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Keyshia Cole: Hell's Angel

It's 1998. Keyshia Cole is 16 and on her own. She should be in the 10th grade.

Brandy and Monica are big with "The Boy Is Mine." Janet Jackson has "I Get So Lonely." It's been more than a decade since the start of the crack tsunami, and the Oakland Unified School District has experienced triple-digit increases of assaults, sex offenses, and drug and alcohol offenses. Clinton cops to Lewinsky. The hot new show is HBO's Sex and the City.

Keyshia walks in to a West Oakland recording studio at about two in the morning. Alicia Keys is at work in one of the rooms, as is D'wayne Wiggins of the recently disbanded East Oakland R&B group Tony! Toni! Tone!... (read more)

From the Blogs

  • Speak Easy


    A couple weeks ago, my boys and I were down in New Orleans. The last night of our weekend, my boy Velz gets a call at 3 in the morning from this girl (read more)
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    Since the first National Hip-Hop Political Convention was held in Newark New Jersey in the summer of 2004, young voters have come to the polls in big (read more)
  • The Nappy Diatribe


    (Obama campaign Manager David Plouffe pictured) A long time ago, in a galaxy strikingly similar to the one in which we already live, your favorite (read more)
  • zentronix d+h


    So many race polls, so little insight. Today's sober NY Times poll on the presidential election and race relations comes to the very same conclusions (read more)

Celeb of the Day

Usher

Usher

Government Name: Usher Raymond IV

Hometown: Dallas, Texas

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