Category Archives: New Video Actually Worth Watching
New Vid: John Legend & The Roots Feat. Common & Melanie Fiona- Wake Up Everybody
@ :02- I could do without a topless John Legend.
@:37- That’s right, take over City Hall Borough Hall
@:49- Does this Negro ever wear attire that doesn’t involve a plunging neckline?
@1:15- ! Reminiscent of
@1:23
@2:12- I can’t listen to John Legend without hearing the WB Frog.
@2:44- The mics are stratetgically placed so you don’t forget who the real star here is.
@3:07- If you walked down the street with your hair like that today, people would like at you like you’re insane. Sad, but true.
@3:14- Although all that porch monkeying stoop sitting must go.
@3:23- Common wears that Newsies hat so well
@3:28- Hello again, top of John Legend’s chest
@3:48- Preach!
@4:16- Wake up cab drivers & stop d*cking us in fares
@4:47- Ok, bye now.
Uplifting message, positive imagery, no use of profanity, and save from JLegend, no nudity
…means this vid won’t get played…anywhere.
But it is here 
Love,
*Ms. Officer
Hilarity Pt. 16- See Brett Favre’s Dong
In light of the recent a-married-Brett-Favre-sexts-some-chick-who’s-kinda-famous–but-not-really-and-20-years-his-junior, someone remixed Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” to properly encompass what Favre was thinking– the moment he decided to send Jenn Sterger pics of his schlong. (Why ruin the rhyme scheme?)
I especially appreciate the collage.
…but this signifies it’s time to hang it up.
Love,
*Ms. Officer
New Vid: Kanye West Feat. Dwele- Power
Don’t blink, you might miss it.
-Allow me to preface this by saying–
The video for the long-awaited, highly necessary single from Kan-Yeezy. This is the best rap song I’ve heard in a while. Like, a long one.
@ :02 Looks a little scary, like those paintings with the eyes moving. Great. Kanye has managed to make another music video that terrified me.
@ :30- The statue’s arm fat is moving
@:33- I’m glad I watched this premiere with my roommate, Turkey, in her room. And not by myself. In the dark.
@: 42- Has he been working out?
@:47- Rappers can put porn in anything.
@:50- I’d be classified as a “Kelly Rowland”.
@:55- Whoa, what is that thing coming from the bottom left?
@1:15 Look out Kanye!
Aaaaaaaand that’s it.
I get what he was trying to do here because I’m smart. I’m just not sure that he achieved it for the masses to understand in 1 minute & 25 seconds.
It would’ve worked out a lot better if:
1.) Dwele’s verse actually made it in.
2.) It was longer.
Nonetheless, it was both grandiose & simple simultaneously. Which is the same thing I gather about Kanye himself.
I guess this art depicts the end?
Hope not.
Love,
*Ms. Officer
Unwrapped: Maverik
I know him as “Money Mav”, but to the rest of the world, he is Maverik.
The voice of Boston is a mainstay on the city’s sole Hip-Hop station, JAMN 94.5. Yet just like a Jamaican his own name, he is definitely up to something. This cat has a bubbling rap career, opening up for the likes of Mighty Mystic and Collie Buddz. Mav is hardly your typical rapper, mind you:
-No kids
-(Hence) No babymamma drama
-No priors
-No scandals unearthed by Mediatakeout
-Graduated from Boston College (The Eagles are cute, but we all know Northeastern is better).
With those stats he’s already winning. Maverik has been doing music since I’ve known him, (4 years now) and keeps getting better and better.
Right Here was his 1st single and video, which was on heaaavy rotation on my radio show back then.
Click here to download Maverik’s new single, “What I Gotta Do”
I promise, you will be thoroughly intrigued.
Multifaceted as well. The Kid Maverik is also a DJ. A damn good one at that. How many parties? Clubs? Events were rowdy due to this guy? Countless.
I should know. Sweated out a good hairdo or two.
Book Maverik by e-mailing VarsitySound@gmail.com
Find out more about Maverik by heading to his official site, here.
Download “What I Gotta Do” here.
Talent runs in the family– check out his little cousin, Toni, ripping apart Alicia Keys’ “Sleeping With A Broken Heart” on Jamaica’s Rising Stars
Watch out for these two, I tell ya.
Love,
*Ms. Officer
What Mel Gibson Needs:
He’s Racist.
He’s Anti-Semitic.
He’s Sexist.
He’s Mel Gibson.
And he’s in the middle of a nasty custody battle with his babymamma, Oksana Grigorieva, over their 8 month old daughter, Lucia. In case you’ve been too busy snorting coke, last week we heard he was rumored to have lit into her with a string of obscenities, fit for a cronie of Glenn Beck.
Here’s the newest tape, released today:
Here’s the tape released over the weekend:
Obviously this man savage has a couple of issues. What do you think this wildebeest needs in order to mellow out & join hands with the love train?
