Everyone looks good. So I guess it’s safe for Frank Lucas to be out and about wasn’t he in witness protection?

everyone looks nice. EXCEPT for brandy. and on a serious note. does frank lucas have a disease or something?

Alicia looks good as usual
and i’m glad Brandy is back on her feet
and is it me or is she looking better and better
as the days grow?

Alicia looks good

ALICIA IS SHOWIN EM’ UP! WOW BRANDY! AND NAS AND LL JUST AS FINE AS THEY WANNA BE. THEY WIVES OUGHT TA BE HAPPY, LOL

Man I got to see that movie this weekend! I know it’s gonna be CraZy!

why is the ex-drug lord…still around not in jail!!..For some reason i think the whole American gangster movie ..doesn’t teach any lesson….when Hollywood have taken in into their hand to make movie about every damn person….even though it doesn’t help change anything…now every drug dealer out there would be striving more so they can make a movie about them..Hollywood is full of crap most especially the movie industry…everyone is trying to take advantage of any opportunity to make money…..even super head is making movie about herself!! just wat we need…another senseless movie….

I saw American Gangster a couple of months ago, because I went to a preview for journalists, and it is a GOOD MOVIE. Everyone go see it.

Alicia Keys is so shapely and beautiful!

LL Cool J just looks scrumptious!

I’m glad to see Brandy’s cute smile again even though her choice of clothes is questionable…

@ 7. Click on the Frank Lucas link I put in the post. It goes to his wikipedia page and explains what happened with his case. He snitched on some corrupt cops, so they knocked down his prison term.

Nas be lukin HOT AS HELL. He could get it.

Ms Keys still got dat ol junk in the trunk. Work it gurl.

Brandy looks cute wit that haircut. Glad she’s gettin back on track. Much love sister.

brandy and LL have zero fashion sense.

smh @ the get up denzel’s wife is wearing.

…PS As cute as Brandy looks, that outfit and hair makes a bit like somethin out of Japan. She looks like she dressing to be a chick out of them Anime movies.

brandy was cold at least she have cloths on and not trying to get sick like these other heffas more power to u brandy

nas makes me horny………lol

King Kong ain’t got nothing on Denzel.

Frank Lucus you don’t look so tough now………I’ll kick your ass.lol

Good to see that n**ger Nas.

Alicia looking good……LL looking sharpe.

Brandy looking fantastic………….F* y’all Brandy HATERS.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m looking forward to hearing Nas’s discourse to see how he represents himself against the people that will come against him and attempt to confound him in these different interviews. The easiest way to embarass a house negro is to tell the truth. They will get frustrated.

@ angel…i know about all that …but i still don’t just see why that should be enough…Americans promote all these shits that are happening in their country …Fucked up shits…that guy is suppose to be suffering not big stars making a movie about him…and him getting rich.

Alicia keys is Da bOmB….i have all her albums

Brandy looks like shes suffering.

Nas do you

I sure hope like hell ole Frankie made his peace with the man up stairs after all the shit he’s done in his life….

So typical of Hollywood to glamorize a murdering, snitch…. but hey someone has got to make money some how…

Oh yeah, as I said before the movie isn’t that great!

American Gangster sucked!!! Don’t waste your money people, I’m serious.

Frank Lucas has some big ass hands.

If I see another pic of brandy at this event and in those clothes Ima jump off a bridge.

Go ahead and jump. Brandy has been MIA for months now. I’m happy to see pics of her in the mix. Keep doing it big CL!

@#17 and #18

I agree 100%. It will do nothing but make a generation of impoverished and marginalized kids feel further justified in doing the wrong thing… When, the reality of it all is Frank Lucas, a haggard thug gets a Hollywood biopic, starring an Oscar winning actor and sure to make tens of millions of dollars and yet has to beg the star for a car in return for his cooperation… He wants a Rolls Royce, he says…but Denzel helps him get a house, instead… The story is really lame, if you think about it…

And, Superhead’s movive…I’ll bet my hair there’s an awkwardly negative portrait of Bill Maher…and I bet the quality of the film with be Grade A because I’m sure some Conservative group will give her money to paint an embarrassing portrait of Bill. I bet you’re wondering what could embarrass the man… I’m thinking she’s going to paint him as an uber bigot who maybe idolizes Kennedy and is secretly self-conscious about his nose or something….

Denzel ass is forever trying to squeeze somebody azz. He is a perv ,and his wife hair looks greasy and artificial with all that money they have.Naz is a nigger ,but don’t get upset because i am black yall.

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oh forget it, my typing skills suck!

