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MANIFESTO: Being An A*shole In America
(Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - BlackVibes.com)
Assuming you haven't been stuck under a sheet of rubble for the past several weeks, you've likely caught wind of the ballyhoo over John Mayer's interview in the March issue of Playboy. He caught a sizable amount of flack for everything from dropping the N-bomb and ruminations on his racist penis to his sexual addiction to Jessica Simpson and speculation on ... Read More

MANIFESTO: The Perils Of Dating "My Own Kind"
(Monday, February 22, 2010 - BlackVibes.com)
There are two very significant barriers that I've encountered when it comes to dating black women - but not for the reasons that might come to mind when hearing this from a black man. To explain the first reason, I'll start with a story: Last Friday, during a night out at the club, I engaged a young lady with whom I'd attended college on dating life in Chicago. Given that she's a black, mid-20-something career woman who also happens to be physically quite attractive, I wanted her perspective given the recent ubiquitous media attention on the challenges that black women have with getting married. Sure enough, she confessed that dating has been pretty dif... Read More

MANIFESTO: Review of The iPad
(Friday, February 05, 2010 - BlackVibes.com)
iPad

Not long ago, I was sifting through a box of old effects from my college days when I came across my trusty old Sony Discman. It triggered a flashback to the late 1990s when I would cart around something of a "man-purse" full of CDs - jewel cases included -for my bus ride to work on the east side of Detroit. Back then I used my Uncle Vincent's disc player, which weighed about as much as a brick and would skip if you breathed on it too hard. I did the portable CD thing for a good seven-plus years after that…while studying, ... Read More

MANIFESTO: (Porn) Dreams Do Come True!
(Thursday, January 21, 2010 - BlackVibes.com)
Remember the scene in Spike Lee's Malcolm X movie when Denzel Washington's El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz meets Elijah Muhammad for the first time? And he walks in the room and starts weeping at Muhammad's "magnificence"? That was me at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas early this month...only minus the tears. And the bowtie. I went to Vegas simply to break out of Hoth - a.k.a. Chicago - and chop it u... Read More

DJ CISCO... My Life As A DJ
(Thursday, December 31, 2009 - BlackVibes.com)
Pioneer Record Player

I got my start as a DJ by telling a lie. Back in the day, the kids in my neighborhood were break dancing, but I couldn't dance so I told everyone I was a DJ. Three guys formed a break dancing crew called Triple Crush and were about to start touring on the Fresh Fest tour. They came to me and said they wanted me to DJ for them. Of course my skills as a DJ were non-existent. After all, I did lie. I panicked, grabbed my mom's Fisher Price record player (back then they weren... Read More

MANIFESTO: The Best of 2009
(Monday, December 28, 2009 - BlackVibes.com)
Best Album: This one goes to Raekwon for Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. II. Rae crafted the most cohesive hip-hop album since Lupe's The Cool; an anachronistic product that works marvelously considering rapping about crack creation and sales is thoroughly mid-1990s. I was among the biggest skeptics that he could follow up with a decent sequel to The Purple Tape some 14 years and two wack albums later. But with a Tour De Force of producers and ... Read More

MANIFESTO: Is Ignorance Bliss In Entertainment?
(Friday, December 11, 2009 - BlackVibes.com)
With R. Kelly and Chris Brown on deck with new albums, lovers of mediocre R&B music have moral decisions to make on their way to the retail checkout.

MANIFESTO: My Love For The DJ Started With Juice
(Monday, November 23, 2009 - BlackVibes.com)

It all started with Juice. Gee-Q enters a dark room in his mama's crib, pulls out some vinyl jackets and goes to work on Naughty By Nature's "Uptown Anthem." The music stops, he pulls the records off the platters and switches off the light bulb. I had to be 10 or 11 when I first saw Er... Read More

DJ CISCO: A Dj's Perspective On The Current Music Scene
(Monday, November 16, 2009 - BlackVibes.com)

I am a DJ in Atlanta. Over the last year, I have migrated to the Mitzvah scene to pick up more business. The Bar Mitzvah is for a boy and the Bat Mitzvah is for a girl. It's basically a Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Think of it as a birthday party. There are anywhere from 50-300 people at the event. I have done these Mitzvahs at various venues such as personal homes, hotels and even at The Fox in Atlanta, and there is one thing I have noticed at every one of them. These kids LOV... Read More

MANIFESTO: What The Hell Happened To The Black Sitcom?
(Friday, November 06, 2009 - BlackVibes.com)

Not long ago, my mother and I reminisced about one particularly cherry episode of 90s sitcom Martin, in which Martin Lawrence's titular character crashed a talk show as ... Read More

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