First: If you want to donate to the relief fund there are many ways you can do that here are a few.

Yele (Wyclef Jean)

You can also text “Yele” to 501501, which will automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund.

American Red Cross

Hollywood Unites For Haiti (Jimmy jean-Louis)

 Second: America are you Serious? I been watching a poll on CNN asking “Are you contributing to Haiti relief efforts?”  And it looks like I will be apart of the 28-34% contributing monetarily. Come on America the recession isn’t that bad when Avatar has brought in $429 Million over its few weeks at the US box Office.  Get it Together Folks!

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Whaddup?!? It’s ya boy Jebron Lames back with another update. Well, it looks like the Best Buy up in NYC is on a whole nother level of Swag than any other Best Buy in the country. Reggae artist Major Lazer was putting on a show at a Best Buy in NYC when he got a little too into his show…or not, depending on who you talk to. I mean, this is what he does, so you can’t REALLY be surprised when he does what he does, even if it’s at Best Buy. Anyways, I digress. The Video shows what I’m talking about…

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Yo, I have a question. WTF is wrong with rappers now days? They are going from absurd to absurder without any regard for anything. The latest example is Baby aka Birdman aka Brian Williams. This guy, in an attempt to get the most outrageous tattoo he could get, goes and gets a big, red star tattooed on his head. I don’t know what he’s trying to prove or if he thinks this is somehow cool, but for a 40 y/o man, this isn’t what’s hot in the streets! Pic below.

Birdman Head Tattoo

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Whaddup?!?  It’s your boy JBL here with another lame update.  on 11/23/2009 in Atlanta, GA, celebrity chef Paula Deen was working with Hosea Feed the Hungry & Homeless to make a donation on behalf of Smithfield Foods.  This from ajc.com

As hams were being tossed down a relay line Monday morning, an eight-pounder whacked Deen in the face.

The errant ham “hit me full long in the face and ’bout knocked me cuckoo, but I’m fine,” a laughing Deen told WXIA-TV. She iced her nose to keep down the swelling.

The Food Network star was on hand to donate 25,000 pounds of protein before Hosea Feed the Hungry’s Thanksgiving dinner.

Well, I know what you’re thinking, “Do you have video?!?” Of COURSE we have Video. Jimmy Kimmel of Jimmy Kimmel Live has the best video I’ve found. It shows the ham hitting her in the face. He also accompanies the video with a nice “awareness” song for all the celebrities out there who might find themselves in a similar philanthropist role. The message, Don’t Get Hit In The Face With A Ham.

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Whaddup?
It’s JBL here with another update. Apparently, a beef is brewing between an all girl dance group based out of Atlanta, GA named Twerk Team (Website) and everybody’s favorite deep throat, Supahead!
It seems that Ms. Head posted a video of Twerk Team dancing to a lil Wayne video on her website with the following messege under it:

Because strippers go to college too.

Because someones parents paid for this.

Because young black women dont value their bodies.

Because young black men only value young black womens bodies.

Because I threw a dollar @ my Macbook.

Because its hard not to shake your ass @ Lil Wayne.

Because I cant read your ass when its moving so fast.

Because if you had a dad he would kick your ass!

Well, as you can imagine, this didn’t go over too well with the ladies of Twerk Team, who in turn did what every scorned young black person does, they made a diss song! Delivery and flow aside, they actually have some decent lines in this diss and even make reference to knowing some things about Ms. Head that she might not want to come to light about her Boyfriend/Husband Eddie Winslow. Anyhoo, for your viewing pleasure, the vid is below.

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Sammy Sosa

Solomon Grundy

Whaddup?!?  Recently, Sammy Sosa and his wife made an appearance at the Latin Grammy Awards and posed on the red carpet.  What followed has had the internet on fire and people questioning what the fluck has happened to Sammy Sosa?  I personally think that the steroids Sammy was taking have somehow transformed him into the comic character Solomon Grundy, from Batman fame.  You can compare the pictures, but I think I’m dead on with this one.  Has anybody seen Mark McGwire?  He’s probably darker than Wesley Snipes right about now…

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Big Boi

Whaddup?!? Here is the new single from Big Boi’s highly anticipated solo album Sir Lucious Leftfoot. The song is called “shine Blockas” and features none other than everybody’s favorite, Gucci Mane!

