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Asha the Intern: Talking with Monica & Nikki Minaj

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Asha is afforded the opportunity to interact with some amazing entertainers as she makes her way through Tinsel Town. There are so many questions bubbling inside that she’d like to ask the celebs, but Asha prefers to let conversations progress naturally.

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Views: You Know I Had Soul

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Music has changed, people’s tastes have changed, I know. Hip-Hop has become increasingly mainstream. It’s no longer accepted by middle America; it reflects middle America. A lot of what passes for R&B and Rap is as authentic to it’s origins as Taco Bell’s menu is to authentic Mexican cuisine

Views: Let’s Talk About Sex… But Not Like That

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Our music has been highly sexual for eons, that’s not hardly news. And a lot of young folk, such as myself, grew up hearing music we really ain’t have no business listening to, but managed to keep our feet on the floor until a reasonable age

Views: Where Have All the Female Rappers Gone?

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Five star chicks, bad chicks, hood chicks, doing-stuff-that-your-chick-wish-she-could chicks. The airwaves are full of talk about women but there’s a glaring omission that Hip Hop devotees have noticed and are seriously wondering about

Views: Soul-cial Studies

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In a contemporary world of respect, love and equal rights for all, it seems double standards are the standard. Men and women are getting away with more and less and pointing the finger at both. It’s a dangerous lifestyle to be divided in interests or loyalties, wavering, uncertain, two-faced or half-hearted

Views: A Real Girl In a Barbie World

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I understand that some things are all in good fun, but why is it we have this fixation with this princess of plastic perfection? Is it because she was one of our first friends or because she helped us visualize how glamorous our lives could be as grown-ups

Viewpoints: No Soul

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From online screen names, to mall-rats and beyond, you will see traces of the Barbie phenomenon. It has suddenly become “cute” to be lifeless, look blankly ahead and tilt your dome. No disrespect to Nicki Minaj, because what she does is entertainment. She receives large paychecks for her Barbie-like persona. But, what’s your excuse

Viewpoints: Why is Nicki Minaj co-host of BET’s Rip the Runway?

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I get that Rip the Runway is a mash-up, an alliance celebrating the affair between music and fashion. I also get that the hosts usually should be to a degree popular and fashionable. But the pairing Nicki Minaj and Pooch Hall gives me pause.