I know Mary’s entire “My Life” album got me through some thangs.
Can’t forget the ultimate break up song with those unforgettable lyrics:
You gotta get on outta here with that alley-cat-coat-wearing, punch-bucket-shoe-wearing crumbcake I saw you with. Cause you dismissed!
That’s right, Silly rabbit, tricks are made for kids, don’t you know that. You without me is like corn flakes without the milk!
This is my world. You’re just a squirrel trying to get a nut!
Now get on outta here. Scat! Don’t touch that coat…
I decided to consult my top songs list and came up with two of my personal faves, “Before I Let Go” by Blackstreet and “Goodbye Love,” by Guy. I guess I’m kind of nostalgic for the return of the group.
Before I Let Go (check out young tenderoni Omar Epps and Shari Headley in the video)
Goodbye Love (I MISS Guy)
Hope you enjoyed my picks today. The party is far from over! Check out the offerings from the other Old School Friday participants.
What’s up fools?
You think I aint knowin yall broke Milli Vanilli
J.J. Fad wannabes aint over here gossiping bout me?
Yo how bout you buff these Pumas for 20 cents so your lights wont get cut off
You soggy breasts, cow stomachs
Yo take those baby GAP shirts off, too
You just mad cuz Payless ran out of plastic pumps for the after party
Yo by the way, go get my album
Damn!
In case you’ve been living under a rock or better yet wrapped up in more pressing issues (which I’m too worn out to rant about but you should know where I stand), you may have missed the news that Ms. Badu is expecting her third child – presumably by her man, Jay Electronica. However, as someone said to me behind the scenes, it could very well be Grandmaster Flash’s kid for all we know. Badu marches to the beat of her own drum and who knows where the day will take her. I’m hoping it’s Big Daddy Kane’s. I’m just saying.
I actually called this when I saw her on the Vortex Tour in May. I remember telling my friend that it seemed like she was hiding something underneath that get up. When she came out in the more fitted outfit, she seemed more swole than usual. But hell, I was eating up some shit too when I was in a relationship so I didn’t think anything of it.
When I saw the news posted on one of my favorite celebrity blogs, Crunk and Disorderly, along with some picture evidence (post has since been deleted or I would link since I lubs me some Fresh), I admit my judgemental side eye started twitching. Three babies, three different baby daddies? It’s one thing to screw around but why keep getting knocked up?
Apparently a lot of folks out there on the Internets are asking the same questions, but not as nicely. I didn’t see the original post on the Okayplayer message board where some people were apparently calling her way out of her name and insulting her kids, something a black Momma is NOT going to stand for ( I’m wondering why Michelle will blow but that’s another post). I’m glad I missed it though. I checked out some other sites and you would think some of these folks are the Virgin Mary reincarnated.
Apparently, somebody done fucked up now because Ms. Badu took the time to fire off a very long missive, which I’ve excerpted here. If you want to read the whole thing and aren’t on Okayplayer, you can find it here:
peace,
HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT THE QUEENDOM…AND MY CHILDREN AND MY INTELLIGENCE.
ive never been so disgusted in all of my life .
I’LL STATE MY PEACE
i am a great mother and care giver to my 2 children and to this world . my children are 2 of the kindest and happiest people i have met. I home schooled them and taught them the ways of good to the best of my ability. i am their doctor and their nurse . and even sometimes their mother and their father.
every relationship i have been in was because i loved the person DEARLY and was dedicated to us “exclusively” FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
the fathers of my children are my brothers and friends . we have a great deal of respect for one another and always will. WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN TO NO END. we took our own “vows” and CONTINUE TO UPHOLD THEM.
AND THAT IS WHAT THAT IS .
question?
WHAT IS MARRIAGE ? WHO IS THE JUDGE? WE ONLY UNDERSTAND THE EXAMPLES WE ARE GIVEN ( well sort of)
WOULD IT “LOOK BETTER ” TO MARRY AND DIVIORCE AND MARRY AGAIN ? WOULD THAT BE MORALLY CORRECT ? WHATS THE DIFFERENCE ? the government’s involvement i guess. IDEALLY , IT WOULD BE EXCELLENT TO FIND THE MAN OR WOMAN WHO FULFILLS YOUR SPIRIT AND STAY FOR EVER AND EVER ( thru sickness and health till death do us part ) AND HAVE HEALTHY STRONG CHILDREN AS A RESULT OF A HEALTHY AND STRONG UNION. (this CAN happen … we need much training , however.)
