Check out this interview transcript with author and former industry insider Rebecca Scott. Her website and YouTube channel provide valuable information about the topics discussed on this blog.
The video It's A Damn Shame - Part 1 has made its way around the Internet as well as in many circles like MegaFest. It sheds light on the compromising positions many in hip hop are put in because of people like Russell and Joseph Simmons. Be sure to do what the video says at the end. Purchase the DVD "It's A Damn Shame"
Next up, two provocative docu-series from brother, M'Bwebe aja Ishangi on The Boule and Fraternities and Sororities. His video article, The Classified Origin of DC will open your eyes to more than your brain can contain. Why this video article is not taught in schools, churches, and summer camps is the question. Once you watch it, you will know exactly why.
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P.S. Lastly, also a good time to revisit Spike Lee's movie, "School Daze." It was relevant in 1988 and it is still relevant in 2011--only with more issues that we need to "WAKE UP" about. Please, read a book, do something to WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!
We've all heard the quote about broken clocks. It goes something like even a broken clock is right twice a day. I'd heard of Wendy Williams but had not listened to her controversial radio program during its heyday. Sometimes, my mother and I watch her TV show while we wait for the meatier late night programming of The Tavis Smiley Show to come on.
My mother found the book, The Wendy Williams Experience at one of her favorite thrift stores. She told me that she had bought it and so I read it. Very interesting stuff to say the least. What caught my attention was her interview with Damian World Hardy who spoke about the behind the scenes practices of the entertainment industry. The book has several transcripts of Wendy's interviews. I found the audio version on YouTube and though I'd share. Be of good cheer. Everyday we can learn something new from someone.
These are simply questions to cause us to think about things in a different way or to ask more questions about our world.
For starters, why does NBC' s Saturday Night Live continuously have a male figure dress up as a female? Haven't we seen this stereotype enough times?
Why is Katt Williams on a path of destruction and being taken down by the media?
Is he being taken down by some other gang or entity?
Is he following the same plight as DMX, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Biggie, Tupac, Brittney Spears, Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle (who didn't wear the dress and was labelled as crazy), Mariah Carey and many others?
What's the highest paid gang around? ANSWER: The gang of male celebritydom across all industries who are required to keep the rape secrets of the good old boy network.
If women have to sleep with a director to get a certain part in the business, what do men have to do who get parts too?
Why do celebrities die in amounts of the number three? Does it have smething to do with satanic worship, satanic ritual, or numerology?
Why are certain entertainers chosen to travel abroad to shine a light on overseas issues when many of the same issues exist in America?
Why are the Oscars in existence and when did what the actor was wearing become more important than the movie nominated?
By the way, there is an informative article on the history of Oscar and its beginnings here.
Why do we make celebrities minature gods and goddesses and then measure our lives against theirs? I mean from Reality TV, soap operas, dramas, movies, magazines all follow this pattern. Yet, it's a game the average person will never obtain or win because we are not celebrities.
Why do celebrities live secret lives?
Why do we watch Television? When did the TV enter the household? Why?
Why are certain celebrities who are in their prime not married and/or not out of the closet?
Why does Russell Simmons who is a bully and a sociopath jump on every current affairs band wagon to show his support while bullying and raping many of Hip Hop's rappers? Isn't that a conflict of interest and a crime?
Why are celebrity sociopaths and bullies in our culture given a free pass or go unnoticed? Is it their charm? Do we protect them? Do other celelbrities who are in the know and keeping their secrets protect them?
It is true that when you reach a certain tax bracket that the elite invite you to join the secret society?
Why are certain celebities forced down the public's throats to be accepted?
Why did a show like Friends thrive while a show like Living Single get cancelled?
Why are Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake being peddled as the modern day Frank Sinatra and Brat Pack?
Why did Beyonce and Jay-Z make a certain hand gesture in the hospital room while she was preparing to give birth?And, why did she make the same gesture during her Superbowl performance?
Can the AIDS virus be given as a vaccine?
