At age 13, Lauren Hill gets boo'ed by Apollo

The woman with arguably the greatest album of all time by a female rapper/actor/singer (yes, that's right), got booed off the stage at the Apollo in 1987. Today her debut album, "The Miseducation of Lauren Hill," is considered a masterpiece and the golden age peak of female lyricism. Who was really "miseducated"? Shar...

Freaknik: A Pictorial Montage

When you hear the term "Freaknik" or "Freaknic," a certain cannotation comes to mind: Unruliness, debauchery, black people having a good 'ole time with no regard to society's woes, traffic or otherwise. Is this characterization somewhat accurate? In the immortal words of the familiar refrain on Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" album: "Hell Yeah!" Let's go down memory...

Where all the black men are

The male-female ratio is causing social havoc and is responsible for how you dress, how you act, what car you drive, and even, how you view yourself, according to Tim Harford, a British economist and author of a book called “The Logic of Life”. The Economist shines a light on what black women -- actually all women who want a black man -- have to go through...

F@#$! Sex And The City 5

The hags of "Sex & the City" are back in this animated short, with all the alluring asides they cartoonishly said in the successful TV show and movie. Except, this is actually a cartoon. Want to know something wierd? Sarah Jessica Parker actually looks younger animated than she does in real life caked in Mac. Now that's comedy. Shar...

Lady Gaga invades Japan

Lady Gaga recently appeared on a Japanese TV show, and, well, she's bigger than Godzilla over there. Well, almost. The Poker-faced music star is riding high after the successful "Telephone" video that borrowed heavily from Tarantino, who borrows heavily from the Japanese. Gaga was in rare form in the Asian country,even sporting a tattoo that literally read,...

Dance Floor Fail: Why We All Lose

Tt is quite telling when you're dancing and the dance floor parts like the Red Sea only to reveal someone doing their best "scrippa" imitation. It is quite another to see someone doing a windmill with booty shorts on. #Fail via Twitpic. Sha...

'Brandon and Stephanie': A Surreal Tale of love and abandonment

In a case of forbidden love, lovers Brandon and Stephanie snuck around their parents to have a relationship with each other. Steph's parents -- both dental professionals -- didn't approve of the deejay from Dallas, regarding him as low class. The couple dated anyway, secretly. Then, she got pregnant. In a startling and surreal turn of events that rocked Brandon's...

Royce Reed: NBA Bad Girl?

It takes expert editing to manufacture a villain for reality TV. Footage has to be carefully spliced together, sound bites must be edited, and voiceovers added. Then came Royce Reed, the very obvious and deserving antagonist of VH1's new show, "Basketball Wives". In the case of Reed, a former Miami Heat and Orlando Magic dancer, the show's title is a misnomer:...

Gynophobia: Why he's scared of you

As a female, it's normal for you to wonder WTH is going on in his head. You've met this new guy and he's yet to call, doesn't seem to take visual hints, or read expressions. If it weren't for your openness and bold declarations of what could happen, he'd probably still be sitting over in the corner someplace. And yet, here he is, in your life, albeit, barely. Why...

Celebrity Daddies: The Other Side of Fame

Few people are as silent yet concerned about their celebrity children as celebrity daddies: We see the mamas usually all up in the video shoots and commercials, but we rarely seen the men being these people. Well, rarely see some of them. A few, like these we've corraled below, seem to be celebrities in their own right. Richard Williams: Serving it while it's...

Uh-Oh, an influx of "Window Seat" videos

The popularity of a music video these days is not how many people vote for it (especially since the demise of MTV's TRL) but how many people imitate it on Youtube. (See definition of "Single Ladies") Erykah Badu's "Window Seat," worth a small indecency ticket to hear in real terms, but a gazillion bucks in fame and notoriety, is one such video. People are...

Stacey Dash: My husband beat me

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'Tia & Marco'

When a pregnant border patrol agent discovers an illegal immigrant child hiding in her home, she is forced to question her loyalty to a system of exclusion. Directed by Annie J. Howell, "Tia & Marco" is part of the series of Futurestates films, where 11 directors envision the future. Shar...

Rihanna hates commercialism in her videos

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Beyonce is Cheetarah

If you remember the Thundercats then you know that Cheetarah was one of the hottest cartoon characters in the game back in the day. Beyonce is "the hottest chick in the game" today, right? It's only right. Check out some "Thundercats, Thundercats, Thundercats, HO! here. Shar...

Nicki Minaj: From Myspace to Femme Phenom

At LaGuardia High School in New York, Onika Maraj was as silly as silly puddy. You can tell from the daffy-duck faces she makes even now. But when did the femme fatale known as Nicki Minaj emerge on the hip-hop scene? In 2002, a group of eUuniverse employees created Myspace. In two short years, the site graduated to a music reservoir for up-and-coming and unsigned...

Venus' alter ego: Ebony Star

Athletic progeny and tennis veteran Venus Williams may have lost the Sony Ericsson Open, 6-1, 6-2, to up-and-comer Kim Clijsters, but don't think she will lose any sleep. Williams, who is ranked No. 4 in the world, has moved beyond tennis, in a way that clearly indicates that the game needs her -- and her sister Serena -- and not the other way around. In fact,...

Janet Jackson holds it together

Janet Jackson, music royalty and one of the youngest 42-year-olds in the world, is back on the big screen in Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married, Too," and it seems that she and both Jill Scott were going through absolute hell while filming, even though part of the set was done in Barbados. We all know Janet's ordeal with her brother Michael Jackson's death...

Keri Hilson sings national anthem. Again

Atlanta recording artist Keri Hilson aka Ms. Keri Babay, or as she's recently become known, "Ms. Star-Splanglish Bumbled" got another turn to flub the lines to America's national anthem Sunday. Turns out fate gave Hilson the honor of singing the national anthem at Fenway Park on Sunday. Just in case she ruined it, there were two F-16 fighter jets above to help...