Nicole be Thinking...

I'm pretty tired of dudes dictating what a woman should be or do. I also can't stand dudes who bash other dudes thinking it'll get them points with women. For this reason, I've never been a fan of Lyfe Jennings. Recently I slipped up, listened to the radio, and heard one of his songs, "Statistics." I felt my face frown. After all, this black man is going back to prison for a domestic dispute with the mother of his child. (Yes. Digest all that …) But for some odd reason, he feels he's qualified to "teach" a woman how to expose bad men and keep a good one. Hmmm… Let's look at his "rules." "RULE #1 - Don't be a booty call, If he don't respect you girl he gon' forget you girl," For one, grown women are capable of having sex just to have sex. It takes two make a booty call happen. If he wants it and she agrees, guess what? That's consensual coitus between grown folks. Why do folks assume that women are ...

If you're anything like me you downloaded each G.O.O.D. Friday track as soon as it was released, you watched Runaway when it premiered (and a few times after), and you've been eagerly awaiting My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . This is probably Kanye's best reviewed album. Despite the ire his public persona brings, Kanye has managed to deliver an album that makes it "safe" to like him again. Critics are saying MBDTF is a "classic," a "masterpiece." Fans that jumped ship with 808s and Heartbreak are saying, "He's back." Hmmm… Let's take a look at the album. Dark Fantasy Kanye's life is all models and fashion now, and he is drastically different from the producer with the backpack we met in 2003, but on "Dark Fantasy" he shows that he hasn't forgotten about that kid. He reminds us he's always wanted this -- whatever this is. Part of the beauty in every Kanye album is that he's talking about whe...

I am not going to pay for another Will Smith movie until he proves that he can actually act. Now... before you get all defensive, go look at his filmography. Will's 20+ movies fall into one of three categories: - Movies in which he saves the day/world/people - He fights aliens, robots, or bad guys (sometimes sacrificing himself) to save humanity. - Sequels to movies in which he saves the day/world/people - Men in Black 3 is scheduled to be released in 2012. End of the world, indeed... - Feel-good flicks - In these movies he's usually himself as someone else (think Ali ) Will has three characters aside from the character he played in Six Degrees of Separation : - Himself - in most movies he is a charming, witty, funny, handsome ladies man who is terribly loveable. - Himself, tormented by some secret/affliction/skeleton in his closet - he starts off disliked or at odds, but by the resolution of the film, he is back to himself (because he's saved the world, of...