Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Bsi 2,104.57 +16.47 +.78%

Roxanne Shante getting Warner Brothers to pay for her Ph.D at Cornell is the kind of badass gangsta shit I want to see from more of our rappers.

BUY

The Cleveland Show*

Potential controversies aside -- the shit is gonna be funny.

Oh yeah, there'll be some black folk that'll hate it.  But when have Negroes agreed on anything?

SELL

Jayson Blair

The new life coach's first piece of advice: don't plagiarize.

*Author admits to a professional bias in this assessment

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Bsi 1,393.64 +16.91 +1.20%

The Index all but makes up the previous days losses as election talking points turn from Sarah Palin to the economy.

What does politics come down to?  C.R.E.A.M.

BUY

TV on the Radio

It's not 'Wolf Like Me', but the new TVotR single is catchy and has a video that reminds analysts of adventurists artists of years past.

Kate Bush is the truth people.  For real.

SELL

Homophobia

While certainly not the only homophobes out there (see: The Daily Show's 'Rapper or Republican) no one wears it like a badge quite like hip-hop culture.

Vote 'no' on California Proposition 8 in November.

Of all people, black folk should know enough to be on the right side of civil rights issues.  Enough already.