Loves, loves, loves B-Rocka. Come back to us B!!!! We need some change in audio….

dueces

#100 preach! That’s exactly what I am talking about…
# 140, I really hope that you was just giving general knowledge with that statement. I know no one in their right mind would think giving out a few effin turkeys at Thanksgiving would constitute “giving back” to the community.That man could have built a recreation mansion for the neighborhood with all that money he made. He was a terrorist to the black community, he only gave a damn about making his money. In all the interviews I have seen him in, he has no remorse or regret whatsoever. He thinks he sooo cute and that he was above the law. As smart as he thought he was, he effed up with his chinchilla, carrying weight in his car, and plenty of other things. It just shows that the drug game ends with either death or jail-ain’t no retirement plan in Orlando with that ish.

Brandy is pretty again,love da fit.now bring us sum mo! great music

#59
“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.”

Who even says all this about another black woman’s body? Because even if you are into the ultra thin thing, you know that most African American women have Alicia’s/Beyonce’s/Ashanti’s bodies. It is true for the majority of us, bigger butts and legs… And, it has nothing to do with being “one cupcake away” from anything…it’s our shape… My “Freshman 15″ was a “Freshman 30″, I went from a 5 to a 9 and guess what? I still looked the same…I still had the same shape…
So, the 1 cupcake theory is out the window…unless we gain to the point of obesity, we will always have the same shape so no man is going to quibble about the pounds…you shouldn’t, either…

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American Gangsta i sone of the best movies of the year…Tickets were sold out everywhere in toronto and the movie was well deserving….it did not only glorify the actions of Frank lucas but it also showed you the effect of his actions on society…a particular scene in the movie where they show him being a family man and also people suffering from what he was doing. This movie again also proves that denzel is a very great actor

PEOPLE SWEAR THAT NO ONE IN THE WORLD WOULD WANT TO FOLLOW IN FRANK LUCAS’S STEPS, BUT IF YOU WATCHED THE MOVIE, FRANK LUCAS NEPHEW IN THE MOVIE PLAYED BY T.I. EVEN TOLD HIS UNCLE THAT HE NO LONGER WANTED TO PURSUE HIS DREAMS OF BEING A BASEBALL STAR, INSTEAD HE WANTED TO BE LIKE UNCLE FRANK…….HMMM WONDER WHY…AND LIKE I SAID BEFORE, IN THE MOVIE SUGAR HILL, THE BOY THAT PLAYED IN CLUELESS WANTED TO BE LIKE WESLEY’S SNIPES’ DRUG DEALER CHARACTER, EVEN THOUGH HE CAME FROM A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD AND DIDN’T HAVE TO DO THAT, AND EVEN WHEN THE DRUG RIVALS SHOT HIM WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO COVER WESLEY’S CHARACTER, WHEN HE WAS DYING, HE WAS SMILING AND SAID ” I HAD YOUR BACK, BUT I HAD YOUR BACK.” NOW TELL ME WHAT WAS THIS YOUNG MAN’S INSPIRATION? I DON’T KNOW, SOME YOUNG MEN CRAVE THE POWER AND RESPECT THESE MEN SEEM TO DEMAND, AND THEY FIND THAT APPEALING.

PEOPLE WANT TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THE MOVIES AND EAT THEIR POPCORN AND SEE EXAMPLES OF VIOLENT MEN AND NOT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT. BUT THE REALITY IS SOME YOUNG MEN AND EVEN YOUNG WOMEN LOOK UP THESE UNSAVORY CHARACTERS, AND THEY ASPIRE TO HAVE MONEY LIKE THEM, POWER LIKE THEM, AND RESPECT LIKE THEM. THEY DON’T READ THE END OF THE BOOK WHEN THE CHARACTER IS KILLED AND/OR JAILED. AND IF YOU THINK THIS SHIT IS NOT HAPPENING IN RECORDS NUMBERS THEN YOUR HEAD IS IN THE SAND. IT IS HAPPENING, AND I NEVER SAID I KNEW THE ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM, I JUST DON’T DENY IT’S A REAL PROBLEM. THE MUSIC, THE VIDEOS, AND MOVIES, ALL THIS SHIT CONTRIBUTES TO THE STATE OF THE WORLD…

SOMEONE SPOKE ABOUT THE HARRY POTTER’S BOOK….WELL, THERE WAS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT TRIED TO GET THE HARRY POTTERS BOOK REMOVED FROM THE LIBRARIES.