How was Hollywood started?
Did your grandparents' generation lead or follow? If so, who did they lead or follow?
Did your parents' generation lead or follow? If so, who did they lead or follow?
Is your generation leading or following?
Who is afraid of another civil rights movement or another womens rights movement or a human rights movement? Why
Who's ready to start one?
Are the movies we're watching showing us something that's already happened or something that will happen in the future?
Ladies and Gents, we have a choice to turn media off or on, to change our thoughts, to have ideas and to act on them.
More of you are awake. More of you have a right to know.
Earlier this week, I watched a tribute to comedian Eddie Murphy on the Spike TV network. It was an event where he was surrounded by many of his peers including Arsenio Hall, Keenan Ivory Wayans (who told the story of Eddie Murphy giving him a Rolex watch as a gift), Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry. Eddie’s brother, Charlie Murphy, gave a heartfelt tribute to him where he told stories about their childhood and what it was like growing up watching a comedic genius in action. Oh, how he wished he had only known that at the time.
Prior to the tribute, I watched an interview with Eddie Murphy on Inside the Actors Studio where they took a look back at his career and he got to answer questions from the student body.
Both shows aired segments and bits from Eddie’s career. As I watched the bit from the 1983 comedy performance, Delirious, I listened intently to the material chosen for this concert in a way that I had not listened to before. Eddie did a bit describing the two male characters from The Honeymooners, Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton having sex with each other. Next, he did a bit on what Mr. T would sound like in the same predicament.
About a month earlier, I caught a late night airing of Jamie Foxx’s first HBO concert performance, Straight From the Foxxhole. Again, I listened intently to the chosen material of this performance. Jamie did a bit about the ratio of male homosexuality and he talked about AIDS. He got the audience in on shouting out two slogans throughout the course of the concert. The first was blow that s**t out and the second was words his elderly grandmother used to describe various things, people and situations which were anybody that ???? gotta have AIDS.
What was going on with each of these comedians during the time these concerts were released? What made them choose these topics to poke fun at and dissect? Was this a keenly skillful way for these comedians to use their art to retaliate with the powers that be who put them in these kinds of precarious positions in the first place?
On yesterday, I watched comedic genius Richard Pryor's review of his life in the 1986 film, JoJo Dancer Your Life is Calling. It had been a long time since I’d last seen this movie. So, I watched it with new eyes. Richard wore a dress in this one. And, I recalled the line where he stated just before he set himself on fire where he said, "I just want my soul back."
Recently, I watched Iyanla Fix My Life with life coach, Iyanla Vanzant, helping actress Maia Campbell on her journey of recovery and hearing Maia's heartbreaking story after being on the hit TV show, In the House. I read many of the tweets about this show because it brought up so many issues about mental illness and drugs. One tweet I found to be poignant was from Reagan Gomez Preston who played the daughter on the 1995 show, The Parent ' Hood, created by actor and director Robert Townsend. Here are her tweets:
"Wanna be famous?? Wanna be a star?? Ya'll better be tuned into #IyanlaFixMyLife right now. There's another side to it..."
"And to all of those low down, evil, snakes in Hollywood who feed off of
girl's that need help, Karma is a bitch. And you know who you are."
The honesty of what she tweeted about the entertainment industry reminded me of what actress and singer, Tiffany Evans also spoke about on social media.
Likewise, Robert Townsend starred in the 2008 movie, Of Boys and Men, with actress Angela Bassett and Victoria Rowell. His character became a single parent after his wife was killed in an automobile accident. One of the sons in the movie had a childhood friend who was being raped by a male figure in his life.
Does it seem like I’m connecting dots here because I am not. The material surely is. This is not a game. However, the powers that are running the networks and the record companies want to play games with the lives of our children. Why is male rape so rampant in society yet treated like a small filthy secret and swept under the rug. Would you sweep it under the rug if it were your son or daughter being raped?
This post is to let you know the latest of what has occured at this time. There have been threats made.