(Could somebody put some lotion on this n****’s knuckles?)
1. Hang Out With Dipset
No trip to Harlem is complete without eating at Sylvia’s, visiting The Apollo Theater, attending the Schomburg, and of course, hangin’ with the Dips.
See? Even Cam & Jimmy can hold hands so Juelz can jump rope.
Perhaps listening to a Hell Rell album could help Gibson’s understanding of the Black experience? Perhaps cutting an album would help channel some of that frustration lunacy?
2. Get A Lap Dance
Nothing says “I respect women” more than patronizing all the lovely services they have to offer. Gibson should pick his favorite (equal opportunity) topless bar and enjoy the ride.
Besides, you have to support anyone who “uses what they got to get what they want”.
3. Penny Pinch
Perhaps one of the Jewiest qualities around, Gibson better not squander his close-to-billion dollar fortune. He’s going to need every cent for the libel to defend him from the backlash these comments (and other) allegations will cause. The Blacks The Jews went after him before, and will see to it that Gibson (literally) pays.
Ari Emmanuel didn’t like this use of the n-word very much, and finally dropped Mel from the William Morris Agency. Didn’t Emmanuel refuse Wesley Snipes a script because he said “Blacks don’t swim”? They don’t though, right?
4. Get Racially Profiled
Nothing says “we think [Insert 5-letter adjective here] don’t have nice things” “Negro” more than a routine traffic stop of a Black man in a nice semi-decent barely functioning car.
5. Enroll in Scared Straight Program
Well, I think that says all that needs to be said.
Being Mel Gibson is hard. As a blue-eyed white male, no one truly understands his struggle. The pressures of being an A list Hollywood actor, minimal financial woes (and by minimal I mean not having change for $10,000) how could we not see the world from his perspective? Shame on…everyone else who realized 1865 happened, the Civil Rights Movement occurred, and it’s f*ckin retarded to be racist, sexist and bigoted.
One thing is for sure.
Nobody was googling Mel Gibson like they were Taylor Lautner before this…
Love,
*Ms. Officer
The Morning After: The BET Awards 2010
Kanye’s finally back!
Instead of show opener, he should have been show closer.
This year the performances stole the show. For the first time in a long time-and certainly over last year’s monstrosity- I enjoyed the BET Awards.
Of course no Awards anything is complete without The Beyonce Diddy.
They really aren’t doing anything to dispel that “King Latifah” rumor. Every other intro they had her looking like a butch.
Diddy looked drunk. His boys in Dirty Money were keeping together for the most part, but the show just looked all over the place. Besides, I can’t possibly be the only one tired of seeing
Rawse.
B.o.B. was straight. What I didn’t understand was–that in the absence of Hayley Williams, why Keyshia Cole felt the need to put on a blond wig. Or what she had to do with it.
Eminem’s was a performance I made sure I didn’t miss because I was inhaling a plate of food. Glad I waited. Then I feasted.
What’s disturbing can be seen @ 4:56. DeBarge (who everyone in that auditorium should know) goes down into the audience during “Rhythym of The Night”. Pay attention to the tall negro in all white everything. He couldn’t look more detached from the situation. Could he tell he wasn’t looking @ Enrique Iglesias?
Don’t care where they dug El Debarge up from. He ripped it. Hands Down. Period.
-He’s also coming out with a new album- For info check Sound-Savvy here.
I liked this.
But then there was this.
I love Ludacris. He’s always refreshing. Yet I can’t help but wonder why I didn’t like this performance.
Drake performance. Didn’t really do anything for me.
Jezzy’s all white everything straight jacket was cool though. He just forgot to tie the straps.
And then there was Prince.
Warning:
If you stare directly into his eyes…there’s no guarantee you’ll return.
No one IN LIFE can wear a turtleneck. In the summertime. In Los Angeles. WITH A PICTURE OF HIMSELF ON IT. IT WILL NEVER WORK OUT. ON ANYONE ELSE. EVER. AGAIN.
P.S.: If Stevie goes…I’m out!
And of course, the best performance of the night:
But we’ve already spoken about this.
1,000x better than last year’s monstrosity. BET did Michael Jackson justice.
Love,
*Ms. Officer
Chris Brown Did NOT Give The Best MJ Tribute
Yea, I said it.
Perhaps the most talked about/tweeted about moment of the 10th annual BET Awards happened right here:
Though this was the best performance of the night,
Don’t get caught up in C. Brown’s tears. This was not nearly the best MJ tribute ever.
This was.
Did all you [insert 5-letter adjective here]s forget Janet’s demolition at the 2009 VMA’s??
Don’t get me wrong. I am not a Chris Brown “hater” nor am I taking anything away from him. Should he remain imprisoned for the rest of his life? No. I mean, did he cry like that for Rihanna? But Breezy indeed, did rip it.