I NEVER SAID ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT DENZEL AND HIS DECISION TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER, SO I DON’T KNOW WHERE THAT COMMENT CAME FROM.

@98 and 154

I wasn’t downing Alicia’s body, i said she’s a pretty girl. However, i did also say i, i personally would not want that type of body, and i’m entitled to that opinion….i wasn’t downing anyone. Anytime you are constantly dieting and watching every crumb that goes into your mouth cause it might go to your hips or thighs, i’m sorry, i don’t want that worry, and i’m glad so far i don’t have that issue. I just feel sorry for those who have to do that. Seems so unfair. And sometimes i wonder how happy they are with their actual weight cause it always seem to go up and down, like they diet and then they get tired of dieting. It must be frustrating as hell.

I don’t know alot of white males who want woman with big butts, i don’t think that’s their taste. I don’t think they mind the hips as much, but they also don’t seem to like big thighs. True, any man want a shapely woman, but shapely women come in all sizes, tiny women too. I have alot of white friends, and my white female friends be breakin their damn necks up in the gym trying to stay small cause they know their man will replace their asses if they miss a beat. i don’t think mainstream feels that way, that’s why anorexia and bullimia is on the rise, even among black women now. And hollywood don’t play that…they are even contradictory, one minute they say jlo have beauitful curves, then the next minute they are saying how the dress she’s wearing highlights her good features and mask her bad features like her big butt. See how their true feelings come out.

@ jscene
you would be depressed if you were the size of these women yeah right you have issues i bet you have a cute flat tummy with small legs but the problem is every eveything else is flat and small( hips,chest,@ss).

Brandy looks great! I was sort of taken aback by her ensemble at first, but after giving it further consideration, I really don’t mind it at all.

Oh, and Denzel’s wife is a QUEEN. Beautiful. I’d never seen her before.

Bill Says:

American Gangster is a GREAT Movie !!!!

American Gangster’ roughs up some big bucks
Crime saga rakes in $46.3 million; ‘ “American Gangster,” which stars Denzel Washington, helped revitalize Hollywood’s listless autumn.

LOS ANGELES - A heroin pusher put some sting back into the movie business.

Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe’s bloody crime saga “American Gangster” took in $46.3 million to lead the weekend box office, with Jerry Seinfeld’s family cartoon “Bee Movie” following with $39.1 million. Together, the movies revitalized Hollywood’s listless autumn.

“It took three of the biggest stars in the world to get the box office back on track, and they did it in high style with two totally different kinds of movies,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. “You had an R-rated movie and a PG-rated movie bringing in a really diverse audience.”

After six-straight weekends of declining revenues, overall business rose, with the top-12 movies taking in $127.2 million, up 12 percent from the same weekend last year, when “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” was No. 1 with $26.5 million.

Universal’s “American Gangster,” directed by Ridley Scott and starring Washington as 1970s Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas and Crowe as a Jersey cop on his trail, rode a wave of acclaim and Academy Awards buzz to debut at the top of the box office.

Audiences had been relatively disinterested this fall in serious R-rated films aimed at adults. Many of those earlier movies were box-office underachievers despite critical praise, but “American Gangster” landed with both good reviews and packed theaters.

