Many have already expressed their comments, editorials and opinions on Montana Fishburne, daughter of a Hollywood colossus, entering the porn industry. None of them have said it in verse as topical, twitteringly funny and tanacious as Ras Congo’s poem below. None of them. Tell them Yush.com tell yu that, seen! Awhoa…

This young woman has been born and raised in the Hollywood mind control center
and she now wants to live like a skanky renta…

I don’t watch porn
for I am no pawn
I am a King
and I would never do such a thing!
Montana feels that by letting
her fish burn
that plenty money she will earn,
fortune and fame
for being on the game
but it is all one and the same
so we don’t give her the blame,
we just want her to have a higher aim
and to stop trying to cash in on daddy’s name.

Behold all the secrets of Hollywood
are most definitely far from good
maybe we were better off in the old neighborhood?
Oh Larry, your little girl who you used to carry
is now taking Tom, DICK and harry
and we are all so very sarry.

The mind boggles to see her fall so far from grace
but my oh my, what a body and a face!!!
why not CSI or WITHOUT A TRACE
solving murders case after case
She wont even make it past first base,
I hope she don’t end up in rehab due the dragon chase
and freebase
or even end up in a more deadly place?

Daddy aint gonna chuckle
and probably wants to give her some knuckle
or his belt buckle
But she says “Daddy every mickle makes a muckle”
just like Fatty Arbuckle
who liked the sound of breaking glass
off a young gal’s nice round ass.
And so, they still sing “Hooray for Hollywood”
but we know that it’s not jolly good
For Molech says I will give you success,
just sacrifice your children for your careers progress
and many will still scream YES, YES, OH YES!!!.

Goodnight & God bless.
Copyright Ras Congo (c) 2010.

Can somebody please tell (former Fugees band member) Pras to shut the eff up?! Seriously, what the eff is wrong with him? Why is this so-called brother always putting negative heat under Wyclef’s arse every time the media push a mic in front of his big, fugly mouth? All I know he should shut his cake hole.

Take for instance Wyclef’s decision to run for the Presidency of his country, Haiti. Here comes Pras like a constant shadow offering his negative vibes while pretending that he’s being objective with his two cents. Clearly his twisted, allegedly former mental patient mind, is just hell bent on filling the kool aid with hatred. Perhaps when they were band mates in the Fugees, Wyclef short-changed his arse and didn’t bless him with enough hugs and love.

When did it become the norm to openly speak ill against your family members to the media no matter the cause.

This crazy fool needs a gag order put on his loose lips ASAP. Grab the brother when you see him and bless him with a hug for Clef or a slap on the head. He seems to have forgotten that “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

Do you understand his reasons for supporting Wyclef’s opponent Michel Martelly in the race for President?

We know exactly how it is! There you are, a talented artist, struggling to get ahead or burst out of the pack. But how, exactly, do you do that?

It’s not an easy road, my friend, and since others have trodden that route before why not learn from their experiences? This selection of books is designed to point you in th eright direction.

We will add others over time so expand this library to grow! Please feel free to recommend a book to add to this list.

1. This Business ofMusic (10th Edition)¹
2. This Business of Global Music Marketing²
3. This Business of Urban Music: A Practical Guide to Achieving Success in the Industry from Gospel to Funk to R and B to Hip-hop³
4. Record Label Marketing⁴
5. How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet, 2007: The Musician’s Guide to Effective Music Promotion on the Internet⁵
6. The Real Deal: How to Get Signed to a Record Label⁶
7. The Band’s Guide to Getting a Record Deal⁷
8. The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing⁸
9. Ruthless Self-Promotion in the Music Industry⁹
10. The Rock and Roll Times Music Industry Guide: The 10 A and R Commandments Bands Need to Know¹⁰

1. By Sidney Shemel, John M. Gross and M. William Krasilovksy [↩]
2. Tad Lathrop [↩]
3. James J. Walker [↩]
4. Tom Hutchison [↩]
5. David Nevue [↩]
6. Daylle Deanna Schwartz [↩]
7. Will Ashurst [↩]
8. Randall D Wixen [↩]
9. Jeffery P. Fisher [↩]
10. Will Beattie [↩]

Everything that you think that you ever did know
About Haiti is not necessarily so
Everything that you think that you ever did know
About Haiti is not necessarily so.

I’m chanting fi my rhythms and extrapolating rhymes
Bringing your attention to some serious times
Just the kind of things your eyes would normally be blind
Don’t want you to be misled by the ways of mankind

I never understood why they woulda send Satan
Yet tell the world they’re helping a developing nation
My maths is bad I know it is a strange equatiion
But the aide weh dem send amounts to an invasion.

Everything that you think that you ever did know
About Haiti is not necessarily so
Everything that you think that you ever did know
About Haiti is not necessarily so.

Bush and Clinton in charge of the administration
Is like sending Backra Massa to run the plantation
The only ones who will gain from that combination
Is the people of America, not the local Haitian.

Haiti is the poorest in the western hemisphere
But they never tell you how the country ever got there
America and the west meddle in Haiti’s affair
That’s the reason why the situation is severe.

Everything that you think that you ever did know
About Haiti is not necessarily so,
Everything that you think that you ever did know
About Haiti is not necessarily so.

I really could go on and on and on and on
The story is repeated in every region
They don’t want you to know what’s going on
So they

This one is to silence any or all of those whispering voices…
I do not hate people based on their lifestyle choices
This includes whether they like sushi, pork or dead animal flesh
Or even if they like their organic vegetables, fresh…

I do not hate people because their colour is red, white or blue
Orange, purple, black, gold, green or any other shade or hue,
I celebrate the beauty of God’s creations, in Technicolor too
I hope this don’t come as a big surprise to you.

