Where is the real talent? I respect all R&B artists, but in my day you had to be able to sing and dance. Now you can have a little bit of voice, and just dance all over the world. And you are the future of R&B! That’s unfair.
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Entertainment
Interview: Delroy Lindo
One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I’ve learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.
Enter Empress R.A.W
The Empress R.A.W is definitely a trendsetter with her own sense of style. Her lyrics are animated with a mix of street, conscious and a hint of soul. She is carving a niche and a lane of her own which will be hard to imitate.
Interview: Derek Luke
I loved it because these people, their songs were about your heart, and about your strength. And when you’re singing songs about your heart and your strength, you no longer have blood flowing in your veins, you just have purpose. You have venom. It’s like, “I will die at any cost!�
Elegant Beauty, Tika Rainn
“When I was eight years old, I was hit by a car,� this lovely model and actress recalls. “Holding on to the hood, begging for my life, he just kept swerving until he threw me off into the woods.�
Virginia’s Beauty, Ebonii Barbour
This 27 year-old beauty hails from Newport News, VA. She’s been modeling off and on for the last six years, mostly fashion shows for local designers and salons. “I knew shortly after my first fashion show that this was something I was meant to do,� she tells The Black Star News.
SPHINX AT CARNEGIE HALL
The concert featured the intoxicating Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, comprised of top African American and Latino alumni Sphinx competition winners, who opened the concert with a rendition of The Star Spangled Banner so beautiful as to breathe new life into the age-old masterpiece that had somehow become cliché.
Monica Is Back!
This is her fourth album to date and comes after a three year break in which Monica gave birth to her first child, and a rocky relationship with rapper Young Buck. This album is worthy of a comeback album tag.
Spruill: Dynamo & Beauty
“Big films are a goal of mine and I’m shooting for an Oscar," this dynamo continues. If her prior successes are any indication, will anyone dare doubt her words? Hope she’s already prepared her acceptance speech.
Young & Soaring, Autianna
Her peers seemed to think that being in Hollywood was just a fantasy. Her determination enabled Autianna to silence skeptics—at the age of 11, she landed her first Pepsi commercial.
