Bad Girls Club Season 3 (Premiering Tonight!)

The lovely team over at the Wiredset Digital Agency in conjunction with Oxygen held a pre-screening last night for one of my favorite reality TV shows (yes, I'm strangely amused and addicted to reality TV), The Bad Girls Club Season 3. The guest of honor was Tanisha from season 2. Remember the infamous pots and pans episode from last season? Yep, she was there in the flesh, and an absolute riot!





The new season airs tonight on Oxygen at 10pm EST and I promise it's going to be 10 times more dramaful (yep, dramaful) and explosive. There will be more fighting, more arguing, cursing, scratching and damn near all out war as the bad girls try to figure out just what it is that they need to modify about their audacious behavior. I got my money on Kayla and "Boston" as the most belligerent and from what I saw, it looks like they might become a tag team. I absolutely cannot wait to see the rest of the season! One girl broke into the house, because they couldn't find keys, by busting out a window, and that was only the first episode! Check out what Tanisha had to say about the devilettes:



Thanks for the invite Aura. Interview with Tanisha by Wesley of Honey Brown Sugar coming soon.

Manic Music Monday

We (Me, Myself and Starrene, that is...) here at Gangstarrgirl.com, really dig Jon Hope. He's a new kid on the block straight outta Providence, Rhode Island. Sure Providence isn't known for being a hip-hop hub but the man has talent. I'm not gonna go in too much just yet because one, I'm at work and need to get back to it and two, I recently interviewed him, but more details on that will come later (like, in January lol). Ha ha, you have to wait. But in all seriousness, check out this video for "Breathin'" off his mixtape with Statik Selektah, The Audacity.



Jon Hope feat. Taktix 'Breathin' Directed by Josue 'SWAY' Mendez from MISTA MISTA on Vimeo.

And check out this drop he did for my site while chillin' backstage at the Allhiphop.com Breeding Ground Showcase (11/18):



And now, check out his MYSPACE

Manic Music Monday

By SoftJuneBreeze from Write For Freedom


Monday + snow (in Chicago) = FAIL.

Snow was fun when I was a shorty. Then I got older and had to wait for the bus in it – that reduced the fun factor significantly. There was also that time Detroit got hit with a nasty blizzard (Winter ’97- ’98) and I sprained my ankle in snow that went above my knee. That killed any remaining affinity that I had for snow @ that point in time. Looking back I prolly shouldn’t have been running in gym shoes when the snow was that high, but that’s beside the point. Live and learn, right?

This is going to be kind of a lazy entry this week – my brain still thinks it’s the holiday weekend L Still, I had to share this isht, because I know I’m not the only one who is perplexed/amused by this phenomenon…

The Humble Beginning: dancing your ass off in a tiny bedroom to "Single Ladies" by Beyonce...



Next Stop: dancing your ass off in front of a green screen and a live studio audience on The Bonnie Hunt show, 1,000,000+ YouTube views later:



Love him, but it kinda makes you think: I have seen more gay men straight NAIL the choreography to this song, it's getting to the point where it's a little...surreal. It's almost like if you're a woman and you think you want to practice real hard so you can do your own YouTube video of you dancing to "Single Ladies" - DON'T. There's a gay man out there who can do it 10x better than you and he'll probably get a job somewhere because of it.

I'm not hating, I'm just sayin'...shoot, he can teach me how to move it. I’m not even mad. Not one bit.

That’s all for now. I can’t brain today, I have the dumb L Gotta get my mind right…take it easy people.

*struts out like Shane Mercado*

Manic Music Monday

This is the worst kind of Monday. I've been home from work since last Wednesday and in my post food coma haze, I'm supermegaextra lazy. Another thing that sucks is that my night owl habits have returned so I probably won't be going to bed until about um...4am, only to have to wake up at 7:30am for a hectic week at work. (I guess the dead must reawaken) GRRRRRRR! It's stressing me out just thinking about it. Sigh...

But anyway, I did hear some cool news about Alicia Keys.



A film maker associate of mine told me that she's been tapped to play Lena Horne in a biopic.



According to said colleague, nothing is 100% finalized yet despite reports that have been surfacing on the web, but things are looking good and it most likely will come to fruition. I hope all goes well because that would be a very, very good look.



I managed to find an article from what appears to be a legitimate news
SOURCE (you know how wonky info is on the web, lol) posted back in January. But in the meantime, I'm excited! Happy Monday, and check out some Lena Horne clips from two of my favorite old movies ever.

Stormy Weather, 1943 (as Selina Rogers)


Cabin in the Sky, 1943 (as Georgia Brown)


"Risque" scene cut from Cabin in the Sky


Studio bosses cut the scene (as you heard in the audio) because having a Black girl singing in a bubble bath was too scandalous.

As far as Alicia playing Lena, I wonder about the singing. Alicia has more of a raspy alto voice and she cracks often when it comes to hitting high notes (that's the music nerd in me coming out, I grew up taking voice lessons lol), whereas Lena's voice is more of a mellifluous soprano. But at the end of the day, Beyonce surprised everyone by pulling off singing Etta James (which def isn't easy), so I guess we should have that much more faith in Miss Keys. I think it'll work. I'd love to see the two of them (Alicia Keys and Lena Horne) performing together. That would be hot if at some awards show, Alicia played the piano and added vocals here and there while Lena Horne sings "Stormy Weather." Hmmm...

Blaxploitation Friday #30

I'm kind of on my lazy game today. I'm still sort of in food coma but it dawned on me that when I did my blaxploitation horror series, I left out one flick that I specifically meant to include. It's actually one of my favorites (*hides face in shame at B-Movie addiction*).


1995



I don't care what anybody says, as cheesy as it was, you know you laughed when the "little niglets" attacked that ol' racist mofo. LOL



If this movie isn't a certified hood classic, I don't know what is!

Facts:

This was executive produced by Spike Lee.

Rusty Cundieff co-wrote and directed this flick. He also helped write House Party 2 and appeared in School Daze as well as Chapelle's Show, among other things.

Darin Scott co-wrote with Cundieff. He's also a producer for 1993's Menace II Society and helped write Waist Deep.


*pulls our giant hood certified stamp* BONG! (word to RZA)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Birthday Jean Grae/New Music

This just in from the Blacksmith Music camp:

Today is Jean Grae's birthday, but she has given us this new joint as a gift instead.

Check out "Mean Jean - Birthday Edition," produced by Fatin.

Download HERE


She's teasing us lol. But it's good to know that she's slowly creeping back out of retirement. The game needs her!

Jean is also performing this Sunday, November 30th at the Highline Ballroom with Mr. Len and Derrin Maxwell.


Thanks for the info Tunji!