American Gangster was a really good film i thought… i did like the documentary on BET better though.. That dude Frank lucas was kinda crazy… Dayummmmm

Ms Keys looks nice

NIce to see Brandy

lmao @15

***EVERYONE LOOKS GOOD***

How was the movie (American Ganster)?

Hold up! Is that Denzel’s wife!?! She looks like she could be his mother. 0_o

American Gangster is one of my fave movies of the year. Aside from the fact that lil’ boys are going to be running around trying to be like Frank.Thinking that ish is coo.

Poor poor Frank. He looks like he’s having a seizure. & he STILL won’t admit the fact that he has killed many people. sick.

LL needs to quit lickin’ his damn lips already!

American Gangster’s script was all over the place…but it was a good movie overall.

AMERICAN GANGSTER IS MY NEW FAVORITE MOVIE

Yeah, I went and saw American Gangsta. Pretty good. Him and his wife look good together.

denel is ugly and look a mess & pauletta looks a fool with them synthetic micro braids with all the money they got she could have atleast upgrade 2 some HUMAN HAIR, damn!!!!!!!!!

they must’ve had 2 paint make up on alicia keys because her face is pimpled up

ll looks like he has that nasty man diease

Some people say the movie was good some say it wasn’t, when I go to the shop to get my hair done I’ll see the bootleg and give ya’ll my opinion later lol.

It’s nice to see Brandy out and about, but she could have put on something that looked better.

Well I explained my thoughts and feelings about the film American Gangster. What I can say about it now is thank God I downloaded it instead of spending $10.50. But other than that, Denzel’s wife looks real haggard. All that money he makes and you would’ve thought his wife could put it to good use.

As for Alicia Keys, she’s gorgeous and all but she has to take that ghetto-ness out of her throat. It’s terribly unappealing.

At least y’all can now respect mama Tina….because i know she can never come on the red carpet wiv Matthew looking like she’s selling yams!!…geshhh!! …she need a makeover from Oprah ASAP…

@35 please get the name right before you try to clown him! lol

Anyway, the movie was only good b/c of Denzel….on bootleg that is….lol

Everyone looks good but Brandy.

I like the documentary better as well.

Last note: If little kids strive to be him then that means their parents didn’t expose them to what they could be. That isn’t his fault people’s parents don’t raise them right. Thank God for my parents!

I saw the ‘American Gangster’ early today (no bootleg). I thought the movie was excellent. I don’t believe it was Denzel’s intent to glamorize the life of Frank Lucas. Mr. Lucas took down alot of his family members - they either died or went to jail. He did 15 years in jail and lost over $250 million (once he was caught). There is nothing glam about this life. Frank Lucas was a drug dealer in the early 70’s. Over 30 years later, the US is still trying to win the war on drugs. It is a lost cause. Make the ish legal and take the profit out of the business.

As for Nas…I am so sick and tired of black people continuing to set us back. I am sure Nas thinks he has a good reason for putting out an album called ‘Ni$$er’. It is an embarrassment (sp?) to black people and he (and his record company) should be ashamed.

Just my two cents this Sat evening….

#35 Your Hating ass do know that pimples go away right??? Or are you that slow?

One more point…why are there people that are proud to have watched a bootleg movie? The same people who are buying bootleg movies are probably watching those movies in their new construction homes with a 2007 vehicle parked in the garage. Yet, cannot afford a $7 (matinee price in suburban Detroit) movie ticket.

#43 not with a double degree in Law and Psychology. I think not. Just b/c someone watches a movie on bootleg doesn’t mean we can not afford it. You are thinking to deep on this post. It is not that serious. As a matter of fact I seen it at the barber shop while my juvenile client was getting a hair cut. I am a Federal Juvenile Counselor. Didn’t your mama teach you not to jump to conclusions b/c more than likely you will be wrong??? lmho….some people!

I thought the movie was alright. I did prefer the doc. on BET better though. But nevertheless, the movie depicted most of the story.

What happened to Frank Lucas wife and child?

Denzel did his thing in this movie…it was really good. As for the real Frank Lucas, he appeared really arrogant in the BET interview they did recently. A big turn off cuz someone of that age should have gained some wisdom between now and then. I didn’t even want to see the movie after his interview…If it wasn’t for the fact that I had a date yesterday, I wouldn’t have seen it b/c I didn’t like his arrogance; it was beyond confidence.

@44…Obviously you are taking this a bit too personal since you took time out to respond. Trust me, I was taught very well by my mother.

Some people…

Alicia is looking hot!

@ 45…in the end of the movie it said that the wife went back to puerto rico and his mom went back to north carolina. I wasn’t ever sure if she had a child b/c she didn’t in the movie at least but she did look pregnant in the movie after they got married.