OR
IS IT REALLY “GOOD” TO STAY IN A RELATIONSHIP WHERE BOTH PARTIES ARE UNFULFILLED , LONGING FOR RELIEF , BRINGING one another down as a result of improper training , creating BAD ENERGY AND EXPERIENCES FOR THE CHILD TO REPEAT ?(As a product of that kind environment I say AAAA-MEN!)
HOW MANY OF YOU GREW UP IN 2 PARENT HOMES THAT WERE MISERABLE AS FUCK ? (Preach!)
OR 2 PARENT HOMES THAT WERE NOT PERFECT BUT WORKED?
HOW MANY GREW UP IN ONE PARENT HOMES WHERE THE MOTHER WORKED HARD TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE CARED FOR BUT SHE WASNT QUITE HAPPY?
HOW ABOUT A HOME WHERE THE FATHER WAS THE MAIN CARE GIVER AND DID THE BEST HE COULD -LACKING NURTURE?
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A SIBLING THAT HAS A DIFFERENT FATHER OR MOTHER?
DOES HE OR SHE MEAN LESS TO YOU?
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE MORE THAN 1 MOTHER OR FATHER OF YOUR OWN CHILDren ?
HOW MANY OF YOU HAD /OR / ARE PARENTS RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILDREN ,THAT DONT QUITE FIT ANY OF THESE DESCRIPTIONS?
HOW MANY OF YOU STAY IN UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS FOR FEAR OF GOING TO HELL?
HOW MANY HOS OUT THERE … THAT HAVE KIDS TO GET A PAYDAY?
HOW MANY PEOPLE GETTING THEY ASS KICKED AND ARE FORCED TO SUBMIT CAUSE YO MAMA GOT HER ASS KICKED?
THEN WHAT is CORRECT?
if i loose you as a fan because i want to continue to have children then FUCK OFF… WHO NEEDS YOU ….CERTAINLY NOT ME … KICK ROCKS … CALL TYRONE … PACK LIGHT …. BITE ME
i know you are having fun , but what if it were you and your children? my son is 10 . my daughter, 4 .
peace
ANALOGUE GIRL
and if this post is not clear
kiss my placenta.
Alrighty then.
Ms. Badu is certainly making some good points here. As someone who grew up in a two-parent household that was miserable as hell and am currently in therapy to unlearn some of the bad behavioral traits that resulted, I can see why marriage and the traditional two-parent household isn’t always the answer. My mother stayed primarily to give me that. It definitely afforded me some better opportunities – such as a suburban upbringing, better education and exposure to things like travel and interacting with people from different cultures- things I may not have gotten growing up in Jersey City, NJ. However, she suffered and it’s definitely affected me in various ways. Erykah is trying to avoid that for her kids.
This three baby daddy thing still gets my side eye a twitching. But bottom line, who the hell am I to judge? I am not without sin myself so I don’t need to be casting any stones! Besides, as long as I don’t have to pay for the crumbsnatchers what do I care how many babies she has? I’m more concerned about Keylolo in the hood dropping kids left and right that my tax dollars have to feed. Can we get her ass to stop popping out kids instead of concerning ourselves with what a woman who has more money than most of us will ever see in a lifetime is doing with her vagina?
So no, Ms Badu, you won’t ever have to worry about losing a fan over here. At the end of the day, it’s all about the music.
Let me know what ya’ll think about this in the comments.
by vivrant thang on jesse jackson gets the side eye of the week
SECOND POST FOR TODAY: OLD SCHOOL FRIDAY IS BELOW
When I first got wind of this story last night, before the details developed, I just thought Jesse was talking slick again about Barack. Sipping out of that big cup of haterade that’s being passed around by our so-called “leaders.”
I wasn’t prepared for this.
What kind of fuckery is this? Somebody please tell me that Faux News framed him.
I’m not even going to address his contention that Obama is talking down to Black folk. While I don’t agree, that’s not even the issue.
Why would Reverend Jesse ,a black man who was active in the Civil Rights Movement and ran for President of these here United States of Amerikka, let anything about cutting another black man’s balls off come out of his mouth? Why was that even in his head? We don’t need that kind of rhetoric coming from our own people when there are plenty of white men (and women) who would love to string Obama up on a tree and get ahold of his nuts. Need I remind you? Jesse are you smoking that Pookie?
What is he really mad about? He wasn’t mad about how we looked when his very public and messy dirty laundry came spilling out of the closet in the form of a yet another illegitimate black child.