Box office results
Estimated ticket sales for Nov. 2-4
1. “American Gangster,” $46.3 million.
2. “Bee Movie,” $39.1 million.
3. “Saw IV,” $11 million.
4. “Dan in Real Life,” $8.1 million.
5. “30 Days of Night,” $4 million.
6. “The Game Plan,” $3.85 million.
7. “Martian Child,” $3.65 million.
8. “Michael Clayton,” $2.9 million.
9. “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?”, $2.7 million.
10. “Gone Baby Gone,” $2.4 million.

Washington is known for heroic roles, yet as he did with his Oscar-winning turn as a bad cop in “Training Day,” he imbues Lucas with charm and charisma even as the man carries out savage deeds.

“American Gangster” was the biggest opening ever for the film’s two stars. Crowe’s previous best was $34.8 million for “Gladiator,” also directed by Scott, while Washington’s was $29 million for “Inside Man.”

“These are two great actors telling this true story of Frank Lucas,” said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution at Universal. “You couldn’t have picked a better cast.”

© 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

i’m with #19. it was not as good as you would have thought. way to long for it not to have really told a good story. it introduced to many characters without giving a background on them. things went to fast with no explanation. shit just started happening and left you thinking “what the hell just happened?” or “who the hell is that?”

i give the movie a “D” and the only reason it didn’t get an “F” was because ole Denzel did his thug thizzle. he really gaved the character life and for a moment, you thought he was really frank lucas.

CEO of Smack
Ridley Scott’s portrait of ’70s dope visionary Frank Lucas may not be epic, but it’s still super-fly
by J. Hoberman

American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem dope king Frank Lucas in Hollywood heaven, heir to Scarface and the Godfather. Or, as suggested by the Mark Jacobson article on Lucas that inspired the movie, a real-life Superfly.
Ambitious as American Gangster is, it’s well suited to Denzel Washington’s particular star quality—the circumspect badass. Washington plays Lucas as a combination of ruthless thug and gentlemanly striver. His two sides are established in a murky opening sequence when, factotum to old-school crime boss Bumpy Johnson, Lucas torches a guy in one shot and tosses Christmas turkeys to the crowd in the next.

It’s 1968, and Bumpy is complaining that corporations are pushing out the middle man. He then drops dead in the very chain-store outlet that prompted his disquisition, leaving Lucas to create a new empire—by eliminating the middle man. Rather than dealing with the mob, Lucas figures out a way to import high-grade heroin direct from Indochina. Then he takes Harlem by storm, selling smack that’s twice as good for half the price under the label Blue Magic.

Scott’s Lucas is more attractive, if less hypnotic, than the character profiled by Jacobson. (The writer notes that upon hearing tapes of his conversations with Lucas, his wife remarked, “Oh . . . you’re doing a story on Satan.”) To balance the moral equation, Steven Zaillian’s script introduces a Lucas nemesis in the form of actual police detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe). As Lucas is a visionary, Roberts is a man of stoopid integrity. Busting a bookie, he finds a car stuffed with unmarked bills and actually brings it in as evidence—causing his partner, soon to be revealed as a drooling junkie, to moan: “I’m a leper because I listened to you and turned in a million bucks.”

The world capital of smack and police corruption—such was disco-era New York. Still, for all of American Gangster’s discreet period markers and cleverly cobbled- together locations, it doesn’t get the period’s putrid exhilaration—the sense of irreversible decay and giddy disorder. Scrupulously academic, it does acknowledge the key texts of the day: Scott recycles the theme from Across 110th Street, references Sidney Lumet’s Prince of the City, and draws on the quintessential New York dope opera so closely that his movie might have been subtitled The “French Connection” Connection. Albeit directed with high-powered panache, American Gangster lacks The French Connection’s messy human drama and, a choreographed final bust notwithstanding, thrill-machine set pieces. The movie never spins out of control.