This morning I awoke to discover that the j-drive that I kept in my purse was pulled out of it. Apparently, Russell and Joseph Simmons threatened my family member to get it to check to see if the text of my manuscript was on it. Next, Russell and Joseph Simmons created the following trending topic on whatthetrend.com to let me know that they have a copy of my manuscript (or so they think). Of course, my family member isn't talking because I'm certain they've threatened them but here's the proof of the trending topic. The third topic. #ThingsNobodyWouldSay This is their typical pattern. I don't have the freedom to be able to enjoy myself if I want to use
the internet, social media, watch TV, listen to the radio, read a book,
write in my journal, use a gratitude journal but I don't because they
are constantly watching observing, voyeuring, looking over my shoulder to
see what it is I'm doing. And when they aren't they are interfering with
the TV program I'm watching by stalking via the commercial or some
reference to what I have done or said within the last 24 hours. If that's not enough, they watch when they return from an event or social outing by running back the tape to catch what they've missed in the hidden rooms of their homes on their computers. They have nerve to think that this is okay. It isn't and I will at every opportunity expose them to the public.
This is how they try to intimidate, stalk and bully. I am not a child nor am I Russell or Joseph Simmons' child. They don't control or own me. Nor, do they control my mind or what I can or cannot say. It won't stop me from writing this book and telling the story of how this affects all of us. I'm not in The Boule. Thank you Lord Jesus. So, I can tell.
Later, I got in my car and put the dash sun visor up. I noticed that it has been cut in a few places that weren't there previously. Once again, courtesy of an order by The Simmons.
Just two days ago I grabbed my favorite drink tumbler. I poured a drink into it, put the lid with straw back on it and headed out the door as I've done many times before. I took it inside with me when I walked into my destination. However, later when I went to open it again, the lid was sealed shut as though. It took soaking it in a pot of hot water before it could be removed. By that point, the cup, lid and straw were ruined.
Now, as I've stated before that this is the kind of behavior done by the Simmons that no police officer, detective, investigator, FBI agent, DEA person will touch or at least they haven't upfront. So, it allows the Simmons to look like they are getting away with for the moment. Sooner or later though, time runs out. God's Word says so in Habakukk. They will be stopped by some minor thing that they forgot because of their own arrogance and sloppiness.
Trusting, Standing and Believing in God's Word. Asking you to join me and do the same. Please share this with someone and support our Kickstarter campaign to get this message out to everyone. No one should have to live this way. What would you do had this happened to you and your family? Join the movement.
2 What’s God going to say to my questions? I’m braced for the worst. I’ll climb to the lookout tower and scan the horizon. I’ll wait to see what God says, how he’ll answer my complaint.
Full of Self, but Soul-Empty
2-3 And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It’s on its way. It will come right on time.
4 “Look at that man, bloated by self-importance— full of himself but soul-empty. But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive.
5-6 “Note well: Money deceives. The arrogant rich don’t last. They are more hungry for wealth than the grave is for cadavers. Like death, they always want more, but the ‘more’ they get is dead bodies. They are cemeteries filled with dead nations, graveyards filled with corpses. Don’t give people like this a second thought. Soon the whole world will be taunting them:
6-8 “‘Who do you think you are— getting rich by stealing and extortion? How long do you think you can get away with this?’ Indeed, how long before your victims wake up, stand up and make you the victim? You’ve plundered nation after nation. Now you’ll get a taste of your own medicine. All the survivors are out to plunder you, a payback for all your murders and massacres.
9-11 “Who do you think you are— recklessly grabbing and looting, Living it up, acting like king of the mountain, acting above it all, above trials and troubles? You’ve engineered the ruin of your own house. In ruining others you’ve ruined yourself. You’ve undermined your foundations, rotted out your own soul. The bricks of your house will speak up and accuse you. The woodwork will step forward with evidence.
