Friday, January 15, 2016

No 238--SPOT BITZ (JAN 15-21)



HEY OUTTOWNERS, 

OUTSTAGRS AND 
COUTURIANS, 
CHECK OUT 
WHAT WE 
ARE STAGIN'!




This is the Dr Martin Luther King weekend. Hus birthday is Jan 15 but is celebrated on Monday Jan 18




Sing,,,celebrate,,,,,sing sing celebrate....for a King......
Check out the classic 1986 MLK carol from the King Dream Chorus Crew 
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17DpFraXZ4c





It's 2016 and Maatology Productions have three sets of calendars for all of you calendar lovers: OBSDN Men of Color Calendar that features 12 gents from across the country in three black and white photos (style, undergear and artistic nude)....Florida based model Jay Redd also has his calendar that consists of various styles reppin the months and current Mr Couture Virginia based model Cordario Bodi Worrell doing the same. Each calendar is $15 ...If you buy two of the three it will be $20....If you buy all three it will be $25. To receive a Paypal invoice email to snaphoney2011@gmail.com 

To see the behind the scenes of each calendar go to 

OBSDN 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGcPp9FsJ4

JAY REDD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJWgi05U7k

BODI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAskNsKfLAU




Maatology is currently in pre-production of staging the Los Angeles showcase of the stageplay SNAP HONEY about
the story of a retiring female impersonator coming home to perform her one woman play before retiring her heels.
We are currently seeking sponsors and donations for the play that  has been booked for May 20-22 at The Complex Theater in Los Angeles. 
Our FB page is:
https://www.facebook.com/snapcasting2015/




Maatology is also seeking gents for the 8th Annual Mista Couture Charity Style Contest up until  FEB 16.  If you or someone you know who has style and a great personality, email to snaphoney2011@gmail.com for more info.
You can go to YOUTUBE and type in MISTA COUTURE to see past videos!





ADD:HEY MEN OF COLOR, Maatology Productions seeks gents who are in fit, have ladies sex appeal and a great personality for its 2017 OBSDN Men of Color Calendar. Tasteful artistic body pics will be taken. Photo shoots will be done between Feb 16 to July 1 2016. Serious replies only. Email snaphoney2011@gmail.com for details!


OK, now to the BITZ...


The President of the U.S.A. Barack Obama had his final State of the Union Address this week but the person who made the highlight reel was his wife, The First Lady Michelle and what she wore. The dress worn by Michelle Obama to her husband's final State of the Union address has sold out within 20 minutes during the address. How fierce is that? The yellow Narciso Rodriguez number, which was stocked by US department store Neiman Marcus, was reportedly sold out shortly after Ms Obama was shown wearing it during the televised broadcast of her husband's hour-long address.  The wool crepe dress retailed at over $2,000. That is beyond. And you know the knockoffs are being manufactured and boosted to get on the bandwagon (SEE WHO GOT STYLE BELOW). 



And speaking of clothing going viral, the shirt worn by El

Chapo during Sean Penn's interview with the now  drug 

trafficker has been selling like Adele's 25 CD. We dont get it,

 but then again, in the pop culture that we live in where

 oddities become 15 minute superstars anything is sellable.




Did you win your $4 on this week's $1.6 billion Powerball?

LOL. One the the supposed winners of the Powerball from

 Tennessee steeped forward and was on the Today Show, 

but the thing is, there was no verification that they  were the 

winners and the winners said they left their ticket at home.

 Hmm. We dont know about this, but if it turns out they were

 some kooks who just wanted airtime,  some producer's

 heads from the Today Show will be chopped..






The Golden Globes was the talk this week as far as the awards ceremony. We were confused as far as the winners mainly because most of the winners were from shows that people either havent heard of or were on online networks like Amazon Prime. Some of the head scratching winners were Mr Robot for Best Drama (beating out Games of Thrones and Empire), Mozart in The Jungle for Comedy Series (over Orange is the New Black) , Wolf Hall for Limited Series or Movie Made for TV (over American Horror Story Hotel and and American Crime)...Some hand clapper winners include Taraji P Henson for Best Actress in a Drama for her iconic role as Cookie in Empire (whose passing cookies to various audience memebrs while walking to the stage to cop her award and reading the orchestra were classic) and Lady Gaga winning for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Made for TV Movie and of course, Denzel Washington winning the Cecil D Demille Award for his body of work. But the telecast was boring,Three hours too long.  And host Ricky Jervais irreverance as a host wore thin as time progressed. 







In the sports world, the St Louis Rams moving back to Los

 Angeles was not surprising. This week the NFL decided to

 vote for The Rams to move to Los Angeles, one of the three

 teams vying for two of the spots (the other two are Oakland 

Raiders and San Diego Chargers) to play in currently

redevloping  the new L.A. Collisium until Rams owner Stan 

Kroenke's Inglewood Stadium is built.


NFL  also approved the Rams' plan for a stadium in Inglewood, which currently is estimated at $1.9 billion. The plan, which was announced by Rams owner Stan Kroenke a year ago, includes the option of housing a second team -- which right now would be the Chargers, should they decide to go. The stadium would be part of an entertainment, retail and residential complex. 

