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Gummy Soul Presents: “Fela Soul” by Amerigo Gazaway

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by ThePBG on September 22nd 2011
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Hello Dedicated Readers!

Here’s a little gem I discovered in my travels along The Innanets earlier this week that I wanted to share with you all:

I fell in love with it from the first listen. Two of my faves, Fela Kuti and De La Soul mashed up together expertly. Kudos to Amerigo Gazaway!!

 

From GummySoul.com:

What do you get when you put together afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and rap pioneers De La Soul? You get Fela Soul; musical tapestry created by Gummy Soul artist Amerigo Gazaway. More than just a clever title, Fela Soul is an 8-track, 33 minute journey into the world of afrobeat rhythms, funky horn riffs,  and classic hip-hop gems. Using dozens of  hand-picked samples from the Nigerian instrumentalist and political figure Fela Kuti, and 8 carefully-chosen acapellas from the Native Tongue rap trio De La Soul, Amerigo seamlessly intertwines the two into something completely new and original.

Track listing:

 

Click here to go to GummySoul.com and download this fabulous FREE project. Enjoy!

 

~pbg

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Infant Swag: Crown Royal Baby Booties

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by ThePBG on September 15th 2011
in Beauty & Style, Culture, Funny stuff, The Internet     
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Can we talk about how this right here is a real thing???

 

Oh yes, it’s real. I saw this on Tumblr last night and thought it might be photoshopped. I mean…really. Who would make baby booties out of the Crown Royal bag?? WHO??? Some lady with an Etsy shop, apparently. These are a real thing that is happening in the world. Classy ass baby booties for the infant of the finest liquor connoisseur, made to order for your Tiny Tot. Please note the disclaimer: “Please note, this bootie is not meant to encourage infant alcoholism, merely to celebrate the beauty of the Crown Royal bag, and the product that comes inside of the bag.”

This is truly a dirty pretty thang. I honestly feel like I have ABSOLUTELY seen everything at this point. What else could there possibly be???

Any thoughts on this, Dedicated Readers?

 

~pbg

 

****UPDATE****

Shortly after this post went up, I got a message from a woman I assume to be the creative genius behind the “Crown Royal Baby Booties”:

hi, i noticed you posted the crown royal booties. maybe you’ll reconsider if you have the full set. I posted the onesie on my site earlier this week.

Lovely! Here’s my response:

Hey girl! Haaay!!

I don’t have a baby to put in booties or onesies, so I’ll be skipping it. I will compliment you on your creativity. I’ve never seen anything like it and it definitely would have never occurred to me to put an infant into clothing emblazoned with a liquor emblem. 

Good luck in all your creative endeavors. 

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Rip The Runway: Vogue, “Slave Earrings”? REALLY??

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by ThePBG on August 21st 2011
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OK, Last week Nivea for men posted a wack-ass ad insinuating that black men with beards and afros were “uncivilized” and “didn’t give a damn”. It was just an asshole move on their part and after getting slammed for it in every corner of the World Wide Web, they took the ad down and issued an apology. 

Fast forward to this week: Here’s Vogue Italia with their “slave earrings”. Yep, “SLAVE EARRINGS”. Check it:

"Slave earrings"...on a white lady, no less. Hmph.

From the Vogue Italia website:

Jewellery has always flirted with circular shapes, especially for use in making earrings. The most classic models are theslave and creole styles in gold hoops.

 If the name brings to the mind the decorative traditions of the women of colour who were brought to the southern Unites States during the slave trade, the latest interpretation is pure freedom. Colored stones, symbolic pendants and multiple spheres. And the evolution goes on.

 Anna Bassi, Vogue Gioiello n. 109, March 2010


It seems as if we have to teach these unaware corporations everyday that our culture isn’t up for exploitation and that they need to respect us. Hey, I’m down if you’re down. This right here is disgusting. It is a slap in the face of not only the memory every slave woman who suffered the indignities of European Chattel Slavery, but to all of their descendants, including me. A Black slave woman would be be beaten if she even attempted to adorn herself with something as fine as gold hoop earrings. No white slave traders ever said to African women “Oh, well ma’am…I’m going to take you over to the Americas and sell you into a lifetime of bondage, servitude and horrific violence, but you can keep those nice gold hoop earrings you’re wearing.” Excuse my tart language, but Vogue Italia can get the entire f*ck outta here with this ad. Slavery is never trendy, fashionable or chic.

I’m about sick of this crap. I sent the people at Vogue a letter and I encourage you to the same if ad this offends you as much as it does me. Fellow Blogger @purplepeace79 sent me this note that she put up on her Tumblr blog and she is giving us all permission to copy and paste it into the contact form over at vogue.com to lodge our complaints:

Dear Vogue,

On the Vogue Italia website, there is a product called “Slave Earrings”http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-gioiello/shop-the-trend/2011/08/hoop-earrings. This is horribly disrespectful to people of African descent whose ancestors endured the horrors of slavery. To refer to gold hoop earrings as “slave earrings” is a slap in the face to every enslaved person who suffered at the hands of racist oppression. You should pull this item or change the change name immediately. This is unbelievable. How did you let this happen? 

Thanks for this form letter, PurplePeace. If this doesn’t drive home the point to the people at Vogue that “slavery accessories” are not that new hot sh*t, then they truly just don’t give a damn.

 

~pbg

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The Struggle: PBG & “Words With Friends”

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by ThePBG on August 16th 2011
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You would think with all the books I read and all the wordsmithing I do here on Dirty Pretty Thangs that I’d be doing BIG THANGS on the widely popular online game “Word With Friends”, right? No indeed. I suck so bad at that game. No really, I am the worst. I’ve been playing Words With Friends since right after I got my Android phone in June and I don’t think I’ve ever won a game. No, wait! I beat Kellie once!

Damn, that was only because she quit playing against me because I’m such a horrible WWF player. No matter…A win is a win! 

When Kellie logs in and sees me starting this WWF mess, she's gonna block me for sure.

I know a lot of words, but I have absolutely no strategy and that is what needed to win at WWF. Yes, I know it’s just “Scrabble For Hipsters” and I should know how to play from playing actual Scrabble as a kid. Well I don’t! I played Uno, Catchphrase and Spades as a kid. The closest I came to even giving a hot damn about Scrabble was this weird game my Mama bought for my sister and me called “Upwords”. You could stack the tiles to make words! That makes more sense to me and I bet I’d kick ass on that one if I could play it online now.

The good ol' days when word games made sense.

We also had this other game “Backwords” where you could spell words backwards. I was pretty good at that too.

My sister won this most of the time.

Well, now that “Words With Friends” is on Facebook too, even more people get to know how bad I am at this game. Yes, I LOVE to play but I’m just no good at it. I make it fun by playing sexually suggestive words or talking smack in the chat box.  That is so hilarious to me. *smh*

Add me and play, if you dare! 

 

~pbg

 

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