12-14 “Who do you think you are— building a town by murder, a city with crime? Don’t you know that God-of-the-Angel-Armies makes sure nothing comes of that but ashes, Makes sure the harder you work at that kind of thing, the less you are? Meanwhile the earth fills up with awareness of God’s glory as the waters cover the sea.
15-17 “Who do you think you are— inviting your neighbors to your drunken parties, Giving them too much to drink, roping them into your sexual orgies? You thought you were having the time of your life. Wrong! It’s a time of disgrace. All the time you were drinking, you were drinking from the cup of God’s wrath. You’ll wake up holding your throbbing head, hung over— hung over from Lebanon violence, Hung over from animal massacres, hung over from murder and mayhem, From multiple violations of place and people.
18-19 “What’s the use of a carved god so skillfully carved by its sculptor? What good is a fancy cast god when all it tells is lies? What sense does it make to be a pious god-maker who makes gods that can’t even talk? Who do you think you are— saying to a stick of wood, ‘Wake up,’ Or to a dumb stone, ‘Get up’? Can they teach you anything about anything? There’s nothing to them but surface. There’s nothing on the inside.
20 “But oh! God is in his holy Temple! Quiet everyone—a holy silence. Listen!”
From the beginning, the African-American male has been a prized possession. In 2012, from the shores of Africa where minerals are located to the pump of black oil primed in the Gulf, the lives of African-American males are still prized commodities.
Did you know that during the time of Slavery according to Solomon Northrup that scars upon a slave’s back were considered evidence of a rebellious or
unruly spirit, and hurt his sale?
In 2012, in cities across America, the lives of African-American men are ending by bullets from guns and other firearms. The value of their lives still not taken seriously. It's happening in the music industry, too only the bullets are words, beefs, gear, record sales, record contracts, promotions, demotions, maturity, youth, money, drugs, religion, ego, pride, jealousy and even success. The plantations have changed. Unfortunately, some of the slaves haven't.
History has a very uncanny way of repeating itself. Sometimes, it does it very quietly and other times it's blatant and throws its hand up in your face. For many of you following this blog, you may recall an entry about Jam Master Jay posted here after reading the book, The Big Payback by Dan Charnas. So, to learn that another African-American male had died or was murdered in a scene that was all to reminscient of another African-American male's death of the same nature four years ago in a scene quite similar in setup was revealing.
The scars of slaves some still with us and those who have passed on are crying out from the grave for us to hear them. History's right here on this page. Read it well.
Historian John Wesley Blassingame wrote a book called The Slave Community. Although, much of the book focuses on the antebellum south, I encourage you to read it with the context of the world we live in presently and how it applies to various industries today which can also be considered as the new plantation. The book was mentioned in the movieAntwone Fisher. Perhaps, it sheds some light on where and how we have learned to treat each other so cruel regardless of race, content or character. Since when did an oath to the master override the oath to God, ourselves, each other and humanity? No doubt sounds like something satanic for sure.
How long
will this continue? How long will we allow it? How long will we tolerate
it? We say we're post racial a civilized society but the number of deaths of African-American men tells a different story. While all the swagger and material wealth in the industry won't bring them back, today I remember Shakir Stewart (who was 34 and whose circumstances surrounding his death though ruled a suicide mirrors that of Chris Lighty's). I remember Jam Master Jay. I remember Trayvon Martin. I remember Paul Robeson.
And, on the second day of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, September 5, 2012,
I remember Chris Lighty, a good man who positively left his mark on the Hip Hop industry, was buried.
Russell and Joseph Simmons are responsible for this man's death.
"Slavery is still alive and well in the music business."
Many wonder why I've started this blog to share what happened to me. I have no other choice but to do so. Remember, the story about the starfish? I believe the same thing. If by telling what happened to me helps one person, this is meaningful work.
Last Friday night, I was so excited because one of the radio programs that my mother introduced me to, Coast To Coast AM, had as its guest, Alex Jones, who is also exposing many things about Big Brother, the global elite and the hidden agenda.
