• News

    JAMES FOLEY’S Last Letter To His Family

    "On Tuesday August 19, the Islamic State released a video in which James Wright Foley, 40-year-old American freelance journalist and nearly two-year captive of the radical group once known as ISIS, read a largely prepared speech and then was beheaded." According to boingboing.net, James Foley's last letter to his loved ones was dictated to a fellow detainee, who memorized it and read it to Foley's mother over the phone when he was released.

  • Music,  Politics

    LAURYN HILL – “Black Rage (Sketch)” … Self-released MUSIC via @lisafordblog

    I was reading Pitchfork.com looking for underground music that I haven't heard yet and I stumble upon a prolific article about the legendary LAURYN HILL and her stance of oppression in America. Of course, I have to post conscious rapper, Lauryn Hill, on the blog because she is female MC that I look up to, one who teaches me and makes me think, one who never needed to show her bare ass in her music videos, because her lyrics and poeticism spoke and still speaks…

  • TV

    HBO’s “GIRLS” Season 4 Teaser (VIDEO)

    "The world of Hannah Horvath may no longer be within the streets of Manhattan in GIRLS, but drama is never far behind the aspiring journalist-writer. Without spoiling too much if you still haven’t caught up through season 3, Hannah returns to her mid-west roots taking a break from her inner-circle to focus on a career. With Marnie continuing to be wreck, Jessa struggling with her on-and-off sobriety and our girl Shoshanna looking to finally graduate from NYC, Hannah takes a brief bike ride around the…

  • News

    SUGE KNIGHT Shot 6 Times at Chris Brown’s Pre-VMA Party (VIDEO) via @lisafordblog

    It's being reported that Death Row Records founder, SUGE KNIGHT, was shot 6 times during a MTV VMA Awards party hosted by Chris Brown at LA club 1 OAK last night. "Shortly after 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning, a shooting occurred at 1OAK nightclub in the 9000 block of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood where two men and a woman were wounded, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said in a statement provided to the Daily News. The suspect remains unknown, but the victims include a 49-year-old…

  • News,  Politics

    TALIB KWELI Argues w/ CNN’S Don Lemon During #Ferguson Interview! (VIDEO) In Case you Missed It! via @lisafordblog

    TALIB KWELI delivered one of the most powerful interviews I've seen in the news recently. He stood up to CNN and its anchor, Don Lemon, who appears disconnected with what's really going on on the ground in Ferguson, with his attempt to debunk Kweli's eyewitness account. Kweli schooled them on what he thought was bad media coverage. The death of unarmed teen, Mike Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, has brought race relations in America back to the forefront in the media and social media alike. In…

  • Classic Hip Hop,  Music

    KENDRICK LAMAR First Time Ever Performing “Money Trees” (VIDEO) #Throwback via @lisafordblog

    I bought KENDRICK LAMAR's "Good Kid m.a.a.d City" the first day it was released in Oct. 2012. I played it until it got to Track #5 and kept it on rewind over and over before I had a chance to listen to the rest of the album. By far, "Money Trees" is my favorite song on one of Hip Hop's most critically-acclaimed CDs. The beat is soulful, almost haunting, and the record took me back to my childhood. It brought back memories of my spending…

  • Music Video

    CHRIS BROWN ft. Usher & Rick Ross – “New Flame” (VIDEO) via @lisafordblog

    "New Flame" features a powerful duet with R&B giants CHRIS BROWN & USHER, laced with a flow from RICKY ROZAY. This song, alongside mega hit, "Loyal", is featured on Brown's new album, X, which will be released on Sept.15. A source told Hollywood Life that Brown wanted X to be perfect before the world hears it... "The people behind him who are working on this are straight professionals who have been doing this before Chris was even born," the source said. "They know what they're…

  • News,  Politics

    MIKE BROWN’s Friend Tells His Story!! (VIDEO) #JusticeForMikeBrown via @lisafordblog

    I can't write about somebody else's dead child as if I knew him, and as if my words are going to make a difference in the turmoil that MIKE BROWN's family is going through right now. So I'm posting this video, a first hand account, told by his friend, who witnessed Brown being gunned down for no reason by a Police officer. Mike Brown was eighteen years old, walking down a street in Ferguson, Missouri, from his apartment to his grandmother’s, at 2:15 on a…