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Hip Hop Group, Voice, Have the Audacity to Stand Out

Parlé, Pop Culture /

“Swag­ger with some con­tent. Some­thing you can bop to.”  Nick Vibes, one third of the Louisville, Ken­tucky Hip-Hop group, Voice, defined their music well with this line from their sin­gle “What Chu Sed.” Web­ster’s dic­tio­nary defines an anom­aly as an irreg­u­lar­i­ty or some­thing that devi­ates from the nor­mal expec­ta­tions. Nick Vibes, Dre Vice, and Suave Duave have enti­tled their upcom­ing albumThe Anom­aly in an attempt to alert their audi­ence of the new approach they bring to music. Their lyrics are wit­ty and social­ly rel­e­vant. Their music is easy to lis­ten to and the unde­ni­ably attrac­tive mem­bers are quite easy to look at. These artists are on the verge of some­thing big and Par­lé Mag­a­zine want­ed a piece of the action. We caught up with Nick Vibes and Dre Vice to under­stand where they get the audac­i­ty to stand out… Read more at ParleMagazine.com  

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Courtroom Tug-of-War

Mommy Noire, Pop Culture /

I’ve lived two lives. The for­mer was one rid­dled with despair, wor­ry and con­stant frus­tra­tion. The begin­ning of adult­hood for me was a bite much big­ger than I could chew. Just 22 years old, a new moth­er of twins fin­ish­ing a BA at NYU, I found myself in the mid­dle of a cus­tody bat­tle with the father of my chil­dren. It was the sin­gle worst year of my life count­ed against oth­er years: my father’s bat­tle with can­cer, his sub­se­quent death, bouts of unem­ploy­ment and roman­tic rela­tion­ships gone sour. In that year, thoughts of sui­cide were ram­pant. I for­got to eat and my weight dwin­dled down to 90 pounds. My clothes draped over my bone-thin frame like I was play­ing dress up in my mother’s clos­et. Read more at MommyNoire.com

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A Conversation With Actress and Writer Tanya Wright

Parlé, Pop Culture /

My first thought upon meet­ing Tanya Wright at the 2010 Brook­lyn Book Fes­ti­val was “She’s beau­ti­ful.” My sec­ond thought, “I know this girl.” If you don’t know her by name, maybe you know her as Deputy Kenya Jones on “True Blood.” If not there, then sure­ly you’ve seen her on “24”. You might even know her as LaMuzin­dah in 2001’s “The Broth­ers,” but most recent­ly, she com­plet­ed her debut fic­tion nov­el, “But­ter­fly Ris­ing”, and also wrote, direct­ed, pro­duced, and starred in the inspi­ra­tionalmovie slat­ed for release as a fea­ture film. It’s a sto­ry of friend­ship, loss, and redemp­tion. In a can­did con­ver­sa­tion, she spoke about her book, her upcom­ing movie, her inspi­ra­tions behind both, and her future endeav­ors. Read more at Parlemagazine.com

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Eric Benet Talks Crying Men, Seventies Soul, and New Album

Parlé, Pop Culture /

If Eric Benét’s newest sin­gle “Some­times I Cry” is any indi­ca­tion of what is to come on his forth­com­ing album Lost In Time, due out Novem­ber 30th, then we can expect soul­ful great­ness packed with emo­tion and wrapped in pas­sion.  He is the epit­o­me of a man in touch with his feel­ings and this album is a kind of tell all, but he is no writer of nov­els. Instead he opts to release his feel­ings through song and does it in the most beau­ti­ful way. He paints his words and uses live instru­ments as his can­vas. This time around, he wants you to feel what he is say­ing and not just hear it.  He recent­ly kicked off a two-month nation­wide tour with Fan­ta­sia tak­ing his pas­sion on the road. Par­lé Mag­a­zine had the plea­sure of a per­son­al con­ver­sa­tion with him to get inside the mas­ter­mind behind the music and dis­sect his many inspi­ra­tions. … Read more at Parlemagazine.com

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“Champagne Life” for Def Jam Executive’s Birthday Bash

Parlé, Pop Culture /

It was cham­pagne life last Thurs­day night at Shawn “Pecas” Cost­ner’s 40th birth­day par­ty host­ed by Hot 97’s Ang­ie Mar­tinez. The Vice Pres­i­dent of Def Jam Pro­mo­tions and renowned music indus­try exec­u­tive cel­e­brat­ed on the roof deck at Stu­dio Square in Asto­ria Queens with a star stud­ded crowd. The décor was beau­ti­ful with the white leather couch­es, the back­drop of Manhattan’s sky­line, and an illu­mi­nat­ed water tow­er in the dis­tance, but the peo­ple there were even more beau­ti­ful where, on a score of 1 to 10, half the women were at least a 25 and the oth­er half too fan­cy to rate.  Women of all shades and col­ors had booties so rotund you’d think they came straight from Africa.… Read more at Parlemagazine.com

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