Erykah Badu has released the cover art for New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh, due out March 30.
A lot going on. But Erykah always has a lot going on. Can’t wait for this album.
That's sweet.
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Sofia Maldonado’s Times Square mural reminds me of women I know. It reminds me of Oaktown’s 357 and J.J. Fad, the sassy lady rappers whose style I admired as a little girl.
Maldonado’s mural, depicting Black and Latino women with long fingernails, wearing leggings, skimpy tops, hoop earrings and lip gloss, has been criticized for demeaning women of color. I even got an email from a black professionals group asking folks to come out and protest in front of the mural because it made Black and Latino women look like “prostitutes, hoes and sluts.”
Why is it that these bright and fanciful images inspire such shame? There are crotch shots in the underwear ads American Eagle Outfitters broadcasts on their 15,000 square foot LED display around the corner! Crotch shots, people! But, those REAL women are white and these DRAWN women are women of color.
Perhaps the Black women in business suits who find this mural so offensive would like to forget the long fingernails and freeze updo they wore to their prom? Perhaps. Or maybe they resent the celebration of “round the way girls” – who, I guess, aren’t supposed to be considered beautiful or worth celebrating.
I always wonder who the models on these do-rags covers are. They don’t look like models (not that anything’s wrong with that). They have to be relatives of the do-rag manufacturers, right??
According to the UK’s Sun, Jourdan Dunn’s boyfriend, and father of her two-month-old son, has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. The 20-year-old, also named Jordan (last name Cummings) was charged with possession of cocaine and intent to supply.
Several online sources say the two Jordan’s have been together for five years. That would mean this has been the boy in her life since she was 15 and not a famous model.
You have to wonder what pressures a 17-year-old boy must feel when his girlfriend is suddenly making hundreds of thousands of dollars for a day’s work. Or, who knows, maybe he was just bad news.
I’m late on posting this but…anywho. This video of Michelle Trachtenberg rapping to Nicki Minaj’s verse on “Shakin It For Daddy” made me put the Robin Thicke track in the rotation.
Nick Cannon posted these photos of his wife Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj on Twitter today. The shots are from the filming of the “Up Out My Face” remix video. It seems this may be the first single from Mariah’s Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel remix album due in February.
Soooo cute.
In other Mariah news, “We Belong Together” was named Song of the Decade by Billboard.
So, Mariah shows up to a promotional event to promote her album in a Phantom decorated with decals of her album images. Of course, people start hating. When a “diva” promotes her album, she must be an egomaniac. Hmm…
My man loves me, he always wants to know where I am.
Ladies, if a man ever buys you a lace bodysuit equipped with a GPS tracking device, run!
Kudos to Stacey McBride-Irby, a mother of two, and 12-year Barbie designer. She’s behind Mattel’s new “So In Style” (S.I.S.), a line of dolls that has my grown ass thoroughly excited.
There’s been some buzz about these dolls for a while, and Mattel just announced the line’s official launch. McBride-Irby wanted to create a line of dolls that her daughter could see herself in and the result is definitely more than just a black Barbie doll.
I always hated how black Barbie was just Barbie dipped in chocolate. Same. Exact. Face. The S.I.S. dolls have fuller lips, wider noses, and different skin tones and hair textures. Grace, the main S.I.S. doll, is brown, while her besties Trichelle and Kara are light and dark-skinned. The girls each have a little sister who looks up to them. Each of their sisters is also another shade of black (gasp!) with the line representing all the beautiful colors we come in.
There’s even a Kara hair doll made with curly hair that can be straightened, a salon chair and yes – some extra hair!