I do not hate people who think I should be seen and not heard
That silence and no communication from me is much preferred
To hearing a point of view that may conflict with their own
That I should follow obediently without a peep or a soun’.

This part is like a bridge, a connecting passage through the lines,
Or maybe just a break from the form, norm and rhymes
To provide relief or contrast to a path more versatile?
Perhaps to thank God for my skills, talents and style!

You see if I should hate any other person God has put on this land
It would be like hating the fact I have both a right and left hand
And ignoring the fact we are all descendants, of just one race
Regardless of our politics or the colour of our face.

Those who hate others know why they do so it’s up to them
I do not have to take on the world with all of its problems
But if I choose to do so, as I am democratially free to do
It really should be of no consequence to you.

But since you’ve made such a big deal out of trying belittle me
Of playing human Ten Pin bowling aiming to skittle me
I have to conclude one thing which is clearly plain to see
That you’re the one who’s the hater, not me.

Copyright Michael Conally (c) 2010.

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Rather than listen to the words of the song and its message about “groupthink”, people were more focused on her guerilla style take on nakedness; of baring the soul, being different and standing up for what you believe against all odds while experiencing character assassination. Maybe the only thing being assassinated here was Erykah’s right to freedom of expression.

When a French reporter subsequently asked Erykah if she learned anything from the media uproar over the video she turned the question back to him. You”re a foreigner, she said, what did you think? He responded that the French see nudity as art. If only America could have such a liberal attitude. Instead the debate rages, amid a feeling of deja vu…

The uproar took us back to the 2006 Super bowl with the infamous Janet Jackson nipple exposing, wardrobe malfunction moment. They made a big deal of that baring of black flesh also and fined CBS a record amount over the incident. All because of a pair of nipples. What about the

Popular artists like Duran Duran with “Girls on Film”, Robbie Williams “Rock DJ”, D”Angelo “Untitled (How does it Feel)”, Blink 182”s “What”s My Age Again”, Lisa Stansfield – “Never Never Gonna Give You Up”, Alanis Morrisette “Thank you”, Britney Spear”s “Womanizer” and practically anything by Lady Gaga, particularly her latest “Telephone”.

America’s music queen of consciousness, Erykah Badu, stirred up the ants’s nest recently and forced us to ask: “Why is America so afraid of nudity?”

Of course it was Erykah’s highly anticipated video for the song “Window Seat”, in which she bared all to make a statement, which caused the controversy. But, really, should it have made such noise?

Hollywood has long been a place where flashing your flesh has been a currency for getting an opportunity to becoming a star. It worked well for Marilyn Monroe and countless others. Yes, the casting couch has always doubled as a bed for wannabe starlets to further their talents.

Stir It Up

But why did the video cause such a stir? Was it a race or gender issue? Was it the location – it happened in Texas in Dealey Plaza, place where America’s beloved president John F Kennedy was assassinated 40 years ago. Was that the sticking point?

Maybe it was the guerilla style approach to making the video, so anti-Hollywood, no member of her team for wardrobe, make-up, dancers, no lighting, no permit, no cops! Perhaps it was the word “Evolving” written on her back in black ink? Could it be that they feared the black body as an endangerment to mental state of society.

Whatever it was the local authorities ended up charging Erykah with a public order offence and fined her $500. The amount was a drop in the ocean but the act, coming in the aftermath of media scrutiny, was significant. No one complained on the day of the video shoot yet it was deemed so important afterwards for them to find someone who would complain. How convenient.

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Korea has the highest suicide rate among all the 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries, according to a report by the Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday.

An average 24.3 people per 100,000 die every year from suicide in Korea, followed by an average of 21 in Hungary, 19.4 in Japan and 16.7 in Finland. France and the United States saw an average of 14.2 and 10.1 people die respectively from suicide annually.

The ministry report was based on the latest data from Statistics Korea, which compared suicide rates in Korea in 2008 to other countries.

Korea’s suicide rate has risen drastically in the last 10 years, the study found. In 2008, 12,858 Koreans committed suicide – up 49 percent from the 1998 figure which was 8,622. The data showed suicide as the fourth most common cause of death in Korea in 2008, accounting for 5.2 percent of all deaths. This follows the No.1 cause of death, cancer, with 28 percent, as well as brain and heart illnesses.

Suicide was the leading cause of death for people in their 20s and 30s, accounting for 40.7 percent and 28.7 percent of deaths in the respective age brackets.

Seo Chong-hee, a managing director at the Center for Suicide Prevention in Suwan, Gyeonggi, said the elderly may be swelling the rising number of suicides.

As society changes rapidly, many senior citizens here find it hard to cope. Also, they are oftentimes financially unstable,” Seo said. “In addition, in recent years the suicides of famous people, including late actress Choi Jin-sil and former President Roh Moo-hyun, have spurred similar cases.

The health ministry, together with the Korean Council of Religious Leaders, said yesterday they will wage a public campaign against suicide. In a joint statement, they said “The idea that suicide can never be a solution to a problem or a form of escape from pain, must be spread throughout society.

The ministry said that it plans to implement educational programs so that one can spot signs of depression and/or suicidal tendencies.

Sun shines, rain fall, that is how it goes
Love starts, blooms, blossoms, flowers and grows
Hearts pound, people die
Don

I am so intoxicated with the idea of love
It is driving me nuts and yet I am not a monkey
I have to check myself, under my arms to see
If there are any funny hairs growing there

I feel like I can climb a vertical wall
And stay upright without taking a fall
And, believe it or not, that is not all
Is this how it feels when you