Word: mama
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gangsta, at least on record. His 1993 album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., included an anthem called Keep Ya Head Up that was chivalrously supportive of black women; on his last album, the confrontationally titled Me Against the World, he rapped a surprisingly tender tribute to his mother titled Dear Mama. Even as Shakur was being vilified in the mainstream press as a tough-talkin', gin-and-juice-drinkin' gangsta rapper, his songwriting was becoming increasingly intelligent and introspective...
...slow blues-lyrics-meets-Motown-rhythms tune followed with the rather humourous lyrics, "If you leave me, take your dog with you... and you pooper scooper too... scoop you way back to your mama's house." Diddley then joked, "If I was in Vegas, I'd have to sing it like this" and slipped into a witty Sinatra imitation singing "I'm calling it quits, no more Kibbles and Bits..." Blues with a sense of humor...
...sketches that don't seem to have any point. The show's new, unexplainable fixation is with characters who yell at faceless crowds. One has Cheri Oteri in a housecoat screaming at children from her front porch. The skit is too redolent of a scene from Vicki Lawrence's Mama's Family to watch comfortably in its entirety...
...statutory rape. Though it languished in committee, Farr says he intends to revive it next month, using Wilson's plan as "ammunition." In Florida, a couple of different statutory-rape bills are pending. One would increase the penalties when drugs or alcohol is involved. Another, the so-called MAMA (which stands for "make adult males accountable") bill, would prosecute some statutory rapists under child-abuse laws--a potentially effective tactic, because medical facilities, day-care centers, conceivably even schools would then be required by law to report statutory rape like any other suspected child abuse...
...this heavy breathing obscures the fact that except for the color of its stars, Exhale is fairly standard Hollywood pap--sort of Steel Magnolias in black face. Its biggest virtue is that there is not a struggling welfare mama, sassy street-corner "ho" or domineering matriarch in sight. Indeed for all the predictable carping from black men about the supposed bashing of their sex in Exhale, it is middle-class black women who take the real beating. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon play to a new black female stereotype that is in some ways more damaging...