Today I visited a suburban school in Northern, Virginia to talk about my career as an author / filmmaker. I showed the students the six books that I’ve written and I even showed them the movie poster to my first film, Can She Be Saved? As an extra bonus (in case they didn’t like my [...]

In the spirit of the end of the year, I’ve decided to do a series 0f 2009 9 lists. The first being this one: The 9 Most Pathetic News Stories of 2009. I read a lot of blogs, new sites, newspapers, magazines and the like. So, I feel that I have a good grasp of [...]

As some of you know, former Jay-Z protege, Beanie Sigel, is dissing Jay-Z with a song entitled, “How I Can Kill Jigga Man.” I swear there was absolutely NO CREATIVITY involved in this track. It was like Beans said, “What can I write to shock everyone?” Two minutes passed. Then he said, “Oh, I know, [...]

In case you missed it, here’s Jay-Z and Alicia performing at the AMA’s last night. The opening was a different twist.

I personally find it trite when people come up and then diss the people who helped them. I think some things are better left unsaid. Being the music lover that I am, my ears perked up when I first heard about Beanie Sigel dissing Jay-Z. But then again, my interest died down on the story [...]