In an interview with USA network’s Character Approved, singer Janelle Monáe recounts her move to Atlanta and the early stages of her career writing music and touring around local colleges. During her humble beginnings, she recalled selling her first CD while living in a boarding house in Atlanta, GA. Check out the interview clip that has been airing on the cable network.
You can catch Monáe as she receives her award on the inaugural telecast of USA Network’s Character Approved: Honoring 12 Cultural Trailblazers, which airs Tuesday, March 8 at 11/10c on USA.
ADELE ON CHELSEA LATELY
While promoting her latest album 21, soul singer Adele stopped by the Chelsea Lately show. The 22 year-old talked about her ex-boyfriends and their inspiration to her album, how she almost ran over Diddy with a golf cart as well as the hot and not-so-hot aspects of touring. She a bit to say (swearing and all) and had a good sense of humor during the interview. Check it out!
Eperanza Spaulding on Jimmy Kimmel
Grammy Award ‘Best New Artist’ winner, Esperanza Spaulding stopped by the Jimmy Kimmel Live show on Monday evening (February 28). The 26-year old multi-instrumentalist talked about growing up and her exploration of music, what Justin Bieber said to her after her Grammy win and how she celebrated at Prince’s after party. Peep Part 2 of her interview as well as her performance of her latest single, “Really Very Small”. The jazz singer’s latest album Chamber Music Society is in stores now!


















Esperanza is so amazing the crowd was mesmerized
DO NOT BUY THE MUSIC OF RAPPERS/SINGERS THAT DO NOT SUPPORT YOU. USE THE MONEY TO BUY THE MUSIC OF BLACK FEMALE ARTISTS LIKE MARSHA AMBROSIUS, JAZMINE SULLIVAN, LEDESI, ESPERANZA SPALDING ETC.
The people that control the media do not want black women seen on TV in a positive light, and the black male rappers/singers are a part of this plot. This is why you hardly ever see black women looking classy in videos in 2011.. when that used to be normal back in the 80′s. There is video footage of rappers/singers including CB, Fabolous, Trey S. saying that they have COMPLETE CONTROL over which women are picked to be in the videos and how they are presented. So they choose NOT to use black women, and on the rare occasion they use a TOKEN black female…. they make sure that she is on the sideline looking trashy and have the white,latina,brazilian females playing the LEADING LADY looking classy. All latinas, brazilians do NOT consider themselves black regardless of their ancestry. It’s not for diversity not for diversity because… why don’t they include latino,white, brazilian MEN???
BOYCOTT ALL PEPSI PRODUCTS LIKE AQUAFINA, MOUNTAIN DEW ETC. FOR THE RACIST SUPERBOWL PEPSI MAX COMMERCIAL. Look how they portrayed the dark black female as angry, jealous at a time you hardly see dark females in commercials.
THINK. Lauryn Hill just started doing some promo shows and blogs are already portraying her in a negative light. Why don’t they report how she thanked her fans, great performances etc. They don’t want dark, natural conscious female artists to win. If you think she acts crazy… then why do you support Kanye West, 50, lil wayne, etc when they act crazy?
CB was on twitter making jokes about dark skin ppl and dark skin girls. were saying he was only kidding. BE HONEST… if Rihanna or any light skin FEMALE artist made jokes on twitter about dark skin ppl for the world to see you would have bashed her for life. This is why black women do not get any respect from media,rappers etc. You NEVER hold black men accountable for anything. BOYCOTT CB, SLIM THUG,OCHO CINCO, FABOLOUS FOR LIFE.
Look how black ppl are telling blk girls to forgive CB….CONDITIONING them to be future domestic violence victims. Do you think J LO, Paris Hilton, KIM KARDASHIAN PARENTS prepared them to accept/forgive abuse? CB is rich. Why don’t you teach these blk girls to get their money/education and to NOT have premarital sex which can lead to pregnancy, hiv, AIDS etc.
