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5th Annual Black Men Magazine - DC SWIMSUIT COMPETITION - LYNESHEA M.

On Saturday September 13, I attended the Black Men Magazine Bikini contest preliminary, I interviewed with a panel of judges and the magazine publisher himself, John Blassingame.

I am proud to announce that, among hundreds of hopefuls from DC, MD, and VA, I have secured a spot in the top 50 to compete in their 5th annual Bikini Contest. It is a huge deal this magazine is African American owned and operated. Other notable magazines produced by John Blassingame include;  Black Men Magazine, Today’s Black Woman Magazine, Hype Hair, Soul food, Suduko, Urban Ink, Word Up!, Skin & Ink , John Blassingame is responsible for catapulting the careers of models; Melyssa Ford, Lauren London etc. These woman have gone on to become Actresses, Singers, Models, Host, etc.  

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(KEVIN SEAN WEBB/GEMDIGI/PHATAPPLES/)HAS HARASSED ME CONSTANTLY VIA THE INTERNET FOR THE LAST 2 WEEKS...POSTING PORN UNDER MY NAME AND LINKING IT TO ME ON EVERY WEBSITE HE CAN FIND....TODAY I REACHED A BREAKING POINT...GOT HIS IP ADDRESS AND REPORTED HIM TO INTERNET CRIMES AT THE FBI...THIS IS NOT A GAME THIS IS MY LIFE AND THIS DUMBASS HAS BEEN PLAYING WITH MY LIFE!!! MY NAME IS TRADEMARKED, MY COMPANY IS INCORPORATED....HE OBVIOUSLY CANNOT GRASP THIS CONCEPT....SO I HAD TO DO THE ULTIMATE AND REPORT HIM TO INTERNET CRIMES...THIS IS REAL SAD CONSIDERING THE WHOLE TIME HE WAS WORKING WITH ME, HE COULD'NT UTILIZE NONE OF THESE TOOLS TO HELP BUT NOW HAS THEM TEAR ME AND DOWN??? YOU GOTTA BE KINDING ME!!! THIS IS THE ULTIMATE CRAZINESS...I HAVE BEEN PUSHED TO MY LIMIT!! I HAVE FILED A RESTRAINING, NOW I AM HAVING TO FILE STALKING CHARGES....UNBELIEVEABLE..NEVER IN A 1000 YEARS WOULD I HAVE THOUGHT I WOULD BE IN THIS PREDICAMENT!!! SAVE YOURSELF SOME TROUBLE AND AVOIND THIS DUDE, WHEN THE AUTHORTIES GET TO HIM, I GUESS IT WILL BE REAL TO HIM!!! SINCERELY, KIMMI KENNEDY

OK SO NOW MR. KEVIN SEAN WEBB (GEMDIGI/PHATAPPLES) IS WRITING BLOGS IN MY NAME SPEAKING IN 3RD PERSON AS IF...I WOULD POST A DERAGATORY BLOG ABOUT MYSELF...HE WROTE A BLOG USING MY NAME IN REFERENCE TO KARRINE STEFFANS & POSTED PORN THERE... LET'S BE REAL... YOU KNOW I WOULD'NT DO THIS TO MYSELF... HE HAS BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY TRYING TO DESTROY ME SINCE I STOPPED DEALING WITH HIM...HE JUST CAN'T SEEM TO MOVE ON!!

DOES SEAN THINK HE IS 50 CENT?? I GUESS I AM YOUNG BUCK!!!JUST HEARD THE REMIXED VOICEMAIL HE MANIPULATED OF ME CURSING HIM OUT...LMAO!!! LISTEN TO THE REMIX OF ONE SIDE OF A CONVERSATION...HE IS SO SIMPLE....

I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE!! EVERYTIME HE POSTS PORN USING MY NAME I GET IT DELETED BUT HE JUST KEEPS ON...I SHOWED ALL THE RESTRAINT I COULD BY NOT ADDRESSING HIM ON MY RADIO SHOW BUT THIS IGNORANT, ERRATIC BEHAVIOR MUST BE ADDRESSED!! I CANNOT STAND BY OR TURN A BLIND EYE WHILE HE DOES THIS...WE ARE GOING TO COURT AND HIS IP ADDRESS WILL BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIM...UNFORTUNATELY HE HAS NOTHING I CAN SUE HIM FOR.....

HE LIVES WITH HIS MOTHER IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, HAS NO CAR...AND HIS CASH FLOW IS QUESTIONABLE...SO WHAT DO I DO??? I AM WARNING YOU..THIS DUDE IS STRANGE..HE OBVIOUSLY HAS NOTHING TO DO ALL DAY EXCEPT TRY TO DESTROY ME.... HE SITS THERE AND LOOKS FOR HIGH TRAFFIC WEBSITES GETS A MY NAME AS A USER NAME AND POST PORN!!! HE WILL DO IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT SO THAT WHEN I WAKE UP IT THERE...THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR WEEKS NOW!!!

MAYBE IF HE CHANNELED THAT ENERGY BACK INTO GETTING MONEY, HE WOULD'NT BE LIVING WITH HIS MOTHER....

ISN’T IT INTERESTING HOW THIS CAME ABOUT WHEN I DECIDED TO SEVER TIES WITH HIM…HE HAS BEEN DEALING WITH ME FOR A WHOLE YEAR KNOWING FULL WELL WHO I AM..AND IT WAS NEVER AND ISSUE UNTIL NOW…HE KNEW WHEN HE HAD HIS WHOLE FACE BETWEEN MY LEGS!!!!….NOW SOMEBODY IS MAD!! AWWW ISN’T THAT VERY FEMALE OF HIM!!!

