Float On...

Today's Way Back Wednesday joint was released in 1996 by Bad Boy.

A 'remix" of the Isley Brother's song "Floatin' on Your Love" featuring Ron Isley and Angela Winbush is The Float on Bad Boy Remix of the same title also featuring Ron Isley and Angela Winbush as well as Lil' Kim and 112.

So did you peep all the other 'stars" in the video?

I know you saw Jermaine Dupri in there looking like a lost hobbit?

Uncle Luke was there looking just as pervy as ever...

Of course the Isley Brothers up on stage supporting Ron aka Mr. Biggs and his finger waved conk...I love how even when this video came out in the 90's he was about 30 years behind the times with that 100% lye perm.

And don't you just love the over acting in the video. I love how older videos actually have a lil' story going on, but dag Kim, why'd you have to come out the cake like you had a "Gun Inna Baggie"?

Oh Snap, I used to love this song...



No wonder my Mom's stayed jacking my music...Just raunchy!

And while I was cleaning recently I came across this joint...

I'm sure I listened to these songs as well as nasty a$$ R. Kelly's, 12 Play (who knew he was talking to me when I was 14), Public Announcement (thanks Maria, who bought me a copy after my Moms took my 1st one), Salt & Pepa and of course some Slick Rick.

My girl told me she saw a dude trying to get one of these to work on the train recently. I knew they were built well but 15 years worth of play time might be a stretch...

Lena Horne Passes at 92

R.I.P. Lena Horne

Lena Horne is in one of my favorite movies, Cabin in the Sky (1943).



Check it out if you have time. Great film.


Lena Horne was born in Bed Stuy Brooklyn on June 30, 1917 and passed yesterday, May 9, 2010. She attended what is now Boy and Girls High School (Formerly Girls High School on Fulton street, Brooklyn but dropped out before graduating.

She started performing in New York's Cotton Club at 16 years of age. As well as being a serious triple threat (singer, dancer and actress) she had strong political views and was black listed in 1947.

Here's a great time line of her life.


Here's a clip from when she was on another of my favorite TV shows, A Different World. She enters at 1:33.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKk8xS4iPJI&feature=related

Here is the rest of the clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcp9JFvEQAk&feature=related



I love her line towards the end...

The best thing about living is being able to keep on doing it!

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What is That...Velvet?

Frankie (hot) stepped out to Monica's album
release party looking like the Velveteen Crackhead...



I don't know what year she got locked up in but I'll assume
it was the 90's cause ole girl is STUCK!

Oh Snap...Who Remembers This One?

I'm Really Glad They Made the Children's Aid Society!

Don't ask me why this came to mind today,
but I've been singing it for about 3 hours now...

Guru Update....

In typical web fashion many blogs reported that Guru (a.k.a. Keith Elam) had passed away but the real deal is he underwent a successful surgery yesterday and is expected to make a full recovery...

You Know His Steez....

And speaking of the world revolving on it's axis (yeah he says that in the song), the recent earthquake in Chile reportedly knocked the earth of it's axis by 3 inches and could result in a 1.26 millisecond shorter day... Source

Way Back Wednesday...Ooochie Coochie La La La....

I now totally understand why my mother stayed confiscating my tapes when I was a kid.



This and R. Kelly's 12 Play got snatched as soon as I got them...

Get Well Guru

Guru of Gangstarr went into cardiac arrest yesterday and is in a coma.

Say a prayer for a brother that brought us many hits in the 90's.



I will never forget seeing Guru on 6th avenue 7 Waverly outside of the Pizzeria Uno in the village when I was at lunch in High School (around '94 or '95). He was nice to me but kind of rude to a dark skin girl friend.
I won't make any speculations on that.


Just get well soon Guru!

Old Couple Rocks Two Young Women...

Have We Really Come to This...

I know I am a little late on this but I was really trying to ignore this comeback...

But since these mugs got together with K-Ci and the rest of the Crack Crew and made a video it's fair game...

H-Town and Jodeci (no that was not a typo) have collaborated and have released a song called "Knocking Your Heels Off".

Remember "Knocking the Boots", well this is the '09 version.

Here, this will jog your memory...Can't front this was my jam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrBnEaQd4ZY

Wait, did he really say "2 boots coming together, making tasteful lust". No wonder my Mom banned this mess.

Anyway, I heard new the song a few weeks back but now that I have seen the video I really need to know if we have really come to this? I don't know anyone who was waiting for damn H-Town reunion tour OK... Some people really need to come to grips with the fact that they just need to stay BEHIND the curtain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92tL-H8VCuU

OK, there are just so many things wrong I can barely contain myself...

• That first shot of DeVante is funny as all hell...why does he look like the smoked his teeth and replaced them with dirty beach pebbles? And the greasy ponytail...really? (So mad I used to love me some him)

• I know I did not hear K-Ci sing "Shazam"?

• What drunken, homeless broads did they pay in crack rocks and Huggies to appear in this video?

• Did that chick with K-Ci wash properly after he got that close to her? If not, i see boils in her future.

• Did he really say "kings of slow jams" at the end? Um yeah maybe in 93 buddy boy!

• And finally why the hell didn't K-Ci do the whole video shirtless and on a dudes shoulders like normal? See that would have been entertaining?

