Giving up on Musiq…

September 9, 2008 by The Gentleman  
Filed under Music, Tell'em Why You Mad

Musiq Soulchild

“Don’t front. You know you loooove it.” Not quite, homey.

As if soul wasn’t already an underground genre, now Musiq is trying “Radio”. I expected this one day, but thought there would be a few more singles signaling the inevitable end between then and now. Nope, Musiq dove head first into the mainstream. Can he swim though? Read more

Exhibitions of a Video Vixen

June 24, 2008 by The Gentleman  
Filed under Culture & Society, Editorials

Exhibitions of a Video Vixen

Video...um...vixenPssst, they can see you!!

Lately I have begun to concede that I’m somewhat attractive. I say concede because I believe it’s not for me to decide. Just yesterday I was hit on twice in the span of three seconds; meaning one pair of girlfriends had to interrupt another pair of girlfriends. Never seen that happen before. I thought I was merely ‘alright’ (or ‘enough to get by’) but again I guess that’s not my call to make. Anyway, I say this because these approaches occur in spurts and sure enough as I walked the subway platform (’cause parking downtown is a mutha) text-messaging my homegirl, I noticed two girls sitting on the bench at which I usually wait. Happens. Read more