Happy Birthday to Us!
FAST in the SLOW LANE is one year old today! After a quick start, things have calmed down considerably. Due to a few life changes that altered my writing schedule, the frequency of posts went from daily, to rarely, to none. This is going to change! We’ve built too much momentum to let FAST in … Continue reading
Features | What’s to Gain from Higher Education?
Ed.’s Note: I dropped this over at Technorati last week. Read, contemplate, comment. Article first published as What’s to Gain from Higher Education? on Technorati. “Don’t believe everything your earlobe captures, it’s mostly backwards.” As a longtime advocate of higher education, I’ve seen the model for achieving individual success change so drastically that today, I’d … Continue reading
Exclusive| Lady Luck Interview x 3 New Songs| Features
For a woman who goes by the name “Luck,” a few might say she hasn’t had much of it. Released from her Def Jam deal with an album, Turn My Mic On, that never got to see daylight, Lady Luck could have packed it in, right? Wrong. Anybody on their grind knows that that hard … Continue reading
Talib Kweli (Ruby Hornet Interview)
In the game for over a decade, Talib Kweli Greene made his name when he burst onto the scene as half of Black Star. Kweli sat down with Ruby Hornet correspondent, Vaughn Roland, for this informative interview. I’m constantly evolving and changing, but I also know what I’m good at. Gutter Rainbows is the album … Continue reading
“Beauty” is Her Name: Beauty P
In the age of sex and scandal, where no-names leak nude pics of themselves hoping for a shot at their 15 minutes of fame, I saw something different. A YouTube video for an upstart rapper featured a young woman dancing. Sounds pretty boring, right? It gets even worse when I tell you that she was … Continue reading
Jay Electronica: Do This My Way (RESPECT Magazine)
By the time you read this: Jay Electronica may have, at long last, landed a record deal. Or not. It’s hard to predict the future of the enigmatic MC who electrified the rap world from the end of ’09 to early 2010 with a song called “Exhibit C.” Produced by Just Blaze, who broke the … Continue reading
On Haynesworth
This article originally appeared at manswrites.blogspot.com Many minds, from NFL insiders to armchair GMs, have an opinion on this Albert Haynesworth thing. Here’s mine. Despite any acclaim Haynesworth has earned in the league with his play, my highlight reel for him contains two clips. The first is him stomping on Andre Gurode’s face during a … Continue reading
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