Shine Blockas

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Another tight video from Foreign Exchange. 

The Foreign Exchange – ”I Wanna Know”

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15 yrs after the death of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer we lose yet another child in Roseland, Chicago.  Actually we lost at least 5 kids Derrion Albert and the four other kids that are accused of killing him. (Silvanus S., Eugene R., Eric C., & Eugene B.) Its a shame that we continue to sit by and let our kids continue down the same sad road without getting out here and doing something about it.  As Killer Mike said in his blog post “I’m sorry we let you young brothers down”.  I heard about what happened to Derrion a few days ago and finally was able to watch the video tonight.  Sad very Sad. 

David Banner & 9th Wonder ft. Lisa Ivey, “Something Is Wrong”

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A History of Violence (Killer Mike blog post on XXL.com)

A good friend of mine always says to me that the definition of insanity is the act of repeating the same behaviors and expecting a different result. Even if this is not the Merriam-Webster’s definition, it best explains my plight of saving black boys.

I’m sure by now we have all witnessed via WorldStar or YouTube the unfortunate and untimely death of Chicago honor student Derrion Albert. The footage sickened me and nearly brought me to tears. When viewing the video my mind put other faces from my childhood in place of the ones I was seeing. I saw Woo Dog and Spanky, both of whom were high school friends and died on Atlanta’s concrete corners, bullet riddled within a year of one another.

I saw Derrion as “Stinky” a small and loved kid who went to another high school and was stomped to death by an older student for speaking to his girlfriend. I saw Ronnie who is now a public school educator, but had it not been for a gunshot to the knee during a fight with students from a rival high school, who would (not could) have been a professional athlete. Even now as adults, when I see him on occasion I still see an 18-year-old on crutches crushed at the thought of his dream being lost because of an interschool rivalry. A rivalry between Frederick Douglass High and Benjamin E. Mays High nonetheless— cold and brutal irony that in the name of a black emancipator and educator, we black boys waged war in the street against one another. Why did we fight, for what? Truthfully, I still don’t know….

 View more of Killer Mike’ s Blog here.

Video

You can read the story here.

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R.I.P

Shavon Dean & Robert “Yummy” Sandifer (March 12, 1983 – September 1, 1994)

I remember this story when it happened back in 1994. I hope others do as well. Basically we need to make sure that the young kids today don’t follow the same path as Yummy.  We can put an end to this by mentoring or just being a positive role model in their lives.  Let’s show them that going to jail, getting shot, robbed or murdered is not what’s hot in the streets anymore.
Here is the entire article about Robert “Yummy” Sandifer that was featured in the September 19th 1994 issue of Time Magazine.

Murder In Miniature
At the age of 11, “Yummy” Sandifer killed and was killed. His short, violent life is a haunting tale.
By NANCY R. GIBBS

On a bright September afternoon last week, the mothers of Chicago’s South Side brought their children to a vigil for a dead boy they had never met. They wanted their kids to see the scrawny corpse in the loose tan suit lying in a coffin, next to his stuffed animals, finally harmless. The big kids dragged the little kids up to look at the stitches on his face where the bullets fired into the back of his head had torn through. The only picture the family could find for the funeral program was a mug shot. “Take a good look,” said the Rev. Willie James Campbell. “Cry if you will, but make up your mind that you will never let your life end like this.”

Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe. Lynn Jeneta, 29, took her nine-year-old son Ron. If he got scared enough, she decided, “maybe then he wouldn’t be lying there himself one of these days.” She pushed him right up to the coffin. Ron tried to stay calm. “Some kids said Yummy looked like he was sleeping, but he

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