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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005Trouble seems to follow hip hop bad boy flava of the month 50 Cents wherever he goes. The latest: someone got shot last night during a melee between 50′s entourage and Game loyalists in the lobby of Hot 97 while “Fitty” was on air in the studio. My 2 cents for 50: Get some new [...]
(Just a Few) Observations on the Grammys
Monday, February 14th, 2005Absolute high point of the evening: Kanye West performing Jesus Walks and the rousing response from the crowd. (Go here for more on the impact of this song on me.) Anticlimax of the night: Kanye’s speech accepting “Rap Album of the Year” honors. A perfect set-up seconds after his performance and he bombs the kill [...]
Generational divides – something else to make you go hmm
Monday, February 7th, 2005It seems that yesterday’s no-nonsense halftime show was loved by everyone 40 and older, but support for Paul’s homage to “Get Back” to yesterday weakened proportionately as the viewers got younger. Certainly this was true of the crowd I watched the game with. The upstairs living room was filled with Boomers reminiscing about the days [...]
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
What do The Game, hip hop’s latest sensation, and Martha Stewart, America’s incarcerated domestic diva, have in common? Bankability. Based on a comeback. The Game’s debut album, the “most anticipated album of the year,” hit stores at number one on the charts. MTV attributes his success to “the unconditional street love he’s been given by [...]
The Boden Center
Monday, January 10th, 2005The Bronx got a little touch of heaven his weekend. The Boden Center for Performing Arts officially launched in Castle Hill with a concert Friday evening (1/7) featuring jazzy reinterpretations of age-old standards, musical theater by a youth drama troupe called BAMSS (By Any Means Save Some), and modern dance performed by members of the [...]
Jesus Walks with Me
Friday, December 31st, 2004I’ve been wrestling with the unexplainable lately. Throughout this week, the tsunami. Yesterday, Adam Jeremiah. For nearly two years, ministry difficulties, personal struggles, even health challenges. In countless bizarre, almost surreal ways, it feels (deep down, where life hurts) like a flame upon my flesh has been turned seven time hotter. Against that backdrop, I [...]
Evangelism 101, Hip Hop Style
Friday, December 31st, 2004I helped a friend move yesterday, along with a crew of seven teenage boys. They’re all great kids from God-fearing, evangelical families. They’re all actively involved in a local church youth group, and most, if not all, attended Christian elementary and middle schools. One of the boys’ parents are pastors of a leading church in [...]
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