Okay.  So this woman hands down, takes the fuckin’ cake.  A virtuoso performance, she sings, she dances, she’s gorgeous, her energy is infectious, she has a message, she created a brilliant alter-ego/sci-fi character and story to go along with it, she started her own label, did I mention she can fuckin' DANCE?—brilliant, BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT!!!

Watch out world…here she comes.  Janelle Monae.

It takes one to know one.  Rumor has it, Sir P.Diddy (or whatever the hell he’s goin’ by these days), Himself, blessed the Priestess with a million dollar budget for her  “Many Moons” video based on what he saw at her performance alone.  I don’t know if this is true, but if it is—mad props to Diddy for giving genius a chance to shine.  And I can understand it just based on this video:



If you live in New York and haven’t seen her, you should be ashamed.  If you live in BROOKLYN and haven’t caught her live show by now, you should just quit calling yourself a hipster and move back home with mom and dad.

My friend and contributor to Phetasy introduced me to Janelle the week before I went to Comic-Con.  I kid you not, I ran around San Diego with my Ipod making people listen to her.  I even made a dude dressed like Batman in a cab next to me, repeat her name twice so he would remember it. 

Miss Monae is about to go big.  And she deserves it all and then some.  Check out her website!  It's sick.

"It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone --
And as we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others."
--Nelson Mandela