 Props to Oakland's Punany Poets and their recent appearance on HBO's popular TV show 'Real Sex'. This gifted group of erotic poets who came through and represented in all their glory busted on the scene several years ago in response to Eazy E's death. Their mission was to reach the Hip Hop audience with compelling messages about safe sex. Although HBO played up the Punany's sexy side, what many people may have overlooked was their overriding message and themes of practicing safe sex. They also published a book of erotic poems called 'Punany The Hip Hop Psalms' which featured erotic material from a number local Hip Hop artists. What really made me say 'Whoa' was seeing some of the performers in their birthday suits.. Although I've seen plenty of their shows, I never had the pleasure of seeing the riske version that was featured on HBO :) Whoa! Puff Daddy is set to star in a movie called 'Made' in which he will play a New York City crime boss. It's supposed to be a comedy. I certainly hope so because in the aftermath of Suge Knight and NY Mayor Giuliani running around shutting folks down, its hard to take Puff's aspirations to be a Crime boss seriously.. Nevertheless it made me say Whoa! Earlier this week we told you about Israeli pop singer Ofra Haza [Eric B & Rakim 'Paid In Full'] suddenly passing last weekend due to kidney and liver failure.What we didn't know until the other day was she experienced the organ failures because she had AIDs. According to Lee Bailey's EUR Report, she played down the disease in order not to scare her fans. Let us all hope that one day soon we find a cure. MC Hammer is back in the news again. This time to announce his upcoming TV show called 'Hammer & Friends'. Ham will breaking down barriers when he began's hosting TV's first nationally syndicated Christian Hip Hop TV Show. No thugged out, jiggy, moet drinkers- Whoa!
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