Doesn’t matter if he thought the mic was off. Soundbite my ass. Did you see that slicing movement he did with his hand? He was serious with it! Besides, this was Faux News. They had it in for his black ass the minute he stepped off the elevator.
It’s obvious that deep down he does not support Barack’s candidacy. Guess someone will be holding his nose and pulling that lever huh? So be it. We’re doing okay without you. We’re busy trying to give an old man a beat down so just put a muzzle on it, mmkay? I don’t want to hear from you. Don’t you have an outside kid to raise?
Jesse, for your foolishness, you are awarded the hardest bitch slap Michelle can muster and the Side Eye of The Week Week Week.
You know though, for all my ranting, this could turn out to be a good thing. Barack could be having his “accidental Sista Souljah Moment.”
While I got that good twitch going on, I want to share some thoughts inspired by a comment left on my Malia Obama post.
The problem is they are kids of today. Kids of today are TOO BRATTY. In addition, I think Michelle’s real problem is not her kids, but herself, turning her kids on her husband,. She likes to castrate him and often, perhaps the way Jesse would like to.
First, I do agree that many kids today are bratty. I was going to disagree when I first read this in the morning. But on my evening commute, I listened as a black father and his teen daughter talked about the phone he was going to buy her. She was rejecting the phone he wanted to get her because she didn’t want the same phone that everyone else had. She then suggested that he buy her an iPhone and he was actually amenable to it. When he saw my not-so-subtle side eye he started pretending to lecture her about how there was only one phone in the entire house when he was a kid. Whateva sucka. I put on my IPOD at that point. I see why the Lord took care of me when I wasn’t taking care of myself (kept me childless thus far.) By the time I finished with that little heffa, she would have been begging me to use Morse Code to communicate with her little friends.
That being said, I blame the father. I would have never thought to ask for an expensive ass smart phone. She is a kid without a j-o-b! What appointments does she have? He should have nipped that in the bud long ago. It’s all in how you raise these kids. My hair stylist told me that she taught her kids long ago not to even expect stuff like that and to be happy with the things they got. And they are. I believe that’s what the Obamas are teaching their kids. Therefore, Malia is not a brat.
This person is not alone in their assertion that essentially Michelle is a giant, angry black woman that walks around with Barack’s balls in her purse. Lots of people feel that way, which is part of the reason there’s the need for a site like Michelle Obama Watch. Obviously since I am a Michelle Obamaholic, my side eye explodes each and every time I come across these kinds of comments.
Amerikkka has not seen anything like this statuesque, dynamic and vibrant woman before and they just can’t handle it. She is not the Stepford Wife staring into space, waving like an empty headed pageant contestant. She is going to dap her man up, telling him with her eyes, “You that man, B! The world is yours! I got your back.”
I, for one, love how she keeps it real about her husband – that he is just a man and not some god that’s going to swoop into the White House and save the world overnight. America is not used to her brand of wit and I fear that she will have to change her rhetoric quite a bit a bit once the general gets under way. I already see it happening as a result of her “political makeover” and that saddens me. It’s already starting. What was with that Daisy Mae dress she had on during the Access Hollywood interview? It wasn’t “her.” Very subdued and matronly, even for a casual day out.
In any event, I know Michelle will do what she has to do to get her man in there, including snatching up the good Rebb’n Doctor. Oh to have been a fly on the wall when she heard that one!
Oh there are so many places I could have gone with this. My first thought was to feature my favorite rapper ever, Biggie. I still miss that dude. What would the game have looked like today had he and Pac lived? Still pisses me off. Just senseless.
Anyway, I decided to dig in my own video archives over at my You Tube channel and feature my favorite female rapper MC Lyte and none other than the Smooth Operator, Big Daddy Kane. I was blessed to catch them on the 2007 Hip Hop Honors Tour. They were both honorees last year.
Big Daddy Kane, Smooth Operator
Big Daddy Kane and Scoob Luver get busy
I knew every word to every MC Lyte song…still do actually. She is one of the illest to ever touch the mic. And I’m mad she doesn’t look much older than she did then!
Check her out performing “Cha Cha Cha.” She’s the dopest female that you heard thus far!
I’m excited to say I’ll be seeing them again next month at this tour.
I got my doorknockers on order as we speak!