But in St Louis, diehard Rams fans are causing  a coup as far

 as protesting the move (its reminiscent to Albert Pujols 

exiting the Cardianls to play with the Angels )even to the 

point of tossing the Rams memoriabilia onto Rams Park, the 

training grounds where the team played and suing the Rams 

about sports memorabilia and ticket buying promises.

.
Also, the city is now in the doldrums with a current stadium,

 Edward Jones Dome without a team that has 10 years left 

to pay on and the Board of Aldermen approved plan for a 

new stadium on its Riverfront , a last moment move to entice

 The Rams to stay. Well, now with The Rams gone and no

 guarantee a new team will come to St Louis, whats the 

purpose of having the stadium? It's a big mess. And if the

 stadium starts construction, the STL will have two stadiums 

that need to generate money that the city would be paying


So our thing is, now that the city is scapegoating Kroenke

 and hating on him for the move, the city also should take

 blame as well escpecially with dropping the ball to redevelop

 the Edward Jones Dome that was in its lease to compete 

with other stadiums across the country. So its all about

 business, and a businessman is all about money. To Rams 

sport fans what about the city not giving the choice to vote on

 whether to fund a new stadium and moving forward on with it

 should be more of a complaint than anything.. we are just 

saying. 







Tom Joyner Morning Show personality J Anthony Brown 

caused an off the air frenzy this week when a live feed of him

 quitting the show hit the social media waves. From the

 audio, it seemed as though it was a comedy bit and Joyner 

and cohost Sybil Wilkes laughed it off but when it was

 discovered that Brown was serious after he hung up the

 feed, it was not so funny.  Then, comedian Damon Wiilliams

 was called to sub in for Brown for the rest of the show. Well 

rumor mills started churning on why he quit from money 

issues to a possible move to Steve

 Harvey Show. 



Sources revealed to website Urban Insite that the situation

 stemmed from Brown receiving a 50% pay cut. The site

 reasoned that the issue was “directly related” to Brown’s

 attitude and disappearance from the long-running radio

 show.
Reach Media  and its director of communications, Kelly

 Harrington, later replied back to the online publication with 

a transcript of an off-air conversation that took place between

 Brown, “TJMS” creator and co-host 


Tom Joyner and their fellow co-host  Sybil Wilkes.
From the conversation, Brown mentioned that he was not


 alright after Joyner checked on him and added that he was

 “quitting.” Thinking that Brown was joking, Joyner and 

Wilkes responded with laughter.
Brown then replied that he was serious and ultimately walked

 out of the studio with no further response. Joyner’s attempt 

to reconnect with Brown several times as well as efforts to

 reach out to the comedian personally and professional 

proved unsuccessful as he and Wilkes were surprised Brown

 actually left the studio.

Urban Insite reports that Brown is currently under contract 

with Reach Media Inc. and the “TJMS,” adding that there is a

 plan underway to discuss what happened off-air with Brown.

The following is what Urban Insite received from Reach

 Media and Harrington, regarding its inquiry about Brown:
TOM JOYNER AND J. ANTHONY BROWN OFF AIR 

DISCUSSION DURING THE TOM JOYNER MORNING

 SHOW – JANUARY 13, 2016
Today J. Anthony Brown surprised Tom Joyner, Sybil Wilkes

 and the production staff of the Tom Joyner Morning Show

 with the following:
After the end of the first break, at 6:10am CT, the hour the 

following exchanged occurred –
ON AIR – 6:10 am
(Tom Joyner taking the show to break)
Tom Joyner: Ten, ten past the hour
OFF AIR
Tom Joyner: Player, you feel alright?
Anthony Brown: Huh?
Tom Joyner: You feel alright today?
Anthony Brown: No, I don’t feel good. Uh, in fact I’m 
quitting. I’m quitting today. (laughter from Tom and Sybil) You
 guys can have it, man. I’ve had enough of this, seriously. 
Bye
(more laughter from Tom and Sybil)
Sybil Wilkes: (chucking) Bye? What’s the matter?
Tom Joyner: I don’t know. Did he just cut the mic? Player?
…Player?

Brown took to Twitter following the show and announced he

 would be doing a countdown show on Soundcloud and 

iTunes. Interestingly enough, he also posted a motivational 

message, from Steve Harvey about moving on.



Join J Anthony Brown every weekend for the Top 10


urban/pop culture countdown on soundcloud and itunes Your

weekends have never been


 Retweeted

Every successful person must do this.


Well, on Thursdays show, Joyner announced that Brown was
 returning Monday on MLK day, so apparently Joyner and 
Brown got the coins raised for him. Was this a planned
  publicity stunt? Maybe.  Is this just a temporary cure for the 

wound? Who knows. Well bottom line is, it seemed to work in

 Brown's favor.  Maybe Brown called the show's bluff and that

 and  decided to stunt out.  But with the rumors of Joyner's
 show being cut from many markets or moved to AM radio
, those coins may start to run out on the syndicated show on
 year's end.




