Using My Inside Voice

GPOY!

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:35:09 -0400

GPOY!

gq: Amen! D’Angelo Is Back!! Sh-t. Damn. Motherf—ker! If you...

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:34:49 -0400

Amen! D’Angelo Is Back!!

Sh-t. Damn. Motherf—ker! If you love D’Angelo like we do, this one’s gonna give you chills. GQ presents the neo-soul legend’s first extended interview and his first photo shoot in more than a decade. Here’s a brief bit of GQ correspondent Amy Wallace’s spellbinding profile, and click here to read the whole thing.

Shame, guilt, repentance—D’Angelo knows them well. To say that he was raised religious doesn’t begin to capture it. He’s the son and the grandson of Pentecostal preachers. To D’Angelo, good and evil are not abstract concepts but tangible forces he reckons with every day. In his life and in his music, he has always felt the tension between the sacred and the profane, the darkness and the light.

“You know what they say about Lucifer, right, before he was cast out?” D’Angelo asks me now. “Every angel has their specialty, and his was praise. They say that he could play every instrument with one finger and that the music was just awesome. And he was exceptionally beautiful, Lucifer—as an angel, he was.”

But after he descended into hell, Lucifer was fearsome, he tells me. “There’s forces that are going on that I don’t think a lot of motherfuckers that make music today are aware of,” he says. “It’s deep. I’ve felt it. I’ve felt other forces pulling at me.” He stubs out his cigarette and leans toward me, taking my hand. “This is a very powerful medium that we are involved in,” he says gravely. “I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know? The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you’ve got to be careful.”

[Photograph by Gregory Harris]

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:53:31 -0400

this was totally me… except back in 1989 it was Whitney

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:18:28 -0400

this was totally me… except back in 1989 it was Whitney

“snozzberry? who’s ever heard of a...

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:14:01 -0400

“snozzberry? who’s ever heard of a snozzberry?!”

Photo

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:15:49 -0400

LMAO, what is this from???

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:03:25 -0400

LMAO, what is this from???

terrysdiary: Gaga doing Karaoke. I wonder which songs she...

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:02:49 -0400

terrysdiary:

Gaga doing Karaoke.

I wonder which songs she sang…

bionicaguilera: ‘cause she’s amazing, just the way that she is,...

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:14:01 -0400

bionicaguilera:

‘cause she’s amazing, just the way that she is, baby

pretty much.

fuckyeahfamousblackgirls: Huxtable family sings “I Just Called...

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:27:05 -0400

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:

Huxtable family sings “I Just Called to Say I Love You” with Stevie Wonder

YESSS… one of my FAVORITE Cosby moments

LOL! I love this silly bitch

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:22:19 -0400

LOL! I love this silly bitch

Christina Aguilera at NBC Upfronts, May 14, 2012 YESSSSSSSSSSSS!

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:39:14 -0400

Christina Aguilera at NBC Upfronts, May 14, 2012

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!

Hope for Haiti - 2010 two great performances for one sad, but...

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:39:32 -0400

Hope for Haiti - 2010

two great performances for one sad, but great, cause

witchsistah: european-booty-scratcher: kit-kat-o-graham: negri...

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:31:14 -0400

witchsistah:

european-booty-scratcher:

kit-kat-o-graham:

negritaaa:

dickens-like-the-author:

queengi:

Bristol Palin.

oops

Welp.

Photo

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:27:59 -0400

::all smiles:: …because UsingMyInsideVoice.com is...

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:51:40 -0400

::all smiles:: …because UsingMyInsideVoice.com is back

LOL!

nobody does it like dorothy zbornak

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:18:07 -0400

nobody does it like dorothy zbornak

i’m completely proud to stan for both of these strong,...

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:00:15 -0400

i’m completely proud to stan for both of these strong, talented & dope female artists

i’ll never NOT be sad and pissed off that we lost such a...

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:58:30 -0400

i’ll never NOT be sad and pissed off that we lost such a unique and great talent as Amy Winehouse… miss ya girl

gabifresh: RuPaul on Arsenio Hall, 1993 love. ok, can we talk...

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:41:59 -0400

gabifresh:

RuPaul on Arsenio Hall, 1993

love.

ok, can we talk about how awesome Ru has ALWAYS been… strange to think this was nearly 20 years ago and people are STILL fighting the issues and for the rights Ru has been championing since he hit the scene…

ALSO, am i the only one who, after watching Drag Race and now this OLD interview, sees a bit of Ru in B. Scott? I love it because they both spread the same message of hard work, positivity, love, respect and following your dreams, no matter WHAT they are or what others say/think.

LASTLY, I LOVE LOVE LOVE how Ru’s signature saying is STILL the same here and now on Drag Race… “if you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else? can i get an AMEN?!”

AMEN!!!