I THOUGHT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND!! HE SEEMS NOT UNDERSTAND TH DEFINTION OF DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER…PER HIS BLOG..IF KIMMI KENNEDY IS MY ENTITY AND HE THROWING SLANDEROUS THINGS HE CAN BE SUED FOR THAT NO MATTER WHAT NAME WAS PREVIOUSLY BECAUSE NOW KIMMI KENNEDY IS NOT JUST AN ENTITY BUT A CORPORATION..SO AS IN BUSINESS GOES..IT’S BEING HANDLES AS SUCH…HE IS GRASPING FOR STRAWS..BUT TOO LITTLE TOO LATE FOR THAT..THE DAMAGE HE HAS DONE AND IS DOING STILL IS IRREPAIRABLE.

LADIES I HIGHLY SUGGEST THAT YOU NOT EVEN ATTEMPT TO DEAL WITH THIS DUDE OR YOU MAY FACE THE SAME DILEMMA I AM!! HE HAS CHANGED LOGINS AND PASSWORDS AND IN ONE PARTICULAR INSTANCE THE LINK TO MY DAILYMOTION AND BRIGHTCOVE VIDEO PAGE…HE HAS CHANGED TO THE FAKE ESCORT SITE HE HAS BUILT TO SLANDER ME…

BUT HIS EFFORTS ARE FUTILE…I AM LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK WITH THIS ONE…
REMEMBER YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! LET MY NIGHTMARE BE A SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHAT TO AVOID WHEN YOU ARE A MODEL TRYING TO DEAL WITH A MERE WEB DESIGNER!!! IF HE DID THIS TO ME…HE WILL DO IT TO ANYONE…

I've been trying to write a critique of women in hip-hop music videos for a while now. It's one of those topics that seems so exhausted. Living in the U.S., I watched so much BET and MTV, I became used to seeing half-naked black women on TV all the time. But over the last year, I am no longer de-sensitized to these images and was actually put off when I saw a couple of fleshy videos a few weeks ago. Why? Because many of them tell us that black women are beautiful, but that they are only beautiful for sex.

From film-maker Il Millione is a short interview of Prof. Tricia Rose, author of Black Noise. Rose sheds some light on what I think are critical points in the hip-hop vs. women debate. She talks briefly about how 'blackness' is performed through hip-hop, and how stereotypes are played out particularly through music videos. When it comes to women, she makes her argument extremely clear: Hip-hop is not responsible for sexism, but it is a space where the exploitation of women is almost required. To be a powerful, desirable, successful black male you almost have to exploit black women as part of your performance. Furthermore, black women have to co-sign an exploitative perception of who they are in order to participate.

The debate is standard throughout: these videos are sexist, the music is misogynistic, the women are exploited, oversexualized, treated as property or even just as accessories. These are all themes that are readily apparent in your typical rap video. But how exactly do women co-sign to their own exploitation? How do these women negotiate their choices when it comes to their bodies (and they have every right to) and their autonomy in a sub-culture that is dominated by sexist ideology? Can they still exercise their agency? Where do we draw the line between exploitation and agency?

It is obvious that many of these "video vixens" and "hip-hop honeys" know exactly what they are doing, it is a conscious choice they have made. For some it's simply an art form, for others a regular job. Melyssa Ford of Jay Z's "Big Pimpin" fame, Mystikal's "Shake that Ass" and Sisqo's "Thong Song" is not only the most talked about video vixen, she is also a prime example of this. Ford has a degree in Forensic Psychology from York University, Canada. Ford made a conscious choice to participate, she probably could have done other things. Of course within the argument of choice is the question of how much choice do some of these women really have to begin with? If they had alternative ways of making good money, would they really be stripping naked in uncut music videos for the cash? Maybe, maybe not. But nobody forced them into an exploitative industry, whether or not they think it exploits them or not.

I think there are many other important issues to consider in this debate, one of them is how black masculinity is constructed through the explicit sexualization of black women. But much of this comes down to a question over power, and more importantly whose power.

JD hosted the TAG/VMA Pre-party at Avalon this weekend and Zoe showed up in this ensemble...

If you look closely at her silver slippers heels on the left, it is tearing apart. This is not a good look and someone should tap her on the shoulder, she's looking a little off these days. 

Melyssa, girl you so special....

A tuxedo shirt with fish-net stockings....R U Serious?? And that Bed-Hair....*Sigh*

Let Us Pray...

Stay Fly....

Actress Meagan Good celebrated her 27th birthday the other night at the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, where Marlon Wayans, Tyrese Gibson, Ricky Bell (Bell Biv Devoe), Evan Ross, the group Badd Gyrl, and Melyssa Ford's sexy self all came out to show support. We want to know was Meagan's outfit finally on point, or did she still need the assistance of a stylist? Either way Happy Birthday Meagan!

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Toccara who's career has continued to soar since her TV debut on America's Next Top Model attended the 12th Annual Black Film Festival's day 2. We're not even going to comment on those two overgrown midgets playing hide-and-go-seek in her shirt. Model Melyssa Ford threw the photographers the classic video "ho" pose by tooting out her huge azz. Dog lover Mya whose career is being suffocated to death with a pillow (please someone walk in and put a stop to this!), actresses Essence Atkins, and Angell Conwell also attended.

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