Jay Z is becoming a Diva ....

"Chris Brown was reportedly cut from the BET Awards the morning of the show, despite having rehearsed for three days to perform at the event.

Brown was reportedly ditched at the request of Jay-Z, who apparently said he would not perform if Brown was on the bill at the event, which took place in Los Angeles on Sunday (June 28), reports The Source."

"The New York Daily News reported that Brown was scheduled to perform at the show but was pulled late in the planning stages after the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jay-Z lobbied to get singer off the show."

This is not new news, but
I say Jay Z is on some
'PUNK SHIT'

I am a Jay Z fan, but this is wack of him. Chris Brown made a mistake and he has been judged for it. He got 5 years of probation (which is excessive to me) and has community service. You would think he got caught with a loaded gun!
Chris Brown is young and Jay Z is acting like a old dude that forgot what he has done in his past. Not saying he hit any one, but I would not doubt it, if i heard he had. All his drug escapades and hustling....

Jay Z is turning into a diva, just like his wife claims to be....

And B.E.T. where are your balls.... I guess Jay Z is more important than Chris Brown!!

As much as I love Jay Z (Beyonce is alright), I hope Chris Brown blows so big after this passes.




Hey JAY Z you a grown man.... you got yours ... let the young boy eat!

Al Sharpton.... no need to even say anything about his attention seeking ass!

Oh Jay Z... I guess Al Sharpton does speak for you... even though you say he don't
(listen to 'Say Hello' American Gansta)

(picture) ...it was all good just a week ago...

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Jazzy Summer Nights - Hopkins Plaza Baltimore

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Boy did I get a surprise last evening. After running around a bit after work and a potential client canceled an appointment, I was free to move about. The wife was busy with her mom and I was free.

Decided to hit Jazzy Summer Nights; the free monthly event that brings in great music acts and always draws a large crowd. People of all types; from hood dwellers to professionals to families. About a third of the people are there for the music, another third are there for the outside festival atmosphere and the final third are there to network, promote or meet people.

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The suprise was "Fertile Ground" was performing! What a great suprise. This group is in a class of their own. They are a group that originated in the Baltimore area and, though they have released four albums and toured the world, many people are still unaware of their emmense talent. Fertile Ground is hard to categorize. Their music is a blend of Jazz, Spirituality, Folk, Hip Hop and Soul. Their music is thought provoking, etheral, lively and funky.

BAND MEMBERS: Navasha Daya (Vocals, Percussion); James Collins (Keyboards, Synth Bass, Production); Freddie Dunn (Trumpet, Fluglehorn); Craig Alston (Saxophones); Ekendra Das (Percussion); Joel Mills (Guitar); and Mark Prince (Drums).

About fifteen minutes into their set, the rain began to fall. This cleared out about half the crowd, but Fertile Ground kept the energy high and the music fans were rewarded becuase the rain quickly passed and the show only got better!

The pics are taken with my phone at a distance, so they are not that great. I did go get the camera from the car and I will post a link to the better quality.

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At the barbershop

For men, black men especially, the barbershop is a great place. A place of comfort. A place that men can be a men ... No politically correct conversation. Just raw uncut humor, political commentary, education and, again men. There is very little room for metro, homo or any other sexuality besides hetero! Thats not to say that the barbershop does not welcome them, but you rarely see it. Maybe be the "maness" of the place just over shadows everything else... My thought.

The barbershop is a place where young boys bond with fathers and learn how to communicate with other men. Woman are welcome in the barbershop too. The conversation "cleans up" a bit, out of respect, but the overall vibe never changes.

The barbershop is a place that you can buy music, find out about the hot party, come up on things from "hustle man", and leave "fresh"!

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Michael Jackson - Died !!!!

I just posted that he was in a coma. It is now reported that he has died!



I just posted that he was in a coma. It is now reported that he has died!. We've just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest.
TMZ.

A bit of Bio

Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958) is an American musician and entertainer whose successful music career and controversial personal life have been at the forefront of pop culture for the last quarter-century. It is a shame that this incredibly talented, but vulnerable artist should have left himself open to all manner of attacks in such open and innocent fashion. However, his music is a lasting legacy.



Jackson began his musical career at the age of seven as the lead singer of The Jackson 5 and released his first solo recording, Got to Be There in 1971, while remaining a member of the group. He began a full-fledged solo career in 1979 and formally parted with his siblings in 1984. In his solo career, Jackson recorded and co-produced the best-selling album of all time, Thriller, which was named as the world's best-selling album at the 2006 World Music Awards. It has worldwide sales exceeding that of 104 million. Michael Jackson has received thirteen Grammy awards and charted thirteen number-one singles in the United States.
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Michael Jackson - In a Coma

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HOW YOUNG IS TOO YOUNG

The accepted wisdom tells us that the age at which a person can legally consent to sex in the US is eighteen. Before this line of demarcation, a person is "jailbait".
I totally agree with the 18 year old rule... there are many sixteen and seventeen year-olds that know more than some adults, but their mental developement and decision making is immature, in many cases.... 18 is a nice safe number!

On their eighteenth birthday, they become "legal." But in the majority of states, this isn't the case. It's up to each state to determine its own age of consent. Only fifteen states have put theirs at eighteen, with the rest going lower. Eight have set the magic point at the seventeenth birthday. The most popular age is sixteen, with 27 states and Washington DC setting the ability to sexually consent there. (Hawaii's age of consent had been fourteen until mid-2001, when it was bumped to sixteen.)

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Of course, as with anything regarding the law, there are considerable shades of gray. For one thing, these laws don't apply if the lovers are married. The age of consent for marriage, especially with parental permission, is usually lower than the age of sexual consent. The Constitution of the State of South Carolina says that females aged fourteen and up can consent to sex, but state law appears to set the age at sixteen. In a lot of states, the age of the older partner is a consideration. For example, Tennessee doesn't consider sex with someone aged thirteen to seventeen to be statutory rape if the elder partner in less than four years older. So a nineteen-year-old could get it on with a sixteen-year-old without breaking the law. The most extreme example of this rule is in Delaware. If you're 30 or older,
boffing a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old is a felony. But if you're 29 or younger, it's perfectly legal. And let's not even get into Georgia's Public Law 16-6-18, which outlaws sex between anyone who isn't married, no matter what their ages or genders. Then, of course, we have the laws regarding same-sex relations, which are completely illegal in fifteen or so states. In almost all of the others states, the age of consent for gay sex is the same as that for het-sex. Two exceptions are Nevada and New Hampshire, which both allow sixteen year-olds to consent to a member of the opposite sex, but set the limit at eighteen for those who go the other way. Somewhat startlingly, even though New Mexico's age of consent for straights is seventeen, it's thirteen for gays and lesbians. The situation around the world varies even more than within the US. The age of consent in the UK is sixteen, except in Northern Ireland, where it's a year older. Various territories in Australia set the age at sixteen or seventeen, and in Canada it's universally fourteen. The lowest age — in a few countries, such as Chile and Mexico — is twelve. Only one country is known to have set the age above eighteen — Tunisia, which feels that twenty is the acceptable age.


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Governments Explained

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

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PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

(Original source unknown . . . this version expanded and Illuminated by SJ.)

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