American Gangster functions on parallel tracks: As Roberts recruits a posse of lowlife cops, so Lucas brings his brothers up from North Carolina to help in the business. As the cop’s marriage falls apart, the gangster treats his wife, Miss Puerto Rico 1970, like a queen. Further, both men are humiliated and threatened by the predatory animals of the NYPD’s corrupt Special Investigations Unit. American Gangster and Honest Cop, each played by an Oscar-winning tough guy, finally converge when Roberts stakes out the Ali-Frazier fight and, spotting the self-effacing Lucas ringside in an uncharacteristic sable coat, has to wonder: “Who the fuck is that guy?”

Who indeed? Lucas is self-made with a vengeance, a cold-blooded killer and warm-hearted family man in one tightly wound package. It’s one of the movie’s running gags that nobody—certainly no white person save Roberts—seems able to understand that Lucas actually works for himself. American Gangster more than makes its point regarding his entrepreneurial spirit. But Roberts is actually more enigmatic: What makes him so irrationally honest? Could it be the same thing that inspires Lucas? Late in the movie, the gangster dodges an assassin’s bullet and waxes indignant: “I ain’t running from nobody—this is America.”

Marc Levin’s current documentary Mr. Untouchable, a portrait of Lucas’s better-known rival Nicky Barnes, shares American Gangster’s logic in presenting its subject as an all-American business genius. Barnes too brags about his professional operation and high-quality shit, dismissing Lucas and his family as rubes: “They acted country and they dressed country.” The corresponding cameo in American Gangster is a mirror image: When Lucas discovers that Barnes (broadly played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is slapping his Blue Magic brand on inferior smack, he confronts his competitor and, with all the indignation of an idealistic MBA, accuses him of “trademark infringement.”

That’s not the only grotesque irony to be found in American Gangster, although at 157 minutes, the movie is a tad leisurely in letting the audience in on Lucas’s secret dope-smuggling method—a social metaphor that gives the notion “wrapped in the flag” a whole new meaning.

Go Brandy

Alicia is perfect. When you meet her in person she not as big as she seems in pictures or on t.v. ; the same goes for beyonce.

Alicia album in stores 11/13/07 As I am

Damn Nas is looking Xtra sexy in that pic.
Bandy and Alica looks awesome!
That man is in a wheelchair for a reason
Denzel You too sexy to look this way fix yourself up!

American Gangster, In Theaters This Week
Taken From Wire and Staff Reports
The Birmingham Times
Originally posted 11/1/2007
http://thebirminghamtimes...p?NewsID=83528&sID=22

Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in the most highly anticipated film of the year
In American Gangster, two of Hollywood’s finest, Academy Award® winners Denzel Washington (Training Day, Glory) and Russell Crowe (Gladiator) lead a spectacular cast of accomplished and rising stars – including veteran actress Ruby Dee, the versatile Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jerry Maguire Oscar®-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Armand Assante, rappers RZA, Common and T.I. – in a blistering tale of a true American entrepreneur. Universal Pictures will release American Gangster nationwide on November 2nd.
American Gangster also brings together an outstanding team of Oscar® caliber filmmakers; producer Brian Grazer, director/producer Ridley Scott and screenwriter Steven Zaillian for a cinematic event that tells the true juggernaut success story of Frank Lucas (Washington), a cult superstar from the streets of 1970s Harlem, who rose to the heights of power by becoming the most ruthless figure in his business. Lucas was taken down by Richie Roberts (Crowe), an outcast cop driven to bring justice to the streets.
Filmed on location in New York and Thailand, American Gangster spans the years during the height of the Vietnam War, 1968-1974. Lucas and Roberts’ efforts in the post-Boomer society – separately and, eventually, together – would mark the beginning of the end of an era of complicit lawlessness that claimed thousands of lives. And in one corrupt city during one turbulent time, two men living on different sides of the American Dream had no idea they would move from mortal enemies to reluctant allies on the same side of the law.
The legend of heroin smuggler/family man/death dealer/civic leader Frank Lucas was first chronicled seven years ago in a New York Magazine article by journalist Mark Jacobson. In 2000, executive producer Nicholas Pileggi – who co-wrote the screenplays for Goodfellas and Casino with Martin Scorsese – introduced Jacobson to Lucas, thus beginning a journey in which Lucas recounted his outrageous rise and fall to the journalist. From watching his cousin murdered by the KKK in La Grange, North Carolina, to earning mind-boggling figures in drug sales to facing a lifetime in prison, Lucas had one stunner of a true tale.