BUT
Nothing (short of Michael himself) compares to Janet taking the stage with the dancers hand-picked by Michael to appear with him on stage during the “This Is It Tour”. Janet got to dance with her brother again. Every move sharp. Every turn on point coincided perfectly with the “Scream” video (which, happened to be the most expensive music vid ever made– costing over $7mil.)
The performances elicited 2 different responses:
Janet: Goosebumps & tears. Yet again I wept like a baby when Ms. Jackson performed that. You would’ve thought I was at least a third cousin, twice removed.
Chris Brown: Jaw drop. Is this [insert 5-letter adjective here] cryin’ on stage like that? He just gave up. Right there. And let it all out.
For what it’s worth, it was a very emotional moment. Do I condone men weeping for no reason? Nope. Leave that to us women. In this circumstance, it was kind of understood.
Just because he cried does not make it the best Michael Jackson tribute ever.
Any strong display of emotion tends to grip an otherwise skeptical audience, and causes 1 of 2 reactions:
1. Attraction: Appealing to sheer humane emotion, a stronger bond is established between audience and subject:
2. Repulsion: Gets the subject further away from Intent. Usually met by said audience with laughter instead.
In this case, there was a little bit of both. In fact, he just might have saved his career a-la-R.Kelly.
But that’s another post for another time.
Sorry.
Love,
*Ms. Officer
Like this:
New Vid: Lady Gaga- Alejandro
You never know what to expect with this chile:
-@ :53: Already nervous. Half naked soldiers = sodomy > authority.
- @1:03: Never mind, this looks like Snow White
- @1:44 Crap. This thing is over 8 minutes long?
-@ 2:10 ok, Evita, ok.
-@ 2:36: Why is it that everywhere Lady GaGa goes there’s some sort of sex-filled authority figures dancing for her? Personally? Where is this sex-isle?
-@ 2:56: I kinda want something to slip out.
-@ 3:43: Never mind, they all like each other.
-@ 4:00: Gaga’s really trying hard to convince us she doesn’t have both.
-@ 4:24: You can always tell which one applied their own guyliner made up the dance.
- @4:51: I do that.
-@ 5:40: Madonna.
-@ 8:16: Who doesn’t like to get naked in front of a bunch of guys who don’t care about it?
I come away from this not knowing two things:
1. Who Alejandro actually is supposed to be in this vid.
2. What Lady Gaga actually looks like. (Again)
The mystery remains.
Love,
*Ms. Officer
New Vid: Dwele- What’s Not To Love
Dwele. One of the few artists I look forward to hearing from.
He’s also killing it right now on Power with Kanye West. You can find that here.
Just vibe on this one.
Love,
*Ms. Officer
New Vid: Lloyd Feat. Mystikal- Set Me Free
In his 1st official appearance since…well…jail, Mystikal
hops on this track with “Young Lloyd”.
& I like it.
Some notes on what you were thinking :
-Mystikal thought it was a good idea to enjoy a Black-n-Mild only 3 frames away from a shot with little kids in it
-Glad to see the former No Limit rapper retired the braids & when for the Jay-Z hat circa ’03
…guess he’s got to recapture time somehow.
-”B*tch Stop Lying On Me” might have been an appropriate way to begin his verse
-@2:52. Kind of a bodyroll. I’m not saying, I’m just saying.
-@2:57…at least he’s honest.
-@3:19, the usual fat man cameo
-@4:03., I’m hoping that those diamonds are so shiny they just look like pearls.
-@4:23, Who’s grandmother is that??
All in all, the song is tough, Lloyd’s voice is smooth, and I can see this being performed on a HBCU football game at halftime.
“No more beating my meat, they done set me free”
by far the best line in the song.
Hopefully the follow up to this will be “Get BP”
Love,
*Ms. Officer
New Vid: Alicia Keys- Unthinkable (I’m Ready)
Unlike the masses, I do not get excited when a new an Alicia Keys song drops.
She’s ok.
But I did perk up a little when I heard Unthinkable.
Sounding semi-autobiographical because she did this with Swizz Beats while he was still married to Mashonda, I actually really like the song.
Chad Michael Murray looks like a cat. This cat.
Let’s go a little further than the obvious here.
Alicia Keys, product of biracial parents, is giving us visuals on interracial dating.
And I like it.
It kills me that race relations were the way they were AND are the way they are.
It pains me that people still say they “wouldn’t date” someone simply because of their race…when every other trait on that individual stacks up.
Make no mistakes about it folks. Even though Boondocks S3 E1 probably articulated it the best,
There is still lots to overcome. Yet still– if you have racial hangups,
Get over it. It’s 2010.
How do you feel about interracial dating? Would you ever keep your loved one away from their partner because they were of a different race?
