Thursday Throwback: Debbie Allen
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“You got big dreams, you want fame. Well fame costs, and right here is where you start paying… in sweat!”
Many of us eagerly waited to hear that line spoken every week by dance teacher Lydia Grant at the beginning of “Fame”. Grant was of course played by Houston, Texas-born Debbie Allen. A graduate
Train Stop Tuesday: The Gap Band – Shake
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The Gap Band had a stone groove with this song. Although this isn’t the classic “Disco sound,” the notion of shaking booty at the disco can’t be denied once you hear that bassline. Shimmer and shine seems to be the common theme with the band’s apparel. It’s flashy, yet not overdone. Note the studded trim
Sound Check: Dionne – Moving Dreams into Reality
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Some people were born to sing. You feel it in their presence and even their speaking voice possesses a musical flourish to its tone. Dionne was born to sing. This long-time songwriter from Dallas, Texas proudly counts herself as an alumna of “Grammy High,” the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and
Soul-o-Meter: Kem – Intimacy
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The new era of Motown is creating quite the legacy, this time in the form of the jazzy Neo Soul singer Kem, whose recent release of his third album Intimacy follows the high quality of his previous releases. The disc is a far too rare breath of fresh air in a landscape where it seems
Soul-o-Meter: Fantasia – Back to Me
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With all the negative press surrounding Fantasia Barrino nowadays, it’s hard to tell if her third studio album, Back To Me, will garner the attention it deserves. Barrino has obviously matured immensely since her sophomore offering, Fantasia (2006). When asked during interviews about the significance of her latest LP’s title, Fantasia disclosed that musically, she
Kelly Rowland Talks The Best of Soul Train
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On Monday, August 30 singer Kelly Rowland appeared on the Today show to help celebrate the retail release of the Best of Soul Train boxed set.
“For me, when I saw Soul Train, that was when you made it,” she eagerly explained. She spoke about her first appearance on the show as a part of
Kanye Presents Good Friday and the Free Track Evolution
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Looking to add some hott tracks to your music collection? Look no further than @kanyewest. As the latest artist to join Twitter, Kanye is going full speed ahead with his social networking. Not only has he joined Twitter and made his first follower an Internet celebrity, he also visited Facebook and Twitter headquarters and debuted music off his
Usher’s High-Tech Dreams
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Nokia recently launched a new webisode series. Called Inside Track, the show interviews the hottest artists to find out how they uses technology to connect with their fanbase. In the flagship episode, Inside Track caught up with R&B superstar Usher. During the interview, Usher discusses his new website, Usherworld.com as well as his love of social
Rock This: Red Carpet Style
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Things are already going on behind the scenes in preparation for the 2010 Soul Train Awards. We can hardly wait for the announcement of the nominees and performance lineup. Last year marked the return of the Soul Train Awards after a two-year hiatus in 2007. Fans celebrated the return of the show as their favorite
Soul Train: Decades of Hair and Style Influence
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Whether the hair was an impossibly huge Afro, braids, or free form, the vibe was decidedly trendy as opposed to political. Kids at home were not just picking up on the dances, they were copying everything about the dancers and seeing themselves
Views: Soulitude
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Ego is suicide.
Don’t believe your own hype–your ego is as fake as Santa Claus. In R&B singer Beyoncé’s “Ego” remix, Kanye West states that his ego is his imaginary friend. Mr. West is admittedly suggests that his ego is an illusion. The ego is an unauthentic inflated feeling of pride in our superiority to others.
Ego
Views: Soul’y For The Men
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…But the ladies will read it anyway.
Ladies want to know the way men think. They would like to know why we have double standards, why we lie and lead them on, why we’re not upfront, why we’re so afraid to commit, why we don’t completely answer questions, why we have a hard time communicating
Views: Color Complicated
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As my father would say, “I made the mistake of watching music videos the other day.” I was unsurprised, yet disappointed to see that it is still the case that light-complexioned/non-black/“exotic” women seem to be the preferred casting preference. Just because it ain’t new doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. And just because we’ve
Views: Soul Dreams
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On a recent trip from Chicago to Atlanta, I stopped through Gary, Indiana to visit the childhood home of the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson. As we drove up that little one-lane, bumpy road, I couldn’t help but think to myself, what if he stayed? What if Michael Jackson never believed he could be
Views: Somebody Else’s Guy
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What’s a girl suppose to do when she realizes her man is someone else’s guy?
Morally you would hope she would drop him like a bad habit and forget his whole existence, but realistically she and many other women like Jocelyn Brown can’t get off their high horse and let him go.
Even though affairs have been
