The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread - Part 2

[Anubis]

They kinda have to sag the skinny jeans cuz, like, what's the point of buying a $300 belt if can't nobody see it?

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I'll go ahead and call Aesop Rocks a backpacker... but he sucks.

See? This is why I love you. I know you're trolling, and that's fine, but I'm going to go ahead and bite and just say that that's your opinion and that's fine, but many people would disagree. hehe

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I blame Lil Wayne. Pharrell dressed like a skater and wore big hats but Lil Wayne decided to take the skater thing and make it ghetto fabulous by wearing ugly print weird stuff.

Whoa, what era of Wayne is this? The Fall from Grace (when he fell off, he fell off hard). But yeah, I feel like it was a combination of this and more suburban rappers popping up and getting big.

Honestly, out of all the various forms of urban/hip hop fashion, I love ASAP Rocky's style so much. The dude just knows how to dress.

Flatbush Zombies though, they're wild as ****. t:

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Where in Europe did you live?

*Spain! and it was doing the 1st Bush's reign of terr... oopsie! "administration"( hehe hand slipped!)so that could be partly why but I still believe Americans are not looked upon favorably from alot of countries around the world.
Funny thing is i was cool that some hated me for that and not something i cant change like my complexion!

... oh and yeah i agree chamber. Gypsies get AWHOLE buncha^&* and are looked down upon too!I never got that kinda treatment!

*IT WAS UTTERLY GLORIOUS!! hehe

 

[chamber-music]

When I was in Miami me and my friend went into a store and the shop assistant asked me and my friend to leave are bag with them at the shop register while we looked around the store.

Is this kind of stuff common in the U.S or did just go into a super protection conscious store?

 

[PyroChamber]

When I was in Miami me and my friend went into a store and the shop assistant asked me and my friend to leave are bag with them at the shop register while we looked around the store.

Is this kind of stuff common in the U.S or did just go into a super protection conscious store?

It's common depending on what store you go to.

As a black man, there's fashion in the black community that I"ll never understand; and this is coming from someone who's entire wardrobe consist of comic shirts.

 

[chamber-music]

It was bit of a culture shock because they never do that in stores over here. If they think someone will steal something they will just have the stores cameras or security follow them around the store.

 

[Manic]

Leaving your bags at the door is especially common at stores near schools.

 

[PyroChamber]

I'd like to bring the subject of ass back up for a bit.

We've all seen the Anaconda video, but has anyone seen the preview for J. Lo's Booty video?

 

[Lencho01]

I've seen the preview. Did nothing for me.

Vogue has put this out and the reaction as been negative...

We’re Officially in the Era of the Big Booty

 

[PyroChamber]

So they're saying that people have caught on to something we've all known about for years?

 

[E-Man]

I've seen the preview. Did nothing for me.

Vogue has put this out and the reaction as been negative...

We’re Officially in the Era of the Big Booty

I can't post it here, but Dolemite's, "***** are you for real," reaction fits here.

 

[Lencho01]

The Twitter reaction has been pretty funny.

About sagging...
Sagging Pants And The Long History Of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion

 

[chamber-music]

So what do you guys think about Django Unchained actress Daniele Watt being stopped and handcuffed by police last week in Los Angeles after she was “showing affection” to her partner, Brian James Lucas?

In a Facebook post, Lucas said it’s clear that police “saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl” and thought she was a prostitute and that he was a client.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ed-by-police-for-showing-affection-in-public/

 

[Lencho01]

Hmm... not sure what to say. Would be making too many assumptions.

 

[terry78]

Wamp wamp.

 

[Lencho01]

I will say I'm not sure why she refused to show ID.

 

[chamber-music]

She was probably angry and refused to show ID out of protest. Calling a woman a hooker generally doesn't bring out their sunny side.

I'm just surprised that someone called the cops because they saw two people kissing in a car and that the cops actually turned up.

Must of been a slow crime day.

I thought that old joke about people in Los Angeles believing anyone who walks around in LA being a prostitute was just a urban legend.

 

[terry78]

The lesson here is, don't date white dudes.

 

[RockSP]

She was probably angry and refused to show ID out of protest. Calling a woman a hooker generally doesn't bring out their sunny side.

I'm just surprised that someone called the cops because they saw two people kissing in a car and that the cops actually turned up.

Must of been a slow crime day.

I thought that old joke about people in Los Angeles believing anyone who walks around in LA being a prostitute was just a urban legend.

Nah...just the LAPD living up to their rep.

