News: Swimwear, Ice Cube, Kelis

 

· "Focus, Meredith. FOCUS!" The ladies of The View have trouble concentrating on swimwear fashions presented by Lloyd Boston.

· Ice Cube becomes the latest rapper-actor to critique Oprah. "She's had damn rapists, child molesters and lying authors on her show, and, if I'm not a rags-to-riches story for her, who is?"

· The Pussycat Dolls will not be immortalized in plastic. Thousands of parents complained the miniature plastic figures of the all-female pop group were "precocious irresponsible sexuality" marketed to little girls.

· After you've ogled the retro Matthew Rush editorial in the new Genre, check the ROFL interview with Kelis on page 17. The "bossy' hip-hop star is explained the definition of a bossy bottom—"Hilarious! I know exactly what you're talking about!"—and shares her thoughts on why so many gay men love the sistahs: "Black women are very expressive—the way I tell someone off, the way I walk into a place. Especially trannies, they take what is feminine and exaggerate it. I don't just walk into a room, I sashay."

Comments

[Lee Owens]

Kelis is fierce, thanks for the heads up.

[greg]

I'm reading interview, it's good that she speaks out on homophobia. Too bad this isn't to a hip-hop audience, but as you pointed out with Busta in Vibe, those "journalists" never ask those questions.

[Michael]

Meredith is focusing on the brother candy plus that new gig at Today. Rod, we know you love Katie Couric, are you following her to CBS?

[Tony R]

Not sure what to make of the rap and hip-hop backlash against Oprah. Apparently its been brewing for some time. But its plainly obvious her show is programmed for white women and shall we say bourgeois blacks., But that is not a problem, many of the people whom Ice Cube and Ludacris speak to are simply not interested in Oprah's pop psychology.

I've been lurking for some time and may I say that this is a great blog. Just looking at the abopve section--hot men, a silly pop group, Ice Cuvbe vs Oprah and Kelis on gays--it's very diverse. No one else does this for black gay men. No one.

[Joe Jons]

So the first week of summer is swimwear week at Rod 2.0? Keep it up.

[Dexter]

Well, I can understand why Meredith was having a hard time focusing. Man, is that man fine.

Sidenote: "The View" is a guilty pleasure of mine. They have really interesting topics, from time to time.

[missrosstoyou]

Well, let's see Ice Cube... Perhaps Oprah doesn't feel that being a rags-to-riches story gets you a pass on the words, Nigger, bitches and ho's and the denegration of "our people" in YOUR music on HER show. Think about it.

PS Get a real name!