I better not see any of you jamming to these washed up crackheads in the club!

Way Way Way Back Wednesday...Forgotten Men

Every once in a while I will get into a serious old school kick and last week I was in full Black & White Movie Mode and watched TCM (Turner Classic Movie channel) in excess.

One of the movies they played was Gold Diggers of 1933...Try and catch it (or it) if you're in a old movie mood.

I just love how straight to the point they were with the film titles back in the day.

It has some great themes running through it though and all the high drama and over the top fashion of most good classic films.

I wont tell you the full premise but a few scene really struck me. In one, the ladies (or girls as they were called throughout the movie) changed into chastity belts and the leading man was handed a old school can opener, spun her around and began ripping the back open so he could get a feel...Times were a changin'. That was probably seriously risqué for the 30's. And I guess they have fully changed now...

Forget women not wear pants because it was improper or unladylike now they can just wear panties and a tank to the club and still not have a dude offer to buy them a drink. Think about it ladies.

Anyway, this song really struck me..."Remember My Forgotten Man". I mean it can be interpreted different ways but but it came on at a time when I had not heard from a friend in the military in months. I was just about at the stage where you start going on line and looking for the names of the casualties and it reminded me again that we are at 'war'. Though the news never discusses it unless it is a feel good story or some solider fighting to come home to his sick infant...OK No Mini Militant Rants today...enjoy!

It's a Small World After All...

So the other day I was walking home. As I'm strolling along I saw bunch of antique doors.

That's not Eddie, that's one of the two Fred's that work there.

I just so happen to be in the market for a new door so I was very happy. I saw a door that was pretty much perfect for the doorway I needed it for but it was on hold for someone.
Damn, Damn Damn...Florida Evans style.

I talked to owner, a very nice retired fire chief named Eddie. He assured me that he would let me know if the person he was holding it for fell through and that he would look through his huge stash of antique doors for something else that would fit my threshold.

So I come home excited and decide to give him a call letting him know that I am willing to pay more than his asking price and go to bed.

Today I get up and go to breakfast with a friend and on our way back we are near Eddie's door shop so we stop by. He tells me that the man who wanted the door already put some money down on it so I start go through his huge stash.

While doing so, I see a statue that instantly looks familiar to me.

(Small World Instance # 1)

When I was young a friend of my mother, from Nigeria named Moses, would leave some of his art work in our front yard. I assumed as a form of advertisement. It must have worked because people always asked about them.

As a matter of fact on Labor Day this year a guy came and spoke to a friend of mine and mentioned how he "lived around here back when there were statues in the front yard".

From time to time Moses would change his pieces but this was the first one. She's older now and shows the wear and tear of the years but I remember it instantly. After this on he gave us an iron statue of two men playing the drums to display. That was my favorite. We still have a hand chair he made, but someone damaged it and it has a broken a finger or two.

I end up buying an adorable jewelry chest (which plays music) and a chair...each for FIVE DOLLARS!!! Whoo Hoo!!!

Since Eddie's place is pretty close to my house we decided to go pick up my mother and let her take a look around. When we get out of the car she bumps into one of her friends she hasn't seen in years (Small World Instance # 2). They speak and exchange numbers and she proceeds to look around. When she comes out one room to go into another and sees a man and his father. She asks one of them, "Where do I know you from?", and he responds that they worked at the same job many years ago. (Small World Instance # 2 1/2). They speak for a while and we come on home.


Once I get home I started to try to clean the chair. I quickly learned that that's not going to be an option and I'll just have to sand it...luckily I got a great hand sander from the Goodwill for 10 bucks.


As far as the jewelry chest, you can't really tell but it is missing a door. I removed the piece that remained were it broke and put the screws back in because they were closer to the color of the wood than the wholes that were left behind. I cleaned the whole thing and replaced some of the fabric in some of the draws.

I already put some of my jewelry in the chest.




One of the draws wouldn't close all the way so I took the back off in an attempt to figure out why and found a broach, a 60's style plastic ring and some other random items including the name and address of the woman who owned it. I just so happened to be on the phone with my aunt (same green thumb aunt) and it turns out the woman lives IN her building and she knows her (Small World Instance # 3).

Crazy right...I am going to tape the sticker I found to the bottom as a little reminder...


Today Was A Good Day!

Moral of the story...Thrift shopping is the Bees Knees and ALWAYS be nice to people, you never know who they may know.

Way Back Wednesday...Crush on You

For some reason Crush on You by The Jets, makes me think of summer.

Well they do say the summertime makes people frisky &
all that so head out in this HEAT WAVE and find your newest crush...

Way Back Wednesday...Hi-Five!

Hi-Five's - Kissing Game!

What's Your Kissing Game Memory?

Dip it Low Granny!

I am often known to go off on mini rants & recently I had one

about this reality TV craze, especially since I heard that Britney's

ex K-Fat is getting his own reality show.

I'm convinced that is speeding up the process of

dumbing down of Americas at an alarming rate.

Now with this said, please allow me to fry a few more of your brain cells

with this little gem; which I'm sure will make you drop

your jaw just about as low as these grannies dropped their fannies...

Did you notice that there are only about 17 teeth
between all three of these ladies?

I guess leaving the false teeth out entices the men folk...