I'm diggin' it. :O)

When she first came out in 2000, I was all about it.
She was a breathe of fresh air and I knew every word to every song.
Went to her concert and was totally turned off when she stopped and said she had to talk to the brothers in the audience because she had a problem if their woman didn't resemble their mothers. Basically going on about the brothers dating outside their race! She's got skillz and all, but I'm not feeling her and her all mighty than thou vibe. Did you see her reaction on Dave Chappelle's Block Party, when they asked her how she felt about having to go on after Erykah Badu? psssh.

Hola Nezua,

Thanks for the Jill Scott. First time I saw her was the Dave Chapelle movie, and as always happens I figured when I saw her that she was amazing and that I was behind the curve for not having heard of her. Anyway. Good to see/hear her again.

Mimi

ritzy, i didn't know that, thanks.

i'd have to say that the summary/headline you give sounds unfortunate, but i'd have to withhold judgment, as i didnt hear the words in context. and i guess i can imagine a reason why she would say that. perhaps it frustrates her to see a lot of black men hooking up with white women, maybe she feels it is a statement of them having absorbed white supremacy/racist values toward their own people. maybe she doesn't want to see community/culture broken up in this way, maybe she meant it for black mens ears (of which i do not use in my day to day life), maybe she speaks for a faction of her community. i dont have the cultural understanding to judge, let alone the firsthand experience of hearing the exact words, and again, in context. but i do understand why you would feel put off, i dont mean to devalue your feelings and experience. mostly, her music really peels my banana. at least this song and "Hate on Me." she has a lot of smoother, lighter stuff which doesn't do it for me.

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right on mimi. el gusto es mio.

nezua, hahah peels your banana.
totally understand, my comment was not meant to put off anyone else. Unfortunately, I did hear it and at the time I was working at HITS magazine and the Jamz editor Gary Jackson, was at the same concert and we discussed the show since we were both excited to see her. Gary, being a black man, married to a white woman, also took offense and called her out in his next column. She said she didn't mean it to come off like that, but unfortunately, I heard her and its delivery and tone. When her next album came out, I went to another one of her concerts and I tried, I did. Anyway, nice to have an mature conversation via blog comments, totally refreshing.

Ojala que todo esta bien.

yes, right on! i hate how in so many places, the internet lends itself to hasty reaction, to snarky putdowns over thoughtful conversation, to dichotomized and false arguments, to ME vs YOU threads, to cockwaving, to smackdowns, to outright hostility. i marveled long ago at the difference in how people seem to talk to me online (or to anyone, but i'm me, so i think from my point of view normally, or at least primarily/initially) vs how they do in public. and i think the Net is a mask many don to feel braver or Righter or tuffer, like taking a drink for courage...but the drink is in the modem.

i didnt take your comment as a means that might "put off" anyone, i appreciated your reporting back from a firsthand view. as you add to it, it gets more and more interesting (magazine, column reacting, black friend married to white woman, your repeat attendance nonetheless...). if i had simply reacted (which i am prone to like anyone is during the right moments or situations/conversations), i would not have heard this story going on maybe...our discussion would have become about the argument, and probably (if the internet in general is any indication) soon about how sharp our snark sticks were. blah.

i find that many artists move me deeply with their gift...but are less than stellar in person. which is fine. maybe that would be the case with jill scott for me, i dont know. but watching her and listening to her sing this, wow! i was ready to make a tiny shrine.

nos vemos :)