Love,
*Ms. Officer
New Vid: Beyonce- Why Don’t You Love Me
Long ago I declared that from here on out, Beyonce Knowles would be no longer known as such, but as The Beyonce.
Just for the sheer fact that she’s well…
her.
This is a great song.
But
If it wasn’t obvious before:
It’s glaringly evident now.
This {Insert 5-letter adjective here} is nuts. And everyone seems to think it’s ok. Cool, even. To the point that multiple personalities crazy becomes cool.
She opened “Ring the Alarm” with a dead body on the floor. I don’t have to explain Telephone at all.
All of The Beyonce’s videos are very much her. Even if they do (by some off chance) involve other people, you are never allowed to forget the main focus: The Beyonce.
I mean, I get the whole ’60′s theme. I get it. And what is with the smoking? You’d look like
Never mind everything else about the video.
Look. This is just a forewarning. Once you start seeing The Beyonce acting like this:
Much like
and The Case of The Underage Girls & The Pee Tape To Prove It,
there were signs all along. So when The Beyonce snaps…
…Can’t say I didn’t tell you so.
Told ya so
Love,
*Ms. Officer
New Vid: Distant Relatives- As We Enter
I like the whole Distant Relatives thing. Every couple of years “a popular Jamaican” will move past Bobby Konders & Jabba & remind people that they like to smoke weed Reggae music.
Being a Caribbean mix (including Jamaican) myself, I grew up on the music, so I listen to the Brooklyn pirate radio, & Flatbush Ave. mixtapes. Needless to say I hate to see it fade away when the mainstream masses get tired of hearing the tune get ridden into the ground.
In this case, that won’t occur…because of a little known last name: Marley.
Distant Relatives, comprised of Nas & Damian Jr. Gong Marley was an idea easily born out of a purple-hazy late night studio session, laced with beef patties, quarter waters & Guinness Stout.
The results couldn’t have been better.
Take a look at the making of their 1st official vid:
Did they have to put captions on top of everything Jr. Gong was saying? It was not nearly that indecipherable.
Presentinnnngggg The World Premiere of As We Enter Here!
Boom!
Love,
*Ms. Officer
Lady Gaga & The Beyonce- Telephone
Here is the world premiere of the highly anticipated video!
Before you instantly gratify yourselves with visuals of The Beyonce & Mr. Lady Gaga, you must appreciate my live commentary of this video as I watched it unfold for the very first time.
Much like you, I was thinking:
- I did not realize watching this thing was going to take up 10 minutes of my time
-@:24 secs: What’s the point of Tyrese being in this video?
-@ :38 secs I decided it was too weird. And I had to stop eating my Wheat Thins in order to continue watching
-Anyone who doesn’t think Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite is a hermaphrodite too
-@ :54 secs: This is gross.
-:1:12: That is one hell of a tuck & roll to try and prove you don’t have a ***k.
-@ 1:40: Those glasses could get dangerous.
-@1:43: Precious?
-@ 2:07: What is this?
-@3:37: Panty prison, huh? nice. I’d go too if I got 3 squares, no rent plus cable. Not a bad deal.
-@ 4:24: A Beats By Dre computer, huh? But what is that using it? It’s voice is deep. And gross.
-@ 4:51: I don’t see The Beyonce not overshadowing Lady Gaga in this video.
-@4:55: This is starting to feel like this could go one of two ways. 1 of which being a bad porno.
-@5:03: Yep, this is weird. (Notice The Beyonce did not venture eating after Gaga.)
-@5:07: Ew. Honey Buns. Hoodrat snack.
-@6:07: Asian stereotypes are always fun. And Accurate.
-@7:07: Nice! Actual recipe for poison. That could actually come in handy.
-@ 7:49: The Beyonce looked a little manly for, like, 2/3 of a second. No big deal though. She’s still insanely beautiful.
-@7:50: Love the dance sequence, even though they decided to bring their friends along to trample all over some dead bodies.
Very Laverne and Shirley-esque. Although I’m not sure they actually rode off in a P****Wagon. I’m gonna have to check my references on that one.
See and enjoy for yourself.
I still come away from this not really knowing what Lady Gaga really looks like.
But I Love the song and the concept (overall) is innovative. That Lady Gaga won’t disappoint.
What kind of commentary can you come up with? Place them below!
Love,
*Ms. Officer
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Cam’Ron- I Hate My Job
Isn’t this what you’ve been waiting for? A new song from Mr. Cam?
Hell Yeah! Epecially after this surfaced last year- talk about being on the edge of your seat:
Ok Ok, here’s his new video, I Hate My Job
Wow. That actually makes sense.
This video is actually economically
-dare I say-
saavy?
…Looks like he packed on a couple lbs. too. Must be all that chillin @ his vacation home…
I’ve just been further reminded of why I loved Dipset.
Get my f*ckin pool in the back
Love,
Ms. Officer