His interview on Friday night proved to be no exception. I loved what he said about average ordinary folk taking action, starting blogs and spreading the word because that's what it's gonna take.
The first hour is his interview and the second hour is filled with call in questions. If you don't listen to anything else this week, please listen to the entire interview and then, take action by sharing it with someone else.
Both organizations are advocates in the campaign to change the images we see everywhere in media that influence our youth. We blogged about the Miss Representation documentary last year and continued to observe and join in with their Not Buying It stance of women being miss represented in advertisements.
I am new to Common Sense Media and what I like about their efforts most are their ten beliefs which are cornerstone to their mission about what we see in the media. Whether you are a teacher, parent or individual, there is plenty to learn from their website and an enormous amount of information relative to Cyberbullying.
Can you remember a time that we have not been advertised to? Research the history of the television being invented and how it made its way into our homes, there has been a subtle seduction in existence for a long time. What about radio? Media shapes and forms our values. Sometimes, we say life imitates art but does it really? Is it the other way around, art imitates life?
As you prepare for back to school, look at the shorts for our girls. Why are they so short? Now, look at the shorts worn in advertisements and music videos. Do you see a pattern? Which came first? Until and unless we affect the dollars of advertisers collectively, we will see a small amount of change. Rather, a slower pace of change. There is an entity making money off of our families and keeping the advertisement wheel spinning. Do you know a family who chooses not to have a television in their home? I don't. Would we be able to give up our addiction to TV for a twenty-four hour period or longer? Would you?
The main takeaway of the chat, and there were many, was to determine how we as individuals can change media images on a daily basis. It may be a small action but powerful enough to recognize and call out. For example, an advertiser who may be showing a young lady draped across their product. Please visit each of their web site and support their campaigns. Together, we can do so much.
I love Whitney Houston and I am saddened by such a loss of a great human being. I'd be remiss if I didn't say something about a few comments that The Holy Spirit has jarred within me that were made at Whitney Houston's funeral.
First, Kevin Costner's words to the younger generation of girls who desire to follow in Whitney's footsteps.
"The only ones who sing your songs are young girls like you who are dreaming of being you some day, and so to you Bobbi Kristina and to all those young girls who are dreaming that dream are maybe thinking they aren't good enough I think Whitney would tell you guard your bodies and guard the precious miracle of your own life and then sing your hearts out knowing that there's a lady in heaven making God wonder how he created something so perfect.”
Second, Clive Davis' eulogy spoke numerously about his infamous bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.
"Whitney came to his bungalow alone without bodyguards. He spoke of how Whitney ordered a hamburger and fries from room service as they listened to new music in their pajamas. He spoke of how she was no longer shy and introvertive. He spoke of how she now carried herself with assurance and articulation of her words."
It was the fact that he stated the bungalow at all during her funeral, no less that has not sat well with me at all. And, I wonder who else caught this and WHO called him out on it? Maybe with her new found assurance, she was tired and through with being forced to be on the receiving end of his advances? Maybe she just wanted to sing? Maybe she new that by rebelling against his advances, death was inevitable? TMZ reported that she was quoting scripture before her death. His referrals to that bungalow did not sit well with me and, I see, I wasn't alone. There were others on Twitter and Google who also felt the same. Some described his comments as creepy to say the least. What is also alarming is what isn't being reported in the media versus what is. Forbes magazine has two stories that are rather interesting about events the night before Whitney's death and people around her which have yet to be heard on TMZ. It would be very easy to believe mainstream media's version that she was drugged out which I hope that you aren't falling for on this one. I believe in The Holy Spirit and its jarring won't let me rest.
