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No Shots? Everybody Is A Winner at the 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards*

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
  Editor's Note: Ang and I love men. Trouble is, sometimes (and I'm mostly speaking for myself) we don't know what's going on in their, er um, big heads. That's were Tony Grands from Reading & Writing is For Dumb People comes in. We've been thinking about adding another voice to Proper Talks for awhile now; why not let it drip testosterone? Of course we've invited Grands to conversate with us for… Read More

TI and Michael Vick: A Tale of Two Publicists

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
ti The US justice system is effed the eff up. So part of me doesn't care that TI will be serving a measly year (if… Read More

Proper Talking Points

Monday, March 9th, 2009
It's breakfast time out West and lunch time in the East. Here are a few random things to digest as you consume your nutrition (unless you're like me and 2,564 other twitterers who are  starving themselves  fasting with Jay Electronica):   -Even though he used to have beef with Mugabe, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he doesn't suspect foul play in the car crash that killed his wife Friday.   -Obligatory Chris Brown/ Rihanna… Read More

TSS Cast Rappers as Characters from ‘The Wire’

Friday, February 13th, 2009
My friend Erwin sent me this great post from The Smoking Section the other day because he knows how much Angela and I love "The Wire."  We're still obsessed with it, and I for one get jealous when my good friends (ahem Beauty Maven) run into Marlo out in D.C and snap photos with him. I actually plan on spending some part of V-day weekend curled up in my bed revisiting season 3, because who wouldn't want to spend Valentine's Day looking at Idris Elba?  … Read More

Pregnant Lady Swag: “Swagger Like Us” at the Grammy’s

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Kiana says Radiohead was the highlight of last night's Grammy's, but I beg to differ. For me, MIA waddling around the stage in a ladybug suit with a FULLY gestated baby in her belly takes the cake. I was nervous her water was gonna break the entire time. And yes, at one point T.I. brushed the baby's shoulders off (thru MIA's belly, of course). And Lil Wayne looked like an Orthodox Jewish dude with his scarf draped over the lapels of his suit like that.   I kind of think pregnant girls should replace video "vixens." Instead of  alluding to male potentency through half-nekked girls and emphasizing their feminity through exaggerated boobs… Read More

ATL Rappers Stump For Senate Run-Off

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

 

I often occaisionally have harsh words for hip hop artists who talk the talk but don't walk the walk. But I can't hate on the… Read More