 

[E-Man]

I don't see how showing her ID was going to prove that she wasn't a prostitute. Plus kissing someone in the car is some pretty normal ****. That's not much evidence at all towards prostitution. Prostitution should be legal anyway, but I still don't get how a kiss is the "gotcha" unless he gave her some money right after that.

 

[chamber-music]

I'm no expert on prostitution but I imagine they don't operate outside TV studios in the middle of the day.

 

[Lencho01]

These are their FB posts...

https://www.facebook.com/wattsdaniele/posts/682727425137030

Daniele Watts added 2 new photos.
September 11 at 8:51pm ·

Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place.

When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. I was talking to my father on my cell phone. I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn’t harming anyone, so I walked away.

A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs.

As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. I felt his shame, his anger, and my own feelings of frustration for existing in a world where I have allowed myself to believe that “authority figures” could control my BEING… my ability to BE!!!!!!!

I was sitting in that back of this cop car, filled with adrenaline, my wrist bleeding in pain, and it occurred to me, that even there, I STILL HAD POWER OVER MY OWN SPIRIT.

Those cops could not stop me from expressing myself. They could not stop the cathartic tears and rage from flowing out of me. They could not force me to feel bad about myself. Yes, they had control over my physical body, but not my emotions. My feelings. My spirit was, and still is FREE.

I will continue to look any “authority figure” in the eye without fear. NO POLICE OFFICER OR GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ME. WE ARE EQUALS. I KNOW THAT I WILL ALWAYS BE FREE BECAUSE THAT IS THE NATURE OF MY SPIRIT.

And moreover, I deeply enjoyed connecting with the cops who detained me. I allowed myself to be honest about my anger, frustration, and rage as tears flowed from my eyes. The tears I cry for a country that calls itself "the land of the free and the home of the brave" and yet detains people for claiming that very right.

Today I exist with courage, knowing that I am blessed to have experienced what I did today. All of those feelings, no matter how uncomfortable. These feelings are what builds my internal strength, my ability to grow through WHATEVER may happen to me.

That internal knowing is what guides me in this world. Not the law, not fear, not mistrust of government or cops or anything else.

In this moment there is a still small voice whispering to me. It says: You are love. You are free. You are pure.

Cheffy BeLive

They didn't arrest her, they detained her. THEY HAD NOTHING TO ARREST HER FOR! They let her go quite quickly when they realized we were right outside CBS and that she was a celebrity and I was a celeb chef. Before they figured out who she was they were threatening calling an ambulance and drugging her for being psychologically unstable, SO NOT COOL WHATSOEVER! We still forgive, love and bless them...just not putting up with this for our own freedom and heart space.

https://www.facebook.com/chefbelive2/posts/817284528304447

Cheffy BeLive added 4 new photos — with Kristen Washington and 119 others.
September 11 at 8:30pm · Edited ·

Today, Daniele Watts & I were accosted by police officers after showing our affection publicly.

From the questions that he asked me as D was already on her phone with her dad, I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers), saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a HO (prostitute) & a TRICK (client).

This is something that happened to her and her father when she was 16. What an assumption to make!!!

Because of my past experience with the law, I gave him my ID knowing we did nothing wrong and when they asked D for hers, she refused to give it because they had no right to do so.

So they handcuffed her and threw her roughly into the back of the cop car until they could figure out who she was. In the process of handcuffing her, they cut her wrist, which was truly NOT COOL!!!

Our freedom isn't freedom folks, when people can abuse others with no reason or evidence at all just because they "think" they have been given the power by people that are ONLY equal to us.

Of course, they had to let her go eventually cuz we weren't a threat to anyone.

They weren't expecting D to be so intelligent and outspoken, and left truly feeling the fear vibration finding out that they had just ****ed with 2 celebrities (Celebrated People).

WE ALL HAVE THE SAME POWER INDIVIDUALLY IN THIS WORLD, AND I'M GLAD WE'RE ALL TAKING IT BACK ONE BEING AT A TIME!

AllOne~OneLove!!!

 

[Lencho01]

http://gawker.com/django-unchained-actress-mistaken-for-prostitute-accos-1634555094

Update 5:02p.m. The incident is described in a message, titled "Actress Generates Radio Call After Citizen Calls 9-1-1," sent to the LAPD email list. The email states a citizen made a 911 call complaining that a male and female were "involved in indecent exposure inside a Silver Mercedes with the vehicle door open." The responding sergeant and police officers believed Danièle Watts and Brian James Lucas fit their description, and detained them until it was clear they had not committed any crime. An internal complaint investigation has reportedly been initiated.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

They figured any black woman kissing white man inside a nice mercedes MUST be a street walker.

The ugliness of racial profiling strikes again.