Jacobson’s subsequent article, “The Return of Superfly,” unfolded the complex story of a desperately poor sharecropper who moved to Harlem and slowly bypassed the usual suspects of its burgeoning heroin scene to rule a New York City empire. Through selling a purer product at a cheaper price to thousands of addicts in the Vietnam-era streets, Lucas amassed a fortune calculated in the tens of millions – and the eventual attention of the law. Had he not been pushing an illegal, deadly substance new to this country, Lucas would have assuredly been celebrated as one of the keenest businessmen of the decade, if not the century, for his family-run enterprise.
Growing up penniless in a small Southern town, Lucas arrived in New York in 1946 as a self-described “different son-of-a-b***h.” For two decades, he worked side-by-side with Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (the inspiration for the 1997 film Hoodlum, starring Laurence Fishburne), serving as the kingpin’s right-hand man until Johnson’s death in 1968 – tutored in the ways of gangsters like Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano. And upon Johnson’s death, Lucas seized the reins. He changed the name of the game to the hot new import heroin and immediately put his stamp on the city – with a gun to the head of anyone who dared challenge him.
Fascinated by Jacobson’s article, Academy Award®-winning producer Brian Grazer optioned the project for Imagine Entertainment and met with Pileggi and Lucas to discuss the gangster’s exploits. Grazer was fascinated by the cautionary tale of a man with “the dream of corporate America who found a way to make a deal with individuals in Southeast Asia that could lead him to the highest grade of heroin.” He continues, “After he had this heroin, he would make a deal with U.S. military officers to import it in body bags of U.S. soldiers traveling from Vietnam back into America [the so-called Cadaver Connection]. I thought that was a remarkable, inescapable and interesting idea.” The producer would take this option and turn to veteran screenwriter Steven Zaillian to pen a script based on Lucas’ life.
Oscar® winner Zaillian was equally fascinated with the unlikely relationship between this multimillionaire thug/entrepreneur and this complicated cop-turned-prosecutor. He was certain to weave a shattering parable that didn’t just dramatize Lucas’ rise and fall but told of the juxtaposed path of his chief tracker and nemesis.
Roberts, who spent the late 1960s to early ’70s as an Essex County, New York, detective, was the man ultimately responsible for bringing down the folk hero. Grazer and Zaillian thought that what made this story especially compelling was not just Lucas – who lived by a strict code of family and community as he pushed poison into thousands of lives in the very community in which he lived – but also Roberts, who found his own destiny interwoven with that of the drug kingpin.
Washington, initially resistant to portray a man whose complex rise to power meant the death of so many, was captivated by the script and came aboard for the lead role. He was intrigued by the intricate story of Lucas’ life and believed the businessman who had hurt so many was, in fact, trying to redeem himself through years of penance.
To prepare for the role, Washington says he, “got in a room with Frank, turned on the recorder and talked with him. I didn’t try to imitate him, necessarily, but Frank’s such a charmer; that’s key to his character. I played Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter and did the same thing with him – just hung out with him, got him alone and got the truth – or, hopefully, got some version of it. But with Frank, I said, ‘Don’t tell me anything I don’t need to know. I don’t want to have to testify.’”
In his research, the New York native learned more than he thought possible about the drug trade, specifically, the Country Boys’ Blue Magic. “In those days, as the story is told, heroin was sold for $50,000 to $60,000 a kilo at 50 percent, 60 percent purity,” he comments. “Frank found it 100-percent pure for $4,200 a kilo and sold it on the street at a higher purity and lower price than his competition. You can do the math. He made an incredible amount of money, at one point claiming about a million dollars a day himself.
“However, what interested me in the story was not to glorify a drug dealer, and I told Frank that when I met him.” Interestingly, Washington wrote the biblical passage Isaiah 48:22 [“There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked”] on his shooting script to remind him of Lucas’ journey and quest for redemption.
Game for a third collaboration with the director and a third with producer Grazer, Crowe signed on for the part of the complicated and hardened police officer Roberts. He was interested in how Zaillian’s story captured the time and place in which the corrupt New York City, the borough of Harlem and the slightly simpler world of Roberts’ New Jersey operated as satellites of one another in the drug-fueled era. Corruption had become so rampant within the Narcotics Special Investigations Unit (SIU) community, according to journalist Mark Jacobson in “The Return of Superfly,” that “by 1977, 52 out of 70 officers who’d worked in the unit were either in jail or under indictment.” Roberts was the exception to the norm, and Crowe admired what he learned of the man.
With the two lead talents in place, the filmmakers filled out the enormous all-star ensemble with more than 30 principal roles. Working behind the scenes to bring this remarkable story to the screen, Scott and Grazer also assembled a crew of top-notch craftspersons. They include acclaimed cinematographer Harris Savides (Zodiac, The Yards), BAFTA-winning production designer Arthur Max (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down), Academy Award®-winning costume designer Janty Yates (Gladiator, De-Lovely), two-time Oscar®-winning editor Pietro Scalia (JFK, Black Hawk Down) and composer Marc Streitenfeld (A Good Year).
Executive producers of the drama include Nicholas Pileggi, Zaillian, Branko Lustig, Jim Whitaker and Michael Costigan.

