While performing “Lil Freak”, from his sixth studio album Raymond v. Raymond, he tells the Essence crowd “I hope you don’t mind if I get a little freaky, can you handle it ladies”. He actually puts his hands down his own pants and does a few not safe for work actions!

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Spike Lee has never been one to shy away from controversy.  In the 1988 film School Daze, Lee gives a semi-autobiographical account of his experience attending Morehouse College, the historically all male black institution in Atlanta, Georgia.  With a satirical eye, Lee explored hot-button topics such as colorism, misogyny, class divisions and apartheid.

While School Daze opened to some positive reviews with mainstream film critics, segments of the African-American community were unhappy with Lee airing their dirty laundry. In fact, Lee was asked to halt production while filming on the campuses of Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta University because they felt School Daze cast black colleges in a negative light.  Coincidentally, some cast members of the film (Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Darryl M. Bell) would go on to star in Bill Cosby’s sitcom, “A Different World,” which gave a more positive and sympathetic view of  black college life.  Lee would continue to be a cinematic provocateur, going on to direct racially and politically charged dramas like Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, and Bamboozled.

The Urban Daily lists five reasons why School Daze continues to be one of the best films about higher learning.

Lawrence Fishburne—Fishburne gives a winning performance as Vaughn “Dap” Dunlap.  Dap is outspoken and politically progressive, but in a cruel twist of fate, his views are not welcome in setting that should foster independent thinking.  Between his pressuring school administrators to divest from South Africa and bumping heads with fraternity head Dean Big Brother Almighty (Giancarlo Esposito), Dap is considered Public Enemy #1.

Good Hair—In one of School Daze’s most memorable musical numbers, the two sororities on campus tackle one of black America’s dirty little secrets.  The light-skinned “Wannabes” and the browner, earthier looking “Jigaboos” is a painful reminder of the daily struggle black women endure  in a country that judges them on a Eurocentric standard of beauty.

Samuel Jackson—Jackson plays one of the town locals, who has  a serious inferiority complex when it comes to the students at Mission College.  In a confrontation with Dap and his boys, Jackson states “College don’t mean shit…Y’all n*ggas and y’all gonna be niggas forever—just like us!” In 2011, the class lines in the black community are still sharply drawn as evidenced by the feuds between Grant Hill and Jalen Rose, and the Spike Lee vs. Tyler Perry debate .

Soundtrack—Who would have thought that a movie as serious and topical as School Daze would produce one of the 80’s hottest club bangers?  E.U., a go-go group from Washington D.C. scored a pop hit with “Da Butt” creating a new dance sensation, and charted at #35 on Billboard’s Hot 100 list. And who could forget Tisha Campbell’s “I Don’t Wanna Be Alone Tonight?”


The Ending—No Spike Lee movie is ever complete without a ‘message’. After witnessing the debauchery during homecoming weekend, Dap takes matters into his own hands and literally shake some sense into the student body. Lee would prove eerily prophetic in this dramatic ending, as our people battle alarming statistics today: almost 70% of black children are born into single parent homes and only 47% of black males earning high school diplomas. We indeed need to “WAKE UP!”

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Dru Hill performed at Stone Soul 2011 with a member that most of Richmond had never heard of. Tao, the groups newest member was introduced by Sisqo during the show as he held his own performing songs new and old from the long list of hits in the Dru Hill catalog. Check out the video of their performance below…

Lloyd held it down and had all the ladies at Stone Soul 2011 going crazy! Check out video and pictures from his performance below…

Born May 27, 1971, Left Eye appeared to have been a star from day one. Rapping, singing, dancing, and writing her way to the top, she and the members of TLC (T-Boz and Chilli) are what we now know as music icons, trendsetters and the real reason why R&B music is where it is today. The trio blessed us with the familiar hits “What About Your Friends,” “Creep,” “Waterfalls,” and “No Scrubs” since their debut back in 1991.

Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes departed from this world far too soon and devastated many on April 25, 2002 after fatal car accident in Honduras took her life. The world still hasn’t quite gotten over the tragic end to the superstar’s life and career, but we know that she’s somewhere in heaven looking down on each of us and reminding us to live each day as if it is our last.

Today we salute the life, legacy, the music and the memory of the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. We miss you, we love you and we will never forget you! TLC lives on forever!

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Born Malcolm Little, Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. He was also a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans. Today Malcolm X would have turned 86 years old. Happy 86th Birthday Malcolm X.

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Today is Stevie Wonder’s 61st birthday. Among Wonder’s best known works are singles such as “Superstition,” “Sir Duke,” “I Wish” and “I Just Called to Say I Love You”. Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVIE!

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