The Vixen Diaries

-photo officially jacked from amazon.com



Ok, so here's the deal. I've been reading this book pictured up top since it was released this Tuesday and I was not going to make a post about it because I didn't feel it was as good as the last one. That is, until I completed the last page yesterday afternoon!!

This new book by Karrine Steffans is basically about her life after she released "Confessions Of A Video Vixen". A woman who is madly in love with Bill Mahr, appeared on Oprah, and seems to be BAALLLIINNN. In this book she does not at all name drop like she did in her first book. In her last book, I'd say about 3% of the men had anonymous names and she aired out the other 97% without a problem. This book is the opposite which made it less Juicy. Not only didn't she name names like last time (which is why the book blew up) but her blind item descriptions are so general that you can't guess who the hell she is talking about.

Moving right along. So I continued reading the piece in my blah-blah-blah-I-was-expecting-so-much-more mood until I got to the last sentence of the book!!! For those of you who read the last book, you know about the character she referred to as "Papa". She described him as a married rapper w/kids who'd been on the scene for a minute and was always in her corner no matter what. Everyone, including myself thought that it was fa sho LL Cool J. Ladies and Gents, this is not the case! During her inteviews after the last book, she said that she would reveal his identity in her next book. She left us hanging until the last sentence of this book! It made up for my lack of interest with the rest of the book. I don't want to spoil it for peeps who have not read it so if you want to know who it is just hit me on the gmail.

O.J. Simpson please sit down

-photo officially jacked from the AP.



O.J., can you please sit your arthritic legs down?!! You beat a murder trial! Guilty or not guilty, I don't think that many defendants are that successful when facing murder. Stop writing books about killing folks, breaking into Las Vegas hotels. Now you're about to get into more trouble than the guy that orginally took your ish. Suck it up as a lost, homie. ugh

The Goldman family, Denise Brown, Christopher Darden, and Marcia Clark were all on Oprah last week. I would pay money to see O.J. Simpson on that Oprah set. I think he would make O cuss.

Throwback! "Who Can I Run To" by Xscape

Xscape needs to reunite not now, but right now!!! This was the best girl group ever. Better than SWV, Destiny's Child, Pussycatdolls, and all other groups where only one member sings and the others sing background and dance. EVERY member of Xscape could SANG! They each had the potential to go solo!

Just for kicks, another video shall be added! muahahaha

As with alot of bomb throwbacks, the embedding has been disabled so I can only provide you all with the link http://youtube.com/watch?v=rxvyFGOfnEg

This video is "Tonight", where each member just ripps it. Not one of their most popular songs, but most def one of the best. It's from their first CD, "Humming Coming At Cha". These chicks were hella young just sanging like it was oh so easy. Should be a sin. Back in 96, I saw them at my first concert at The R. Kelly Down Low/Top Secret Tour featuring Xscape and LL Cool J! One of the bombest shows ever! Xscape was not a gimmick. They did no lip synching, no relying on dancing to make up for their lack of singing, just simple vo-Kals, and I wish they were applauded more. It's unfortunate how some great groups like this one gets slept on. Real music fans know the deal though.

Remember this one? Probably their most popular. Enjoy this ish! :)

20 Questions (+,-)

And we miss ya back! Here we go!

*With all the hoopla surrounding the 9/11 release date of Fiddy and The Louis Vuitton Don's CDs, wouldn't be funny if Kenny Chesney came in #1? Ya'll know country fans support to the death!

*Is Chris Brown not on his ish or what? Grind-IN!

*Isn't it amazing that allll of Akon's songs about sex and big bootys manage to blow up while his feature on India Arie's "I Am Not My Hair" made hardly any noise? "trraaaggeedyyyy"

*Why is it that every black male newscaster dons the 1986 flat top haircut?

*Remember when Sprite Commercials were off the chain? They had the one w/ Kobe rapping vs. Tim Duncan, the one w/ the three b-ball actors talking 'bout "excuse me, what's my motivation??" lol Here's one that I found.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HWdDD65iIKg (embedding was disabled! boooo!)

When Jay-z retired, didn't he say he would still tour? L.A. is tryna holla @ cha Jiggaman!

What exactly is the souljaboy dance? Just seems like everyone does it a bit different.

And speaking of the dance, do you shake your head when that fool says "supa soak that hooooooeeee"? I'm like the song was PG before that, lol.

Why do peeps ignore private calls? What if it's your child's school with an emergency? Or someone's phone died and they had to use someone else's?

Don't you think The Game should release a video for "Old English" off his latest CD? It's not too late.

Dang, hasn't there been a drought on good movie releases?

Gnarles Barkley, can we get up on CD #2?

Is Rihanna becoming the black Avril?

Throwback! "Like This N Like That" by Monica feat. Malik

So the last time I posted a throwback jam, it was Brandy's "Brokenhearted" featuring Wanye of Boyz II Men. So this time around it's going to be her peer, Monica. Up until about 5 years ago, these girls had been competing neck and neck since like '95.

"Like The N Like That" is from Monica's first album, very appropriately titled, Miss Thang. It's kind of hard to believe that Monica was only 15 or 16 in this video! Girl was tooooo grown! If someone told me that she made this video this year, I could believe it. It's almost as if she caught up to her age. I think the haircut made her look older but you can tell by the subject matter on her first CD that she was mature. Even if you really peep the lyrics to "Like This N Like That" she was spitting some real ish! Adult ish! lol And we can't forget about "Don't Take It Personal", "Why I Love You So Much", and "Before You Walk Out My Life". Thinking about these songs gives me goosebumps! For all the females, do you all remember that Monica ALWAYS had fooooine leading dudes in all her videos?! Especially the one in "Before You Walk Out My Life". um um um These songs are just great, timeless pieces and did I mention the girl was only like 15?! I feel like Mase, "she was not 15!" (for those of you who have Mase's first CD you know what I am referring to lol) I miss the days when record labels had the funds to allow artists to release more than one or two videos from their CDs. Nowadays you gotta get gangsta like Kanye and make ya own videos. Holla back if you know what happened to Flava Flav opps I mean Malik (the guy rapping). They came out with this song and we never seen him since. Hope you all enjoy!!!