Both of their comments were similar yet profoundly different. They were almost like polar opposites with one being a form of advice and the other a slight admission. Both of their comments made me wonder what do female artists, all artists really, have to do in order to sing? There are many who just want to sing but have their talent exploited as well as their bodies in a disposable industry. Is a touch enough? Does a fondle suffice? Is being full blown raped the dealmaker? Yes, Clive's history goes way back. It includes one of my favorite singers, Phyllis Hyman. When TV One featured her story on their "Unsung" Program, I realized that Clive' s hand of working with divas goes way back. In fact, he states it in this clip with Piers Morgan. If you saw Phyllis' Unsung program, you too might agree that there is some reaping and sowing present here. Why be so bold to mention the bungalow so many times at her funeral? Why have the party go on when your protege is dead floors above you in the same hotel? Were his actions in good taste or respectful of the Houston family? Is Clive Davis The sociopath Next Door?
When CNN's Piers Morgan interviewed Clive and Jennifer Hudson, I didn't see the full interview but I did read the transcript. I've watched Jennifer Hudson's last three live TV performances and I've noticed a change and I don't mean her weight loss. Have you noticed something different, too? Now, that she's under his thumb, I will continue to observe the movements of her career trajectory and her relationship to him very closely.
I understand now the connection of music, celebrity, spiritual leaders and a bit more about the plot to create a new world made up of the elite. The elite are to be superhuman. They are required to keep a secret and perform among other things, live a dual life. At times, that dual life becomes more than a dual life. It's a full blast pandora's box. When an artist is being raped, is forbidden to say. even to family, and has to be "on", where can they release all of that? Perhaps, onstage or in their performance. What happens though in daily living? Perhaps now we can guess the reason for her drug usage. Put yourself in that position and consider the mental and spiritual warfare going on inside of a person. Accounts from those who spoke to Whitney on that sad day stated she seemed fine. We are all very well connected. This covers everyone from the pastor in the pulpit,producer on the hunt to the wives of those same pastors who keep the secret, too for the money, the fame, the worldwide acclaim. It's a drug and a lifestyle choice.
There has to come a change. We, The People, have to do something. If we don't do something, who will we read about next? It will take us as CONSUMERS along with the ARTISTS who are in bondage backed byJESUS CHRIST to make the change. Here's an idea: who's in for shutting down the music industry for 24 hours to start? No downloading or buying anything off of iTunes, no purchasing a CD or an app to get our point across. The point needs to be made that we won't tolerate this any more. The point that there are artists who simply want to sing, who long to do the right thing but are not allowed to because music in entertainment, in the church, in our lives and our world is big business. We have to do something. This affects all of us. Did Whitney Houston die because she no longer wanted to be exploited by a sociopath's advances? The kind of sociopath who could easily dispose of her and substitute (or prostitute) her brand for a newer, younger version?
Think about all of the self-help books that are spun off of some topic. In many ways, it's a subtle seduction, a massage, if you will. The book is seen everywhere. It's funneled through all of the proper channels to get us to buy in to the seduction. One example, remember the Chicken Soup for The Soul series? That cow was milked, burped and fed again. Then, a new cow created. Or the networks who bring back newer versions of old TV shows. Shows we grew up on like 90210, Hawaii 50, etc. Remember, this is a disposable industry. It's the same way with these artists only with a heavier price: their lives. And, it leads right back to the telling of what happened to me, to Angela Whitterson and the countless others who have no voice yet experienced the same.
As we all wait for the results of the toxicology report, there are many headlines in the news surrounding the death of Whitney Houston. Conspiracy theories and the like but there are two things stand out for me. First, she gave Brandy a note during an interview and second, she had a brief encounter with El DeBarge.Other artists have given us clues, imagery in their interviews, books, cd covers, song lyrics, videos and music. Kevin Costner stated it in his remarks as well. If an entity this large is capable of doing this to Whitney Houston and an American president, what will they do to you? Where is the outrage? Where are the spiritual leaders now who need to be courageous enough to lead? When do we start boycotting iTunes? Amazon? Perhaps the outrage will come later. Perhaps, we as citizens of the world will lead the revolution. It is certainly needed now.
Citizens of the world.
We've got to do something about our world.
WAKEUP: It's Time To Get Right with God, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit.
