New Music: Frank Ocean.

Nature Feels by Frank Ocean

Be on the look out for this kid. This track is dope.

Cold War. Janelle Monae.

Cold War by Perriquin79

Bring it on Janelle...I can not wait for the new album.

VIA hypebeast

The ISLATE (or ipad).

So...we are all aware that apple may or may not be dropping a new product on us. The islate (or IPad). No one knows exactly what it does because Steve Jobs likes his secrets. But if it does indeed exist, it seems to be yet another device that does everything for everyone-with a touch screen of coarse. And it evolved from this guy. It's yet another Apple product that makes you look at your current apple products and say, "I wish someone told me this before I purchased the_fill in the blank__."  

Anyway, the spots above may or may not be real (shhhh, they are leaked), but I do kinda like the fingers one. But I may be partial...as I have been casting, selecting and arranging hands for the past 2 weeks. Have you guys ever seen a hand models book? It's like a frame by frame of a rock-paper-scissors game.

But I digress...I did a primary google search. This is what I found out about the ISLATE  (or IPad). Consider yourself informed.

Hurt. Dirty Money ft Drake.

	Drake - Hurt .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

This joint is hot. As you can see...I went through alot* to find the music to share. Youtube just isnt as useful as it use to be. Wheel Chair Jimmy stays making hits that make you sway. Still on the fence about the Diddy experiment "Dirty Money"...Dawn should be in Danity Kane-FACT. 

Download it for free here. I did. 

*That is not my photoshop work (lol).

I do It All Again. Corrine Baily.

Corinne Bailey Rae "I'd Do It All Again"

Corinne Bailey Rae | MySpace Music Videos

And she's back. After her break out hit Like a Star, Corrine is back to hit us with her smooth feminine and soulful voice. I love myself some Corrine. I'm still on her about that Grammy performance from years ago. Try not to focus on the song too too much. You might shed a tear.

The only qualms I have about the video...is that if you have natural hair, you sure as hell dont go to sleep in you own bed without wrapping it. And if you dont....you DO NOT wake up with you hair looking together...not even n the slightest.

One Love. David Guetta feat Estelle

I like this song. It was only a matter of time before Estelle hooke dup with this guy. The Brit and thier Garage music. I would love to go to a garage club one day and just dance my ass off. Anyway....have a good weekend kids. See you Monday.

New Music by Janelle Monae.

I'm puttin you on!

Hear the whole song here.

D.O.A. Jay Z

Yes. Yes I will love rap again.

My internet has a Dyshiki. Yours is racist.

I was going to ignore Black Bird...the web browser made specifically for the African American Internet using community. I first read about it on kissmyblackads and I ignored it. That is until I found out that Blackbird was not compatible with Mac. 

*cricket*

So I did some research....and in it's most basic form, Blackbird is a customized version of Firefox 3 for Windows and Vista. It's all black (I can already hear the African drums in the distance?). Creators, 40A Inc (still have no clue who or what they are) claim that the browser will: " broaden the Internet experience for African Americans." 

You are probably thinking right now "that's nice, 'broadening'..yeah that should be good.". They continue:

"...when using Blackbird's built-in search box, results will skew towards African-American news sources and blogs, again, in an effort to highlight those resources for the community. A search for "Barack Obama" in Safari's search box, for example, will bring results like BarackObama.com, Wikipedia, and Chicago Tribune. But the same query in Blackbird's box will return results from AOL Black Voices and blogs.bet.com."

And that's exactly where they lost me. Why do I need a special web browser wrapped in Africa prints? The product already exists, but someone decided to create a "Separate but Equal" version to sell to a definitively marginalized target audience. It's playing on the emotions and culture of an entire people. Where as BET was a pioneer in a sea of hypocrisy and monotony, this is oh-so-subtle-night. Ideally, information should not have a color, race or creed. But when it does...peddling an "Afrocentric" product only reinforces a stereotype. We are saying that people of color and those of European decent cannot enjoy the same content. 

Remembering my experience when I first moved to Chicago, I cracked a joke on being able to find black Barbers with a bit more ease online using Blackbird. But in all actuality, I think this is a horrible marketing ploy that will ultimately only increase the digital divide. 

This is an epic fail in my book. And come on....Vista?....black people DO USE macs (I blame Pharelle for this).

Introducing.

the new MacBook Air. Apples newest and thinnest laptop to date. With 2GB of RAM 80GB of memory this little guy can apparently fit into an envelope, messenger of course.

And as amazing as this sounds, please keep the following in mind before you drop thousands of dollars trying to keep up with the cool kids.
1. The 1yr trial period. It is said...and I have experienced that new apple products are flawed in general. And they need about a year for themb (Apple) to truly get all the kinks out (lol, i said kink). Infact, I promise you that if you buy this product now...you will hate apple and Steve Jobs for little over a year as your life is wiped away in one single swoop of your screen shutting down and multiple visits to the apple store.
2. It only has 80 GB of memory! Hell, my big toe has more memory than that. You'll save like 3 jpegs to your desktop and it will blow up.
3. It only has 1 usb port. In turn...you can only do one usb related activity at a time. Want to transfer pics from your digital camera and charge your ipod? Nope, sorry...your computer is too skinny.

I guess I never really understood why people want their computers so small. Like a 6 inch display...or this thin thing. Who really cares, if it cant do exactly what you want it to do. Just my opinion.

Anyway...check the geeks out at the convention...gasping in awe. "OMG, did he say computer." I can only imagine the pocket protector quota at this event.