Things that make me smile

Avengers Assemble!!!

Avengers Endgame Final Battle crowd reactions!!!

Black Widow Extended Trailer

This movie should be awesome!! The Introduction of Taskmaster….

Upcoming Movies – Trailers

Morbius, James Bond, Top Gun 2, Fast &The Furious 9, Wonder Woman 1984 & others

Artemis Fowl Trailer

New Music Videos

Kelly Rowland – Coffee

Jhené Aiko – B.S. (Animated Visual) ft. H.E.R.

Snoh Aalegra: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

My Personal Top 20 Rappers list

My Top 20 favorite rappers in order:

1. Biggie
2. Public Enemy
3. Jay-Z
4. Nas
5. Eric B & Rakim
6. Wu-Tang Clan
7. Ice Cube
8. Joe Budden
9. Mobb Deep
10. L.L. Cool J
11. JadaKiss
12. A Tribe Called Quest
13. M.O.P
14. De La Soul
15. J. Cole
16.Kendrick Lamar
17. Pharoahe Monch tie with Fabolous
18 Slaughterhouse tie withSkyzoo
19. Redman
20. GangStarr tie with Mickey Factz

 

 

Rights of Soul – Pharrell Williams – GIRL

Get this album, NOW!!!!!! Feel good album of the year, and it’s just March. Pharrell knocked it out the park. And this is serious soul music – how they named it “Pop” is beyond me….

My Thoughts on Entertainment….

Speaking about the Oscars with a friend, he went on and on about “12 Years a Slave” and I finally told him, “what about all the other worthy movies headlined by our people?” It was a banner year. “The Butler”, “Fruitvale Station”, “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete”, and “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” just to name a few. If one more list forgets Michael B Jordan’s performance from Fruitvale Station, I’ll literally scream. Same for Oprah Winfrey in The Butler. But here we go again: find that one black movie, heap praise on it (and yes, it’s warranted but still so was the praise for some of the others) and act like that’s it. Personally I’ve seen 12 years, The Butler and Fruitvale Station. It was Fruitvale Station that stayed with me the longest. This is just my opinion but I pray that 12 Years is the absolute last movie I see about slavery. I mean, they’ve set the bar so damn high, I can’t see anyone coming close to it anyway. My favorite “black” movie this year was Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain. Why? It made me happy. I laughed my high yella ass off. For almost 2 hours, I forgot about all the bullshit I deal with on a regular basis and had fun and smiled and life was good and pure. Welcome to entertainment and why movies were created. Yeah, I know we forgot. It’s all about realism and art now. For 2014, suffering takes a wayback seat. Waaaayyyyyy back. I want to escape again. Maybe this is why I fell back in love with Television again. “Scandal”, “Sleepy Hollow”, “The Blacklist”, “The Good Wife” (oh my God, it’s been incredible this year), “House of Lies”, “Shameless”, “Ray Donovan”, Chicago Fire”, “2 Broke Girls”, “The Crazy Ones”, “The Real Husbands of Hollywood”, “Luther”, “N.C.I.S.”, “Arrow”, “Person of Interest”, “Elementary”, “The Big Bang Theory”, and more. Genuine entertainment and sometimes the more over the top (Scandal, Sleepy Hollow) the better. Just some flat out insane, WTF, Are You Fucking Kidding Me monents!!! I love it. And then you get on FB and Twitter and talk with your friends about it.

So yeah, if “12 Years a Slave” wins Best Picture, cool. But I’ll be alot happier if Michael B Jordan is nominated and wins best actor. And then after that? Escape time. “Avengers 2” time. “Star Trek 3” time. Finally that “Luther” movie that Idris has been promising. Or that new “24” show. Entertain me. That’s what I want for 2014. Not to be reminded about our history. Again. To be placed as the victims. Again. I’m tired of that shit. Hell, I wanna be the villain. Lets have some real fun….

Batman: Arkham Origins Official Trailer

The official trailer dropped and here it is. When this games drops in October, I’ll be incommunicato for about two months.

Oh – Deathstroke is playable if you pre-order. Check Amazon…

Reel To Reel: What I’m Looking Forward To…

It’s that time of year when I get all amped because the movies I’ve been waiting for are about to drop. Let’s get into these trailers, shall we?

Iron Man 3

Man of Steel

The Hangover 3 (come on – this is gonna be fucking hilarious)

2 Guns

Star Trek Into Darkness (I’ve been REALLY waiting for this!!!!)

Fast and Furious 6

Okay, there’s some others but these are what I’m jonesin’ for right now…. What you wanna check out?

Ballin: 2012-2013 New York Knicks

My fave team goes for win #2 against the Celtics tonight.

#knickstape, bitches….

Rights of Soul: Alicia Keys & Maxwell – Fire We Make

Alicia Keys and Maxwell – Fire We Make

neo-soul Alicia and the man himself, Maxwell finally drop the vid to my favorite song on Alicia’s latest. Bout damn time…

Rights of Soul: T.I. – Memories Back Then ft. B.o.B, Kendrick Lamar and Kris Stephens

T.I. – Memories Back Then ft. B.o.B., Kendrick Lamar, and Kris Stephens

T.I. first salvo from the upcoming Hustle Gang: G.D.O.D. (Get Dough or Die) compilation, coming soon.