(Akiit.com) “All his peoples moved on in life, he’s on the corners at night with young dudes it’s them he wanna be like It’s sad but it’s fun to him, right? He never grew up 31 and can’t give his youth, he’s in his second childhood†-NaS on “2nd Childhood” ...
(Akiit.com) Yes, this may sound arrogant and elitist but Mo’Kelly is ok with both of those criticisms. Some crimes simply “offend†Mo’Kelly. Wait…let’s clarify that. Crime in general is “offensive†but some crime is more offensive than others. For example, take Artis Ivey Leon Jr. and his uber-offensive behavior as ...
(Akiit.com) How many of you know who the best selling Black male singer in the world for 2008 was? I bet you’ll never get this right, without a few clues. Well, he’s 50 years old, considered washed up and too controversial to sell, plus the majority of his songs are ...
(Akiit.com) When we left our story, 19 year-old singer Chris Brown, during a lover’s quarrel, had allegedly assaulted his 21 year-old girlfriend, singer Rihanna. After the media got hold of the news, both performers slinked into seclusion while whatever happened between them that fateful night before the Grammys morphed into ...
(Akiit.com) I went to see the Tyler Perry movie “Madea Goes to Jail,” in which Perry plays a wise-cracking black grandmother, Madea, short for “Mother Dear” and ebonically pronounced “muh deah.” With an extensive criminal past that includes “supersize stripper,” attempted murderer and check fraud artist, Madea is a near-cult ...
(Akiit.com) After a weeklong silence, Chris Brown has finally spoken about the pre-Grammy incident in which he allegedly beat his girlfriend, Rihanna, with his fists until she was bruised and bloodied. But in the self-centered apology he issued on Sunday, Chris seems more interested in repairing his image than with ...
(Akiit.com) Trying to interview the loquacious Bill Cosby over the phone is sort of like trying to capture the full-blast output of a gushing fire hydrant in a plastic sandwich bag. On one end, the iconic entertainer unleashes a torrent of free-flowing, digressive soliloquies. On the other end, you futilely ...
(Akiit.com) It seems that everywhere I go, someone is talking about Notorious, the new movie about the life of the Notorious B.I.G, aka Biggie Smalls. I hear the excitement, but I can’t feel it. I guess for some, they loved the music and the man, so therefore, they want to ...
(Akiit.com) On the heels of issuing a critical report about Hollywood’s minority hiring, the president of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People threatened the entertainment industry Thursday with unspecified political actions if it did not increase diversity. “At a time when the country is excited about the ...
(Akiit.com) 2008 was a year of firsts. Among the many “firsts†was the election of a Black President. President-elect Barack Obama has blazed a path that has never been walked by a person of color. As Africans in America, those of us who understand the struggle know that it is ...
(Akiit.com) Some prominent creative forces behind shows that featured black families see a tougher road ahead. Long before he set out for the White House, Barack Obama sought to adjust the colors on America’s TV sets. Four years ago, fresh off his star-making keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, ...
(Akiit.com) In 1965, my “big” brother Gerald returned to Oklahoma City from his freshman year at Southern University in Baton Rouge. One of the first things he pulled out of his suitcase was a collection of blurry Kodak images he’d snapped during a campus concert of the Four Tops. I’d ...