How's this for controversial: Chris Brown apparently doesn't
understand why he is vilified by the press, but Jay Z "gets a pass" for
stabbing someone.
That is just one of multiple eyebrow-raising comments the 24-year-old R&B star made in the cover story for the Oct. 14 issue of Jet magazine.
When discussing his rocky relationship with the press, Brown
named-dropped Jay Z, who he sees as someone "accepted by White America."
"This is something I've been dealing with for the past maybe five
years," he told Jet, per CNN. "Anybody with a voice – Tupac, Michael
Jackson, the Notorious B.I.G. – gets formatted … except maybe for Jay Z, who is accepted by White America
because he shakes hands and kisses babies. No disrespect, because I'm a
fan, but nobody brings up the fact that he stabbed somebody and sold
drugs. He gets a pass."
In 2001, Jay Z pleaded guilty to stabbing
record producer Lance "Un" Rivera at a 1999 listening party in
Manhattan. Brown believes the "Magna Carta" rapper got off easy for
this, but he himself still can't move past the 2009 Rihanna assault.
"I got to the point where it's only so much you can take from the
master, you feel me?" he told Jet. "I've taken my fair share of
lashings. I've dealt with the media. Instead of being an artist, I've
been called a woman beater; I've been insulted in public and judged. And
being able to not want to kill yourself at the end of the day is what
made me say, 'F**k it.'"
The Virginia native even went so far as to compare himself to Trayvon Martin.
"I identify with Trayvon 100 percent as far as living in 2013 and
still dealing with blatant racism," he told the magazine. "This
generation is so used to racism that it's normal; we don't care. We
aren't on drugs or catching AIDS, but they still look at us as ni**as."
Read the full interview in the new issue of Jet, on newsstands Monday, Sept. 23.
Actress Kerry Washington has been named the 2013 ‘World’s Best Dressed
Woman’ by People Magazine
People said they picked her because of her
great sense of style.
"There has been a trend this
year in lady-like fashion and I think she is almost single-handedly
responsible for it.” People magazine Executive Editor, Elizabeth Sporkin said
Actress Jennifer Lawrence was named the celebrity with the best high fashion style while actress Jessica
Chastain was named best in red carpet
style. Solange Knowles got top marks for style risk-taking and confidence, Zoe Saldana was named the best in denim style and actress Lily Collins was named the best for up-and-coming style. Emma Stone won praise for her classic style & timeless look, while Nicole Richie was named best in trend-setting style.
21 year old University of Lagos student Obabiyi Aisha Ajibola, beat 19
other beauty hopefuls to emerge Muslimah Queen 2013. Ajibola won the
exclusive beauty pageant for Muslim women which took place today
Wednesday September 18th in Jakarta, Indonesia. She received 25 million
rupiah ($2,200) and trips to Mecca
and India as prizes.
The contestants were all required to wear headscarves, covered from head to foot. They
were judged on their looks, how well they recited Koranic verses and their views on
Islam in the modern world, in front of an audience of mainly religious scholars and devout Muslims
This pageant was actually staged as a retort to the Miss World pageant
holding in the same country. The organizers said they wanted to create
an awareness
within the muslim female community that there is a better form of beauty
than the one being portrayed by the Miss World. They said the pageant
is Islam's answer to the glamorous Miss World Pageant.Big Congrats to her!
While addressing the 54th Annual Conference of the Nigerian
Economic Summit that held in Abuja yesterday, president Goodluck
Jonathan blamed the level of corruption in Nigeria on the society. He
said instead of punishing corrupt people, we reward them.
“When you talk about corruption, the private sector is
involved; the public sector is involved; even the individuals, including
other societies, and I wouldn’t want to mention names so that I will
not be attacked. But I know that if collectively all of us don’t
reward corruption, people would not be attracted to corrupt practices,
but when we all reward corruption, then of course, we will be tempted to
go in that direction.
“I want a society where all of us will frown against people who come up with what they are not supposed to have. If
a young man who just started a job and within six months or a year
comes up with a car of N7m to N15m and you clap for him, then you are
rewarding corruption." the president said,
“So for us as a nation to bring corruption
down in Nigeria, it’s not just blaming government or blaming police, but
all individuals must frown at people who have what they are not
supposed to have, who live in houses they supposed not to live in; who
drive cars they are not supposed to drive and who wear suits more
expensive they can afford.
“And until we, as Nigerians are able to
do this, then invariably we are all rewarding corruption and until we
stop that, I don’t think we will get to where we want to go. We
believe that we should not create an environment where people would be
tempted to take what belongs to the public because that is why even in
the fertilizer business we talked about electronic wallet, e-Wallet, so
that funds are not exposed to corrupt people"
