4th song in the Cool Kid Series: Dedicated to Yemaya
Monday, June 28, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
DOpeness from Toronto ;)
Brown peeps in Toronto doing lovely things ;) Check below. I wanna do something similar, with several different groups of people.lol. BGC in full effect is coming soon, shot out to Belinda!! I'm plunging head first into my art, I wanna come up soaking in it! Join me?
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
I'm Fiending(Im Beaming)
2nd song from the youtube mixtape "The Cool Kids Series" I'm Fiending(Im Beaming)
Monday, June 7, 2010
Tid bit Perfomance :)
Check out a tidbit of me performing "The In Between" last night and then cop it below!
http://bgcamerica.blogspot.com/2010/05/in-between-extended-mix.html
http://bgcamerica.blogspot.com/2010/05/in-between-extended-mix.html
Friday, June 4, 2010
Eras(h)er
Decided I'm going to do Youtube mixtapes until I know someone who can get me instrumentals to do the actual mixtapes I want :) So enjoy my first installment. For lack of a better name, I'm going to call this "The Cool Kids Series" it consists of instrumentals from Kanye, Lupe, and Pharrell. The first song is their song together, where they rapped over Thom Yorke's Eraser instrumental. Enjoy!
Friday, May 28, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
THE IN BETWEEN (EXTENDED MIX)
LATE POST.LOL.THE EXTENDED MIX OF MY TITLE TRACK "THE IN BETWEEN" ENJOY!
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Seat Filler Remix
Spur of the moment randomness! Seat Filler is a song on my e.p. "The In Between" http://siairashawn.bandcamp.com/album/the-in-between. I decided randomly to see if it would go to the Usher "Lil Freak" song that I previously berated.lol..Love the beat tho :) Freestyled singsongy rap and all, check it!
Find Your Love
Feeling musical today, one more vid coming! I think I'm going to do a series of response records, to the young rappers sensitive side.lol. I'm just tired of one song telling women about our life and struggle or talking about how all they wanna do is love us and then the next song is calling me a bitch! Get some therapy! lol
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Is Bi-Sexual the New Black??
I have been trying to figure out how to write about this; Bisexuality being all the rage like a fashion trend. I have had many conversations and I started seeing the trend a while ago. It's the new fade to be bisexual in all aspects of the media, particularly for women. (note: Bisexual men still are not apart of these images and won't be largely because of male supremacy and the need to control men and keep them in strict roles, especially sexually. Any threat to the stereotype undermines the power structure. Women are not seen as much of a threat because we do not control the system)
There was the Katy Perry song, then actress Megan Fox "came out" as bisexual, then Lady Gaga, Nikki Minaj, hip hop, r&b,pop, rock music; Rihanna's next single is "Te Amo" her song about a foreign young woman who has a crush, she can't quite reciprocate. Homo-eroticism running rampant! It just keeps coming!(lol) But, most of these images and people seem to be bisexual for fun, for publicity,and in music, mostly for the sake of the male protagonist.
On the one hand, the fact that queerness has become such a part of the pop culture landscape is interesting and could be beneficial to sparking real conversations and making young people especially, more comfortable and more apt to explore who they are and accept who they are if they are having these feelings. It can have a normalizing affect. However, rarely are the images or discussion lead by the bisexual woman in question. If it is a woman exclaiming her queerness it is largely exaggerated and more of a performance or the woman is just a sexual conquest or challenge for the male.
NEWS FLASH: If a woman is down to get down with you and another chick, that's great for ya'll as long as it's done safely and it's consensual. However, that doesn't mean they are bi-sexual. To identify as anything in the queer spectrum comes with your personal history attached and it is within the historical and societal context of queerness as a whole. You don't get your bisexual card just because you have a threesome.
2nd NEWS FLASH: You are not irresistible and all women do not love you and want to have sex with you and if she is a LESBIAN in a RELATIONSHIP, your dick is not appealing!
This thinking also suggest that just because you are bisexual you are promiscuous, ready, and willing to get down with a man whether you have a significant other or not. It perpetuates stereotypes and devalues and belittles peoples identities and further subjugates women, particularly women of color in most cases. And frankly, we don't need anymore of that! Especially, if you are a woman, of color, and queer! These artist have such a public persona and it would be great if they could find another subject to write about or explore this in a real way. But, exploring things in a real, vulnerable, and honest way is lacking in most pop culture offerings, so again it must be our task to tell our stories, advocate for others, and fight for ourselves!
Click the title for the link to a dope article on the subject. And check out Ushers "Lil Freak" vid.
"Te Amo"
Nikki Minaj "Massive Attack"
There was the Katy Perry song, then actress Megan Fox "came out" as bisexual, then Lady Gaga, Nikki Minaj, hip hop, r&b,pop, rock music; Rihanna's next single is "Te Amo" her song about a foreign young woman who has a crush, she can't quite reciprocate. Homo-eroticism running rampant! It just keeps coming!(lol) But, most of these images and people seem to be bisexual for fun, for publicity,and in music, mostly for the sake of the male protagonist.
On the one hand, the fact that queerness has become such a part of the pop culture landscape is interesting and could be beneficial to sparking real conversations and making young people especially, more comfortable and more apt to explore who they are and accept who they are if they are having these feelings. It can have a normalizing affect. However, rarely are the images or discussion lead by the bisexual woman in question. If it is a woman exclaiming her queerness it is largely exaggerated and more of a performance or the woman is just a sexual conquest or challenge for the male.
NEWS FLASH: If a woman is down to get down with you and another chick, that's great for ya'll as long as it's done safely and it's consensual. However, that doesn't mean they are bi-sexual. To identify as anything in the queer spectrum comes with your personal history attached and it is within the historical and societal context of queerness as a whole. You don't get your bisexual card just because you have a threesome.
2nd NEWS FLASH: You are not irresistible and all women do not love you and want to have sex with you and if she is a LESBIAN in a RELATIONSHIP, your dick is not appealing!
This thinking also suggest that just because you are bisexual you are promiscuous, ready, and willing to get down with a man whether you have a significant other or not. It perpetuates stereotypes and devalues and belittles peoples identities and further subjugates women, particularly women of color in most cases. And frankly, we don't need anymore of that! Especially, if you are a woman, of color, and queer! These artist have such a public persona and it would be great if they could find another subject to write about or explore this in a real way. But, exploring things in a real, vulnerable, and honest way is lacking in most pop culture offerings, so again it must be our task to tell our stories, advocate for others, and fight for ourselves!
Click the title for the link to a dope article on the subject. And check out Ushers "Lil Freak" vid.
"Te Amo"
Nikki Minaj "Massive Attack"
