gave it up for lent, eh?

mochalox said:

YES!!!!AND IT'S GIVING ME A HEADACHE AND MAKING ME EVIL!!!!!BOOOOO!!!!!HISSSSS!!!!!

...whoo....

...that felt good!!!!

I can relate! I went to a Catholic school, and even though i'm not Catholic, they asked all of the kids to give up somethin'. I tried chocolate one year. Needless to say, the next year, I gave up carbonated drinks. Much easier.

It's so coincidental this topic was made. I was just listening to Donnie's album yesterday. It's not consistent, but it has its isolated moments. I liked "You Got A Friend" and the lyrics in "Beautiful Me," but a lot of the material and stylistic techniques have already been covered by artists such as Stevie Wonder and Meshell Ndegeocello ("Plantation Lullabies" comes to mind), so it sounded to me like he was retreading already walked paths. Have yet to adventure to the latter half of the album or listen to it fully -- has yet to grab me.

As a person who works in music retail, Donnie is hard at work on the follow-up to his debut LP. I met him recently and he told me that he intends to have it out in 2005.

JANFAN4L said:

That's the same way I feel about it.

mochalox said:

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I don't agree with using negro or colored but the brother sounds like he uses his head for something other than a hat rack. He is not saying anything weird.
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VH1: One of the songs on The Colored Section is “Our New National Anthem.” Why do we need one?

Donnie: Our national anthem calls America “The land of the free and the home of the brave,” but when it was written people that looked like me were enslaved. [A runaway slave,] Crispus Attucks is the first man to die in the Revolutionary War, but nobody says anything about it! It’s past time for us to have a new national anthem and a new pledge of allegiance, because we don’t believe in one nation under god. We’re separatists. We believe in separate subcultures within one nation, with one type of people ruling it all. It’s pitiful! [Watch Clip]
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He is right on point.