The movie was good but slow in alot of parts didn’t really care about the cop and his wife stuff.

OMG…Nas is sooo sexy!!! I wouldn’t mine havin a little rendevous w/him

LL lickin his sexci lips as usual!
keys luk pretti

I agree with #50
The beginning was extremely slow…
The movie was cool though.

I just came from seeing American Gangster. It was a good movie. From the way Denzel (LOOOOVE his swagger…dayum!) portrayed him, I would think that Frank Lucas was seriously bi-polar. He got 15 years for turning in over 75% of the NY Drug Enforcement Agency.

I left the movie wondering where he was and what he was doing. Frank was smart; the Feds seized over $250 mil in cash and assets…I’ll bet he had $500 mil no one new about. And I’ll bet you this day, he hates fur coats LOL!

Brandy looks good - I don’t particularly care for that outfit, but if it works for her…

NAS is the man.

I heard that Jay-Z and LL are supposed to have a freestyle battle…and that most people are thinking that LL will come out on top of that…hmmm…He looks good though for 40…

Alicia needs help from Jenny Craig. Seriously my peoples.

Did anyone see the Lynched documentary on CNN? It puts Nas album title in perspective. I love Nas and we go back like chiropractors, but I disagree with his choice of album title and his logic behind it. I am anxious to see what ultimately comes of it. AG was a pretty good movie. T.I. looked sooo young.

Shiat y’all - Pauletta don’t care bout all that…she’s got Denzel LOL!

55.Jashawn

I’m just saying, why does Alicia Keys need Jenny Craig?You got on bi-focals or something?

Who the fuck told Frank Lucas he could come outta hidding just cause the movie coming out; he could still get popped with the quickness and no regret….he better take his wheelchair riding arthritic looking ass home and catch that shit on the dvd.

I swear LL and Maxwell make me want to stalk the shit out of them for real, and i aint no stalkin chick.

Luv Brandy, hate that damn outfit; it looks homely as hell.

Nas looks like he’s in the zone.

Alicia looks pretty, but i swear, her weight is so up and down; one minute you’d swear she crashed dieted and the next she’s gained it back. it’s weird. I’m so glad the lord didn’t make me that way; i truly feel sorry for those who are constantly battling their weight so they don’t look fat, and it just seems alicia, beyonce, ashanti are thick as hell one minute (a cupcake away from big girl), then the next minute they have lost it. I truly don’t believe it’s a blessing to have their shape at all. Big jumbo legs and thighs; hellz no. It looks cute on some people (when it’s controlled) but i would seriously be depressed if i had to deal with that.

1. Frank Lucas’s wife served time as well (ref: http://www.accessatlanta..../11/02/gangster_1103.html)

2. Franks daughter, Francine, went to live with her maternal grandparents in puerto Rico at the age of 6 (ref: above link)

3. Frank suffers from severe arthritis which is why he is stricken to a wheel chair (ref: Jet magazine 11/05/07)

4. I saw the movie, I left wondering, could Frank Lucas be a major contributor to the impoverished lives of african-americans who lived in harlem/new york during and after that time period. I believe Frank should still be behind bars until the day he dies; I don’t care how many people he turned over to state’s evidence

“American Gangster” is an INSTANT CLASSIC!!!… Among the best of its genre. I saw it when it opened last night… Then headed over to “Jet” to see Nas perform. He was awesome!!!

LMAOOOO @ 59 [lucas comment]
i am hearing mixed reviews on this movie, it
makes me wanna just wait for a while, but im
still anxious, so, i dunno!
LL is fine and all, but he’s taking this
lip licking thing to an extent.

thats enough.

I saw American Gangster and overall I thought it was a great movie. I had really enjoy it. I think you will love and appreciate the movie more if you are older. I think if you are a little young you won’t care to much for it.

Denzel, as always, 2 thumbs up!! Love to see he and his wife withstand the Hollywood B.S…

Frank Lucas, dude was no joke!

Last but not least, L.L. looks LUCIOUS!!!***

Denzel said he wouldn’t do the movie unless they showed Frank Lucas’s downfall. Why would anyoe want to be like him he ended up poor. They made a movie about Jesse James, actually lots of movies about Jesse James. They made movies about Al Capone , The Godfather etc. They made a movie about Ed Gein the serial Killer.

This movie was NOT only about Frank Lucas but also about Richie Roberts the cop that brought him down. I liked the movie a lot and I’m glad there wasn’t a lot of violence.

