[Photo: Chilly-O Clothing was one of the hundreds of companies at the MAGIC Convention, but they stood out by repping on rollerskates! Check the Flicks section for more photos – link below]Twice a year, thousands of eager retail store owners, buyers, fashion lines and celebrities converge upon the Las Vegas Convention Center for MAGIC. An acronym […]

  African-American women have made some major impact in the history of Hollywood. In some cases the characters are more memorable than the actresses themselves, and vice-versa. To kick off Women’s History Month, we found a few movies that made an impression across the board through the actresses, their characters and the stories.   Imitation […]

Every year, BET hosts some of the hottest fashion lines and biggest celebrities in their Rip The Runway special, and 2008 is no exception. The taping took place last week, and dozens of artists including Pharrell, T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, Lil Mama, the girls of Danity Kane, Flo Rida walked the red carpet. Of course, everyone’s […]

Bun B on the election in January 2008: “I’m still waiting to see [who I support]. I think its still a little early. I’m really, really leaning that way [towards Obama]. I’m sitting back and seeing who’s going to do what. I don’t know enough about Barack and it would be ignorant of me to […]

When Yao Ming went down last week with a season-ending stress fracture in his left foot, it was looking like the Houston Rockets’ playoff hopes were shattered. The injury was a tough break for the Rockets, who were playing their best basketball of the season and had won 13 straight games before Yao went down. […]

Damn. Andre “3000” Benjamin, one half of the musical phenomenon OutKast – the man justly dubbed “World’s Best Dressed Man” by Esquire magazine – is dressed like a flaming seahorse!   In the comedy Semi-Pro starring Will Ferrell (Jackie Moon) and co-starring Woody Harrelson (Monix), Benjamin plays basketball star Clarence “Coffee Black” Withers for the […]

First off, I’d like to apologize to all of you for missing the last week; but, alas, The Wolf needed to take his vacation to the Holy Land. If you’re interested you can catch up with my adventures over at Word of the People. Unfortunately, my timing was a bit off as the last couple […]

“Feels Good” Tony, Toni, Tone… “Poison“ BBD… “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”… “In The Light” Common/Eryka Badu…NV Nightclub-Lounge’s official Celebrity Weekend, “Put You To Bed,” Grand Finale hosted by J. Holiday had a little something for everyone that simply wanted to enjoy the night and get away from the chaos of the world, even “if only […]

Over the weekend I finally got to catch up on all of my movies – Mos Def and Jack Black’s Be Kind Rewind, Andre Benjamin and Will Ferrell’s Semi-Pro… heck I even got to see Vantage Point.   I’m actually kind of mixed on how I feel on all three films. If anyone else has […]

  Fans of The Wire, hold your heads high as one of the greatest shows on television readies for the grand finale on March 9.   Despite our looming angst about the end of the series, we have some young new characters to add to our “favorite gangster” lists. At the front of the pack […]

There are a lot of musical treasures across the Atlantic that we have yet to hear, and after the success of musical sensation Amy Winehouse (despite her shortcomings) one must ask, “What else do the British have to offer?” Well I’ve got the answer, and his name is Taio Cruz. His new single “She’s Like […]

  Every time I see a successful business person get interviewed, at some point, they drop this line in: “I work hard, and play hard.” Keeping that in mind, I found a couple things that let you do both.   If you’re a busy exec, or if you’ve got your grind on and you’re on […]

  What’s goin’ on everybody? This is your boy Cipha Sounds. As you know, with the help of Dr. Ian K. Smith from Celebrity Fit Club (sidebar: I guess I’m not a big enough celebrity to actually be on the show… I gotta work on that) I’ve decided to live a healthier lifestyle.    The […]

I want to talk a little bit about the Hip-Hop Summit. Somebody forwarded me a blog and I’m not sure if it was written by the Summit’s people, but I wanted to make a clarification. I’m on the Wal-Mart advisory board, that’s why I wasn’t there [at the Action Awards in NYC]. The advisory board […]

The big talk before the ring walks was that we were finally taking a step forward to a unified world heavyweight champion. Conventional wisdom was that the frontrunner, Wladimir Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs), would stake his claim by dispatching WBO champ Sultan Ibragimov (22-1, 17 KOs) in dramatic fashion.   Unfortunately, what fans got was […]

In an era of cookie-cutter brands and counterfeit labels, British design mavericks Melvyn de Villiers and Nick Cordell turned a job of creating t-shirt ideas for artists’ album releases into a lucrative fashion line called Money.   As former product merchandisers at Def Jam/Universal U.K., Melvyn and Nick worked with artists like Ja Rule and […]

[Photo: Alesis iMultimix 8 USB]Your mix: Whatever you do with it, however you choose to represent, what comes out of the speakers is your stamp, your sound and how you are identified.   Mixers and controllers are everywhere, in every price range. Checking out everything at the winter NAMM show in California would have required […]

Black Supermodels are multi-faceted, and some are even multi-millionaires. More importantly, they are role models to young minorities – proving that the impossible is indeed possible.   Grace Jones, Veronica Webb, Naomi Sims, Naomi Campbell and Djimon Hounsou are fine examples of how a small opportunity can turn into a lifetime of great happenings.   […]

At midnight last night, Janet Jackson zealots lined up outside of the Virgin Megastore in Times Square to purchase Janet’s new release (and 10th studio album) Discipline. The payoff from that midnight meandering was guaranteed entrance to the Nokia Theater down the street for a special taping of Janet Jackson performing on ABC’s Good Morning […]

  Last week, Erykah Badu held an “intimate” listening session for Part One of her two-part release New AmErykah. As the petite powerhouse briefly spoke on the nature of Part One, it rang clear that Miss Badu put every ounce of her being into this work. That’s not to say that her classics Baduizm and […]