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  2000s had rappers that lasted a very long time. Ludacris, he had a southern appeal and clever wordplay. Nelly had that country grammar and melodic appeal. The Dipset crew love to flash wealth, TI & Jeezy are pioneers in trap, 50 Cent pretty much bullied his way into the rap game. I say this because there was one rapper who brought a few of those elements but tend to get overshadow and he was Fabolous. He is a rapper from New York who rap for the ladies, but at had enough street cred to earn respect from his peers. But as the years gone by, Fab’s legacy has slowly started to fade and people forget he had a quiet/yet effective decade run in the 00s. So without further ado.   What Happened to Fabolous John David Jackson was born on November 18, 1977 in Brooklyn. He is of Dominican and African American descent. He grew up in a single mother household in the rough neighborhood of Bed-Stuy. As a youth, he gained an interest in the arts, as he loved to draw. He went to High...

  50 years ago, Cooley High was released to theaters. This is film has been labeled as one of the most important pieces of black cinema. It was one of the first films that showcased lives of young black teenagers, which was pretty huge because most black films of 70s were label Blaxploitation flicks. This film came out in the height of the blaxploitation era and proven shift black film making. 50 years later, I think this film holds up fine. Want to know why, stay tuned and find out Cooley High Movie Recap The film is set in Chicago with Richard “Cochise” Morris going to his friends home in Leroy “Preach” Jackson. Preach has been skipping school all week and Cochise advise him to go to school as they are students at the now defunct Cooley Vocational High School. Let me take the time and mention the ages of Cochise and Preach, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs was 22 playing a high schooler and Glynn Turman was 28 playing a high schooler (kind of old if you telling me). But once there they...

  Cadillac Records Movie Recap (2008)   This is the story on how two unlikely forces team up and change the course of black music forever. Cedric the Entertainer, who plays Willie Dixon, help narrates this story on how rock music originates from black music. First of this party is Leonard Chess, he’s a Polish immigrant who has a dream of opening a nightclub for Negros in Chicago. The other is McKinnley Morganfield, but we all would know him as Muddy Waters. He’s a sharecropper from Mississippi. One day, Alan Womack wants to record him for the Library of Congress and after this he realized he has a gift. After this experience, he packs everything and moves to the big city of Chicago. But once there, the folks in Chicago aren’t fond of this as they call it “sharecropper” music. But a woman name Gineva Wade wants to give him the time of day and they do things that I can’t say on YouTube. After their love making, she given him an amp, that way everyone hears his sound. Len get...

  Brandy, Monica, Aaliyah and Mya. These were the leading ladies of the Y2K era and while I already cover two of these, it’s time we do another. Recently Mya has been making news about her lifestyle and her promoting self-love but how did we get there. Today we are going to go through her journey and career, so without further ado. What Happened to Mya (Force flings, Sabotaged, Finding Self-Love) Mya Marie Harrison was born on October 10, 1979 in Washington, DC. Her father was a singer and her mother was an accountant. Growing up for Mya wasn’t easy. Throughout her childhood, having a black father and white mother was still frowned upon, thus dealt with bullying. But as an escape, Mya got involved in tap dancing, violin lessons and ballet in her youth. At the age of ten, she joined a dancing troupe called TWA (Tappers with Attitudes). So, it’s best said that she became a dance protégé. As she got older, her father discovered that she could sing. Realizing that there’s much more...

  Mariah Carey “Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse” 1.        Cry.: This album starts off with the piano ballad known as Cry. I want you to take a wild guess on what the song is about. If you guessed “longing for your lover in the past, even though you have moved on” you would be partially correct. Only this time she said we both break down and cry. The ballad does remind me of some of her older ballads that were appreciated at first but grew stale over time. Kind of like this song, it’s a harmless ballad but it’s one of those you heard of one you heard them all. (DECENT) 2.        Faded: I said something like this on my previous review, this is definition of late period song. Produced by Mike Will Made It, this song is about a lover not being loyal to her as Mariah believes that he’s fading out to view. The outro points that out and you know what’s crazy, I don’t mind this one, the concept work the production isn’t...

Welcome back everyone, today we are going to continue with Mariah Carey’s album cycle with album #12 Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. For the first time since Music Box, I have little or nothing leading up to this album. I guess after MC2 didn’t do the same critically or commercially as Mimi did, she quickly jumped back into the studio to work on a new album. Should note that from here on out we are entering late period Mariah where things cool down for her musically and critically.  Mariah Carey “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel” 1.        Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue): I intentionally thought about skipping this song because I saw the word prologue, I thought it was going to be a regular intro. But it’s not so that why we are here. This is an infidelity song Mariah finding her man cheating on her with an unclothed woman and threatening to expose him. I want to say this was a weird choice to open up the album. Sure we got the illusion involving th...