AAD ON TV, MUSIC, MOVIES

I love Hip-Hop.  It has framed my life as it has and does for so many.  I was cutting class in high school and The Notorious B.I.G. walked into the pizza shop where I had stopped to grab a bite.  His red Land Cruiser gleaming in the bright Brooklyn sun.  I'll never forget that moment [...]

I was reading an article today in Slate about a possibly racist gay white (folk?) rock artist that thought that the notoriously racist 1946 Disney song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Da was a “great song.”  Then I was reminded of a run in with a rather questionable Disney CD that I picked up at a major toy store chain [...]

Tonight the soon to be defunct UPN premiered two episodes of the black family comedy “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.”  The show was created by, of course, Tyler Perry (aka “Madea”).   He’s a guy I usually like (my wife on the other hand LOVES him), and it was very clear by the time the credits rolled that it [...]