from the direction that Vibe was pointing. If there was ever a magazine that could kill themselves because the business model was no longer viable it would be Jet. I used to love the Jet centerfold but those features are corny and dated by today’s standards that describe women with only a string of material running up their behinds.
Jet photoshoots mean that even the sultry celebrity chanteuse will have some underwear on. Jet has never tried to appeal to the popular shock market shlock. And why not? Publisher’s dignity I suppose. I can’t really call it. All I know is that I promised myself to never again pick up a Vibe to read when they published that cover of a naked KEYSHIA COLE. It wasn’t shocking to me. It was wrong and gratuitous. It was like watching B.E.T. in 2009 and all the performers were Black people wearing Blackface. I saw KEYSHIA in a studio surrounded and naked. I could hear the publisher of Vibe laughing at me.
So maybe the Vibe cover doesn’t say those things to you. Maybe I’m a bit sensitive too. A lot of folks have defended the Vibe covers of COLE and CIARA as simply being artistic and provocative. I wonder why Jet didn’t take the provocative artistic role with KEYSHIA COLE when they had their cover story with her. They managed to still find a vintage look for her without disrobing her and frying her hair blonde. Maybe this why Vibe had to die? When you make a mockery of the artists that you are entrusted to be the caretaker for then you aren’t needed in this industry any longer.
Goodbye Vibe, and good riddance.