To hold me over, I’ll be painting the town pink and green with my Sorors at another True School Party tonight where one of my favorite producers 9th Wonder and DJ Dris (otherwise known as Idris Elba) will be on the wheels of steel. I already told you how True School gets down so if you’re local, this is not to be missed. Wouldn’t steer you wrong.
As always, check out the other OSF participants. If you’ve never done that, today would be the day for all you old school hip hop fans.
Let me preface this by saying I am a Michelle Obamaholic. I’ve said before that I wish she were running. She can do no wrong in my book. If I had a daughter, I would tell her that besides her Momma, this is who she should look up to. So by extension, I love the girls, Malia and Sasha, because Michelle is raising them in her image. I know they will grow up a heap better than those alkie Bush twins.
So it was very happy after watching the first two parts of the Access Hollywood feature taking us behind the scenes of the daily life of the Obama family. Even though they are poised to become the first Black family to occupy the White House, they still try to keep life as normal as possible. The kids were allowed to speak and we could see that Malia is growing up to be an intelligent, insightful and extremely articulate young lady. She is clearly her father’s daughter.
Take a look:
I instantly fell in love with her because she reminds me of my eleven-year-old goddaughter. (Not to mention, I’m partial to little girls. They love me. ) Although we don’t know where she got it from, because it certainly wasn’t from her Momma, she has been expressing herself far above her age level since she was about seven or eight. And I’m thrilled about it! We’ve never made a big deal about it because we didn’t want her to think that how she spoke was anything but normal or that she was acting “grown.”
Gossip blogger Sandra Rose disagrees. Here are excerpts from the four entries that she’s posted about this.
Precocious might be too tame a word to describe Malia Obama. This little girl is TOO grown. I blame the parents. What can one expect when both parents are frequently on the road leaving their small children to practically raise themselves?
I watched the video of 10-year-old Malia Obama speaking to a reporter and I swore I was listening to a 19-year-old speak! One of my loyal readers wrote, “This little girl is the most well articulated 10 year old I’ve seen in a long time,” — proving that Malia is too mature for her age.
About Part One of the video she says,
In the above video, Malia Obama chastises her dad, Sen. Barack Obama, for shaking other kids’ hands. “You don’t shake kids hands that much… you shake adults’ hands,” she scolds. In response to her dad asking what he should do instead, Malia says, “you just wave or say ‘hi’.”
Obama should have gently informed his daughter that it’s not her place to tell him whose hand to shake. But I guess he thought she was being cute. This is what happens when you raise your children over the phone from the campaign trail. It’s never “cute” for a 10-year-old to chastise her father. When they lower the legal drinking age limit to ten, then I’ll listen to what a 10-year-old has to say.
Admittedly, I’ve been reading Sandra for a while and I know that she purposefully says ignorant stuff to get folks riled up. Somebody e-mails their girl the link “Chile check out what mess Sandra had to say today!” = more hits = mo money mo money. I get that. That’s why I didn’t link directly from here although she doesn’t need my lowly traffic. I’m sure she got enough from Michelle Obama Watch (a site you should be reading daily ladies!).
I think every single one of her “loyal” readers and those over at Michelle Obama Watch vehemently disagree. No thinking person who watched the video felt that Malia was “chastising” her father or acting fast and grown beyond her years. Do you think either one of them would stand for that? It would have happened one time and by the time she regained consciousness….
And to say that this shows that these kids are raising themselves is not even worth addressing. Just blantantly false and plain ludicrous.
So just how is Malia being “grown?” Because she speaks intelligently and shows insight far beyond her years? Because she actually reads magazines and doesn’t get all her news from the computer? (I actually hope they keep her away from the computer because I’m VERY afraid of what she’ll find there.)
However, the sad thing is, Sandra is not alone in her way of thinking. In our own communities, we’ve long battled with these kinds of issues – the whole ebonics debate and if there is such a thing as “talking white?” Kids dumbing down in fear of bullying and other kinds of retaliation for excelling in school. It’s a damn shame we’re still discussing this in 2008, a year that will go down in history books.
In any event, we’ve likely heard the last from these adorable girls and it’s probably for the best. They need to remain out of the spotlight and shielded as much as possible from the ignorance. If they keep messing with those kids, we’re going to see an Angry Black Momma come out – and rightfully so!
I for one will miss them – Sasha being a typical seven-year-old, preferring a trip to the ice cream parlor over sitting in front of the camera talking to some strange lady. And old soul Malia, who already wise enough to know that what her parents have is special. I wish Deondra could see more of her. She’s “grown” too. Just the way I like her.
SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE 