The media,rappers will continue to bash black women as long as you allow it. BOYCOTT EVERYTHING, USE YOUR MONEY TO SUPPORT BLACK FEMALE ARTISTS, BLACK FEMALE BIZ, ETC.
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BLACK MALE RAPPERS/SINGERS GAVE AWAY BLACK MUSIC CULTURE ON A SILVER PLATTER. THEY DESTROYED ONE OF THE VISIBLE FORMS OF MEDIA THAT BLACK PPL HAD …MUSIC.
In the 90′s, 80′s black ppl/WOMEN played a major role in music entertainment…videos setting trends etc. In the 90′s we had a several black female groups like en vogue, tlc, brownstone, escape,swv,jade. …as well as black female singers,rappers, reggae artists. Black people could have dominated the music scene had remain united. No one could have complained that blk male rappers/singers only have black women looking classy in videos. All other races/ethnicities do the same thing. Look at other networks.. white, indian,korean, latin men use the same women in their race for their videos,movies etc. Once THEY realized that selfish black rappers/singers were willing to destroy black women….the MEDIA ran with it. Do you realize the days of black female artists/groups are practically gone FOREVER. No, it’s not due to internet downloading. The face of black male rappers/singers have remained the same. They made sure NOT to include any other men. BOYCOTT THEM ALL. EITHER THEY RESTORE BLACK MUSIC CULTURE WITH BLACK WOMEN …OR DESTROY IT ALL. TELL THEM TO REMOVE THEIR BLACK FACES AND REPLACE IT WITH WHITE, LATIN, INDIAN MEN!!!!!!
I don’t care what race of women blk men date or marry. The issue is the EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES that they took away from blk women. The black music culture that was built on the blood, sweat,and tears of blk ppl should not used by blk male artists to make money for themselves and invite OTHER WOMEN to PROFIT.
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by BOYCOTT MALE RAPPERS/SINGERS
2:17 pm – Mar 1, ’11
BOYCOTT THEM ALL!! Look at all the ppl that are getting mad because I am trying to get black females to open their eyes. You have to remember that every race, cnn fox news ,KKK,ETC comes to blk blogs to stalk blk ppl and get info.
DO NOT FALL FOR THE TOKEN DARK/BLK FEMALE ANYMORE! Puffy/Diddy started the latina trend when he started dating J LO IN THE LATE 90′S. Don’t believe me….I challenge you to go back and find a latina playing the LEADING LADY in any video B4 diddy put J LO in his Been around the world video around 1997. I tried to get black women to protest back then because I new that other black male artists would start ding the same. Do you realize that if black women had given J LO a fraction of the HATE that you give Rihanna, nicki,and other blk female artists you could have STOPPED the latina, brazilian trend. Again..all latinas/brazilians do NOT consider themselves black regardless of their DNA.
I am soooo angry at all the blk women who grew up in the 90′s,80′s and allowed this to happen! You know darn well that you did not grow up seeing OTHER women in almost every hip hop RandB video. They are attacking the new generation. You have young black girls who have hardly seen any black females looking positive in these videos for their ENTIRE life. They want to keep black women down. That’s why every other day their is some random post about how insecure blk women are. It’s 2011 and black women you have LOST a lot. Black women had more positive images in the media in the 90′s,80′s. It’s only going to get worse until you BOYCOTT EVERYTHING! Go natural, make your own clothes if you have to. Stop giving the world your money. SUPPORT BLK WOMEN INSTEAD.
Diddy’s conscious must have bothered him. Yes, dirty money are black .. but look at the LEADING LADY in the videos. They will use a TOKEN black female to keep you quiet. Don’t fall for it. IF CB tries to have blk girls in his videos now because his team stays on these posts…. still BOYCOTT HIM, it’s too late.
LET me see them use black females for the next 10 YEARS LIKE THEY HAVE USED NON BLK WOMEN FOR THE LAST 10. Things should have remained the way they were in the 90′s.
