This is why I love Kanye

No matter what happens, Kanye stays true to himself and I will always be his fan!

Dissapointment?

Now, I'm sure this is not the first time you have heard about Kanye West outburst at the VMA, however as a Chicago native, I am a little embarrassed. I am one of Kanye's biggest fan (or was) and this incident has turned me sooooo off from him! I can't believe someone would even have the audacity to take away a 19 year old artist glory and humiliate her the way he did! I have lost all respect for him as an artist!
Everyone is entitled to there own opinion and while Kanye might feel that Beyonce has the best video of all time, I think she needs to step her game up and I think Kanye needs to sit the F@!% down or go lock his self up in a room or something. I respect Beyonce for allowing Taylor to have her moment but I know she will never be able to really feel as though she deserves the award, which she does!

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Also, it is really disappointing that this incident is causing a race war. Its not a black versus white situation, it was rude, ignorant and inconsiderate of Kanye and I think anyone of any color feels the same way!

The Artist is signing out...

Yea, she bad...

Amber Rose is definitely getting a lot of spotlight nowadays! She just got signed to Ford Modeling Agency, representing for the "thick" girls for sure. Now Ms. Rose has been around for a while but every  since her and Kanye has became exclusive, she has became an overnight celebrity. But what I find rather unique about Ms. Rose is that she has no problem with letting you know who she is and what she is about, which is one of the lessons I have learned in life. If no one in the room agrees with you, keep your head high and you could gurantee by the end of the day, people would admire you. 

In many interviews Ms. Rose admits to being bi-sexual, a freak in the sheets, and clearly she has a unique style. While other celebrities try to put on this "goodie to shoe" act for their audience (Lindsey Lohan, Brittney Spears, Paris Hilton), Amber tells it like it is and you either choose to accept it or not. 

I think this is important for many reasons but let me give you the example I always give to my little brother; you walk into a room with a neon yellow shirt, tie dye pants,  silver shoes, and purple shades, of course everyone in the room is staring at you like your crazy. However, you have confidence in yourself and is comfortable with your selection of clothing, everyone will notice your unique style and appreciate you for it. Now, if you would have walked in the room with your head hanging, making very little eye contact and revealing your insecurities, then you can almost guarantee that people will make fun of you! 

Ms. Rose walks into the room and demands attention without saying a word...Yea, now thats a bad bad chick! 

"No Homo"

Does This Purple Mink Make Me Look Gay?The rise of no homo and the changing face of hip-hop homophobia.

By Jonah Weinerwww.slate.com

In August, 2005, three weeks before his nationally televised declaration that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," Kanye West made a statement he'd later describe as braver and more difficult than his attack on the White House. Hip-hop, he told MTV, was supposed to be about "speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people … I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it.' " Taking on Bush was a perfectly hip-hop move, but taking on homophobia, West feared, could be career suicide. Undeterred, he revisited the subject in a November 2005 interview, discussing his love for his openly gay cousin, not to mention his conflicted but evolving attitude toward his interior decorator. West's call for tolerance remains the highest-profile rebuke of gay-bashing that hip-hop has seen.No homo tweaks this dynamic because it allows, implicitly, that rap is a place where gayness can in fact be expressed by the guy on the mic, not just scorned in others. In the very act of trying to "purify" an utterance of any gayness, after all, the no homo tag must contaminate it first—it's both a denial and a flashing neon arrow. This isn't to suggest that saying no homo is a radical act, but there's an appealing sense in which the phrase refuses to function as tidily as some of its boosters might like. This is especially striking in those cases when rappers add no homo to statements of sexual pleasure we'd otherwise have no reason to think of as gay. "No homo, I go hard," Chamillionaire rapped on a recent mix tape, implying that an erection is inherently homosexual. Even more absurdly, when Cam'ron named a song "Silky (No Homo)," it was hard to decide what he was disavowing. The emotions of sadness and longing expressed in the lyrics? Or the tactile sensation of silkiness itself?

But old habits die hard, and last week, West amended his position somewhat on "Run This Town," a new Jay-Z single on which the Chicago rapper is a featured guest. "It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow," West begins his rap, "to everybody on your dick—no homo." No homo, to those unfamiliar with the term, is a phrase added to statements in order to rid them of possible homosexual double-entendre. ("You've got beautiful balls," you tell your friend at the bocce game—"no homo.") No homo began life as East Harlem slang in the early '90s, and in the early aughts it entered the hip-hop lexicon via the Harlem rapper Cam'ron and his Diplomats crew. Lil Wayne brought the term into the mainstream, sprinkling "no homo" caveats across cameos, mix tapes, and his Tha Carter IIILP, which was 2008's best-selling album. (Jay-Z has used the word pause in a similar way.)

The term's appearance in hip-hop coincided with the rise of the so-called "down-low brother," a closeted black figure often demonized as a disease-spreading boogeyman, invisible by definition and thus potentially, frightfully, everywhere. Saying "no homo" might have started as a way for rappers to acknowledge and distance themselves from the down-low phenomenon. As the phrase has spread, many have decried no homo as depressingly retrograde, a pigheaded "That's what she said" for homophobes. But the term functions in a more complicated way than a simple slur. As society becomes increasingly gay-tolerant, hip-hop is reassessing its relationship to homosexuality and, albeit in a hedged and roundabout way, it's possible that no homo is helping to make hip-hop a gayer place.

Often, no homo appears not just as a disclaimer but as a punch line, a See what I did there?that flaunts one's cleverness. "Just shot a video with R. Kelly, but no homo though," Lil Wayne rapped in 2007. In this line—a sly nod to both a music video co-starring Wayne and Kelly and to the R&B singer's alleged sex tape—no homo isn't an afterthought; it's the keystone that holds the whole joke together. A funny side effect here is that the no homo vogue doubtless encourages rappers not only to scrutinize everything they say for trace gayness, but to actively think up gay double-entendres just so that they can cap them off with no homo kickers.

Beyond this, there's a sense in which no homo, rather than limiting self-expression in hip-hop, actually helps to expand it. We see this play out in the rhymes and personas of the term's most famous practitioners. Cam'ron and the Diplomats are, ironically, among the most homoerotic MCs in rap. They wear pink and purple furs and brag regularly about how good they look. In the video for "Pop Champagne," Jim Jones and Juelz Santana giddily douse each other with frothy white geysers of bubbly. On Cam'ron's "Hey Ma," he describes having sex with a female paramour with seven vague words—"She was up in the Range, man"—but when the girl leaves, he immediately calls Santana to narrate the act in detail and, in a sense, to enjoy and consummate it fully. Similarly, Lil Wayne has been photographed kissing his mentor, the rapper Baby, on the lips and cultivates a shirtless, slithering, rock-star-worthy air of libertine sexuality. Kanye West attends runway shows, keeps an entourage of designer-clad dandies, and blogs regularly about design. When these rappers say "no homo," it can seem a bit like a gentleman's agreement, nodding to the status quo while smuggling in a fuller, less hamstrung notion of masculinity. This is still a concession to homophobia, but one that enables a less rigid definition of the hip-hop self than we've seen before. It's far from a coup, but, in a way, it's progress.