Sure Thing!

Have you heard of Miguel? If not I am gunna need to get on that FAST!!!!!  I mean he has been on the scene for a minute and his music is actually pretty dang hot 😉  Anyway, I have been obsessed with “Sure Thing” for a few days (for those of you who didn’t know I over listen to a song for about a week, get sick of it and move on to the next one! hehehe – I think this was brought to my attention when I fell head over heels in love with “Stuntin Like My Daddy” by Lil Wayne and my best friend Laura freaked out at me in the The Hill Top Office).  So, since my fixation was going on a few days I figured it was time to take the next step and view the music video:

Now this video is EXACTLY why I wait until I am a few days into my obsession before I view the video.  What the hell man????  Why would you mess up such a fabulous song with this “artistic expression”?   If I didn’t already enjoy this song, this video would turn me off … seriously.  DOES ANYONE REMEMBER Drake‘s “Best I Ever Had” video … OMG ruined the song completely for me:

I guess it is similar to books that become movies.  We have seen it happen time and time again to Comic stories (okay so honestly I wouldn’t know if a Comic story was messed up because I don’t read them, so I am just following popular opinion here lol).  One book-movie adaptation I am looking forward to is Emily Giffin’s Something Borrowed.  It releases May 6th, and from just watching the trailers I am already worried that they are going to mess it up.  The story is being played out all wrong.  Either way it is going to be a fun, fabulous and interesting movie, especially if you haven’t already fallen in love with the book.  Check out the trailer:

FYI … I am Team Rachel, and there will be more to come on this!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful Black Woman – Response #2

“Beautiful Black woman, I bet that b*tch looks better red”

– Lil Wayne, Right Above It

 

Retouched by BTDSGNS

So this quote is taken Lil Wayne’s extremely popular song Right Above It.  When I first heard it I wrote it off as a lyric or even considered that he meant the color red (considering he is allegedly a member of gang).  However, while doing some research for a response to Miss Major Substance’s Method Man Vs Natural Hair piece, I realized that other people were angry about Lil Wayne’s lyric.  In addition to blog posts and outraged comments, I found a post on Bossip from a young lady that confirmed suspicions on the lyric.  Allegedly he told her the difference between her and is brown skinned daughter is “that she a dark skinned billionaire and you are not.”  While I do respect the fact that people, even celebrities, have the right to freedom of speech, Lil Wayne’s increasing comments on his preference between “black”  and “red” women, with the above quote being the most ridiculous, needs to stop.  He has a huge social impacts, his fans are engaged and ready to respond, making his comments even more poisonous.  A great example of his social media prowess was 2/16/2011 when within 37 minutes 194,000 plus Liked his Facebook status (per his request of course).

 

Lil Wayne's Facebook Comment

I wish I could say that this fascination with a lighter complexion only plagued the black society of America, but that would be a lie :(, it is certainly present in the Caribbean.  The perfect  example of this is Vybz Kartel, an extremely popular Jamaican dancehall artist, who has completely bleached (yes BLEACHED) his entire body, and has become noticeably lighter.    When questioned about this, his response was that it allowed for his tattoos to be more visible and compares it to tanning.

 

Vybz Kartel: before and after

What do you think about these issues?  Is Vybz right, is bleaching comparable to tanning?  Should Lil Wayne proclaim his desire for Red Bones and disrespect black women?  What about Method Man’s rantings about natural hair?