*Urban Media Outlet*

This is a very entertaining documentary short by good friend Alex about a very colorful Queens, NY resident called Miss Colombia. What I love about Miss Colombia is that ‘she’ could care less what you and I think, as long as ‘she’ is fulfilled  and not hurting anyone, Miss Colombia will be doing the Miss Colombia thing!!

With corporate Jamaica again in a frenzy to cover the shit stains of their Down Low ‘bros’ & ‘uncles’ from being seen by regular folks (who know its there but just dont have the evidence to prove that they are running some raahtid drug and sex rackets), yuh would be heartless to look at Miss Colombia and not admire his resolve to be who Miss Colombia is, as opposed to the money grubbing liars and perverts at the head our country and industry who are using sex and sexuality to whore their ways into money and power.

Read what my girl Alex had to say about her production and check out more from this budding filmmaker at Pretty Girls Carry Guns on youtube (http://youtube.com/prettygirlscarryguns) or on her Vimeo page here.

Go to her blog  BLUNT ENVY (http://bluntenvy.blogspot.com/)

Thanks Ms Lopez :-)

Alex says:

When I was a sophomore in film school I interviewed a local Jackson Heights celebrity known as “Miss Colombia.” I had often come across Miss Colombia on my way home from school or the movies as a kid. Her inappropriate humor and bold costumes left a permanent impression on me growing up. Kind of like Lady Gaga, in a creepy uncle sort of way. Upon my re-cut of this footage, I am evermore inspired by her vitality and courage.

La Vida Loca aka “The Miss Colombia Project” from alexandra lopez on Vimeo.

My bredrin Lex from the Dominican Republic sent me this video yeaaarrrs ago.

Lex and his Puerto Rican bredrin Danny have had a deep impact on my overstanding of culture. When I first came to America, as far as I concerned they were white boys. Kill me dead they were white and had nothing to do with Africa. After hanging out with them a couple times I was blown out of my mind to hear Danny chant and sing in Yoruba and Lex play the Congo drums!! Here began my interest in Afro-Latino culture that eventually led to this documentary short that actually features Danny himself.

It became a regular thing for us to link up and discuss our individual heritages- music, history, natural medicine… They even went as far as getting a Jamaican proverb book and would hit me with the “Sarry fi mawga dawg, mawga dawg tun roun’ an’ bite yuh” and others at random :)  Good times, good times!!

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LMAO!!! Best opening Ever by ZJ Sparks. Sparks seh “A Ustream mi waa dis go pon enuh, mi have mi ting, mi have mi tings!!!”…Woooii!!! :-)

Anyhow, Tifa does a hot hot set. I just love her flow!!! And shi cute in her likkle shorts, dont it? Cant wait to see ‘Certified Diva’, it was launched last night so check back soon to see it here.

Big up to Supernova Video and Audio Productions. The stuff coming out of there is PROPER!! Go to their Facebook page and click the LIKE button or wait in the video below to get their videos right at your fingertips. And the video dem go haaarrrdd!!!

“Deep Obeah” is possibly Roi Kwabena’s expression of his own sense of frustration with the almost radioactive accumulation of global injustice, shock waves that make themselves felt far and wide, rendering life on this planet increasingly toxic, increasingly impossible for many if not most. The work symbolically turns to obeah, “sorcery” to bring events beyond one’s control more into alignment with a desire for a better future…..

There’s more of the paper after the video

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OMG!!! I got crazy goosebumps watching this!!! When talent like this shines I remember how great the human capacity and life is. And all I can do is be human and shed tears.

The first time I felt this feeling was in prayers at Andrews one morning when DEMETRIA was on stage singing. If you went to St Andrew High School Jamaica between 1997 (the yr this kid was born) and 2002 yuh gone way outta dis world, YUH LUUUUUUUUU-NER if yuh dont know Demetria!! You know the girl with the KILLLAAA voice and that we always figure more or less was Marcia Griffiths family (still dont know if this is true). But that morning when Demetria sing bout Jesus, nah lie I was ready to dip and come up and bawl out halleLUUUUUUlah. Yes mi bawl in prayers dat morning and I nuh really mix up with no Jesus business, so you know that shit had to be powerful.

Anyways, the first note likkle yout hit here reminded me of Demetria! His voice is harrrddddd, and the piano skills……..:: insert your favorite bad word here::::

I mean….jeeeeeeeezzz….what makes some people go so hard???? Cause you can tell the youth is feeling it,is living it, IS that piece of music.

He does sound like Gaga for tru dont it!! But with the piano and the passion Greyson Michael Chance(dubbed LITTLE LORD GAGA) is THE CHAMP!!

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CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE HERE

Not that video girls are all wild and outta order, but we all know the KatStacks/Superhead stigma that follows these women. I do not believe that because a woman is half naked in a video she is a groupie, many really have their ting right and know that videos are just a hustle.

Rosa Acosta chat the most sense I’ve heard ANY under 27 year old WOMAN speak in a LONG time!!!! LADIES READING OUT THERE….. LISTEN TO THIS!! Read the rest of this entry »

**HOT VIDEO** Makeida- Jamaican Boy/Can’t Get Enough

#Portmore for sure!!St Ann!!!! Gyptian yuh flyyyyyyyy weh!!!!!

The hottest girl in Liquid Leggings, Stiletto’s and a Weave rate  yuh right ya now RATE YUH!!!!!!!! Nicki Minaj is definatly bigging up GYPTIAN on this BRAND NEW REMIX to his  HIT SONG “HOLD YOU”!!! I thought the soca remix was gonna be my calling to the other side (I mean the soca side), but Minaj is Harrrrrdddd on this tune!!! Read the rest of this entry »

I am so excited: This is hands-down my favorite show. If you have not seen this cartoon you need to get on it right now!! It stars Regina King as the voice of two kid brothers whose Grandpa (played by Pop from Wayans Brothers) comes upon some money and moves them out of the Chicago ghetto to a rich rich neigbourhood and what happens then.

Watch the clip i’ve posted below… It wont disappont
And see Tarrus Riley and The Boondocks here

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Really wish we had more people across the internet spoofing our local celebrities; they end up being a funny reflections of the actual person. Check out this one that we featured before

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NAS and DAMIAN MARLEY perfoming at SXSW Showcase in TEXAS, March 2010

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This is the reason I love documentaries and filming. Here’s Jamaica in 1989

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Alborosie, born Alberto D’Ascola in 1977, is a reggae artist born in Sicily, Italy, but now residing in Kingston, Jamaica. He is a multi-instrumentalist, being proficient in guitar, bass, drums and piano. His musical career began in the reggae group Reggae National Tickets when he was 15 years old, in which he was known as Stena. In 2001 Alborosie decided to try a solo career. He moved to Jamaica to be close to reggae music’s roots and rastafari culture. Read the rest of this entry »

I came across this youtube video of 2 protests in the same time and location- one for Obama’s health care bill and one against. I do not think Obama is the “Great Black Hope”, in fact, true to my nature, I am more suspicious of him than anything just because everyone is caught up with the man having black blood that they forget that he is an imperfect man all the same. Read the rest of this entry »