BOYCOTT 106 and park on BET!!!There should not be any black girls sitting in the audience laughing when BET DOES NOT WANT A BLACK FEMALE TO HOST THE NUMBER 1 SHOW ON A BLACK NETWORK.
Rosci said that she is NOT black. BOYCOTT
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Let these Latina/Brazilian women keep degrading themselves for men. I rather have them do it then for us to do it. Let them continue being “objects” because that is what they will forever remain. When men think of Latina women, they think of sex. Why would I want to be viewed in that matter? They take it as a compliment, but it is very disrespectful. Even though they say blk women are more likely to be single, we are also more likely to be”married” then Latina women. Being married is more important than being a man’s sidepiece or bitch. There are more unwedded/baby mamas in the Hispanic communities then they are in black…but people don’t care to know this. It is a proven fact. We are also more likely to be enrolled in college than them. So like I said, they can be in these rap videos all they want to. They like small jobs like that. Besides, rappers are uneducated people, so I wouldn’t expect them to use proper judgement at any given cause. lol
All three ladies are great. I love all of their musics.
love adele…
3 talented ladies cant go wrong!! #real music is coming back
Ever been at that point where a relationship abruptly ended and you knew it was time to move on, but couldn’t because you’ve yet to find out why it ended in the first place? Yea… Been there done that. #JustGiveMeClosure.
Check out my new single, ‘Closure’! Support REAL music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_BeJrciJoo
These 3 ladies have such exceptional talent love it. Thanks Angel and crew for this
I need to check out Adele album!
@ Boycott Black Male Rappers….so true. Black women have a lot power if we use it. These rappers made millions off of our support and act like we are beneath them. They always look at it as a step up when they go outside the race and we are portray us as unattractive and just jealous. They are racist toward their own race and black women suffer because of it. Their daughters with these white women are black women, despite being biracial and will carry the same stigma they leave for us. We are not a strong races as we like to think, we have such infighting and this is a prime example. Black women do need to use our power more and put our money where our mouth is and diss these rappers/artist with lack of sales/support. Where would they be if we did not buy their music or support there concerts, dissed like they have done to us. Their messages are loud and clear and we need to stop letting them get away with it. I have noticed that so much in the videos lately. Most white rappers or white hip hop singers, will still date and marry and have their own race in videos. We are the only race that does this to each other and it needs to be called out in a big way. I support the boycott, its for our-black women, own good. We will gain more respect and better treatment and hopefully we will treat each other better in the end. Black women also need to supoort other black women and stop degrading another black woman in looks, etc. STop allowing these black men to baby mamma us when they do want to marry, just not us, ie..Lamar after 1 month married Khloe after having babies with brown or black women. He is just one example. Accepting such attitudes from black men causes us to be single longer because we accept this devaluation and disrepect. We works very hard for our education and money, we need to stop spending it on people that are prejudiced against us.
Why are meaningful comments moderated all the time, if someone was on here talking or dissing Rhianna or Beyonce or using profanity, that is not moderated. I need to find a blog that will allow freedom of speech/expression even if its not popular! You try to block folk too!
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Janelle is Beauty
Rappers ain’t music they are thugs.
Rosci isn’t black she’s Hispanic and a self-hating Hispanic at that. I have never seen her in the company of anybody Hispanic. She could never get a job on Telemundo because she isn’t white like real White Latinas. The woman above are truly great artist.
Adele is funny
Brits in da hhhhouse
Love her!!!!
Why is Janelle so serious? Her music is so fun, her character should be too!!!! Love her anyway
Three amazingly talented women!! Thanks for supporting real artist Concreteloop.
Who is Adele and why are Black folks fixed on her?
Same question I asked…smh
what does colour have to do with appreciating someone’s music or voice? smh.
All three of these women are beautiful, and amazing. Janelle Monae is my favorite.