Jscene:

I agree with all you said! Our culture is violent loving, sexually charged sespool of self hate and glorification of immorality. As a former gang member, call me stupid or what, but I’m a female and I grew up loving scarface and the godfather. I wanted that life style. Yes, i grew up in the hood, but I wanted to be a gangsta’s chick. I listened to rap music talking about bonnie and clyde. I saw my friends and what they did on streets and loved the money and power. I wasn’ the only one either.

Those images had an influence on me. I watched TV, but really there wasnt any positive role models to counteract the bad ones. i had my fam, but what teenager is really gonna listen to his or her parents? as a kid I thought I knew more than my moms. The school system didnt care. Believe it or not there are those who live in the suburbs that have turned to crime. I know many. There is a place for the ganster movie in our world, but there just isnt enough positive stuff for black folks, beside tyler perry.

Frank Lucas introduced a new kind of coke and herion to the streets. The stuff he had was so much more pure than the watered down stuff the mob was selling. He killed more people by introducing that stuff and more people got hooked. whoever said he was an american terrorist is correct. anyone that benefits from the murder of their own people is a domestic terrorist. He ruined harlem. yeah drugs were there, but not on that level. What he did was just as bad for the black communtiy as any klansmen, maybe worse. At least the klan hate and killed people who werent their own. All drug dealers are enslaving and killing their own people!! And the real drug kingpins, the suppliers, sit back and laugh at us while the poor people suffer. It’s like that all over the world, no matter what race you are.

The entertainment industry is a sick place. The cry and complain about stick thin chicks, then if a girl gains weight she is called fat. Nothing will change as long as we continue to buy the products that they sell. For instance Britney spears is a crzy unstable bad mother, but she has the #! Albumn. We reward bad behavior in this world!!! Alicia Keyes is fine to me, but the entertainment industy will never have a ugly thick chick as a really huge star. Looks and sex appeal is what counts, not talent. Sorry people I don’t agree with it, but thats the way it is.

Denzel and his wife are great. They are one of the few long standing hollywood marriages so we should have some respect!

