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Sorry I’m a day late! Even Divas have to work sometimes… This Monday’s Mix is all bout the New Jack Swing! AGAIN!!!

Here’s the first Mix:

Teddy Riley is and was a genius back in his Uptown days. Every album that came out by Uptown, I was up in the record store on 145th st and Amsterdam copping the 33! Believe that. My sweet sixteen party was almost completely a Teddy Riley party!!! All the Rice dances…the dances at the parks..Every teen party was an Uptown party in Harlem! So enjoy the mix!

Track Listing

1. You Called And Told Me – Jeff Redd

2. Girl I Got My Eyes On You – Today

3. Somebody For Me – Heavy D & The Boyz Ft Al B Sure

4. I’m Dreamin’ – Christopher Williams

5. Rub You The Right Way – Johnny Gill

6. My Prerogative – Bobby Brown

7. Why You Getting Funky On Me – Today

8. If I’m Not Your Lover – Al B.Sure

9.  II Hype – Entouch

10. You Can Call Me Crazy – Guy

11. If I’m Not Your Lover – Al B Sure ft. Slick Rick

12. My Love (Teddy Riley Remix)- Mary J. Blige ft. Heavy D

13. She’s Playing Hard To Get – Hi-Five

14. Don’t Make Me Over – Sybil

15. Keep On Moving – Soul II Soul

16. Spread My Wings – Troop

17. I Wanna Sex You Up – Color Me Badd

18. Joy – Blackstreet

19. I Get Lonely – Janet Jackson ft Blackstreet

20. Yearning for Your Love – Guy

]]> http://themixtress.com/2009/02/03/monday-mixtape-teddy-riley-mix-2/feed/ 11 0:59:16 Sorry I’m a day late! Even Divas have to work sometimes… This Monday’s Mix is all bout the New Jack Swing! AGAIN!!! Teddy Riley is and was a genius back in his Uptown days. Every album that came out by Uptown, I was up in the record stor[...] Sorry I’m a day late! Even Divas have to work sometimes… This Monday’s Mix is all bout the New Jack Swing! AGAIN!!! Teddy Riley is and was a genius back in his Uptown days. Every album that came out by Uptown, I was up in the record store on 145th st and Amsterdam copping the 33! Believe that. My sweet sixteen party was almost completely a Teddy Riley party!!! All the Rice dances…the dances at the parks..Every teen party was an Uptown party in Harlem! So enjoy the mix! Mixtapes, News DJ Diva no no http://themixtress.com/2008/08/09/bernie-mac-dies-at-50/ http://themixtress.com/2008/08/09/bernie-mac-dies-at-50/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:54:55 +0000 DJ Diva http://themixtress.com/?p=213 I am very saddened by this. He was one of my favorite comedians. He also spawned one of my favorite sayings…”Milk and Cookies”. Death is never easy. I wish his family God’s strength!

CHICAGO – Bernie Mac, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor and comedian who worked his way to Hollywood success from an impoverished upbringing on Chicago’s South Side, died Saturday at age 50.

“Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital,” his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.

She said no other details were available and asked that his family’s privacy be respected.

The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body’s organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

Recently, Mac’s brand of comedy caught him flack when he was heckled during a surprise appearance at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama.

Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine, Mac joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language. The performance earned him a rebuke from Obama’s campaign.

But despite controversy or difficulties, in his words, Mac was always a performer.

“Wherever I am, I have to play,” he said in 2002. “I have to put on a good show.”

Mac started his comedy career at age 8, with a standup performance at a church dinner. In 1977, at age 20, he took that act to comedy clubs in Chicago.

His film career started with a small role as a club doorman in the Damon Wayans movie “Mo’ Money” in 1992. Mac went on to star in the “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise with Brad Pitt and George Clooney and his turn with Ashton Kutcher in 2005′s “Guess Who?” — a remake of the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1967 classic “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” — topped the box office.

Mac also had starring roles in “Bad Santa,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and “Transformers.”

The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series “The Bernie Mac Show,” which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006.

The series about a man’s adventures raising his sister’s three children, won a Peabody Award in 2002. At the time, judges wrote they chose the sitcom for transcending “race and class while lifting viewers with laughter, compassion — and cool.”

The show garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac. He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001 along with his “The Original Kings of Comedy” co-stars, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric The Entertainer.

In 2007, Mac told David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Show” that he planned to retire soon.

“I’m going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit,” Mac told Letterman. “I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977.”

Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on Oct. 5, 1957, in Chicago. He grew up on the city’s South Side, living with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church.

In his 2004 memoir, “Maybe You Never Cry Again,” Mac wrote about having a poor childhood — eating bologna for dinner — and a strict, no-nonsense upbringing.

Mac’s mother died of cancer when he was 16. In his book, Mac said she was a support for him and told him he would surprise everyone when he grew up.

“Woman believed in me,” he wrote. “She believed in me long before I believed.” (Source)

“When the 34-21 vote was announced, “no one clapped or celebrated,” one board member said after the meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.”

I was shocked because that directly contradicted the first story of a fluffy congradulatory piece that I read first. What followed next was an hour’s worth of clicking through all the stories on the subject through Google I was able to come up with the following:

Who is Ben Jacobs?

Jealous was raised in California and attended schools in Monterey County. According to the NAACP’s statement, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a master’s degree in social policy from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His activism started at age 14, when he participated in a voter-registration drive.

Jealous is president of the California-based Rosenberg Foundation, and before that he directed the U.S. human rights program for Amnesty International.

In the mid-1990s, Jealous was the managing editor of the Jackson Advocate, the oldest black newspaper in Mississippi. He was later the executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of more than 200 black community papers.

Who is he’s replacing?

Jealous succeeds Bruce Gordon, who resigned abruptly in March 2007. Gordon left after 19 months, citing clashes with board members over management style and the NAACP’s mission as his reasons for leaving.  The former Verizon executive came to the organization amid fanfare and a hope that he could help boost its lagging fundraising. But Gordon clashed with board members over the group’s vision and civil rights tactics, leaving suddenly in March 2007, after less than two years at the helm.

Gordon’s sudden departure frustrated many board members, coming at a time when the organization – two years from its centennial celebration – was struggling to increase membership, raise money and cement a vision of how to fight discrimination in the post-civil rights era. Dennis Courtland Hayes had been serving as interim president and chief executive officer.

Who else was in the running?

The finalists include Benjamin Todd Jealous, 35, president of the San Francisco-based Rosenberg Foundation, which supports social justice advocacy; Alvin Brown, 37, a senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton; and the Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III, pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas.

Why the Board Members are mad?

The selection process has been a source of internal strife at the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Some of the board’s 64 members say they feel shut out of the process, complaining that the NAACP’s inner circle has narrowed down the list of finalists without their consent. However,
last year, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People recruited a 15-member search committee comprising educators, activists and eight board members. Now some board memebers are expressing their displeasure:

“The process in my view has not involved the full board, and that is something that concerns me very much,” said Alfred Rucks, a 12-year board member from Las Cruces, N.M., who has said in the past that the selection process gives too much power to NAACP outsiders. “Others also have doubted the process, raising concerns about who has been selected. But I want to have an open mind and let the process unfold. The selection of a president and CEO is one of the most important decisions the board can make.”

However, board member Adora Obi Nweze contends that the process under debate was voted upon by the full board months ago.

“You can’t be upset about something you voted for,” said Nweze, president of the Florida conference of the NAACP. “We are in America, and people are entitled to their difference of opinion. But the most important thing is we will come out of this meeting this weekend with a new president and CEO.” 

What does Ben Jacobs have to say?

He told AP that many in his generation have a false sense of progress in racial equality.

“Those of us who are 45 and younger were told, ‘The struggle has been won. Go out and flourish. Don’t worry about the movement,”‘ he told AP

“There are a small number of groups to whom all black people in this country owe a debt of gratitude, and the NAACP is one of them,” Jealous told AP before the vote. “There is work that is undone … the need continues and our children continue to be at great risk in this country.”

Jealous said having the energy of a 35-year-old will be an asset to the organization.

“It means having somebody who is impatient and outraged that race is still a factor in our society,” he said.

He added that he can attract 25- to 50-year-olds — the missing demographic among most chapters — back to the organization. And he said he is eager to work with other groups to push his agenda.

“This is the century when white people will become a minority in this country,” he said. “What that means is right now, we need to have a clear picture of where we’re headed and work together diligently with Latinos, Native Americans, Asians and progressive white groups as if our collective future depends on it. I’m committed to that.”

Jealous said he’s ready to settle in for the long haul.

“As a black child growing up in this country, there was no higher ambition possible than to lead the NAACP,” he said. “No one should be concerned about me going anywhere too soon.”

There you have it. The complete story of what happened with the appointment of Ben Jealous to the presidency of the NAACP. I know that this experience will lead me to delve deeper into the media reports.