Fans of the sitcom Black-ish have been wondering what
 happened to Chicago native comedian Deon Cole on the 

show who played  Charlie Telphy, a zany co worker of 

Anthony Anderson's character Dre. He has been M.I.A. 

since T-giving episode and in his
 place, comedian Wanda Sykes a new co worker. Well, he
 was on Tom Joyner Morning Show this week when he was
 asked about his absence. Well, he is now starring in the
 spoof police show Angie Trebeca and his role on Black-ish is
 still up in the air as far as returning. But when we had gone
 on Internet Movie Database and saw his credits, it had 
Black-ish 2013 to 2015, so it looks like his stint on the show
 may be over. Meanwhile, during the interview, Cole said that
 the role was orginally supposed to go to another actor 

(whom he didnt disclose), but that actor 
 did not show up so Cole, who was an assistant writer on the 
show filled in for the role--and the rest is TV history.  When 

asked if he will return, he 
was very vague and just said, "Just tune in to see." Well, we
 hate to say it, but Black-ish may lose a few viewers because
 Cole was the Jackee-227 of the series, the scene stealer
 (along with Marsai Martin who plays Dre's daughter Diane).
 Sykes is OK as the replacement in the show, but the 

chemistry in the workroom is a bit off.  And on a side note, 

Cole is quite buffed and is flying under the radar as far 

as being eye candy for admirers. 



                         Bekow is a pic of Cole shirtless








Have you all been checking out Brandy's new sitcom on 
BET, Zoey Ever After?....we arent feeling it of her playing a 

business woman and divorcee' and that canned laugh track 


has got to go. Its been getting the ratings for the

 network but it could be a curiosity factor going on to see 

Brandy in the series.  The show is cute but not HAHA funny. 

Now a spinoff of her character  Chardonay from "The Game" 

would have been a better vehicle for her. We're just sayin. 




Comedic actor Kevin Hart and raptor (rapper and actor )Ice

 Cube have been doing the city tour to promote their sequel 

to their hit film Ride Along. One of the cities was St Louis 

where they attended a screening last Thursday of their film 


with fans at Ronnie Theater. But the big newz was 

 the video of their getting a tour of the city and trying out

 some of the city's delicacies such as  beer at Busch/InBev 

Brewery  and Imos Pizza with Fox 2's

 Kevin Steincross had gone viral with over 5 million hits on

 social media.. The  banter between the two in the videos 

are hilarious. However according to St Louis American;s 

Delores Shante's Partyline,  Hart faked

 it for the cameras trying some of tdelicacies saying the 

pizza was cold. Oh well. They dont call it lights, camera. 

action for nothing. LOL

To see the clip of them drinking AB beer go to







Last week we stanned on the trio group KING? Three black, natural hair young ladies who was discovered by Prince on YOUTUBE and opened for him in 2011. Well, they have announced their promo tour on their FB page. One coming Feb 11 in Evanston, Ill. at The Space. To see their tour schedule go to https://www.facebook.com/weareKING/?fref=ts.





This Saturday, former Fox 2 News personality and Internet sensation April Simpson will be bidding farewell to St Louis with a party that will also double as a fundraiser for her charity for those who have brain tumors. Scheduled to appear are comedian and St Louis native Guy Torry and Olympic champion and East St Louis native Jackie Joyner Kersee. The event will take place Saturday Jan 16 at Upper Crust.



R.I.P. to singer/actor David Bowie who passed this week from cancer at the age of 69. He was definitely a pioneer in glam rock with his chameleon characters including Ziggy Stardust and The White Duke. He released his last album Blackstar a few days before he died. We also lost former St Louis Rams player Laurence Phillips who committed suicide in prison at the age of 40.




                                                          FIT BITZ





This week we feature Lon Angeles based bodybuilder and trainer Tamora Tee Whitfield. here, she is giving serious sexy with her phenomenal muscles in this pic. Its rare that you find a female who can still look feminine with bulging biceps, but she was able to pull it off.
 





                                                                            


This week we feature FLOTUS Michelle Obama 's orange dress that trended and sold out before her husband;s State of the Union speech was over. And her newly saloned tresses were definitely snatched!




WORD TO THE WHYZ????


GOLDEN GLOBES Why did Quentin Tarantino say being a band leader is ghetto as compared to being an orchestra leader?Why did it seem Denzel looked bored being there when the camera panned to him throughout the evening? Why did Leonardo DiCaprio look sideyed at Lady Gaga when she walked pass him to receive her awards? Why were there so many people cussing on stage? Why did Channing Tatum wear his hair swiped to one side? And why does the award show separate teh movie stars from the TV Stars?


OTHER WHYZ Why did it seem people were hesitant to stand up and clap during most of POTUS' State of the Union Speech? And why was Speaker of the House Paul Ryan mean mugging behind Obama? Why are St Louis Rams fans blaming Rams owner Stan Kroenke for all the reasons for the move of the Rams? Why did that Cobsy accuser who's case was thrown out record a rap song about Cosby? And why do Instagram models think they are professional models/



If you have a fitness pic, a style pic or an artist or event you would like featured on SPOT BITZ, email to snaphoney2011@gmail.com!

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