#158,

why would I care what a white man likes? Why would I care what ANY man likes when it comes to MY BODY, but especially a WHITE ONE? And, I say that NOT because I find them foreign, I grew up around them and filipinos and other races and trust me…they DO NOT have a problem with our body type…lol

WOW, American Gangster really did revive the box office (but I find it harmful to a race of kids predisposed to violence and incarceration) I wonder if Jay Z’s album will fare as well…probably not…

Gemi:

I agree, who cares what a man wants really. if he don’t like you then his loss. As for white men, I have to say there are plenty of white men loving sistah’s and there are plenty of men of all colors that don’t like thin chicks, with no butt or breasts. look it up!! there are organizations and websites dedicated to thick women of all colors! I am a thick woman that has had no problem at all pulling any man no matter what his race is. It all depends on how you carry yourself and your confidence; personality, style.

Denzel’s wife be looking random like Tiffany’s mom…”Sista Patterson” on I love New York!!

Nas looks CHUNKY… not a good look…..

How is Brandy’s weave line doing?

Actually, Frank Lucas has at the very least 2 children. Francine his daughter and Frank Lucas jr. his son. But who knows, there could be more. With the popularity and glamourization of a gangster lifestyle I’m sure more and more of them will start popping up for their 15 in the limelight.

Thsi is incredible! Movies are made about people in history all the time. Hitler was a bad man. A movie was made about him and his reign of terror. People paid to see it. It is a history lesson. I thought it was interesting to learn about Harlem back in those days and what went on with our black people. No, I do not condone what lucas did. But what he did is a part of our h istory. Also, people get out of jail early all the time for cooperation. This man did 15 years of his life and was let out early for helping to uncover the largest operation of corruption in the New York police Department. What he did was wrong, he did time and now he is out. Whether he is remorseful or has repented- i dont know. Actually, none of us know. So, lets not cast judgment on the man. Denzel did a great job in the movie and the film was great. I left the theater wanted to google Frank Lucas so I can learn more because I know the movie could not tell it all. At the end of the day, it was a history lesson.

So, please people- stop with all the philosophical arguments about glorifying wrong doing.

MeatLoaf, Where have you been ?????

@35 OMG!! You must be the next top model!!! Who are you to sit around and decide who’s ugly? It’s easy to hide behind a computer screen. I bet you look like Tracy Chapman or some sh*t!! Do you have a fast car? Lmao…..I bet you don’t even know Tracy Chapman.

@58 How do you figure Alicia Keys needs Jenny Craig. You must be anorexic and think that shyt is cute. Baby, I’m here to tell you…thick is it! Skinny azz women that look sick are out. Listen to the lyrics in Kanye’s “The Good Life”. Ask your man….My bad!!!

Sup Bill!

I been chillin! Just reading…not posting!

l.l. need a mustache

nas look 15 yrs. old

brandy looks great

pauletta didn’t need the black hose. who wears pantyhose anymore?

LMFAO @ Brandy’s outfit. No this chick does not have on gray stockings!

And what kind of bird is Pauletta wearing? LOL! Ridiculous.

Alicia my baby always looking good and keeping it classy…It’s great seeing Brandy out and about can’t wait for the new album to drop it’s been way to long since Afrodisac!!

American Gangster is a movie that everyone should see because it explains “How dope made it into America” during the 60’s to the present. There is a line in the film from an actor who says “What do you want us to say - America is trafficing drugs?” But - that is the truth.
Hollywood has been glamorizing the “Gangster” for quite a while. Actors gravitate to these roles because they do make for interesting characters and the actor can play it up. Look at how Bonnie & Clyde made American folklore by their exploits of bank-robbing. As an audience, we are fasinated by these types and want to know what drives them, A great actor brings these characters to life by giving them something the public can digest and understand. The movie is only going to be as good as the script, director and actors. This movie accomplishes all three with a powerhouse of “can’t miss” personnel.

listen i know frank lucus he and my grandfather are best of friends. frank is not broke!!! he might not have as much as he did but he still has millions!! if you ask him what happened to the money he will tell you hes broke because he dones not have nearly as much as he used too. and thats fact!! he lives here in jersey still big paid!!!

salut a tos