Rap music always gets the most attention in hip hop, but as you should know, the culture is much bigger than that. Which would explain why HipHopDX dedicates a section to hip hop lifestyle. Be it movie reviews, video game reviews, interviews with movie stars or eye candy like Vida Guerra or Buffy the Body, we try and give you something other than just hip hop music.

Buffie The Body: Model Role Thursday, May 15, 2008 - Aliya Ewing | Comments: 26

Not too many woman can boast a 34-28-45 frame, but Buffie “The Body” Carruth and her endless curves love every ounce of the attention it garners. The video vixen/model and sometimes actress has parlayed what is usually considered to be a short-lived career into a viable brand-name. You can find her plastered on the screen-savers of cell phones just as easily as the cover of a magazine. And it doesn’t stop there. Adopting her entrepreneurial spirit, Ms. Buffie has taken on the new role of author with her new e-book titled Get Your Mind Right: A Step-By-Step Look at the Modeling Career of Buffie the Body. ...

Melyssa Ford: More Than Meet The Eye Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - Andreas Hale | Comments: 24

The title of “video vixen” has drawn stereotypical comparisons in the Hip Hop industry. Many are labeled as nothing more than sultry sex kittens who use their sexuality to get their way in the entertainment industry. Vixens such as Karrine “Superhead” Steffens have made it rather difficult for some of these women to gain respect by openly discussing her numerous sexual exploits with men in the industry. To be a “video vixen” today almost automatically gets you another title “video ho.” Enter Melyssa Ford. Ford may be one of the pioneers of Hip Hop’s video girls as her curvaceous figure has been the apple in every man’s eye for...

Colby O'Donis: Paid Dues Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - Jake Paine | Comments: 12

Besides the massive success of T-Pain, Akon's Konvict Muzik seems to be more in the business of signing artists than releasing material. With names ranging from Mack 10 and Sway Dasafo to Nivea and Lyfe Jennings, it's a crowded house at Konvict. However, if you ask fresh-faced 20-year-old Colby O'Donis, being on a label is tough business, and you've got to hustle. With his chart-topping Pop/R&B hit "What You Got" coming to a boil, Colby O will be a self-titled debut that hopes to achieve what Rihanna has, with teen mass appeal, from a male. The New York-born O'Donis speaks to HipHopDX about his two degrees of separation...

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