People don’t like it , because there are not a lot of shoot em up scenes nor a lot of violence. It is basically a crime drama more so than a gangster movie and the movie is getting good reviews from critics. The reviews are NOT mixed.

So if you ar eolder you would like it.

I’m glad Denzel is versatile and can play different types of roles as an actor . I was kind of sick of him playing the good guy. It’s like dude don’t you want to challenge yourself and not limit yourself to one type of role.

Anyway I enjoyed the film. I highly doubt anyone would want to be like Frank Lucas at the end of the day look what happened to him. Sure he has a house and NO he won’t be getting paid a lot of money from the movie.

Nas & Lil Scrappy look alike….

I think “American Gangster” should have been called “American Tragedy.”
Because if your dumbass was making a million dollars a day and you’re
broke now. You are a tragic dumb motherf**ker……………IMO.

As for Nas in Vegas, I was at that lil performance, I’m even in the pic posted, ugh. I was pissed. He went on over an hour late. He showed up about 30 min late and for the other 30 min, he just wanted to be in the back smokin his cigar. He was drunk as hell and he only did two song, when he himself said he would do three. But I think the DJ pissed him off so he didn’t do the last one. Why do celebs think that they can go on whenever they want here in Vegas cause we ain’t got no last call?!?!?!

@65 Nikki

I hear you, but for all those people you mentioned who got movies made in their honor, there was a portion of the population who emulated these people. But when this emulation takes place, no one wants to take responsibility for it. The reality is we have people in our society that think fictions can be made into real life, and some actually cannot tell the difference between the two. We can call them stupid, and we can say their parents didn’t teach them, we can say they didn’t have god in their life, we can say all sort of things, but the actual reality is, everytime we buy a gangsta cd, or purchase a ticket to a movie like “american gangster” we are reinforcing these images, in which some will fall prey to it’s likeness. Some poor man will fall in love with the power denzel displayed in playing frank lucas. And we all can hypothesize about the actual message of the film, however, some will always view it as glamorizing a particular lifestyle…i haven’t seen the movie yet, just the previews, however, i can’t imagine what “good” message a urban inner-city kid with weak values and morals, no parents, no church home, and taste for wealth and the fast lifestyle would get from this movie. For this person, the movie would simply provide a “how to” affect. Step 1 to becoming a notorious gangster, step 2, and so forth. He won’t get the message that some will get and see the outcome as bad. The sad truth is alot of drug dealers will tell you straight up, i know i’m going to die one day, probably before my time, and i know i will go to jail, but i’ll live good for a while and i can help my family get things and do things they would have never been able to do. Sounds sad, but alot of people who decide to become drug lords feel they are doing what they have to do, and see their lives as a sacrifice and the means to an end. And sadly their boys view them as “fallen soldiers.”

I’m on the fence of whether or not i will actually pay to see this film even though i don’t necessarily agree with glamorizing these type of societal characters. Any type of attention = glamorization on some level to me….i hate that even one man will view this as a means to get over. Bootleg will probably be the way i go for now.

alicia don’t need no damn jenny craig…. she looks like a NORMAL person. some of yall on here are ridiculous…seriously.

as for american gangster, i saw it on bootleg too, and it was good. although, i thought there was some glamourization of this lifestyle, and the fall only encompassed the last 10 minutes of the film. and lastly, other than Ruby Dee and the lady with the red hair who ran one of frank’s drug houses, no other black women got any speaking parts in the damn movie. the sistas were just there naked for eye candy pretty much.

please people denzel aint all that anymore!!1….his wifey makes him look ugly…cant u guys see the way bee makes jay look fine…

As for Nas, notice his new target audience right? Cuz’ obviously it’s not us… I just keep thinking, there is some white music executive somewhere who approved his album title. L.A. Reid has to answer to somebody…and that person is giving it the thumbs up. They’ve been sitting back watching us destroy our culture through the arts for years while getting paid !…, and our artists are too stupid to realize what they are doing.

jscene
Saturday, November 3, 2007

Alicia looks pretty, but i swear, her weight is so up and down; one minute you’d swear she crashed dieted and the next she’s gained it back. it’s weird. I’m so glad the lord didn’t make me that way; i truly feel sorry for those who are constantly battling their weight so they don’t look fat, and it just seems alicia, beyonce, ashanti are thick as hell one minute (a cupcake away from big girl), then the next minute they have lost it. I truly don’t believe it’s a blessing to have their shape at all. Big jumbo legs and thighs; hellz no. It looks cute on some people (when it’s controlled) but i would seriously be depressed if i had to deal with that.

Funny you say this, as these are the women Black men seem to covet the most.

I think Alicia is beautiful. Thank God that he made her body the way he did.