Posts Tagged ‘fabolous’
Self-Promotion
October 24th, 2005
We at Gossiping Bitches have always been critical of hip-hop, causing several readers to write us saying things like “why don’t you do it yourself, if you’re so smart?” Well, we are so smart and have indeed decided to start doing it ourselves. That’s right, we have joined the ranks of media companies with their own record labels — because it’s not enough to just report on hip-hop from an objective point of view, we have to be part of the action too! It is this very spirit of selling out that is at the heart (or lack thereof) of the first GB Records release, “Self-Promotion.”
Music, Watch – Volume 2
June 3rd, 2004
“Gets No Better” is the blueprint for a club song with the entire chorus built around the call and response hook of “It’s your song, ma!” for the ladies and my nephew Swizzle on production. Sir Casio kicks the video off in grand fashion as he invites us to a bangin’ ass party at what looks to be Melrose Place — and even Kanye is there! White on!
9/11 Commission Hears Testimony from Hip-hop
June 1st, 2004
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (“9/11 Commission”) has returned to the capital from its 3 night hearing May 28-30 on “Evil-Doing as Hip-hop’s 5th Element”. While the Commission wasn’t set to officially reconvene until June 16 for its twelfth and final public hearing, its members voted unanimously to travel to New York for an unofficial hearing, “on the DL”.
Music, Watch – Volume 3
February 24th, 2004
After being inundated with phone calls from all of our illiterate Gossiping Bitches fans, we here at Music, Watch proudly present the Anger Falcon Rating System for videos. The more Anger Falcons, the hotter the video – now you don’t have to waste your time reading this column. Get your scroll on.
Midget Finds Himself in Grownup Clothing, Malkovich Game
January 22nd, 2004
As Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo prepare their respective hardware successors, video game developers have already begun work on software for the new, high-powered systems of the future. In what is becoming more common in hiphop music, rap artists are cross-licensing not only their music, but their likeness as well into all forms of popular entertainment. […]
T-Shirts Plight Philadelphia Youth Sexuality
October 2nd, 2003
In Philadelphia, young urban male teenagers are struggling to come to grips with their sexuality as many adorn long, white t-shirts that resemble dresses. What started as a popular trend a few years ago, the “white t-shirt phenomenon” as it has been coined, has spiraled out of control according to many parents in the metro […]