Lady Issues

 BBC3 documentary Music Money and Hip Hop Honeys (still a week to watch it here), caused quite the stir investigating the world of video girls, trending on Twitter for 2 whole days to mixed reports.

Props to the host, Nel Hedayat I'm her newest fan! I can't find any more info or a Twitter page for her so hit me up if you have any. Theres many a presenter claiming they want to be the next Louis Theroux, but I thought she pulled it off with integrity and aplomp putting her stamp all over this baby.

Whatever you make of the ladies who strip off and gyrate alongside our fave rappers, it's definitely worth a watch. If women in the hip hop industry is your bag baby, you might wanna feast your eyes on the BET doc My Mic Sounds Nice which explores the history and some of the issues surrounding female mc's...

BET Videos

Gender portrayal is a topic thats been on my mind alot recently, weather its because I'm the only girl in the SB.TV team or just wiseing up with age to the portrayal of my lady shaped sisters in the media. I even interviewed the same equality expert as BBC3, Julia Long and infiltrated some feminist meetings for an article I wrote for uni on the gender pay gap...a pretty sorry state of affairs let me tell you.

Anyways, I thought Maverick Sabre's track he performed for Mistajam, What I've Done was a really insightful and beautiful comment from a guy on issues a lady can find herself facing, have a peek at him in session...

Plus this topic gave me a good excuse to post a new pic from MY lady obsession Nicki Minaj's V photoshoot, more pics here and Ellen interview here- what a woman!

Jay Z's masterclass with Oprah

Too many quotes in this to mention in this but I was really struck by his definition of excellence, his deeply intrinsic faith in himself and sentiments on the importance of knowing who you are. Also just his general down-to-earthness (he pops to the shops and everything!) definitely worth a watch...

Documentry Slebrity...

Watching Starsuckers got my brain cogs electricly churning whilst simultaniously wacking me in the face with a mighty wooden spoon of synicism.
Difficult to explain I'm gonna go and do one of the things it highlights burdens our media today and copy its a "documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it" straight from their press release.

Using an unfortunate US magician to narrate the whole thing in the hope of enforcing how media conglomerates trick us similarly was its fatal error but one I'd still suggest you bypass to check out the meaty delight that is quality content in the film. Lithuanian celebrity MPs, which sees an ex-Who Wants to be a Millionaire host pri-ministering over the nation (completely true!!) has to be the most entertaining bit, as does some secret filming of Max Clifford. Making too many points is its problem but it really succeeded in enforcing the complexities of the celebrity fascination society's in the midst of. Chris Atkins told it took two years of his life to produce this film, which won't be touched by any of the major cinemas or tabloids and obviously set his contact list ablaze (I'm talking flame raging carnage people) and I bloody commend him immense props for demonstrating a higher level of belief in his production of a film that leaves you loads to think about.

Like this eh? Have a gander at this for a more blow-by-blow review...